Agreed with Webrunner, uploading is more simple.

I thought about html code to avoid using too many space, but if it's not a problem !






Let's go with uploading....

One other thing is that the way it is done here, is very simple for all : Edit position online then copy/paste in post and nothing else to do.

Tomowaky, i wrote to the owner of the site with the board creater where i can get e version. I haven't recieved any answer yet 

yes, avoiding spoilers yet encouraging commentary would be really nice .. otherwise, readers would have to create a separate post or attach their comments in a text file or something

still leaving the initial message may be necessary even useful for first time users

good idea

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
-- Mark Twain in The Diaries of Adam and Eve
    US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

I offered to make the changes for him and donate them back to the users community.

IsaraPIX image time limits
according to a reply  on the Isara forum:


i just joined their forum as sixty_something, too .. apparently, one must join to view the forum .. i haven't posted anything there yet, as this reply answered our immediate question .. Isara looks like an interesting place .. it's a non-profit based in Thailand that uses 100% of its ad revenue in various worldwide charity projects

elsewhere in that thread a mention of a brief 24 hour downtime was also mentioned, but the problem was resolved and a part of an upgrade and transfer to a new server

i still stongly agree with, rubrek, that "The ideal solution would be having a direct (and permanent) link to the image on the fibsboard server"

A "Standard" Problem Style


i really like this too .. i'm excited to see another fibster, blitzxz, has posted a problem, Doubles are hard to move .. it is our first move problem, much harder to create as a question than cube decisions .. he used an ASCII board representation .. personally, i found it very difficult to read, but i'm just not accustomed to that style even if it is perhaps the oldest and most universal .. i took the Position and Match ID's and set the problem up in GNUbg .. it was so so much easier to see

i resisted the temptation to go into blitzxz's post and edit it to bring it into conformity with the style i'm proposing in the Cube 10x series .. basically the only changes required are renaming it Move 101 - Doubles are hard to move, saving and inserting the board image into the question, and rewording the poll question (it now simply reads: "Correct checker play?") .. i did add a reply suggesting that and attached PNG and SGF files for others convenience

further, i realized there was no text file evaluating the answers .. so, i added another reply with those attached .. composing that text file was non-trivial, as it required copying and pasting each move alternative individually from GNUbg's hint window

thus, the process of editing a problem to conform to a "standard" style is almost as time consuming as creating a problem from scratch .. regardless, i do think a "standard" style might be best .. other than adding a post to the forum called suggested problem style and pinning it to the top (which i can do), i don't know what else to do other than what i've done here

if we're going to opt for a "standard" style, i'd rather get on top of it now than wait for a multitude of miscellaneous styles to come in .. on the other hand, i'd like to see what others may come up with .. there may well be a better style than the one i've laboriously created and adopted

whatever we do, i don't want to either impose my style on other users or discourage users from posting a problem in whatever style they want .. some problems might even be posted with nothing more than a Position/Match ID with no answers .. readers could then reply to it with their move or cube decision hidden behind a spoiler tag

what do you all think? maybe we should form a committee



Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen US radio comedian (1894 - 1956)
(maybe if we let socksey in the "group of men" we could even decide something )

trust me, if there is a better way, i'll be the first to jump on that band wagon .. i'm a rank newbie when it comes to handling files on servers .. so, i'm clueless as to what may or may not be easy .. this has seemed easy to me .. it is moderately time consuming, but i have nothing to compare it to

as for editing other problems, i asked blitzxz and he encouraged me to do so here and in tells at fibs which i'm happy to do .. but i'm not enforcing anything .. i certainly don't want to suppress anyone from posting their positions either, in any format they like, in fact i'm doing everything i can to encourage it

but np, Eric, i'm just excited to have a convenient place for sharing fibs related game situations as problems .. time will take care of most issues that come up anyway .. for now,  i really don't see anything to be concerned about .. yet, i respect your experience and opinion

regarding simplicity, the only thing required to use the style i've adopted for these first few problems is outlined in the code window below

that's all there is to it .. note that neither the size nor boldface bracket needs to be closed .. since the space in the question of a poll seems to be limited to about 230 characters, this can be a helpful tip .. btw, is there any way you can increase that space for a poll question, Eric?


blame socksey for "enforcing", by good example, my new habit of adding a quote to the bottom of my posts .. i like quotes almost as much as puzzles and problems

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
-Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE)

(imo, he who waits for or insists on a perfect solution
       won't get across the river either,
       there are many ways and many places to cross a river)

thanks for another good GNUbg tip, rubreg .. i use that ctrl/shift technique a lot, but it didn't occur to me to try it when copying from the GNUbg hint window or analysis panel

as for enforcing anything, that's just impossible unless we set up some sort of submit/approve cycle . i'd rather just see what comes in, if anything .. i'll continue posting a problem every day or so and see whether others join in .. i'll also try writing up a description of what i do to post a problem in the style i've developed (already have in a thread below) .. i'll rewrite it from the suggestions received in this thread and things that i've learned, but for a simple idea it is tricky and subtle to get it functional and useable .. regardless, others can chose to use it or develop their own style

i too like the idea of numbering the problems in some way, but i'm not going into future posts without permission from the poster to modify them .. i edited blitzxz's three problems yesterday with his consent .. it was not much different than creating the problem myself in either time or attention .. despite carefully checking and double checking the image that got posted was a mirror image of the board in Cube 107 .. Tomawaky caught the error and i corrected it before it caused any confusion .. but it's a good example that the job of problem editor, if we were to have one, is a job requiring careful attention and skill .. i self-appointed myself to that job with blitzxz's posts, but will not do that again unless asked

it seems as if we're coming dangerously close to making a committee decision about something that exists only as a worry anyway .. i'm going to just keep doing what i've been doing and be glad to help others along the way - helping isn't enforcing .. but it is a fine line which without consensus will lead to frustration for all .. frustration is not fun

Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen US radio comedian (1894 - 1956)