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IMAGES & VIDEOS

Images are limited to 4 per day and are all approved by site moderators.  Please be patient with the manual approval process.

If you have more than a dozen pictures of the same theme or event, you are encouraged to take those photos and make a video with them that you can post here via YouTube.  This is a wonderful way to showcase your collection of pictures without limitations.

Images are all converted to jpeg files on upload.

Images should be no larger than 1024x1024 and are regularly converted to fit that standard.

Videos links are currently limited to YouTube.  Video sourcing may be expanded in the future.

Advertising is not permitted in either images or videos.

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 04 Oct 2016 04:02:52AM

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BLOG POSTS & FORUM DISCUSSIONS

Blogs are used for stories, dairies (musings), informative articles etc. In Character (IC) journals are most appropriate as are articles related to our historical timeframe.  Please categorize your blog post to help people find them.

Forums are used for everything else; they often invite discussion and are categorized to make it easier to find specific subjects in the wealth of communication. 

When in doubt, use the Forums and for the sake of better communication please don't use both if you can't decide.

Posting long excerpts of written material that is copied from other people's books and articles is not allowed.  Please post a brief "teaser" text and/or image with a link to the source material.

Advertising is not permitted in either blog posts or forum discussions.

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 07 Oct 2016 05:12:10AM

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EVENTS

An Event may be posted for a maximum period of 24 hours:
Events such as Exhibitions which will be open over a period of weeks or months should only announce the event opening.  Events which extend over a period of less than 8 days may choose to use the Recurring feature.

Extended events may also make use of the Community News, Rules & Etiquette Category of the Discussion Forum.

An Event may be recurring:
Events with a frequency of Daily must not span a period of more than 7 days.

An Individual or Group is limited to a maximum of two Events per day:
Please try to combine events for the day & group whenever possible.

Advertisements for commercial products or services are not allowed in Events.
This includes new store openings.

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 07 Oct 2016 08:17:09AM

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WELCOME ~ BIENVENUE

LHVW is a friendly community where everyone is treated with courtesy and respect.  It is a Drama Free Zone where you can connect with friends & Historical Communities from across the Metaverse.  It is not the place to work out your personal issues with other individuals or groups and we will remove people who harass others.

LHVW is a place to have fun sharing your events, products, stories, experiences, and knowledge with other History Lovers.

Site content must be SFW (Safe/Suitable for Work).

LHVW pays for hosting on a sliding scale according to disk space.  In order to keep these site costs reasonable, Media Space is limited as follows; Regular members 100MB, Supporters 200MB, Sponsors 500MB.  To help keep our costs down, please remove stale information, especially images, on a regular basis. 

Questions about using the site?  Ask them here: Site Questions

Please scroll down to see specific site rules.

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 21 Oct 2016 09:51:38AM

Site News: PREPARING for the Move

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Hello Everyone

It's time for every member to start preparing for our site move!

In addition to cleaning up  there are a few other things you might want to do. While the majority of the site content will be transferred over there are a few things that will be left behind.

They include:

• Private Messages
• Friend Lists
• Profile Information (the text you've written about yourself)
• Gifts

If you have something important in your Private Messages you should save a local copy.

You may want to record your list of friends to make it easier to "follow" them on the new site. OTOH you may just want to start out fresh

If you spent ages coming up with a pithy profile save a copy so you can transfer it over. I think I'll take a few screenshots of mine just for old-times sake.

Perhaps you'd also like to take a screenshot of your Gifts as well.

Any questions? Just give me a shout! Thanks!!

Tat

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 04 Oct 2016 04:07:56AM

Site News: HELP NEEDED with Site Cleanup!

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You're very welcome, Leena

I'm really excited about this move. We've been in a bit of a holding pattern with Ning 2.0 but soon we'll be able to expand our horizons!

Good luck with the cleanup.

Site News: HELP NEEDED with Site Cleanup!

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Jamroom is ultra flexible where site design is concerned so all the sites produced can vary wildly by individual taste.

Take a look at the Jamroom Demos to see some of the variations.

I'm going to start with a site that looks a lot like this one and then go from there. For one thing it will get us ported over sooner, for another it will be more familiar to current members and help alleviate any shock from the move.

Site News: HELP NEEDED with Site Cleanup!

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I've deleted all the members that haven't logged in since 2011. I figured it was a pretty safe call that they wouldn't mind but I send my apologies to any long-time lurkers that still wanted an account. You can always create a new one on the new site. When I get more time I'll be reviewing 2012 next.

I've also deleted some old groups which appeared to be abandoned i.e. no action on them for years.

On the creative side, I've installed the skeleton for our new site and will be working to customize it (plus learning all the ropes of a new system - good times!!)

If all goes smoothly I'd like to make the move with the next month so please concentrate on your own cleanup efforts.

How's it going? Made any progress?

Site News: HELP NEEDED with Site Cleanup!

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Hello Everyone

We're finally making a move!! See Site News: Looks Like We'll be Moving! for details.

As the monthly cost of this new community hosting service will largely be dependent on the amount of data we want to move/maintain we've got some cleaning up to do. According to NING stats we're currently using approximately 20GB of data and it would be great if we could reduce that by getting rid of "stale" information.

Site cleanup is always a big job that is fraught with peril.

I would ask all members to look at the information they currently have posted, decide if it's still relevant and consider deleting anything that is wildly outdated. Here are some suggestions:

Merchants: Please remove your old advertisements. Anything more than a year of two old should probably go.

Group Owners: Over time we have amassed anumber of Groups that have been set up but are not currently being used. If you are the Creator or Administrator of such a group please consider removing it. You can find more information about Group Deletionsat Manage Your Group . If you have trouble with the removal process you can contact me to do the deed.

I'll also be looking at deleting groups where the founders are no longer active on the site and/or membership is low.

Duplicate Accounts: Now is a good time to remove any duplicates you don't want any longer. Please see Leave a Ning Network for instructions. Removing your content is a personal decision but you may want to leave your contributions on the site. You do NOT have to remove your content.

Stale Accounts: If a member hasn't logged on in ages their accounts will be removed. If you are aware of members that are no longer involved with Royal Courts but have not removed their memberships, you can contact me.

Any questions? Just give me a shout! Thanks!!

Tat

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 05 Jan 2017 05:07:41AM

Site News: Looks Like We'll be Moving!

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Hello Everyone

Some interesting developments on the NING front:

First - they've more than doubled our subscription fees!! We're now looking at $59 monthly or $588 Annual. See Notice of Upcoming Price Changes to Ning 2.0 Networks

Second - the company that ran NING (Glam Media/Mode) shut down suddenly and NING has been taken over. See Exciting News About Ning + Cyndx LLC

I had a feeling that something like this was coming so instead of doing an annual renewal when the subscription came due in July we've switched to monthly payments instead.

We've also held off on the annual fundraising drive but thanks to ongoing fundraising (Decades take a bow!!) during the year we're ok financially for the next few months .

Our data was archived back in May (excluding photos & videos) and we'll look at doing another backup soon. Our seven years of history is therefore relatively safe.

It certainly seems that now is the time to make a move off of NING. I've been investigating Jamroom for a while now and it continues to look like a good fit. I intend to start a more in-depth study, including a free trial soon.

The monthly cost of this new community hosting service will largely be dependent on the amount of data we want to move/maintain. According to NING stats we're currently using approximately 20GB of data. A cleanup of stale information should go a ways towards getting our monthly costs down so I'll be launching some housekeeping initiatives that the general membership can help with.

Stay tuned for exciting new developments! Questions/comments, give me a shout!

Tat

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 04 Oct 2016 04:07:56AM