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The Snide Sniper wrote: โ†‘Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:20 pm That means I have to raise the attachment quota. phpBB is really old so it defaults to 50 MB for the entire board.
I'm certain there was more than 50MB in just the Time thread alone (quite seaish).
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The Snide Sniper wrote: โ†‘Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:20 pm That means I have to raise the attachment quota. phpBB is really old so it defaults to 50 MB for the entire board.
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The Snide Sniper wrote:Tremble before me, mortals.
The forum is 503ing again. Que pasa?
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Would there be interest in adding pronoun roles that anyone can give themself?
Even if I disappear from the forum, I will still respond to PMs.
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Color me mildly interested. Not so much to express my own preferences, but mostly to make it easier to look up other people's preferences (though I'll happily cooperate by also using the feature for myself).
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I would appreciate being able to see the pronouns for others, yes
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I mean it wouldn't hurt, but pronouns in signatures seems to work fine now. *shrug*
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Jplus wrote: โ†‘Wed Nov 26, 2025 10:07 pm Color me mildly interested. Not so much to express my own preferences, but mostly to make it easier to look up other people's preferences (though I'll happily cooperate by also using the feature for myself).
To clarify, this would just mean being able to put pronouns under your username instead of in your signature
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Well, while mucking about in the admin screen I found something that would probably be better.

There is now a "pronouns" field in user profiles that can be changed in the user control panel.
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Cool, I've gone and changed mine - to he/him!

After reading this: https://kconrod.medium.com/the-presiden ... 276b34860d

I always wanted to try he/him pronouns (I'm a cis woman) so hey, let's give it a shot on here, just for fun!
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madge wrote: โ†‘Thu Nov 27, 2025 12:46 am Cool, I've gone and changed mine - to he/him!

After reading this: https://kconrod.medium.com/the-presiden ... 276b34860d

I always wanted to try he/him pronouns (I'm a cis woman) so hey, let's give it a shot on here, just for fun!
That was just nice to read, thanks
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madge wrote: โ†‘Thu Nov 27, 2025 12:46 amAfter reading this: https://kconrod.medium.com/the-presiden ... 276b34860d
The linked article wrote:We're not going to run out of theys at the pronoun store.
Now imagining a pronoun storeโ€ฆ
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Wow you made my new pronouns so expensive. Surge pricing much?
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"he/him" isn't on the image though (it's off-camera to the left)

โ€ฆOh! You were looking at the locked-up million-dollar one. That's capitalized "He/Him", the pronouns for God and Jesus (along with the royal we).
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ratammer wrote: โ†‘ Hoping to find something quotable on this new forum!
ratammer wrote: โ†‘
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I thought that might be the case but MAYBE I want to have special capitalised pronouns huh

(I don't lol)
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I'll take whatever pronoun is cheapest. Please and thank you!
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heuristically_alone wrote: โ†‘Mon Dec 08, 2025 12:53 am I'll take whatever pronoun is cheapest. Please and thank you!
I don't think I'll use them enough to justify buying the professional kind, I'll just get some hobbyist nouns.
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What determines the cost? Scrabble scores?
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Supply and demand, of course *grins, ducks, and runs*
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