TGO David

I have made an adjustment to the CSS to slightly enlarge the font used. It's just larger enough now that I find it a lot easier on the eyes. Hopefully you all do as well.

Shopping malls, in general, are having to find new ways to re-invent themselves and remain relevant to the consumer, especially now that Amazon is making serious strides in same-day and next-day delivery for so many items. Sears is a relic of ages past and has failed to keep up with evolving trends. It's very sad to see them divesting themselves of the Craftsman line, and you could make a very safe bet that Sears won't be around in 2-3 years since this was arguably their largest cash-cow. In the 70's and early 80's, the Sears in my hometown was still a stand-alone store near the downtown shopping district. When the small shopping mall on the south side of town closed and the big modern mall opened on the west side of town, not only did Sears move to become an anchor store but the whole of the downtown shopping district either moved as well or just simply went out of business. Now we are seeing the next wave of evolution for retail shopping, and the malls themselves are at great risk of drying up and going away. Consumers either want to be able to shop from the convenience of home and receive their items same/next-day, or they want to be able to once again walk through open air shopping plazas (the modern twist on a downtown shopping district). But, I digress! I've been buying Kobalt, Husky and Rigid tools for the past 10-15 years and only occasionally went to Sears to pick up a new Craftsman tool or replace an older broken one. I have a slew of classic Craftsman tools made in the USA that I inherited from my dad and grandfather, and never have a problem out of them. It's sad to think, though, that when one of them does break I will have to replace it with a Chinese-made Craftsman. The only thing constant is change, I guess.

Yes, of course. If you have photos and most importantly serial numbers, perhaps folks here will be on the lookout for them.

FWIW, the 5-inch model is the only one that has the loaded chamber indicator on the top of the slide. I have reason to believe that it is on the 5-inch FDE model simply because it was a requirement from the military when they had a Request For Proposals out to the various manufacturers and this was Smith & Wesson's hat in the ring. The 4-inch versions do not have it.

Not that I've ever seen. My Gen 3 has pig-nose and it's just fine.

Some Glocks suffered from what is called "pig nose" because of the flexibility of the frame up near the end of the dust cover. A quick Google search is all you need to see a lot of examples of it.

I'm stumped as I cannot seem to replicate that behavior.

I was just able to successfully add this photo to the gallery from my iPhone. What phone are you using?

This issue has been resolved.

I didn't know anyone was taking orders for them yet. Who'd you get to order one? That's great!

The link to mark the site as read has been added back to the top of the screen. Will evaluate the other requests for my ability to add them easily and without breaking other things.

Photo too large?

Be sure to check out our new TGO Photo Gallery while you are visiting today! You can find it under the "Browse" and the "More" menu links at the top of the forum pages, or by heading straight to the gallery via this link: https://www.tngunowners.com/forums/gallery/

Yeah, a little. But people will actually buy this one.

Hahaha glad this is better for you guys.

Sorry for the rapid succession of changes, folks. I am trying to make sure that we have something that is feature-complete and workable for the majority. I promise the changes to the appearance of the site will settle down.

Yep, no dice on it being modular but S&W did extend the stainless skeleton inside of the frame to the front of the dust cover which is why those serial number elements are visible through the polymer frame up near the front of the gun. It was an interesting thought!

You know my answer to that one.

I was telling the AO Boss about this earlier and she was greatly saddened by it.

Darker should have been disabled as it's not been updated to accommodate the new version of the software. Sorry. I just disabled it until I can go through it and work on updating things within it.

Yeah I noticed that also. I'll have to figure out why it's happening and resolve it. Probably a glitch in my CSS.

I have upgraded us to the latest IPBoard version and with it comes several new features and also the requirement to re-index all of our posts and threads. Re-indexing is underway now but will take several hours to complete. Until it does complete, your ability to accurately search for specific content or get a full listing of new content will likely be impacted somewhat. One of the obvious new features is the "Leaderboard" that you will see in the top menu. Check it out and let me know what you think. It's kind of fun. Another change for now is that we are running a lightly customized appearance theme that I wrote. It is not as good as some of the full-custom stuff that we have used in the past, but it also upgrades far easier whenever new versions of the software come out. I will continue to tweak it in the days ahead. I do not have a "dark" version of it yet. This is on my list of things to try to get done, but it is lower in priority than a few other things. Sorry. Hopefully those of you who prefer a darker appearance to the forum can adjust the brightness on your monitors.

Old school 1990's IRC user right here. That said, IRC is seriously the wild wild west. We'd have to lock down that channel pretty tightly and put a good bot in charge of it, otherwise you could quickly see it overrun by some of the most illegal, vile stuff on the planet. I've considered Slack as an option but there's a pretty impressive option being coded by a reputable IPB add-ons author and I'm watching to see how it develops. Honestly, I can sort of see where the Invision Power team is coming from in respect to the [lack of] popularity of the Chat feature. On average there are 2-3 people using it in the evening on TGO. I think the most I have seen in recent memory was 12 and that was around the time of one of the Presidential debates. It really doesn't get a whole lot of use here, and if we are typical as an IPB customer, it isn't getting a whole lot of use anywhere else either. I'll keep looking for a replacement since we've got some time left to search.

Just a couple of days. TGO went live in January of 2007.

If you guys do decide to revolt, please hook me up with a cool torch and pitchfork and I'll help you storm the gates. School is going to be mind-bending, but it's something I have been wanting to do for a while now and my company is paying for it, so I need to make good on their investment. Hopefully it quickly becomes part of my routine and doesn't feel as out of place in my schedule as it does right now.