UltraRandom1YT

Uhh I think I killed this thread

On 2/10/2024 at 11:51 AM, B35 via Church said:

Talk about being unreasonable.

This forum is over 16 years old.

Find as many links as you want; knock yourself out.

There are plenty of people on here that's made thousands of posts - a good portion of which don't post here anymore.... Regardless, those of us that are not forum staff can't go back & edit old posts to fix broken links even if we wanted to, so this crusade of yours will be all for naught,

Flat out, I'll tell you right now that there are broken Google map links in old posts I have authored on here.... I'm not going to keep maps on my google drive I no longer have a need for - especially when they served their purpose around the time I posted a link to those maps... Some of the posts I outright state that said map will not be up for long (or something to that effect).... The thing about it is that people on here are fairly good with helping you out, as far as explaining what content a broken link may have entailed...

You talk about taking whatever measures necessary to ensure that your links will continue to work for a long time... Yes, because we should keep track of the status of every website that we've ever linked to on this forum, for as long as we're on this forum... Man, get the hell out of here.

Then I won't go after all of them, I'll just find a few to use as examples for future users of this forum.

Silly me, I thought it was already public.

8 hours ago, B35 via Church said:

Google sign-in page pops up...You have to make your map public... We can't see anything.

I did. Now you can see it.

not sure if anyone had an idea like this before but uhh...

B79 (local service)

24/7 line...uses artics equipped with bike racks

could be based out of either Gleason or Ulmer (or both)

color on maps: either dark or light blue

has some short turns that only go as far south as 9th Avenue and run to/from Gleason

it's also supposed to go west on 14th between Irving and Broadway but the driving directions feature in Google Maps screwed that up

B79.png

I had this idea for a long time

original version (with all the stops included and a few other stuff)

Haven't had a lot of time today to test links and stuff (too much school work). But now that I did it, Cait Sith and GojiMet86, you two get to be the lucky first two to get EVERY link you've posted here examined by me.

It may take me a while, but I will find them.

I decided to make a Google Doc to keep track of all this and I set it to anyone with the link can access it.

i_will_find_your_broken_links.txt

But one other thing before I go and do that (actually, it's before I go to school, come home, and THEN look for broken links): I love your videos and I'm subscribed on one of my other Google accounts.

6 hours ago, Cait Sith said:

It depends on the type of links, some are temporary, others might be old and expired. Share some posts that have broken links if you can.

Ok, I'll go and find as many as I possibly can.

Not sure if anyone else on this website has talked about this, so I will. I've seen loads of links posted here, and I try to click on them, but it seems like 99% of them are broken. And have a lot of you had this problem as well or is it just me? Also, one other thing:

If you post a link in the future, please test it and make sure it works properly (and take whatever measures necessary to ensure that your links will continue to work for a long time). And if you know how to fix your links that are already broken, then I would suggest fixing it when you have the time. That way no one else would feel like they need to ask about every broken link they see.

Sorry if I sounded harsh there but I'm just very frustrated with the numerous broken links I keep finding.

Just now, UltraRandom1YT said:

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Damn it, I did this again.

4 hours ago, Cait Sith said:

Go to your profile and click on the icon that's supposed to display a profile picture. You should be able to upload one from there.

Your account might have to age a little more before you're able to do that.

I don't want to be one of those people who likes to complain about everything, but when I left click there, nothing happens, and when I right click there, I get a popup that says stuff like "Open Image in New Tab", "Save Image As...", etc. And if my account has to age a little more, about how much would that be? Also, once I am able to add a picture, is there some way I to add a screenshot I have on my computer? I already have one that I was planning to add.

Just now, UltraRandom1YT said:

Fortunately, there are people like you here who may be able to fix that and prevent future new members from making the same mistake I made (this being that I let my overactive imagination go straight influence my actions).

I didn't mean to add "go straight"...well, actually, I originally meant to say "go straight to my head" but that wouldn't make any sense.

2 hours ago, Cait Sith said:

You're thinking a little too much and too hard into these things.

The MTA can give two shits about what the fan community thinks.

Like I said before, I don't know as much as I thought I did about the transit system. Fortunately, there are people like you here who may be able to fix that and prevent future new members from making the same mistake I made (this being that I let my overactive imagination go straight influence my actions). But I'll leave it up to you to decide if you would do that.

P.S. I love your videos and I hope I haven't made a bad first impression on you...but now I'm going to shut up and go do something else for a while.

3 hours ago, FLX9304 said:

The  plays a “Now you see it, now you don’t” scheme. Day 1, people be like “I wanna see it on this route or that route”.… but Day 2, it was sent back. Why? It failed twice: 1. Breakers didn’t malfunction right. 2. Miscellaneous parts. 3. Bus making company went belly up

Oh, and as for this, maybe does this because some higher-up there knows that no matter what they do, the transit fan community will have something to criticize about it, because that's just how transit fan communities are no matter where you find them. Or not.

3 hours ago, FLX9304 said:

The reason for future numbers was deleted was there was bus orders that were cancelled or never ordered because that one particular bus failed a specific test. Even equipment that you never see operate was bought or sent here for testing or service operations wind up being sent back after a few days. The  plays a “Now you see it, now you don’t” scheme. Day 1, people be like “I wanna see it on this route or that route”.… but Day 2, it was sent back. Why? It failed twice: 1. Breakers didn’t malfunction right. 2. Miscellaneous parts. 3. Bus making company went belly up

Now that I think about it, that makes a lot of sense. But then again, it's probably best not to take most of what I say at face value. However, one thing that would make sense to take at face value is that there's no harm in speculating. Unfortunately, there's a lot about the system that I thought I knew, but whatever that may be, it's now become clear to me that I don't know nearly as much as I thought I did.

10 hours ago, Cait Sith said:

You wait and see, just like everyone else.

Wikipedia is not to be trusted by any means.

I understand. Also, how did you add your profile picture to your profile?

Oh and one other thing...is your profile picture a Google image or an image you captured yourself? If it's the latter, I'd like to know how you added it to your profile.

2 hours ago, DCTransitFilms said:

Meant to say; “you shouldn’t be trusting that” (autocorrect on phone smh)

Well then where the hell am I supposed to get more reliable information on the MTA's upcoming bus fleets?

So I checked the link and it doesn't work...but I have no idea how to make a working link to the image because it's a screenshot I took from this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTA_Regional_Bus_Operations_bus_fleet

I came across this table about the future and speculated about what the fleet numbers of these buses might be if they all end up getting built.

The table in question

What I thought the fleet numbers might be:

2024 NFI XHE40: 5250<---->5251

2024 Nova LFSe: 9911<---->9915 (because at some point, we were going to have Nova LFS hybrids with those numbers but that didn't happen)

2024 NFI XE60: 1110<---->1199 (because it perfectly fills the number gap between the XN60s and the 2010 LFSAs)

Unknown Van Hool electric model: 5025<---->5029 (because it continues from the new XE40s)

Unknown 40ft diesel model (probably going to be NFI XD40 but who knows): 2790<---->3137

2024 NFI XD60: 6287<---->6531

2025 NFI XD60: 6532<---->6956

Unknown 40ft electric model (probably going to be either NFI XE40 or Proterra ZX5 but again, who knows): 3138<---->3517

Unknown 40ft CNG model (probably going to be NFI XN40 but once again, who knows): 3518<---->3900

Prevost X3-45 2nd Gen (MTA Bus): 1630<---->1879

Prevost X3-45 2nd Gen (NYCT): 1880<---->2010

And last but not least:

Unknown 40ft hybrid model (probably going to be NFI XDE40 but for the last time, who knows): 3901<---->4110

Do these make any sense or do you think you can do better? I'd love to hear your thoughts on them.

I've been looking at stuff on this forum for years but only today did I finally decide to make an account here. But now that I'm here, I would really appreciate it if anyone here could tell me how to add a profile picture to my account. Also, even after my question gets answered, maybe this thread or whatever it is can stick around so anyone else who joins the forum after me can look here and learn how to do the same for their own accounts.