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Although I do not see any confirmation on the Spin Master website, this is undoubtedly bad news for the workers of Calais. However, I don't think there's any danger to the future of Meccano. For many years now, most of the Spin Master sets, whether branded as Meccano or Meccano by Erector, have been made in China, Calais producng only a trickle. The current Meccano range, mostly items of a sort not calculated to appeal to Meccano traditionalists, appears to be robust and ongoing. It is of course a shame that both Meccano and Lego specialize now in specialized, often licensed, sets designed to make specific models, instead of general-purpose sets that stimulate a child's imagination. I'm sure one reason they do so is that the patents on the basic building set principles have expired, whereas it is possible to protect the specific set designs. Inciddntally I discovered the other day that what appears to be one of the higher-quality Meccano knockoffs, with some traditional sets available, is made in Bombay, India under the Mechanix name by a company called Zephyr Toys. I sm sure that if the worst hppened and Spin Master went bust (which does not seem to be happening) this company or another would purchase the trademark and continue Meccano production. But yes, in China, Vietnam, or other low-wage country, since that is the toy industry today. Meccano lives! And unlike recent 'Dinky Toys,' it is still aimed at children.

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Test (what's going on?) Image files appear to fail to be uploaded, but do when adding them in the edit mode to an existing post.

Mine aren't loading either. I did a test and tried posting photos from a few month back that posted fine then and now it says they are too big or don't even load. Frustrating indeed

Auto email notification of new posts has also been broken for over a week. All that gets sent through are blank templates with no content or links.

Same here.

Somewhere near the end of last month, a mandatory urgent update was performed. Although it seemed successful, now it's clear that the text formatting tools and image uploader are not appearing/not working in the forum comments section. What's frustrating about this is that the features work fine on other pages and even on the first post on a forum thread. Also, the email notifications are not replacing tokens for content. I've spent many hours already searching for a fix for these issues and I'm hoping to have solutions soon, if you can bear with me.

Thanks for the update, of course!

Good news, thought it was just me. Thank you and good luck with the fix.

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