The last few mornings there's been a high rate of spam.  I just deleted 5 or 6 posts.  How are they getting through and why haven't they stopped?

I'm not sure if this is fixed in newer Maples or if there's a work around. 

Whenever I size a 3d plot, that I'm trying to stretch out the width while keeping the height, never seems to work.  For example using the size=[3000,800] produces a plot area that's bigger but NOT actually a plot stretched in the x axis.  Going to size=[3000,3000] of course then makes the plot and the area bigger and so scales both x and y bigger.  However I don't want the y axis scaled up - I'm trying to scale the plot up - not the area.  And what happened to the window zoom, icon - we've lost zoom control to just magnify + and magnify - (at least in 2022) this seems like a regression. 

Is this plot size a bug or just a plot command that fails to function like it should? 

What's with some of the older posts missing images?  Were they deleted by maplesoft to save space on mapleprimes servers?  (Storage is pretty cheap these days)

I actually replaced some images a while ago, maybe a few years back.  However I've come across the post again and the image is gone ... strange.  Maybe there's an AI at work here clearing out images. 

In some cases the images are just the output of Maple code plots.  That's ok to remove, I guess, but in others, people have used screenshots which contain code that have been removed where in some cases after they're removed make the entire thread useless.  It's not often but it occurs. 

Anyways, does mapleprimes sometimes clear out images?  Or is it an inadvertent effect when some maintenance is performed?

When generating a file to update parts of maple (for example constants) is it best to put it in an initialization file or make a library archive .mla?

I fail to see the logic of using short form symbols for the scientific constants and then not being able to use that short form.  One manually has to equate the two as I show below.  Anyone see a reason not to do that in the internal programming?  Just wondering. 

with(ScientificConstants):

GetConstant(M__Sun)             

One has to use the names associated with those short forms described by the command

GetConstant(mass_of_Sun)

I would much rather like to use M_Sun , so what one has to do is manually equate them

M_Sun:=mass_of_Sun:

GetConstant(M_Sun)