Test Test

I am now getting a increased sense of something I was
obviously missing. I have always believed and still do that
if it wasn't for David this club wouldn't have gotten to
where it did, however some underwear seems to be getting
knotted and it needs to get washed and hung out to dry.
Please feel free to private message me with your insights
as I would like to resolve this for the betterment of the
club. Regards Glenn   PS Graeme please get in touch with
me

Nice to see all the petty bullsh*t that inspired me to
leave years ago hasn't changed even remotely.

I don't know who offended who, and who caused what, and
frankly I don't care. But for god's sake, can we at least
pretend to act like civilised adults? The originator of
the club being told off by the current admin of the club
is a surefire to drive this in to the ground.

I was 21 in a club for off mid-engined two-seaters, with
a significant group of people and often-times a penchant
for going fast (And an acceptance for people doing
whatever speed they felt comfortable with). If you had
asked me when I first joined this club, I would've
ecstatically informed you I was going to be a WCF lifer.

And then came the poison of all this useless gossip.
People whining about 'X'. People telling off 'Y'.
Everyone's discussing location, and cost, and events, and
everything else to try and save this club. You want a
simpler, quicker, easier method of preserving this place?
Before you decide to bitch at someone, or complain about
every god damn thing you see, sit and HONESTLY consider
if it's useful in the slightest. If it isn't, grow a pair
and keep it to yourself.

I've finally hit that acme where I couldn't really care
less if the club lives or folds. I like everyone here,
and will likely stay in contact with several either way,
but it would be nice if people could set aside their
irrelevant nonsense so we could all enjoy eachothers'
company.

Edited by Romeo

Email doesn't work because the component that sends emails doesn't work on the new server. It's old. The site hasn't been sending emails for a while now. Damien, I appreciate you are the admin of the forum but this particular problem falls outside of the forum and is a server item.

With that, I have to say that I hate the politics that go on in this club. There seems to be a real divide and a lot of members backed off, some left (including me), when one particular person became very aggressive and rude to many. Sadly, nothing has changed for that person and it shows in this thread alone. While I can see that Dave feels like something happened to kick him out, perhaps with politics involved, I don't believe telling him to "grow up" is appropriate at all. There very much is reason to believe that politics got involved as this club is obviously struggling to maintain due to it.

For whatever it is worth, I never would have joined without having met Dave, he was the glue that kept the club together as tight as it was and kept it going so well. I wish the best for the next person who is going to take that heavy role on, but I would very much expect 1000% respect for Dave as this club wouldn't even exist without him. I can't imagine anybody thinking any different.

I do not believe the club has any more pressing issue than dealing with the politics actually. Membership is dwindling because of it, without membership, you don't have a club.

In conclusion, I think it'll be best to start moving the whole site to a server that Damien and/or Colby manage. It might work well as they seem to have the time and desire to take on that responsibility. I'm totally cool with that and can assist in getting the files over whenever that may happen. Domain registration and management is still Dave, I have no control over that. I've been on the fence for a while but I think I'm out now, I don't feel the club will be back to where I wish it would be and in turn I choose to stop supporting it with free hosting and tech support.

I do very much wish the best to all still involved though and I'll be watching from the sidelines here and there to see how things come along.


Edited by Graeme

The company that programmed the forum software is still in business.
They have ways of updating to more modern systems seemlessly. We
would need to pay for their latest version is all.

Dawg

In theory we should be able to migrate this forum database to some other forum software, but unless there's already a script to do it (not likely) it would be a tedious process. We'd also probably lose attachments and pictures, and the users might need to recreate their accounts.

If the club really wants to move the site in this direction, I'd be willing to do the work.

Nope, sorry. The components that this forum supports are mostly out of date and don't work. The one that supposedly works, isn't working.. I tried a few different tests and configurations.

So.. if you want images in your posts then you'll need to embed them from flickr or whatever. 

If it comes down to it, I'd be willing to take over hosting this site. I didn't offer in the past because I don't have a clue how to set up a site that uses ASP (the technology this forum runs with), but in the worst case scenario I know I could probably migrate all the posts to some different forum software. I fear that if this forum shuts down, so does the club.

I've made some changes in the 1and1 admin panel, they make take a day to take effect but it should resolve the issue.

If needed, I have a static ip available to host the site. Free of charge.
Just let me know. From the administration side, I am not much use...

Let me know...

Gary

Capt Fiero wrote: The IP that I was given from Graeme won't work even by typing in the ip directly. So I don't know what the issue is. I have spoke to Graeme about it, don't know what the issue is. This whole thing started when the Graeme told me that the site needed to be moved to a cheaper server. I said sure, he gave me a new IP to point our domain traffic too and then poof. We tried back and forth several time to get it right. He feels its a problem with our host 1and1 they feel its a problem with his configuration.

Is there a reason why you couldn't have responded in that manner to my concern about the forum/website, instead of posting what you did. 

I stepped away from the club for a couple of years because of nonsense like that. I was hoping it was all in the past. Maybe not.

My apologies for actually giving a hoot about what goes on here.