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[DaveN]

I can't believe you got grief over 3 Gig of storage! Hard drive space is cheap even if they are RAID drives.

[Langley968]

You guys are TOO MUCH!

[flash]

We are officially back online!!!

A huge thanks to banditsc, without whom this would have been an incredibly long and painful process.

You wil notice a LOT of new stuff. The "VIEW NEW POSTS area should make a lot of people very happy. It is now much easier to customize for what you want to see.

There wil be more changes happening over the next couple of days, as we reinstall somethings, fix some bugs, and generally clean stuff up.

Thanks for your patience and understanding during this process.

[94SilverCab]

Finally, we can get back to where true 968 enthusiasts gather...

Sheesh! How low must your self esteem be to think that true enthusiasts can only exsist in one place....?

Glad to be back up, I was getting bored doing my job

Jay

[flash]

i'm really looking forward to making some of the new abilities come into play

the space and bandwidth we now have will allow longer higher resolution videos, larger photos, and a whole lot more

speed should be better too

there are already a couple of bugs to fix (like the "forum" button taking you back to the wrong place) - they will get fixed over the next day or so, as well as things will get added back in, and some tweaking of colors and such

but so far, i like it!

[Chris Vais]

Don't know if this is the place to report clitches, but when I signed on this afternoon the Home page looks great, but when I clicked on the new content button the next page was realyy buggerred up everything compressed to the right side in a narrow column. When I clicked on this topic, the page opens up as you would expect.

[flash]

clear your cache - it sounds like it was trying to load the page from the old cache

[Byte]

Glad everyone is back.

[Lear35A]

I like it!

[Cloud9...68]

Me too. Looks very slick and modern, and it does seem to be a bit faster, too. The degree of attention the guys running this site give it is nothing short of amazing, especially compared to other car forums. Thanks for all the effort.

[flwbyu]

Biotechee, you definitely put a smile on my face! Flash et al..excellent job on updating the site. Looks great!

[ds968]

It's alive, it' ALIVE ! ( exclaimed in my best vintage Frankenstein movie clip impersonation )
Jim, your post was priceless.
Bob, Jay, Pete - congrats, the new and improved site rocks !

[Rap]

From my perspective, my dealer was missing and I couldn't get my fix! Lock your doors , I'm jonesing! Lol

[Rap]

My iPad displays are back to normal. Thanks.

[flash]

roflmao - it's amazing at how quickly people go into withdrawals - even the guys on the other site were jonesing for our site - i felt so bad for them - they were stuck trying to glean something of import from that site, and just plain out of luck - lol

but that's ok - we're back, and even better

i can't wait to dive in and add some really cool stuff to this site - we have essentially unlimited storage space and bandwidth now, so we can do so many things that no other site will ever be capable of that i expect not too far off that there won't be much of anybody on the other sites (not that there are many there now)

i'm working on trying to figure out how to do in-car-camera live broadcasting via the web - how cool would that be?

[Rap]

Sounds pretty neat!

[biotechee]

I try, I try!

So far, I like the way the new stuff looks. Will I end up using anymore than 10-15% of the functionality of this site? I doubt it- I am far too stoopid! But I am glad you guys keep the roof on this place, and keep it in tip-top shape for those of us who can actually do and use all this fancy tech stuff... Makes the site priceless!

Dan (Hr. Doktor) - was Marty Feldman next to you during your exclaimation??!

(Young Frankenstein for those that don't know the reference)

Edited by biotechee, 19 August 2011 - 06:38 AM.

[flash]

cool stuff - pretty much all of the little things from the other version have now been added back in

new features just added:

"Last 5 Posts" - in case you haven't noticed, this automatically refreshes itself every few seconds, so you don't have to click on "View New Posts" (unless you want to see more than the last 5)

"Contact Us" button added so you can email the ADMIN

look for more cool stuff to be added soon

but just so you don't think this is all a prelude to the commercialization of the site, be assured that we have no plans to change anything in that way - no, we will not be plastering the pages with ads - no you won't be able to buy a wedding dress - no you won't get pounded about the head with amazon ads or google ads or any of that annoying stuff that looks like a bad version of the vegas strip

[biotechee]

I really like the last 5 posts feature. And I also like the immediate reply window after the last post in the thread.

Very cool.

[cl42jcg]

Flash & Jay:

If it becomes necessary from a fiscal standpoint to charge an annual fee for access to the site, give a heads up. Many of us would gladly chip in to keep the Forum alive and well. Those who don't care can take a long hike off a short pier and go elsewhere.

Jim Green, Portland OR