Welcome back on the 'new' forum!

If we want to announce something, like a good update of the website, we will do it here.

Moderators: jifflemon, coyote1980, Rachel

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coyote1980
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Welcome back on the 'new' forum!

Post by coyote1980 » Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:01 pm

New you may ask? Yes, new, but only since we:
- moved to another physical location
- upgraded from phpbb 3.0.8 to 3.0.9
- installed some anti-spam countermeasures
- installed a tool so you can see the 5 latest posts on the index page

The move to a new location has proven necessary. As you probably now dragon's house was flooded some time ago and he is now stuck in the aftermath of it all (insurance, replacing belongings, etc). Understandably there was no way to update anything on the server, and when spam started to take the overhand it was time to take action. The simplest way was to backup the database on dragons server, install phpbb on the clubsite, restore the backup there, update the forum software and database, install anti spam countermeasures and invite you all to come over to the new location.

In case you run into problems just contact me or one of the moderators: volvo-bigbrother, joolz and glasgowjim - we'll be there to assist! :cheers:

Hope you will all enjoy having the forum back online, hopefully relieved of spam in the future. Happy posting! :D
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Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!

Post by Van » Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:36 pm

Finally something happened! The 'new' forum looks good. Hope we got lost of them spambots.

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Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!

Post by martinholmesuk » Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:40 pm

Good luck with the new forum. Good to see you all.

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Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!

Post by Van » Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:55 pm

And thanks for your work!

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Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!

Post by grafi » Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:22 am

Nice, thank you for the efforts.

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Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!

Post by Captain Slow » Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:50 am

Thankyou everyone for the effort you have put in. Lets beat those spammers!

Have the obvious spammers also been removed from the memberlist? or are they going to get removed as they surface?

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Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!

Post by coyote1980 » Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:12 am

Maybe we'll begin flushing zero-post-users with suspected spam names - for the moment I doubt they will return from their sleep here since the base URL for the forum no longer is the same. Ergo, they will not try to login on this new URL (I hope). Perhaps some manual spammers, but I think we can deal with them.

But so far so good, things are looking great :D
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Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!

Post by il Conte » Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:54 am

Well done & thanks for your work! :)

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Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!

Post by Ettore Bugatti » Sun Jul 17, 2011 12:33 pm

Well done!

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Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!

Post by bigdickbuster » Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:13 pm

Good job guys! Thanks!

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