Welcome back on the 'new' forum!
Moderators: jifflemon, coyote1980, Rachel
- coyote1980
- Volvo 480 Club Europe CREW
- Posts: 2973
- Joined: Thu Jan 03, 2002 12:18 pm
- Location: Groningen, The Netherlands
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Welcome back on the 'new' forum!
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!
Hope you will all enjoy having the forum back online, hopefully relieved of spam in the future. Happy posting!
- 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!
Hope you will all enjoy having the forum back online, hopefully relieved of spam in the future. Happy posting!
Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!
Finally something happened! The 'new' forum looks good. Hope we got lost of them spambots.
- martinholmesuk
- Friend of Club 480 Europe
- Posts: 10049
- Joined: Thu Sep 05, 2002 9:43 pm
- Location: West Sussex
Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!
Good luck with the new forum. Good to see you all.
Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!
And thanks for your work!
- grafi
- Knows an Aerodeck isn't a 480
- Posts: 225
- Joined: Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:12 am
- Location: Budapest, Hungary
Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!
Nice, thank you for the efforts.
- Captain Slow
- 480 Expert
- Posts: 686
- Joined: Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:13 pm
- Location: St Andrews
Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!
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?
Have the obvious spammers also been removed from the memberlist? or are they going to get removed as they surface?
- coyote1980
- Volvo 480 Club Europe CREW
- Posts: 2973
- Joined: Thu Jan 03, 2002 12:18 pm
- Location: Groningen, The Netherlands
- Contact:
Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!
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
But so far so good, things are looking great
Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!
Well done & thanks for your work! :)
- Ettore Bugatti
- 480 Is my middle name
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- Joined: Tue Mar 18, 2003 1:58 pm
- Location: not in a Volvo 480
Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!
Well done!
- bigdickbuster
- 480 Expert
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- Joined: Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:10 pm
- Location: Warsaw, Poland
Re: Welcome back on the 'new' forum!
Good job guys! Thanks!