Please recomend a "respectful" donation recommendation.... Some people have deep pockets here and some have empty ones but we all want to help.
Raymond "Glad I will still have a place to post my success with Street Tires :)" Blethen
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Please recomend a "respectful" donation recommendation.... Some people have deep pockets here and some have empty ones but we all want to help.
Raymond "Glad I will still have a place to post my success with Street Tires :)" Blethen
No recommendations. Give what you think it's worth, I assure you that all funds will go back into the forum.
The only suggestion I have is that this initial pledge drive is for the upgrades; anything extra can help to get "extra" features added. Then we're likely to ask again each year to keep the lights on.
- GA
money sent - I sent part of what I saved switching to street tires ;)
Cash sent!:)
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After I read Phil's post (above) I did some research, and can confirm that
the overwhelming sense in the interwebs is that vB5 is a disaster.
MANY boards are trying to, or have completed, a BACKGRADE from vB5 to vB4.
PLEASE upgrade IT.com only to vB4 and not beyond... please.
PayPal contribution completed. Greg PM'd. Greg... please post running totals, ok?
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I still run VB 3.8 on www.gt40.com due to some features it has that don't translate well to VB 4.X. No way in hell I'd go to VB 5.
Donation sent and thanks to Bill, Greg and all involved.
Donation sent.
Sent.
Cash sent!
Thanks all for the donations. I got an email from Bill last that we easily met the halfway mark and he's already purchased and downloaded the software. He's aware of the v5 issue so we'll be moving to v4. He's out of town this week but will be reading and planning the upgrade while away and will have a better idea of timetable next week.
If you've got any requests for add-ons, post that here.
And if you've got thoughts of donating, now's the time, no matter how big or small (every little bit helps). It will all be used or this forum only. Let's get the cash flowing and we can look into upgrading and moving forward.
Greg
Funds Sent!:023:
Really? Only half way? I would have guessed we'd be way ahead by now.........
Paid mine!!
Yeah, me too Jeff. Or maybe the final amount is different than I thought.
GA please state the mission for this site.
Thanks, MM.
While playing with forum software, I'd like to see Tapatalk plugin installed. It's free from Tapatalk and makes the site mobile friendly..
I sent $20.
I haven't been on much lately with work and all. However, I like the direction that has been discussed and donated a few $.
No, what I said at the time was "we easily met the halfway mark" which was Mr Webmaster's benchmark before he'd begin committing the time and money for the upgrade.
I had a brief email exchange with him last night, and we've met our funding goals, with enough left over to cover operating costs. Thanks to everyone! Mr Webmaster has purchased the software and is beginning the planning process for the upgrade; he assures me that he's done several of these and is well-versed on the process. We have no schedule yet, but once something is nailed down I'll let you know when.
There will be one maintenance task that I'll need help on. If you go to the user list you'll see that we have something like 15,000 registered users, the vast majority of which have no posts. In addition, you can usually pick out the spammers, which have random characters or obvious advertising in their userID (e.g., "All AmericanStorage" and "plquumber5f"). We'll need to prune all those outta there. No way one person can do it. So at some point I'll be asking the current admin staff to clean these up on a regular basis (no rush, long term process) and ask if anyone else wishes to help.
I'm also likely to purge out old classified ads, ones that have been inactive for over a year or so, clean up the database.
Other than that, we'll get upgraded, add in some challenges to reduce spammers, and move forward.
Greg
Edit: Although we made our 2014 funding goal, please do not hesitate to donate if you've been procrastinating. 100% of that you send, no matter how large or small, goes toward current and future costs of the forum, and is sincerely appreciated. Mr Webmaster is hosting and doing all the work himself without charge, and your administrator staff here is all voluntary.
I realize that I'm a little late to this. Greg, I know many of the folks that run VWVortex, a REALLY big VBulletin site. I can speak to them and get any tips/pointers/etc. if you or Bill would like. I'll be sending some $$ later.
Any feedback appreciated, especially for any add-on requests.
Just saw this thread as I'm exploring the new format. Daily visitor but rarely log in and even more rarely post, but appreciate the content and discussions. Donation sent. Hopefully it can be put to good use. Thanks for all you do!
Larry
Thank you, Larry. All donations appreciated, funds reserved explicitly for forum maintenance and improvements.
Hi Greg. The new site is looking good, however one thing I can't seem to find is the old quick "Today's Posts" link which I could save as a favorite. I liked that function since it only showed very recent posts rather than a long list of them, some of which haven't been updated in weeks. The "New Posts" doesn't seem to work the same way. Thoughts?
AJ - look under "Quick Links", that's where it is for me.
Thar she blows! Thanks, Earl. You gonna play at MARRS 1? Can't wait!
It's back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We thought we lost you!!!
Thankyou, mystery webmaster!!
Seriously, there is ton of great data buried in the archives. And there were a bunch of people saddened by the possible loss of the site. Good to be back online
Thank you!!!!!
Guys I apologize. I got a couple emails in the last week that confused me. Why were people saying the site wasn't back online?
Well, tonight I realized that the redirect everyone else was seeing was something that I didn't see as as an admin or even when I was using my "test" account. I screwed up.
You all should have seen the site back about 2 weeks ago...but tonight I changed that.
Now.... we are not out of the woods yet. The spamming community has IT.com on some sort of "hot list", probably since it has been around since 2000. There is a real possibility that we could get shut down by the web host again if they attack us.
I will have more free time (finally) over the next few weeks and when not spending time with family (or looking for a new house, and a new car, and a myriad of other distractions) I hope to be able to make some changes to assure the future of IT.com.
Alright!! Way to go and much thanks for all the work on the site!
Glad to see this bar is back open! Thanks!
Thank you sir!!!
Welcome back
Thanks for the effort repairing our data
Terry
Great news!!
Thank you Sir. for your time and effort.
Thank you from me too! I'm glad we are back.
Thank you, kind Webmaster sir. Glad to have this great resource back.