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Post by Matt of the Vivas on Feb 18, 2017 19:53:09 GMT
Welcome to the new forum.
Popular Classics v2.0.....
Im annoyed and very upset that we are to lose all the material on the old forum, but if we can keep the members and the spirit of the old place and bring it here then this should be a nice place to be.
Same rules as before - this is YOUR forum, not mine, if you want something changing, dont like something, suggestions, or just want to hurl abuse - message me and it will be done.
Matt.
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Post by zeebra on Feb 22, 2017 8:16:48 GMT
Any suggestions as to how we can promote the new forum? Is it worth writing the classic car magazines, owners clubs etc or do we just want to let it grow organically like?
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Post by bent8rover on Feb 22, 2017 11:51:16 GMT
popularclassics.org is for sale
...for stupid money
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Post by penguin45 on Feb 22, 2017 12:02:08 GMT
Certainly easier to remember! We did this on the Landcrab forum and it has helped with retaining active members.
P45.
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Post by bent8rover on Feb 22, 2017 12:23:10 GMT
The old sticker set Still hundreds of these in 02man's shed  |
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Post by bent8rover on Feb 22, 2017 13:37:21 GMT
Quickest thing to do is get the popular-classics.co.uk domain DNS set up to point to this new site instead of the old forumcircle one Currently in Steve Jackson's name, handled by 123.reg. Once this is changed the Google and Bing etc search links will redirect. who.is/whois/popular-classics.co.ukThen can look at marketing |
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Post by penguin45 on Feb 22, 2017 14:55:16 GMT
Proboards will charge $28 to change it. Bear in mind also that being a free forum, the adverts will appear after our first month. We have to pay to make them disappear. It would be unreasonable to expect Matt to meet that cost on an ongoing basis.
P45.
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Post by bent8rover on Feb 22, 2017 16:38:02 GMT
I didn't think ProBoards had anything to do with 123-reg, it's registered to Steve's name, so Steve should have the login details to change it See who.is/dns/popular-classics.co.ukNeed to change 94.136.40.82 to be 104.16.120.223 |
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Post by Matt of the Vivas on Feb 22, 2017 20:52:37 GMT
I'll message Steve...
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Post by Matt of the Vivas on Feb 22, 2017 20:53:23 GMT
It also appears the old forum is no more. I thought we had until the end of feb.... Bugger.
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Post by maxbranning on Feb 22, 2017 20:54:18 GMT
If you have no luck matt, give me a nod mate as I can pop over to see him.
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Post by Matt of the Vivas on Feb 22, 2017 20:54:50 GMT
Do that mate, give him a cuddle from me and tell him we still love him
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Post by penguin45 on Feb 23, 2017 0:18:05 GMT
It also appears the old forum is no more. I thought we had until the end of feb.... Bugger. It's up and down. Couldn't get on this morning, running again now. Who knows for how long? I said 'bye. P45. |
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Post by bent8rover on Feb 24, 2017 19:17:27 GMT
I have some news
For past couple of days I have been able to attempt a backup or two of the old site and build as a mirror site saved on my local hard drive.
Not looked too deeply, but many of the blog pages appear to be intact.
Flicking between pages is broken as flat html pages full of framed text and inline images cannot replicate the forum 'engine' itself, but hopefully it will mean that if there is a blog page you want to copy straight over it is possible (page by page) with all photo links intact so you won't have to write the blighter out all over again.
Will get back later with an update
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Post by aar0sc on Feb 24, 2017 19:45:59 GMT
Amazing B8R, if it works!
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