Reboot of forum

Hi smt....
Thanks for your kind words. We're working to make it valuable for our valued members like you. If you see anything that needs work, or that you'd like to see added please let us know.

As was mentioned elsewhere, because we couldn't match forum usernames with membership roster actual names when the information was imported, many folks ended up with two accounts. You were one, but I've just corrected that - as we've done with about ten others today and at least that many in the last week and a half.

In doing so, I've had to change your password and will email you with the temporary one.

You now have your post count restored and member status changed on the Forum.

The forum rankings are presently :
Junior Member 20 posts
Senior Member 40
Premium Member 80
Elite Member 160
Platinum Member 320

And do not relate to any OC Membership status. They names and counts can be changed.

We're working on some tables and a map that will identify charter members - a very valued category!

In the old forum, I had been recording the restoration of my S4 in the Member's Cars section. Unless I'm missing something, that department is gone on the new forum. But I'm told that my 'stuff' is still there. Darned if I can find it!

I can see it making sense to put the forum and the registry together, but this is frustrating....

gcthree.....
You were the victim of the fabled 'misalignment', i.e. the forum was misaligned with the membership module and it didn't know you were a member (you had two different user accounts, one when the forum was transferred and one when the membership info was uploaded) Since the forum didn't know your 'real' name we had no way of matching the two. Hence you did not have access to the member areas where your posts are patiently waiting for you to show up and join them.

Everything should be aligned now; but please let us know if you have any more problems.

Thank you for letting us know, and thank you for your OC membership.

Bill VV

Thanks, Bill! There it is! Photos are missing, but they're all here on my hard drive, awaiting a rainy day with nothing to do on the 928. Ha!

Thanks for sorting it out.

Bob

Bob,
We're working on the photos, but after a couple days of trying to move bits and bytes around it's time to call in the experts. It seems the images stored in the old forum software were saved as 'blobs' that are defying decryption. They're there, and there are services that claim they can do it; it will just take a little time to organize.

By the way, is your car registered? I think there's a way to add a link in the Registry to the forum thread; if you want we can make that happen. It's also very easy to do the reverse; just click on a Registry entry and copy/paste the link that shows up in the browser.