AC Owners Club Forum

General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: ACAdmin on December 23, 2017, 15:59:46

Title: New Forum
Post by: ACAdmin on December 23, 2017, 15:59:46: The new forum is now active!

Existing users will have to use the "Forgot your password" option when logging in.
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: GSouthee on December 23, 2017, 17:00:14: Cheers for new Forum layout, but who are the maniacs filling up the forum with useless posts. Why has this suddenly happened? can we not vet who posts?

Suggest action soonest, otherwise our forum will be ruined.

Cheers and a Merry Xmas to all.
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: administrator on December 23, 2017, 19:05:47: We were hit by some spam bots before the security precautions were enabled. I hope that's now cleared up but will keep a watch.

Please let me know of any problems - there are likely to be some more lurking in the corners, as usual with new software installations.

We can now attach photos directly to posts - Happy Christmas!

Bryan
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: AC Ace Bristol on December 24, 2017, 00:27:17: .
Welcome to the New ACOC Forum.

I take this opportunity to wish you all

Merry Christmas
And a
Happy And Healthy
New Year

Keith
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: nikbj68 on December 24, 2017, 14:38:28: Woohoo! We appear to have lost a week or 2 of posts, but Looking good, Happy Christmas to all!
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: administrator on December 25, 2017, 09:21:17: Apologies if some posts have gone AWOL during the migration process - hope there won't be any more disappearing. Please let me know if there are any problems.
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: AC Ventura on December 26, 2017, 19:21:31: Fantastic news about the ease of adding photos. Thank you !
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: administrator on December 30, 2017, 12:29:49: I've reset some permissions on the Forum which may address the problems some members have had posting/replying/viewing profiles etc. Please let me know of any more problems - there may be some more issues lurking in the corners.

Bryan
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: GSouthee on December 30, 2017, 18:11:20: Bryan,

Excellent now all working and there I was thinking I'd lost the plot.

Cheers Gary
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: nikbj68 on January 02, 2018, 08:27:45: Happy New Year to ALL!
I appear to have lost around a hundred posts, and couldn't access the forum for the whole Christmas period...Felt like having an arm cut off! :o

Looking forward to getting back into the swing of things over the coming months.

Thanks to the admin team!
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: nikbj68 on January 02, 2018, 12:48:46: Quote from: nikbj68 on January 02, 2018, 08:27:45

Happy New Year to ALL! :D

I appear to have lost around a hundred posts, and couldn't access the forum for the whole Christmas period...Felt like having an arm cut off! :o

Looking forward to getting back into the swing of things over the coming months.

Thanks to the admin team!
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: MkIV Lux on January 10, 2018, 07:55:22: Many thanks Administrator and all those involved and those having supported this important upgrade allowing direct photo hosting!

And to ALL a very Happy and Healthy Year 2018.

:) :) :) :) :)

Constant
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: AC Ventura on January 10, 2018, 18:59:11: Excellent news abut this. Thanks so much
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: rsk289 on March 12, 2018, 23:21:10: Being thick here, but is there anywhere members can view an online version of ACtion?
I've tried the 'members section' of the website, but can't log on as it no longer recognises my password for some reason. Clicking on the reset link takes me to a Racecar page that doesn't work, so no reset possible.
Is it just a forum now, with no website members' area?
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: Exowner on March 16, 2018, 16:11:29: I don't think ACtion is available to view online, unless I'm very much mistaken!
I'm surprised you have not received a reply to this question up to now.
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: administrator on March 20, 2018, 11:34:13: The plan to put ACtion online has had to be shelved for copyright reasons. Quite a few historical photographs have been released by the copyright holders for hard copy publication only. Editing the PDFs to remove them would be a huge job.

There is an informal 'swap' scheme running for members to complete their ACtion collections. If there are specific issues you need, contact either me or Keith Lessiter.

I've completed the ACtion index back to the first issue in May 1974 when it became a 'monthly' but have no plans to go further back to the newsletter days.
Members Area -> Model Directory -> ACtion Archive

If the members area login doesn't work, email me and I'll check your login details.
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: bobbylangley on February 26, 2020, 09:45:09: There has been discussion about this on the Forum previously. ACtion is not available online and I believe the problem is with copyright. We are given dispensation (in Archive) for example) to use certain photographs in articles but only for publication in Action, not to be widely available by other means, eg, pdf format online. Therefore it is not published online. And the members' area and the Forum are two different log ins as the members' area is for members only and the Forum is open to all so your problem may lie here. Also when renewing your membership, for a short time whilst we await PayPal confirmation your membership passes from Current (where you can log in) to Pending (where you can't). Upon confirmation you are manually moved back into Current. You may have been in Pending when you tried to log in. Try again.
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: bobbylangley on October 04, 2020, 11:59:02: Action is not available on line (it has been said before). The reasons are several but the most obvious being copyright granted to us for photographs etc to appear in ACtion, but not on any other platform.