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  3. Posted

    Sorry to hear the site is having issues.

    I've not really spoken with Toby for over a year (nothing personal, but I didn't think he'd want the old admin poking him every now and again about forum stuff!) and I don't "have the keys" to the admin section anymore - although it sounds like the server needs some maintenance, which only Toby will have access to.

     

    As it is holiday season, he may well be out of contact at the moment, and/or unable to do much until he's sat in front of a PC with a decent net connection.

     

    However, I've not experienced any issues logging in or using the site to post this. Some things you could check which may help you until it's fixed properly:

    - Use the mobile Web theme on your phone. If you don't automatically change to this when visiting the site, you can change to it via the drop down box in the very bottom left of the site.

    - don't use the direct.the-corrado.net url as this bypasses caching which may help keep the site up

     

    Happy to help Toby / anyone else / etc. where I can. I don't want to see the site die, there's a lot of great information on here.

  4. Posted

    First, please don't post the same question in multiple forums. Your other posts have been removed.

    Secondly, it's OBD2.

    Thirdly, where do you think all of them are made? Hint, they all say "Made in China" on them.

    Fourthly, you have a Golf ABF engine in your Corrado - but has the whole car been converted to OBD2? It would have to have been the whole wiring loom - to lights, etc., everything... More likely, it's still OBD1, so the reader will be useless anyway?

  8. Posted

    Hi all,

     

    I'm not sure if all of you are aware, but I've run this site since it's inception, over 13 years ago.

    For about 10 of those, I also ran the dedicated server and managed all the software / hardware / upgrades - as well as trying to keep the site new, fresh, appealing to new users, but fun & useful for the current lot.

     

    It's been fantastic - and I've enjoyed nearly every moment of it!

    You've all been very supportive of me as well, making the until-4am tech sessions worthwhile when I see you all log back in at 7am and using the site as if nothing's happened!

     

    I've got DVDs of Rolling Road days, and various T-shirts & stickers we've designed throughout the years.

    But, I've not actually had a Corrado for over 10 years - though I've stuck in the VW & Audi fold for pretty much all of that.

     

    I now have a 2-year daughter, and I'm engaged to be married.. Basically, I've grown up and changed quite a bit from the 22 year old who started this site a long time ago.

    I'm sure most of you've noticed I've been getting far more distant in the past couple of years. Having a more demanding job, and a small family, has made looking after the site more of an after-thought than something I want to passionately continue.

     

    But the last thing I'd ever want, is for anything to change (for the worse) for the users.

    So, it's with great pleasure that I announce the new 'Commander in Chief', t700bes

    He has been looking after the server & hosting of the site for the past couple of years and some of you will know him from his Corrado owning days.

    I suspect he'll be back with another - so I'll let you guys keep on bugging him about it..!!

     

    I'm not leaving. I'll still be around for any help and advice on running the forum and it's setup. But it's t700bes you should contact for all things forum and any feedback, etc. as he's the new boss ;)

     

    Here's to the next phase of The CF and to see what goodies some new blood can rustle up! :geek:

     

    Peace out! :afro:

  12. Posted

    Hi all,

     

    I know this will be well received by some users...but we are dropping Panjo from our Classifieds section, effective immediately.

     

    They have decided to launch a new version of the software in an incomplete state (the biggest ommission being the lack of GBP as a currency) but disable their current version at the same time - leaving us no choice.

     

    We will trial running open forums for the Classifieds section.

  13. Posted

    Tidy thanks Andi

     

    Ooo I like the acknowledgement under the user name :)

     

    That's one of the major advantages* of Donating to this great service.

     

     

    *ok, the only real benefit, though, I also give you an unlimited PM box... ENJOY!

  15. Posted

    Transaction ID - ID: 04387719NK028163S

     

    transaction ref was 63T49572BJ9856615 via paypal

     

    I can't see either of these transactions... Could you both PM me your real names (or the names on the transactions)... Thanks!

    It doesn't help when people use their other half's Paypal etc.! Or their name isn't "Mr. Goldfinger"... :lol:

  16. Posted

    Hi all,

     

    Firstly - thanks for the donations - they do all help!

     

    I've always prided myself on keeping this forum clean - so I do try to keep the adverts and begging down to a minimum so you can all enjoy the site rather than get bombarded with pleas...

     

    But - to be fair - the link is at the bottom of every page - it's also in my and a couple of the Mods' signatures - so does get about the forum a bit!

    I think it's in the welcome PM too.... But, clearly not enough if you managed to miss it!

     

    Thanks again, though!

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    Aha, then I didn't persevere enough to find that out. The front page of the app pushes you towards creating a tapatalk account. (Like installing Windows 10 you have to jump through hoops to find out how to log in with a local account..)

     

    I would still prefer not to be pushed towards the app just because I'm browsing from a "mobile" device, but that's a general issue with the "mobile web" in general. i.e. it sucks, and I do not have any idea why chrome/firefox et al insist on defaulting to requesting the mobile site on a high spec device.

    What device are you using?

    If a tablet, the browsers have a "mobile" ID string, so will be served mobile pages.

    If Android, you can normally change the browser user agent to be a desktop one, thus getting the full page...

  24. Posted

    Can we ban adverts from the forum? they're getting boring! This has just been copy and pasted onto 10000000000000000000 forums, they aren't even bothering to make the posts car specific to the forums any more, may as well call it "please boost our company on social media because we want to benefit from loads of free advertising and only pay at most £70 to amazon" i mean really guys a ****ing £100 amazon voucher! talk about researching your audience! I find that insulting! You couldn't even be bothered to find a decent prize you are just offering a sh*tting voucher.. and for amazon? NOT EVEN EBAY... SERIOUSLY!? I can tel you a good place to put that voucher...

     

    Did you get out of the wrong side of the bed yesterday?

    It's a competition. All competitions are really to boost the profile of the company running them - that's why they run them. Marketing 101.

    You don't have to enter. You don't have to read this thread.

     

    I run this forum out of my own pocket, and have done for 13 years.

    I receive about £10-20 a month in donations. Running the site costs 5 times that. Plus my time, which of course I spend hours working behind the scenes.

    I need to use advertising to help pay the way, simply.

    CKI are one of the more active advertisers on the site - but a competition with the chance to win £100 in Amazon vouchers (and you don't even have to take out an insurance policy with them) is hardly intrusive. The subject of the thread was pretty obvious what it was about and who was running it.

     

    May I suggest you redirect your trolling to users who don't pay their way to 'keep the forum alive'?

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