Is it just me, or is this site down frequently?

 

Ain't just you

 

yup me too ((

 

I can't connect frequently. Now I don't try as often.

Les

 

I just come back later on, nothing that important just want to read posts...

 

I have had a lot of issues as of late. I had to get back to a member so that they could ship me something fedex... but could not get back for half the day.

 

This morning is the first time with issues in a long time. James

 

I would say the new owners are working on updating things , I could not get on last night after work

 

This site has had reliability issue from time to time over the last few years. I think once the new ownership moves it to their new environment, and settles it should be much more reliable, and will have a working gallery, plus some new software features such as support for Tapatalk, so you have access from your mobile devices.

Patience grasshoppers...

 

Don't most people have access from the mobile devices already? I am really wondering about this as I have seen it mentioned a few times since the sale of the site. I have never had problems accessing the site from my phone, ipad ext and was wondering what problems others have had.

 

Tapatalk is a seprate application on android/iphone that interfaces with forums.

It is very useful as it is one application to house connections to all of your favorite online forums.

 

So it is for people whom visit multiple forums, got it! I only frequent this one on a regular basis. I never thought about having to manage multiple forums on my phone.

 

I check the forum everyday several times a day and I wasn't able to connect about four times since the purchase.

 

Yep, multiple forums.

I am on about a half dozen different forums...and that is just the car related ones.

That doesn't count the tech forums and android forums that I am a member of...


...it is nice to be able to access all of the new posts in each forum from my phone whenever I want and I am looking forward to be able to add this forum to that list as I pretty much only surf new posts when I am on here anyways.

 

That's mostly coincidental We have had these issue before. The server is still on the old environment. It will be moved over next week some time.

After next week, you can blame it on them....

 

I have had the same problems over the last weeks but it was compounded by a bug that the computer picked up. This bug switched off the firewall and disabled my anti-virus software. A half hour on the phone with my Internet providers technician in India, with him telling me how to get on line and let him take control of my computer solved the problem.

However as I read later such episodes can leave the IE program damaged, my feeble attempts to correct it only made the problem worse. Windows XP does not allow IE 8 to be repaired from what I gathered before the whole thing failed entirely. Feverish attempts to save what I had only resulted in numerous shut downs and auto reports to MS of the problem.

Faced with reinstalling XP from scratch and then updating to the latest version, service pack #3, assuming I could get on line, I made the decision to upgrade to Windows 7. I went out and got it and came home to find the computer had some newly acquired updates to install. As it went about the install process I opened the software, while doing that I noticed that the install said IE 8 being installed. ****!, new software opened and the computer works just fine without it.

I guess my flurry of problems sent to MS triggered the IE install automatically, now I might as well install the Windows 7. I'll put the XP program with my collection. The collection starts with an IBM PC that runs DOS 3.3, the other computers are gone but that one is a keeper, two floppy drives and all. You get nostalgic just looking at it.

My son is an Apple advocate, we have one the wife uses but I like Windows, but I have no idea why. I guess I like the challenge.

Expensive trip out as I got the software, a new Canon color printer plus a bundle more spent at Costco. I guess someone has to keep the economy humming.

 

Try Google Chrome. It is by far my favorite browser.

 

I'm an IT guy, and an avid apple user, but when I drink beer I always choose Dos Equis. and when I have to choose a internet browser I choose ie.

 

I will try it again, I tried it once before and never did get attached to it at all. My son says if I do not want to dump my Windows programs and go to Apple then I should try Chrome or FireFox.

FireFox left me wondering what to do next this morning when I tried it, so I did what all real men do, I deleted the program. Little did I know that was my sole access to the web as IE had expired.

I'll try Chrome, what's the betting FP uses it?

 

It's much more than that. IMHO is much FASTER, easier to read new posts, and read PMs on any forum that has installed the Tapatalk server side app (which is free btw to the site owner) as it doesn't load all the extra fluff that a forum/website has when you browse with a PC/Mac browser.