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I agree. There is a bit of information that is missing though. The amount of time the moderators had to spend moving threads from general areas to the location they should have been posted in the first place. Some of the changes are to also make it easier on the mods. Full disclosure, I wanted to merge Aftermarket and Industry Corner and was talked back from ledge.

Members will need to be a little more descriptive with their titles. It is fairly easy to add Truck: or Big Rig: or Muscle Car: into the titles. I also know that some folks will think that is just entirely too much work and won't do it. I believe the truckers will band together and come up with a way to distinguish threads that pertain to them from the other automotive threads.

You can go to whichever thread you would like to link and copy the web address shown at the top of your browser. Then just past it into your post and it should convert it automatically.

Yes cars and trucks are merged for the Trading Post and Wanted sections. When posting you could name it "Truck Wanted: xxxxxxxxx" if you want to make it easier to tell it is for trucks.

Dave - Is it individual threads or just certain parts that are slow. Several members have reported "Unread Content" loads slow.

You can post a link to your Contest/Show announcements here. This is for announcements only, not for discussions. You can link to a more detailed announcement that you post in the Contest and Show section. You can still add your Contest/Show to the calendar. Again, this is for announcement links only. Any other posts will be removed as we are trying to keep this thread clean so it is easy to see upcoming events. This should also give the show announcements a bit more viewing traffic.

Waiting for the final decision, but I think Diecast will get it's own section back. If it is just photos of a store bought, complete vehicle then it will go there. If there are extensive modifications/conversion it can go into the Workbench area to showcase the work that went into it. Then the finished conversion could go in the Under Glass section.

I see that bar is working! It is there to make sure everyone reads the thread that quickly explains the changes. It will stay a while longer so that more folks can read the thread before they start sending messages saying the board is broken.

We will probably give diecast it's own section again. As I was moving threads yesterday I realized they didn't really fit in well where I was putting them. Still working out a few bugs.

Motorcycles are in the same grouping they have always been. We only clarified what else can also be posted there.

Part of the reason for the change is to give the site a smaller footprint so that it is easier to maneuver with a phone or tablet. We see so few motorcycle builds here that decided to keep them in the Everything Else section. It just isn't feasible to give everything it's own (in this case 2) category.

I have already been questioning this and have asked the other mods for their opinions.

I have an idea for that and ran it up the chain of command.

Diecast and Resincast are being merged into Model Cars and Model Trucks. This was supposed to go into Under Glass, I placed it in the wrong spot.

They are being merged into the regular model car and truck sections. If it is a new topic, start it there. You should be able to view and respond to existing topics.

That is exactly why the changes were made.

Big Boyz are being merged back into the regular Model Cars and Model Trucks areas. Same is happening with Diecast, Resincast and 3D models.

We are going to move threads around as best we can. If you feel a particular threads belongs in a specific area please shoot us a message or use the report function and we can look into it. It is going to take us some time to get threads moved around, so please be patient.

Glad to hear you are doing better Richard. Besides the pain from the surgery, have you noticed a difference in how you feel?

What you are seeing are status updates. It's when someone uses a persons profile page, not private messages, to communicate. If you hover over the the little person icon to the left it will show what the activity is from.

Everyday is a model show here. Feel free to try and organize something if you like.

They aren't arrogant, they are being supportive and we ask them to let us know when the ad layouts change. Most folks are trying to to help support the site by keeping the ad revenue coming in. We are trying to find the middle ground with what is tolerable with the ads, but Google keeps changing the rules and not letting us know about it. The ads do seem to be effect folks differently though, as I have never seen some the ads like most recently posted. Folks do know that they can reinstall an ad blocker if they find the ads too obtrusive. We have had some preliminary discussions on a add free subscription to the site.

I have sent this on to Dave to look into. I have not yet had anything close to this happen to me. Using Firefox on my PC. No Ad Blocker.

It has been discussed.

Ads were always there. If they bother you that much reinstall the ad blocker you must have been using before.