Maintenance Finished -- PLEASE READ THIS

[Dave Ambrose]

We finished out maintenance and reorganization. As you can see, things are different, and we've combined truck and cars in some places, like here. 

Not all the content is where it needs to be yet. In the coming days, we'll be going through some of the sub-forums, like NASCAR and Drag Racing, to pull out the posts that are strictly finished models and move them to the relevant section of Under Glass. We'll also be segregating the Wanted and Trade posts in the truck section. Once we're done, that section will go away.

We're preventing people from posting new topics in sub-forums that will be going away. You may continue to reply to existing topics in those sub-forums.

We've added an Other Racing category in both On the Workbench and Under Glass sections. This for any race cars that don't fit Drag or NASCAR categories. Those of you wondering where to put your Indy cars need wonder no more, 

Please, please, please, post any problems, or comments about our new layout in the How to Use this Board  section, and not here in General. 

I know some of you were having trouble with slow performance. I think we've fixed that now. Let me know if we haven't. 

And, as an aside, this board has 2.2 million posts. 

Thanks, and let me know if there are any problems in How to Use This Board.

[Roadrunner]

No kidding. I was thoroughly confused by the reorganization of things. I'll adapt though, for sure.

[tbill]

It for sure has a different layout, but I’m sure we will all adapt after the initial grumblings.....

[peteski]

Wow - this is a mayor reshuffle!  I have feeling that merging general cars and trucks discussions will make the truck unhappy, but it whatever the mods decide goes.  I'm also not  sure where motorcycles will fit in - probably where they were in the past.

[89AKurt]

What happened?  I was going to post on my WIP, no comment box at all!  Can't quote anyone either.

Edited April 19, 2020 by 89AKurt

[peteski]

Hmm, even though the summary shows over 42,00 posts, when I go there, no posts show up.

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/forum/16-car-aftermarket-resin-3d-printed/

[Dave Ambrose]

55 minutes ago, peteski said:

Hmm, even though the summary shows over 42,00 posts, when I go there, no posts show up.

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/forum/16-car-aftermarket-resin-3d-printed/

There was a glitch. I fixed it. 

[Dave Ambrose]

1 hour ago, 89AKurt said:

What happened?  I was going to post on my WIP, no comment box at all!  Can't quote anyone either.

Which area? 

[Jordan White]

Will there be a Big Boyz subforum in the under glass section as well?

[StevenGuthmiller]

I thought I became dyslexic over night for a moment when I logged on this morning! 

 

It will take a little getting used to, but I suspect that we will manage.

 

 

 

 

Steve

[Codi]

Makes perfect sense what  you're attempting to do with the changes Dave.  It will make it better to navigate and search various topics once we get used to the format and the little bugs remaining get wiped out.   Appreciate your efforts!  cheers, tim

[Xingu]

5 hours ago, Jordan White said:

Will there be a Big Boyz subforum in the under glass section as well?

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

[afx]

Thanks Dave for the new categories!  However I have seen no improvement on the slow performance issues I'm experiencing.  

Edited April 19, 2020 by afx

[Xingu]

11 minutes ago, Codi said:

Makes perfect sense what  you're attempting to do with the changes Dave.  It will make it better to navigate and search various topics once we get used to the format and the little bugs remaining get wiped out.   Appreciate your efforts!  cheers, tim

That is exactly why the changes were made.

[Dave Ambrose]

2 hours ago, afx said:

Thanks Dave for the new categories!  However I have seen no improvement on the slow performance issues I'm experiencing.  

Rats — I’ll keep investigating. 

[DonW]

It's certainly an improvement, with amazingly few teething troubles as far as I'm aware. 

More logical once I got my head around the changes.

Well done to all involved.

PS Oops - I just remembered that Dave said 'Please, please, please, post any problems, or comments about our new layout in the How to Use this Board  section, and not here in General. '  Sorry.

Edited April 19, 2020 by DonW

[Claude Thibodeau]

Hi Sir!

In the age of internet and instant research results, this all makes sense. Can't wait for all the "backlog" of posts to be re-indexed.

Thank your for your work!

CT

[Tom Geiger]

Thanks for all you do!

i had a chuckle last night.. while on the “Once Upon A Time” thread, I got the message. “200 New Messages...”

Everything working fine here on iPhone 

[Jordan White]

4 hours ago, Xingu said:

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

Good to hear, the threads should get a little more traffic that way then! ?

[Dave Van]

Thanks for your work...I spent tme as a DBA back in the day.

FYI....forum still very slow to load. 

[bobthehobbyguy]

Thanks Dave. New layout looks great. Has a better flow also.

No issues with loading before or after changes. Running android tablet with google chrome. Also iphone 4 with safari.

Again thank you Dave for your time keeping the board running smoothly.

[High octane]

Thanks Dave.

[Painted Black]

Looks good to me. Like it!!

Well I just scrolled down to the drag racing forum. said I didn't have permission to view...

Edited April 19, 2020 by Painted Black

[espo]

Big surprise this morning on the new format. While it was different it was also more logical to me. I realize this is still not formalized I would like to see at sometime the list of after market suppliers as we had before. I know it has been mentioned that was an area that needed some clean up and I'm sure there is more pressing issues at this time, but it would be nice to have that information in the future. And thank you for getting rid off all the popup garbage, that really was out of hand. So thank you again for that.   

[Roger U]

It will take awhile to get familiar with the changes but after a very quick look through the forum I like it.