The Model Car Magazine Forum is becoming Model Car Makers

[Bugatti Fan]

Thanks for taking the time to reply with further information Michael.

Fully understand that there is some way to go yet and the rationale behind the proposed changes.

[Jay Lankford]

In as much as I am very new to MCM  and it's forums, I can understand the reasoning behind separating the two. Having so much to process with the forums and maintain balance with everything else seems challenging at the least. I'm no tech wizard, but I'm sure I'll be able to follow along with upcoming changes. I only wish I would have chosen to resume model building and found this site sooner. Lots of talent and skills here. 

[mcs1056]

Any chance the new place will bring the latest posts up to the top of each section?

Asking for a friend.

[peteski]

48 minutes ago, mcs1056 said:

Any chance the new place will bring the latest posts up to the top of each section?

Asking for a friend.

They already are (right below all the sticky posts).   Just like other forums I participate in.

Where would you suggest to place sticky posts?

[stitchdup]

3 hours ago, mcs1056 said:

Any chance the new place will bring the latest posts up to the top of each section?

Asking for a friend.

they already are, or if you click unread content it will bring up everything new. to get search results in chronological order you first need to perform the search then click the box that says sort by and change its selection to date. 

[slusher]

On 11/26/2025 at 12:57 PM, Dave Ambrose said:

There are several reasons we went with Makers. The main one is confusion with an existing brand. 

Dave, will our avatar and old posts and Post count stay the same?

[Xingu]

2 hours ago, slusher said:

Dave, will our avatar and old posts and Post count stay the same?

Unless something catastrophic happens during the migration, everything will transfer over and remain as is. That includes login passwords, avatars, post counts, all content.

[Codi]

Congratulations to the powers that be of the forum and for the new direction.  Building upon the forum's success can only ensure it's long term future!    Cheers, Tim

[Wickersham Humble]

Dave, please keep it simple (or provide plain and explicit instructions) for we older, non-techie modelers.  MCM's forums are a constant joy to me, at 80, and the fellowship -- and generosity -- of the faithful is heartening in this age of distrust, confrontation, and polemicism.  Keep the good, then make it work better for y'all.  For us oldsters, change usually means things get worse; hope not in this case!  Best, Wick Humble in N CA

[Russell C]

On 11/25/2025 at 8:05 AM, peteski said:

...members ... will still have to resort to ad-blockers?

Over in the other thread clarifying how there really will be a switch to the new site, I told how I missed the announcement because I was temporarily using my old computer with its non-functioning AdBlock, and I'd mousewheeled past it. That was near the end of 16 days straight of big and totally irrelevant ads to zip past every time I logged in. With my main computer working again with its AdBlock wiping out every ad there is, the banner announcement is plain to see at the top - - - - which brings me to this point: I'd more than gladly turn off my AdBlock for this and the new model makers site in support of any revenue it brings in to you guys running this. But is there some way, any possible way, to get the kind of focused ads in here that pertain to what we do or minimally to the broader vehicle interests we have? New car ads / 1:1 car parts ads / hobby store ads / hobby tools ads / hobby anything ads, you get the picture by now.

What I saw when I was stuck with no AdBlock were ones that zip to do with any of my interests. One time after my usual mousewheel blur down into the posts page, I backtracked up to see if the ad was what I thought it was. No joke, it was an ad that took up the whole page width on how to adopt border collie puppies. Where on earth would that come from?? No way Google with its intrusive personal info gathering could have collected that 'topic surfing' preference from me, I don't own any pet, I don't do searches for dogs, none of my pals I email with own dogs. Maybe I'm wrong, but from some of the other few ads I backed up to see what I'd zipped past, they almost seemed to be nothing more than randomly generated ones coming from a dumber-than-dirt advertisement gatherer.

Edited yesterday at 03:30 AM by Russell C
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[Tabbysdaddy]

Speaking of ads, I was having the obtrusive ad problem again but... at the moment there are absolutely no ads anywhere on the site. Now how will I know who is flaunting their huge size?

[Xingu]

Ads are temporarily off while Dave does some server side work to get the site transferred over in his name. They will eventually start showing up. 
 

To get hobby specific ads, we need to sell space to those advertisers. It is something we want to do, but it is a bit further down the list of things to do. 
 

The move will be as simple as we can make it. There will be links that will bring you to the new location when everything is moved. The old site will redirect to the new location for several years. You will need to bookmark the new location once we are up and running.

[Bugatti Fan]

The hobby industry tends to be a bit fickle at times with regard to bring sold advertising to, so good luck with that one !  Also it is very small compared to the markets that the general ads we get plagued with are tsrgeting.

[Xingu]

1 hour ago, Bugatti Fan said:

The hobby industry tends to be a bit fickle at times with regard to bring sold advertising to, so good luck with that one !  Also it is very small compared to the markets that the general ads we get plagued with are tsrgeting.

That’s why it is down on the list. We need to switched over and up and running smoothly before we try to get model hobby advertisers to do business with us.

[peteski]

11 hours ago, Xingu said:

That’s why it is down on the list. We need to switched over and up and running smoothly before we try to get model hobby advertisers to do business with us.

As you mentioned, model car industry runs a tight ship, and does not have lots of advertising dollars to spend. Why would they run paid-for ads here when the forum's membership already discusses here all the model news and latest releases already.  They have all their advertising (and also opinions or reviews) for free.

[Bugatti Fan]

You have made quite a valid point there Pete, looking at it from a different perspective.