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Old 18-01-04
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Welcome...

[COLOR=Orange][SIZE=3]Welcome to AO again[/SIZE] [/COLOR]

I have with great pleasure, allowed you into your new home. If any one is having any difficulty logging in, please contact us here.CONTACT US

More announcements soon.
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Old 18-01-04
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Cheers Ian.
I'm very happy to be here! Great job.
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Old 18-01-04
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Originally Posted by alfaowner
[COLOR=Orange][SIZE=3]Welcome to AO again[/SIZE] [/COLOR]

I have with great pleasure, allowed you into your new home. If any one is having any difficulty logging in, please contact us here.CONTACT US

More announcements soon.
Thank you Ian,

The new forum looks fabulous
Looks like a very cosy home

All the Best

Sérgio
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Old 18-01-04
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Doesn't the wait was worth while? Of course it was!!! It's our new home
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Old 18-01-04
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Hi Ian,
I don't know if I've got a glitch on my end or if it is a board glitch.
When I tried to log in, I kept getting rejected.
I didn't hit the "remember me" button, because more than one person uses this computer, and I prefer to log in each time.
When I tried again and hit the "remember me button" it let me right in.
As I said I don't know if it's me and my computer, or the new board format.
Just thought you'd want to know.
--Toronto
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Old 18-01-04
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Hi Ian

A couple of questions for you

1 Did you not consider to warn all us boys on the 155 froum what was gonna happen instead of just springing it on us

2 what happened to all the posts from the last 3 weeks and also where is our Meetings thread??????????

We were as you may have noticed half way to organising a National 155 MEET and all that appears to be lost now

Is there anyway you can salvage it
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Old 18-01-04
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Isn't this
[COLOR=DarkOrange][FONT=Comic Sans MS]I like it a lot!! [/FONT] [/COLOR]
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Old 18-01-04
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I agree speedy, it would have been nice to be informed of the change.
Not that change is a bad thing, just nice to be prepared for it................
:ermm:

abit like old age

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Old 18-01-04
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@the 155 forum users

WT? You should have all recieved the mail shots, if you had disabled mailshots in your profile on the old 155 board, this would have been why.

This has now been mentioned for months, we will of course be creating new skins ASAP so that you may browse in your preffered scenery, but for now, any correspondance should be directed to me personally at ian.b@alfowner.com.

Regarding the loss of posts, AO and 155 have lost some posts, however, we will be arranging temporary read only access to both old boards shortly.

Please bear with us, in the mean time, please cast your minds back to a thread that was posted by me that mentioned a solution to the bandwidth issues, once you get used to the speed, features and services that this board has, such as Instant messaging, intergrated chat and thread subscriptions, you will not be turning back if given the choice.

If we loose people from this, then I am afraid that is purely bad news, but I am sure the majority will stay and strenghen there community.

Regards,

AO :rambo:


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Old 18-01-04
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Sorry Ian didn't receive any mail shots and l didn't disable anything on the old 155 board.
Think we are all still in shock!!
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call me ungreatful.. but i want the old 155 forum back
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Guys, think this like moving home... you live some things behind, like the "room with the white wall", but you take all the feelings with you... we're still on Alfaowner... and on 155 forum.
You might think the place is a bit cold but soon it will warm up and you'll be glad to be here, with everyone. :classic:
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get with the times olddie
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Old 19-01-04
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No PM's have been bought over either :disappoin

Sure I can live with it though, looks good well done - shame about all the missing posts though, there must be a way to get them back... :cheeky: :squareeye onder:
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Old 19-01-04
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[FONT=Verdana]after the initial WTF reaction when I logged in this morning, I'm getting used to getting around and I'm warming to the new forum. It seems better than the old alfaowner forum and I think its a good thing that we are all on one site now.....but I prefer the old "front end".

I remember the post about a solution to the bandwidth problem...but how about posting on it again telling of us what the solution was!

I didn't get a mailshot either, and I've never knowingly disabled anything in my settings.

I do think it is a change for the good, just wouldn't mind the last month of posts back on the 155 forum.

Stu[/FONT]
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Old 19-01-04
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i leiks i leiks! this charcoal forum contrasts well with teh other forums i surf....i dun leik having to think which one im surfing in....


well done ian!
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Old 19-01-04
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[COLOR=Indigo]I have just begun to browse through the site so no comment can be made if better or worse? Given you guys are more IT than me it probably has a lot of features I may ever know of or use.[/COLOR]


[FONT=Book Antiqua]I[/FONT] would have [FONT=Comic Sans MS]liked to have been informed [/FONT] of the change prior to it happenening and a notice in the form of [SIZE=2]a thread [/SIZE] on 155 saying it would have been a better way of [COLOR=Magenta]communicating[/COLOR]. As well as a notice of work in progress so that the request of keeping important things like the meeting threads could have been made or just being aware that it may be lost would have been an [COLOR=RoyalBlue]advantage.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=Purple]Doing some more browsing and testing[/COLOR]

Choose you color carefully

PS changing font and size is not happening (a work in progress I presume)
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Looks different - a change is as good as a rest, so I approve on general principle.
The search appears to have changed a bit as well - what happened to all the missing posts (with all of their handy information)? Will they be along as soon as they've been coloured in? :ermm:
- JJM
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Eh? What? When did I become senior? I'm only just in three digits of posts! And where's my car and my cloverleaf badge? :shocked:
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Old 19-01-04
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There is a solution... but it involves selling all the other Alfas
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Old 19-01-04
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looking good!

it is a big bit differant... nice way forward tho.

just to comment re above 'emails'. I too didn't have any mailshot, I previously did get all other mailshots. A pre-warning post might have been an idea - not a criticism.. just an helpfull idea
also is it possible to recover any more recent posts... much appreciated.

but all in tho Ian.. nice looking and seems the best way forward with regards to bandwidth probs. hope all developments go ok.

rgrds to all.

oh and hello AO guys :banana:

j :rambo:

Last edited by jason77; 19-01-04 at 10:37. Reason: i am god :D
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Originally Posted by Jamie and the magic torch
Ian, there is a limit of 150 characters to the signature.
Yet there are a lot of other members (like extremeuk) that seem to have got away with a lot more.

As the "I'm driving" only allows you to enter 1 car, I was hoping to list the others in my signature.......but dont have the room to do so.
I'll fix this for you. The reason why it seems other members have "got away with it" is because there signatures were imported from the UBB forums and no limit was set to their signatures at that time .
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Old 19-01-04
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Originally Posted by Azazel
I'll fix this for you. The reason why it seems other members have "got away with it" is because there signatures were imported from the UBB forums and no limit was set to their signatures at that time .

How about deleting all the signatures which take up half your screen??
:banana:
And please add "Sportwagon" to the list of cars we are allowed to have!!!

Thank you.
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Originally Posted by RicksAlfas
How about deleting all the signatures which take up half your screen??
:banana:
Or teach people how to use smaller fonts :x :banana: :lick:
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Originally Posted by RicksAlfas
How about deleting all the signatures which take up half your screen??
:banana:
And please add "Sportwagon" to the list of cars we are allowed to have!!!

Thank you.
Sportwagon has been added . As for the signatures either disable them entirely which I don't think you'd like or only show each members sig once per thread or something. Let me know the suggestions in the Suggestions & Feedback forum.
 

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