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Improved feature for unsubscribing from email notifications

by xantia_v6 » 11 Jul 2019, 06:09

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As part of the work being done to improve the deliverability of emails, I have made some changes to the system for unsubscribing from email notifications.

These changes are to ensure stricter compliance with RFC2369 and RFC8058 (which are the internet standards for such things), there are also some additions for Microsoft-specific rules which are...

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Snap!

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11 Jul 2019, 15:28
Restrictions for users with @outlook.com and @hotmail.com addresses - RESOLVED

by xantia_v6 » 30 May 2019, 16:07

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We cannot currently deliver notification or registration emails to users with @outlook.com an @hotmail.com email addresses.

This is due to Microsoft having designated our server as being a junk mail source, apparently because some users have been moving our notification emails to their 'junk' folders.

There appears to be nothing that we can do...

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Finally, after a month of sending repeated support requests to Microsoft, and spending quite a bit of time researching and rewriting some of the forum software to be more RFC compliant, we have been advised that Microsoft are no longer blocking our emails.

Note that in the meantime, to reduce the quantity of bounced emails, we have adjusted the...

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16 Jul 2019, 16:23
Remote-hosted Avatars no longer supported

by xantia_v6 » 11 May 2019, 13:47

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With the update today to phpBB 3.2.7, support for remotely hosted avatars has been dropped. This is apparently due to a security issue (I am not responsible).

Users now have a choice of:
A locally uploaded avatar
A remote avatar hosted on Gravatar
No avatar.

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What's a remote hosted avatar dad? :-D

One hosted on Flickr!, Imgur, Google Photos, Dropbox etc.

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12 May 2019, 14:47
Revised Easydiagnostics Discount Procedure

by GiveMeABreak » 03 May 2018, 17:22

Please note that there is a new procedure in place for members wishing to take advantage of a 15% discount off products from Easydiagnostics.

The old discount code that was entered into the checkout is no longer valid, as a result of the code being propagated over the Internet.

After discussions with Jim from ED today, we have agreed a new...

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03 May 2018, 17:22
Member Email Addresses

by GiveMeABreak » 13 Oct 2017, 18:06

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To All Members

Members are kindly requested to check their profiles to see if their email addresses are current and please update these where necessary.

Some of our members have noted that email sent to others on the forum are bouncing back as unrecognised. We appreciate that people change their email providers / addresses over time and don't...

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Please remove me from the list,

Mike
Done.

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10 Nov 2018, 22:01

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Disappearing posts

by xantia_v6 » 22 May 2019, 07:14

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From time to time we have reports that posts are submitted to this forum but they disappear after being submitted (as in they never become visible). It is sometimes reported that (frustratingly) the user had spent a long time composing the post.

I have recently seen a suggestion on another forum that a plausible explanation for this is that in...

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Is it possible that you have hit 'preview' then neglected to hit 'submit'?
I'm sure I have more than once.

Yes been guilty of that on more than once, and the same applies to PM's but in my case is i hit preview and not submit then navigate away :cry:

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30 May 2019, 18:55
Now you can really LIKE the French Car Forum

by xantia_v6 » 17 Feb 2016, 20:49
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Still no Like button! I'm outraged that we are expected to articulate our impressions, rather than just click an icon...
You may notice that like icons have appeared at the bottom right hand side of forum posts, and there is an extra box appearing at the top of the index page and forum pages.

Well... Following a successful rolloout on BXC, I...

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I just like the whole site , its very helpful and full of what's needed.
Maybe a YouTube channel with how to videos and vlogs ?
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Last post by Huskyxantia
24 Aug 2018, 09:01
New Forum Post Bookmark feature

by xantia_v6 » 28 Sep 2017, 19:49

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You may notice a new Bookmarks button in the forum header and a bookmark icon: bookmark.png at the top of each forum post.

These are part of a post bookmarking extension that we are trialling. Please try it, and give us some feedback.

To bookmark a post (or delete the bookmark) just click the bookmark icon in the post. You may add a short...

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You always could do that by opening another tab (Ctrl-click) or window (Shift-click) on the post's individual header and then copying the URL of that post. I've just checked and it still works.

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Last post by Paul-R
05 Oct 2017, 09:24
Image file upload facility added to the forum

by xantia_v6 » 07 Jan 2017, 20:13
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We are happy to announce that we have added the facility to upload images to the forum, so that in most cases it is no longer necessary to host image files on external sites.

See for more information.

You will see that we have quite a few rules on copyright of images, this is because we cannot take any risk of having legal action taken against...

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The current stable release is 2.8.22. There are Exif Viewer extensions freely available, but I tend to use Photoshop in the main (as I couldn't be bothered to learn another image editing programme). I do dive into Gimp every now and then, but as luck would not have it, I am shortly going to be in the middle of a Windows 10 repair, so can't look...
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30 Aug 2017, 18:09
Forum Stickers Now Available!!!

by xantia_v6 » 30 Oct 2016, 03:02
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The keenly anticipated FrenchCarForum.co.uk stickers have arrived from the manufacturer and are ready for purchase and delivery.

If you have already been contacted by us and offered stickers, you don't need to do anything, they will be delivered shortly.

Anyone else will need to order them by clicking the image below or use the Stickers button...

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me too how ca i get one or 2

Read the post immediately above in reply to Taffy's question ;)

In short,

Click on this link:
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Last post by CitroJim
25 Apr 2017, 17:29
Diagnostic Equipment Advice

by myglaren » 18 Nov 2016, 18:06

Please note the following points when using Lexia, Planet or Clip diagnostic equipment!

A Vehicle Communication Interface (VCI) and associated software such as Diagbox, Lexia, and Peugeot Planet 2000 are professional-level diagnostic tools. Extreme care should be taken when using these devices as incorrect use may adversely affect your vehicle...

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18 Nov 2016, 18:06
Attention Potential New Members!!!

by CitroJim » 04 Nov 2011, 18:36

All new member signups are scrutinised by the admin team before activation.

To assist the admins in this task each potential new member must provide a Location a list of My Cars , at least one of which should be French. This is not some elitist thing but one of a number of measures to evaluate registration request to keep spammers and other...

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04 Nov 2011, 18:36
Mystery Wire

by Chriscurtis1986 » 17 Jul 2019, 00:14

Ok so the boot wont open on my 2013 1.5 dci megane. It's not the motor and I dont think it's the switch because when all the doors are locked, the central locking disengages when you press it. Looking under the boot panel, there a cable for the tailgate motor (which is connected) and the switch cable is also connected. The mystery is theres a 3rd...

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17 Jul 2019, 00:14
Forum maintenance 11/7/19 - completed

by xantia_v6 » 10 Jul 2019, 21:14

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On Thursday morning the forum will be offline for an hour or so while I attempt to install an improved email unsubscription system as part of the work to get emails flowing to Hotmail, Outlook and other Microsoft mail systems.

Not sure of the exact timing, but I intend to have it done by 9:30 am UK time.

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This work is now completed.

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11 Jul 2019, 06:11
Forum Server Maintenance Tuesday 11/6/19 Completed at last...

by xantia_v6 » 06 Jun 2019, 14:56

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I have been advised that our hosting company will be taking our server off-line to replace the CPU cooler and some SSD drives. The shut-down should start about 10:45 and last about 90 minutes.

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The server maintenance today (carried out by the hosting company) did not go according to plan. They estimated a down-time of up to one hour (on top of which I was intending to do some software upgrades), but the host node was off-line for 7 hours because they found serious file corruption in the host OS and had to do a complete backup of user...

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11 Jun 2019, 18:14
Forum maintenance 4/6/19 am - Now postponed

by xantia_v6 » 03 Jun 2019, 15:31

I need to perform a database engine upgrade on the server. I will do this one morning this week, probably Tuesday.
I am not sure how long the process will take, but it should not be more than an hour or two.

Due some issues which I have just been made aware of, I will postpone this upgrade for a couple of weeks!

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03 Jun 2019, 15:31
Roadworks ahead!

by xantia_v6 » 23 May 2019, 16:57

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I am trialling some minor changes to the forum layout.

Today's change should only affect the layout of the forum header bar. The buttons have moved back inside the image (where they were until I moved them outside of the image last year).

You may need to clear your browser cache (ctrl-f5 on a PC) to actually see any change.

On some phones,...

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Well that seemed to go smoothly, there have been no comments, adverse or otherwise. This set of changes will now become permanent.

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03 Jun 2019, 14:10
Forum Outage 26/05/2019

by xantia_v6 » 26 May 2019, 23:14

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The forum was off-line for several hours this evening due to a database corruption on the server.

Despite repeated attempts, I was unable to recover the posts made today and it has been necessary to revert to the backup made early on the morning of 26/05/2019.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this data loss.

It is likely that a...

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I have run the file system check on the server, which corrected several errors, and have cleaned the database, so all should be well now.

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29 May 2019, 06:41
Brief forum outage expected Tuesday 21/05/2019 - Completed

by xantia_v6 » 19 May 2019, 15:41

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Our hosting provider is installing some security updates, and will be taking our server off-line for a short period some time on Tuesday.

They are not giving a scheduled time, so it will happen when it happens...

This site should restart itself cleanly after the reboot.

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Haven't noticed a thing!

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Last post by Paul-R
21 May 2019, 15:51
Forum maintenance and reconfiguration

by xantia_v6 » 08 May 2019, 14:36
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Over the next week or so I will be making some adjustments to the configuration of this server, and installing some application software updates.

There will be some brief disruptions to normal operation, but these should only last a few minutes. I will be carrying out this work between 7am and 4pm UK time.

As there are several different tasks...

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I just had a strange minds' eye image of a server rack (with French Car Forum stencilled in the side) up on a four post lift, with oil being drained from the sump, replacement filters nearby on the bench, and the mechanic getting ready (as this is a major service) with the timing bely, auxiliary belt and water pump.

You missed the big puddle of...
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11 May 2019, 13:35
Forum outage 10/4/2019

by xantia_v6 » 10 Apr 2019, 10:59

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The forum was unexpectedly off-line for about 90 minutes today.

The logs show that the server was manually shut-down, but it was not by any of our admins. I am seeking more information from the hosting company.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

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Related to this, I will be doing some configuration testing on the forum over the next day or two, and some forum features may be temporarily disabled for an hour or two to check the effect on overall system performance. I will mostly be testing during the UK night-time hours.

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10 Apr 2019, 20:38
Notice to all Photobucket Users

by GiveMeABreak » 30 Jun 2017, 14:11
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For those of you who use Photobucket as an image hosting provider, you may be aware that as of 28th June 2017, Photobucket changed their TOS (Terms of Service).

As a result, they have now locked all hosted images unless you upgrade to a paid account. This means that for users who have previously added image links from Photobucket from basic /...

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There are (mainly in the funny pictures and videos thread) still some missing Photobucket pictures.
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Last post by Hell Razor5543
08 Apr 2019, 17:09
French fancy in London

by Jay P » 02 Mar 2019, 23:22

Not an everyday sight

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02 Mar 2019, 23:22
Can only view first page of search results

by MikeT » 04 Jan 2019, 19:55

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Did a general search and got over 100 pages in the result, skimmed over titles on first page to the bottom, hit next page, and it just reloaded the first. Can't seem to view any other pages, it just reloads the same first page regardless which page I click. Anyone else have this problem?

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Just me then. OK, thanks Marc.

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04 Jan 2019, 22:41
Can you help?...Forum Search facility

by NewcastleFalcon » 03 Jan 2019, 13:47

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One way or another I can usually frame a search query to get what I want but have to admit I'm stuck.

I have started a new thread with the view of occasionally digging up the posts made on a particular date, selecting one, and bringing it forward into the thread......yes complete madness. When you do look back though there has been some...

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There is currently no way of doing this within phpBB, there have been several suggestions over the years to add such a facility, but the phpBB developers never picked it up.

Thanks. Nice to know that, and no need to tailor anything on my account. Easy enough to work around as necessary.

Regards Neil

Ps did come across this in my...

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03 Jan 2019, 20:08
Seasons Greetings

by GiveMeABreak » 18 Dec 2018, 15:22

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I'd just like to take this opportunity to wish all my French Car Forum Colleagues and Members a Peaceful and Happy Christmas. :Santa:

If you don't celebrate Christmas, have a great holiday period, and if you're not having a holiday, keep calm and carry on. :-D

Best wishes

Marc

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God Jul flaggasmall.jpg

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25 Dec 2018, 10:30
Image Upload Issues?

by Zelandeth » 20 Nov 2018, 20:23

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Anyone having issues with image uploads?

Today I've uploaded a couple and they're showing as in the below screenshot - if it works...

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Is this just a local issue here or is there something odd going on?

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I've gone back now and edited, deleted and reuploaded the images and it seems to have sorted itself out. Not sure what was going on. I did try that earlier on with no effect.

I don't have a convenient way to save things as a PNG to hand as I'm on my phone and file format isn't one of the options I have access to sadly. Well, not strictly...

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20 Nov 2018, 23:47
Private Messaging muddle

by MikeT » 03 Nov 2018, 14:00

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I think my PM's stopped working.

I was in the middle of a conversation awaiting a response to my last sent on 1st Nov.

Just now, I'd thought I'd check my Outbox to see if it might not have been read yet but there was nothing showing.
I then checked my Sent Messages and my reply was not there either.

Ok, perhaps I messed up, better re-reply to...

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Coming from an IT background I can only surmise the problem must have been between chair and computer

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03 Nov 2018, 15:02
The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again.

by MikeT » 24 Oct 2018, 15:12

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About a week ago, I made and saved a draft post, which I later edited and posted, I started getting the error message The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again. . Clicking Submit again is always successful but this error pops up with every message I now make.

Whether the cause was due to the draft creation, I don't know but thought I'd...

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May have been over an hour Mike.
I was gassed at work and have been falling asleep at the keyboard all evening.

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24 Oct 2018, 21:48
Forum outage 01/10/2018

by xantia_v6 » 01 Oct 2018, 11:48

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This forum was down for about 5 hours this morning (1/10/2018).

The exact cause of the failure is not clear yet, but while attempting to resolve a server performance issue, it was found that the forum database was corrupted and has been subsequently restored from backup. This process took rather longer than normal.

Fortunately the failure...

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Might be the French taking exception to all this free info on here that's prolonging the life of their cars and stopping them from selling new ones :wink:

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Last post by bobins
07 Oct 2018, 09:04
Forum performance issues

by xantia_v6 » 05 Oct 2018, 21:18

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The forum has been intermittently a bit slow for the part couple of days, but tonight it is at times unusable.

As far as I can tell at present, this is due to an abnormally high number of hits on the forum (maybe 200x our usual load).

I am monitoring the situation, and will update this when more is known.

Having just posted that, the server...

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The forum server has now settled down to normal operation, with no significant configuration changes having been made.

I have a suspicion that one of the many search engine bots may have gone rogue and bombarded us with page requests, but I don't have proof of that.

I can test that theory if it happens again.

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06 Oct 2018, 16:15
Changes to "Post Like" feature

by xantia_v6 » 29 Sep 2018, 08:28

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I have updated the Post Like extension on this forum. There are a few background changes, but you will notice that the Like button has moved up to the row of buttons at the top of each post.

Let me know if this causes any problems.

You can do me a favour, and click the Like button for this post, just to test what it looks like when the number...

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Wondered where it had gone but found it after a few seconds.
Tidier there Mike.

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Last post by myglaren
29 Sep 2018, 12:22
Forum maintenance Tuesday 18/09/2018 - Completed

by xantia_v6 » 16 Sep 2018, 21:14

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The FCF Forum will be off-line for about 2 hours on Tuesday morning for a software upgrade and database maintenance.

I don't have firm start or finish times, but it should begin some time between 5am and 7am UK time.

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They should both be reinstated now (along with quite a few others)

Thanks avatar and pic back now

Regards Neil

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Last post by NewcastleFalcon
18 Sep 2018, 10:46
Insecure content warnings on the Forum

by xantia_v6 » 13 Sep 2018, 05:07

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I have adjusted the server software to improve the efficiency of processing image links. There is a chance (I hope small) that some links may not be handled correcctly.

If you see any browser warnings for insecure content, or if any images seem to have suddenly disappeared, please let me know here.

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OK

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Last post by myglaren
13 Sep 2018, 06:52
New - DS Automobiles Forum

by GiveMeABreak » 31 Aug 2018, 15:32

After some consideration and some external queries, the Team have decided to add a DS Automobiles technical sub-forum to the site.

DS Automobiles Sub-Forum

Although many of the engines and systems are identical to the Citroen and Peugeot marques, we felt it was about time there was a dedicated section.

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31 Aug 2018, 15:32
Minor changes to FCF appearance

by xantia_v6 » 31 Jul 2018, 20:33

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The eagle-eyed among you may notice a few minor changes to the FCF forum. I have been making a few changes, partly addressing some issues that had previously had short-term patches applied, and partly in preparation for a forum software upgrade that I expect to happen in the next month or two.

The changes are:

The Google site-search facility...

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I've just seen a little upwards arrow next to the name of the poster of any quoted text. Clicking on that takes you to the original post. Not something I've noticed before - when did that arrive?

I think that arrived with the last phpBB update (to v3.2.2), it is not something that I had direct involvement in.

I think that it may not work if...

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20 Aug 2018, 10:27
Email delivery issues

by xantia_v6 » 08 Aug 2018, 21:07
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I have had a couple of reports recently of emails from the forum going into spam or junk folders. We have gone to some trouble to ensure that our email server has a good reputation, and implements currently recommended security measures, but some email providers have strange algorithms for determining what is spam.

It probably only affects one or...

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I am very happy to announce that (as far as I can tell) all of the email delivery issues are now fixed.

Those who know anything about such things might be surprised to know that the issue was fixed by moving the forum DNS records to a new provider.

It seems that the previous company hosting the DNS (who have had a major restructuring in recent...
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19 Aug 2018, 21:26
Symbols in posting editor - Experimental

by xantia_v6 » 06 Aug 2018, 20:46
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I have enabled a software extension on this forum that allow easier use of mathematical and other symbols in posts.

You will see a group of tabs above the block of smilies in the editor window.

These select sets of symbols, which are inserted when the corresponding button in the table is clicked.

The feature is experimental, and I may...

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Last post by myglaren
09 Aug 2018, 22:07
FCF server issues this afternoon 10/07/18

by xantia_v6 » 10 Jul 2018, 14:01

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We seem to be having some performance issues today, I am currently not sure of the cause.

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

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Basil was faulty

Sybil concurs!

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10 Jul 2018, 19:55
Site formatting updated

by xantia_v6 » 21 Jun 2018, 13:51
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I have applied an update (slightly experimental) to this site which requires that you refresh your browser cache. On a PC this can be accomplished by pressing ctrl-f5.
On other devices, you may need to manually delete cached data for this site. You do not need to clear cookies.

The changes themselves are fairly minor, with the intention of...

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Unfortunately it's a requirement for the styles to be mobile friendly / compliant before they allow the Forum styles to be formally approved and made available to others - which Mike has now adopted given that it was abandoned by the original creator of this style. It's the same for a lot of websites now - even some of the search engines won't...
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01 Jul 2018, 13:47
Site speed and Google search results

by xantia_v6 » 15 Jun 2018, 19:19

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I have some good news and some bad news.

The good news is that some intermittent speed issues that we have seen for the past few weeks seem to have been solved by a reconfiguration by our hosting provider (subject to some more testing).

The bad news is that an unrelated software change made a couple of weeks ago has had the side effect of...

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I think we can live with that Mike - that's life we'll get over it! :-D

Loving the current warp factor too.

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15 Jun 2018, 19:52
GDPR Compliance

by xantia_v6 » 24 May 2018, 07:23
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You will have seen that we have added a GDPR acceptance to the forum, as the GDPR rules become enforceable tomorrow.

In practice there has been no change in our actual policies for data retention, which have always been to keep data only for the originally submitted purpose.

You should only ever see the acceptance box once, unless we...

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Hi Van. Web pages are not ‘associated’ with any browser. a browser is just a price of software that reads web page code and displays the results. Browsers can have extra features depending on your needs, but essentially they all do the same thing.

It is perfectly acceptable and common practise for people to have 2, 3 or more different browsers on...
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29 May 2018, 23:10
Forum maintenance Friday 04/05/2018 Completed

by xantia_v6 » 02 May 2018, 06:36

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On Friday morning this site will be off-line for a period of approximately 2 hours for the purpose of moving (again) to a new server. The work will commence after 8:30 am UK time and be completed as quickly as possible.

About 8 months ago we moved to the current hosting company due to the previous (reliable) hosting company not having a suitable...

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The Forum transfer has been completed, and everything should be working correctly.
Reply here if you notice any issues.

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04 May 2018, 10:09
Recent forum outages

by xantia_v6 » 06 Apr 2018, 00:23

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Recently, and particularly over the last 2 days, this forum has been performing poorly, and has gone off-line a couple of times.

This has been due to an issue at our hosting provider (possibly connected with a DOS attack on another site that they host).

I was in the process of moving to another server anyway, so I have completed that process...

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Thank you for your comments.

The switch-over would have been notified in advance, in the middle of the night and a little smoother (I had planned it for next week), but the old server went unresponsive for the 3rd time in a week, so I lost patience with it.

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06 Apr 2018, 20:27
New Diagnostics Forum

by GiveMeABreak » 18 Mar 2018, 13:26

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Please note the new ' Diagnostics ' sub forum that has been added to the main page.

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Link to New Diagnostic Forum

As some of you will be aware, we had merged all the Lexia & Diagbox related threads. This was kept in the Citroen technical forum. However because this topic has grown significantly over the years as the software and...

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Please note that if you want to see new posts from the Diagnostic Forum, you will need to SUBSCRIBE to the forum. Just scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Subscribe button.

This needs to be done because it is a new sub-forum, and therefore will not be in your existing subscriptions.

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26 Mar 2018, 00:38
Completed maintenance: Forum software update 27/2/2018

by xantia_v6 » 25 Feb 2018, 08:41

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On Monday morning, shortly after midnight, I will take the forum off-line for a few hours to perform a software update and some minor database maintenance.

It should be back on-line in time for Jim's morning posts :-D

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We encourage you to put lists of cars into the 'my cars' section of your profile.

Although the problem with that is... The profile section doesn't show in mobile view (whereas the signature does) and you can't post hyperlinks in the profile section (so you can't provide a direct link to the relevant profile page for a particular car that you...

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04 Mar 2018, 19:46
Delete a Saved Draft?

by MikeT » 25 Feb 2018, 10:58

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How?
I created one draft and went back to edit it and saved it again.
This created two seperate drafts, the second one of which I have now finalised and posted (which then automatically deletes that draft) but the original one remains and I can see no obvious way to delete it.

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Mike - drafts are managed through the User Control Panel - go into your User Control Panel, and on the left select 'Manage Drafts'. from there you can put a tick against the one you want to delete and from the bottom choose the action (Delete Marked).

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25 Feb 2018, 11:25
Amendment to the Forum Acceptable Usage Policy February 2018

by GiveMeABreak » 17 Feb 2018, 11:12

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There has been an addition to the AUP. Section (A) has a new point (8) added, extract below:

Personal email addresses and other contact details such as private / mobile phone numbers and addresses must not be posted in the public forums. The Private Messaging or Email contact system may be used as an alternative to communicate this type of...

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We're working on an update to the activation email template and to the registration agreement T&Cs to ensure potential new members are made aware of the policy.

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23 Feb 2018, 11:48
FAO Jim...

by ekjdm14 » 05 Feb 2018, 18:29

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Hi Jim, thought I'd reply here as the PM system is being a bit slow for me anyway. Just to say no problem & no more stickers needed as yet thanks. If I do suddenly find myself unbelievably lucky to be in possession of Sticky's Volcane any time in the future I'll order a set for that (or any other Cit/pug we come to own for that matter, but that's...

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Dan, no problem at all and consider a set of stickers reserved for you ;)

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Last post by CitroJim
06 Feb 2018, 10:09
Forum Server Maintenance 6/1/18 - Completed

by xantia_v6 » 06 Jan 2018, 19:26

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I have been informed that our hosting company will be patching and rebooting our server between 9 and 10 pm GMT today.

This is of course as mitigation for the Meltdown CPU bug.

Note that there will potentially be some loss of performance after the patching, but I don't expect the difference to be noticeable for users.

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It's all looking good at this time 😊

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Last post by CitroJim
07 Jan 2018, 08:37
Creating tables in forum posts

by xantia_v6 » 24 Dec 2017, 04:13

It has been noted by some users that this forum did not allow the creation of tables in posts. Unfortunately, the phpBB software does not have a wysiwyg editor which would make tables easy to add, but it is now possible (if you have a little patience) to create a table using BBCode.

Here is an example of a small table,

col a col b col c col...

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24 Dec 2017, 04:13
Forum outage 8/12/17

by xantia_v6 » 08 Dec 2017, 19:23

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We apologise for the unscheduled downtime.

The issue was (from our perspective) caused by a lock-up in the hypervisor system which manages this server. This piece of software is run by the hosting company and is outside of our control.

Unfortunately the lock-up occurred while a database write operation was being processed on our server and after...

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The timing was unfortunate, as it coincided with my bed-time.

In this case it would probably not have helped to have someone else with server access, as the procedure for correcting a corrupt database journal is a bit technical, and I only knew how to do it because the same thing happened earlier in the year.

LS say that the new KVM hardware...

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09 Dec 2017, 08:59
Post Editing.....changes to prevent ?

by Stickyfinger » 13 Nov 2017, 12:46

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I find that my blog post thread now cannot be edited

I wish to update it with improved images but find this is now not possible. This will result in images having to be place out of context which seems a little retrograde to me.

What is the reason for this limitation ?

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I have re-enabled general post editing.

Thanks Mike, good job as my blog title will soon need to be amended ;)

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Last post by CitroJim
14 Nov 2017, 06:39
Donor Status

by MikeT » 08 Nov 2017, 21:04

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Is the donor trophy time-limited? :-D

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Is the donor trophy time-limited? :-D

The donor tag is added automatically when a Paypal donation is made via the forum. It is tagged with the year of donation.
We do not currently have a plan for removing old tags, but will remove them on request of the user.

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Last post by xantia_v6
08 Nov 2017, 21:29
Missing photos

by bobins » 26 Oct 2017, 22:12

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I've noticed quite a few posts have got missing photos these days. At first I thought it was due to a very enthusiastic and to-the-letter application of the 'photo uploading rules', but even ones I've uploaded attributed to 'Own Work' have gone. Other member's posts are also affected. Clicking on the (dead) photo link only goes to a page with :...

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Excellent! Well done Mike :) Good work [-o<

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04 Nov 2017, 06:01

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