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The old discount code that was entered into the checkout is no longer valid, as a result of the code being propagated over the Internet.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

by GiveMeABreak » 13 Oct 2017, 18:06

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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13 Oct 2017, 18:06
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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They did say inactivity but I have had several notifications and logged in to the account and fiddled around with it a bit but they have still closed it.
I suspect it was another one that I have forgotten about so it isn't likely to impact anything much.
They killed the forum embedding a while back too.
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23 Jul 2017, 04:09

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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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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
Private Message Improvements

by GiveMeABreak » 24 Jul 2017, 00:10

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Just to advise members that we have made some improvements to the Private Messaging System used on the Forum:
We have increased the Mailbox limit from 100 to 200 messages
We have now enabled image file attachments to be sent in private messages.
All effective immediately.

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I have just adjusted a forum setting which should have fixed this issue.

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14 Aug 2017, 21:45
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...

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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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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
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...

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While I have yet to use the Like/Love feature, I am already getting irritated by the fact that, whenever somebody Likes/Loves a comment I get shown all of the Like/Love action (as opposed to just the once since I last saw them). It clutters up the home page when I log back in.
As an experiment, I have added another option to the user profile that...
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21 Feb 2016, 05:33
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...

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04 Nov 2011, 18:36
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
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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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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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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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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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
Editing Topic Titles

by NewcastleFalcon » 31 Oct 2017, 20:07

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Has the ability to edit the Topic Title by amending the First Post Header of a thread you have started recently disappeared?

27th October 2017 I amended the P.E. thread title to introduce a new theme as I often do, but now the edit icon isn't available.

Happy to amend my activity, and start new threads if required, but it is all the same...

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Thanks for looking into it...its quite useful to freshen up that particular thread, and the POTD thread to encourage a bit of participation with a bit of, dare I say it.....clickbait! :-D

Regards Neil

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31 Oct 2017, 22:43
Forum maintenance Thursday 18/10/2017 -Completed

by xantia_v6 » 18 Oct 2017, 19:09

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Following our recent technical issues, the forum is moving to a new VPS server. The software has been installed and (subject to a little more testing) is ready to go.

To move the site it needs to be taken off-line for a period of 1 - 2 hours, to allow a backup and restore cycle and to allow the updated DNS record to propagate.

I intend to do...

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Thanks again for all the hard work!

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24 Oct 2017, 05:50
Forum strange behaviour this morning

by xantia_v6 » 22 Oct 2017, 11:02

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You may have noticed the forum behaving a little strangely this morning. I have been investigating a couple of small issues and have changed the configuration a couple of times. It should settle down again now.

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Looks very fine and dandy now Mike :)

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22 Oct 2017, 18:23
Site running in 'limp' mode following major failure

by xantia_v6 » 10 Oct 2017, 20:21
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On Sunday evening this site was moved to a new hardware node to fix some long term and short term performance problems.
On Monday night the server suffered a major disk corruption which (as far as we know) was due to some problem introduced when the server was moved (this was done by the hosting company, not me).

After spending some hours trying...

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The forum has now been moved to a new server with a more suitable specification, so these issues should now be resolved.
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19 Oct 2017, 09:05
Forum Maintenance 9-13 October 2017 Completed (a day early)

by xantia_v6 » 30 Sep 2017, 07:42

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Our server hardware is due to be reconfigured in an attempt to fix some occasional performance issues.
There will be an hour or two of downtime.
The date is not yet fixed, but it will probably be in the early morning UK.

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This has been pushed back by a week so that the service provider can do some more testing before switching us to the...

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The Server maintenance is now done (and I hope complete) Sorry for the timing, but the performance was getting worse, so we swapped to a new hardware node at short notice.

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08 Oct 2017, 20:53
Forum outage 08/10/2017 Morning

by NewcastleFalcon » 08 Oct 2017, 10:39

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Got this this morning.....

Your connection is not secure

The owner of frenchcarforum.co.uk has configured their web site improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this web site.

Learn more…

Report errors like this to help Mozilla identify and block malicious sites

frenchcarforum.co.uk uses an...

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Sounds like we had a very lucky escape there Mike...

Delighted to see it all up and running again with no loss of any posts....

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08 Oct 2017, 13:04
Clipboard idea

by Sloppysod » 27 Sep 2017, 19:14

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Please move this if it is in the wrong place.
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When I am trying to solve an issue I look at various posts, as quite often a little snippet in one conversation makes sense with a snippet in another conversation, with the outcome of working out the solution without having to create yet another new post.

However, the above is fine but I would...

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Did you know that when you want to add a link when writing a post, you can just add your bookmark so link goes straight to the item and not the topic!! :-D =D> Re: New Forum Post Bookmark feature being evaluated

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04 Oct 2017, 22:34
Scrolling

by elma » 21 Sep 2017, 08:17
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The forum has recently changed slightly so that the longer signatures scroll rather than taking up lots of screen space.
This is a welcome change but I cannot scroll the pages anymore with my touchpad or mouse wheel.
The page will scroll down until I get to the first long signature, it will then scroll to the bottom of the signature and stop...

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I recently upgraded to a Sony Xperia XA1. It is available for around £200, is current (only came out a few months ago), and a decent spec level. Mind you, I have always liked the Sony phones.
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22 Sep 2017, 18:27
Where's the New Posts icon gone to?

by Paul-R » 20 Sep 2017, 08:35

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It disappeared from my pages last night sometime.

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I never noticed anything at all... I'd not even have realised but fore this thread... Same with scrolling!!!

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21 Sep 2017, 11:59
French Car Chat Forum

by GiveMeABreak » 25 Aug 2017, 13:05
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The 'French Car Chat' Forum has now been renamed to ' The Off Topic Chat Lounge'.

There have been no changes to the existing topics or posts. It was just felt that there needed to be a place for posts that did not fit into any of the other categories and to encourage posts of a more general nature to be posted here instead of in the technical...

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hi,

Thx for the answare. I understand .
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Last post by Andrei
05 Sep 2017, 09:09
Update to the Acceptable Usage Policy - Sept 2017

by GiveMeABreak » 01 Sep 2017, 11:28

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Please note that the FCF Admin Team have amended the FCF Acceptable Usage Policy to clarify the rules concerning Profile Signatures and Commercial Posts as of September 2017.

An extract from the AUP concerning the changes is listed below, however all members are kindly asked to visit the following link and familiarise themselves with the updated...

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See my post above showing the portrait mobile screen on an iPhone 6plus - no avatar section at all, so focusses on the post content. The display is adaptive depending on your screen size and resolution, so different for each person depending on what they use. The changes were mostly to improve mobile use, where display options are obviously very...

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04 Sep 2017, 13:32
TapaTalk error

by Welshy_Pete » 06 Aug 2017, 19:54

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I get a error with using tapatalk when out and about with my smart phone on this forum?

But it works fine on my laptop no problems just seeing if anybody else gets the same problem using Tapatalk.

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With the last forum software upgrade the tapatalk function has been discontinued.
See this thread

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06 Aug 2017, 20:02
Forum maintenance Monday 07/08/2017 Completed (early)

by xantia_v6 » 05 Aug 2017, 15:48

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I have now completed this update ahead of schedule.

You should notice a couple of user-facing improvements:
The post-love summaries at the top of forum pages are now better formatted and a more readable on small screens (I have also changed the settings a little)
The broken smileys are fixed =D>

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I have just noticed that if you have previously posted a message with a broken smiley, it still appears broken unless you edit the post (e.g. add a space anywhere) .

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06 Aug 2017, 04:51
Improvements to forum usability on small screens

by xantia_v6 » 31 Jul 2017, 16:44
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I am looking into ways of improving the usability of the forum for members who are using small-screen devices such as phones.

I have made one change already, and that is to add some navigation buttons back into the small screen version of the site header. (you won't see any difference unless you are viewing on a phone or similar).

Let me know if...

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I thought there was a difference when I checked again this morning and this is perfect for me. I can more or less forget about using the hamburger now and this provides a choice - I'm more than happy with this latest update Mike, a vast improvement for me.
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03 Aug 2017, 10:36
Non functioning icons and notification colours

by Mandrake » 24 Jul 2017, 09:19
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A couple of minor issues I thought I better report, one with emoticons that seems to have broken some time in the last few months, and a long standing issue with notifications.

There seem to be a couple of emoticons that aren't working, (text isn't substituted for the correct icon) below I've clicked on all the standard set of icons in order so...

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But you do if someone quotes you, notifications are now very red.
Much better thanks.
I don't want an answer but why when I cleared the cache for everything in my browser and also used the delete all board cookies did it get worse and then get fixed by this? It's always me these things like to happen to.
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29 Jul 2017, 23:15
Discontinuation of Tapatalk Support

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This forum's software will shortly be upgraded to a new version of phpBB (v3.2.0). This will ensure the long term stability and support of the forum. However, as one of the measures to improve the ongoing security of the site, the Tapatalk interface will be permanently disabled.

We realise that this will cause some upset to the few users who...

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Ah thanks both, so in effect the same as using my pc.
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Last post by demag
24 Jul 2017, 19:05
Notification email delivery issues to some domains

by xantia_v6 » 20 Jun 2017, 21:20

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Since moving to the new server we are having difficulty with a few email service providers not accepting our notification emails.
We are raising support tickets with the administrators, but in some cases it may take some time to get action. If you are a customer of one of the following email providers, you might like to raise your own support...

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I noted that my hotmail notifications were hitting my Junk, which was surprising. Simply fixed of course just by hitting 'Not Junk'.

That is not unusual behaviour after a change in our email delivery system, but after a few weeks (and a few users telling them that the notifications are not junk), it should settle down.

That happened to me...

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05 Jul 2017, 22:31
Server Maintenance 30/6/2017 - Completed

by xantia_v6 » 29 Jun 2017, 19:12

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Our hosting company has scheduled a maintenance operation on Friday 30/6/2017. This site should be off line for approximately 30 minutes, some time after 21:00 BST.
The purpose of the maintenance is to replace the server RAM with bigger, faster devices, but I am not sure if we will see any direct speed benefits.

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To be honest, I don't think that we will see any benefit, as we don't get any more RAM, and the forum speed is more limited by processor speed and disk access time than RAM speed.

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01 Jul 2017, 10:02
Posting photos.

by Gibbo2286 » 04 Mar 2017, 12:36
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I've been using Photobucket for putting images up but it seems to have all gone to pot recently, tried for ages yesterday without any success.
Any tips?

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It is good that you got your image to post.

I have found that there is a bug fix in the exif handling library that the forum uses, and (at least for MikeTs files), the problem is gone in the release candidate for the next version of phpBB. I can't give a date for when we will be installing the next version (which is only a minor update release),...
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30 Jun 2017, 19:25
Forum maintenance Monday 12/06/2017 - Completed

by xantia_v6 » 03 Jun 2017, 08:00
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On Monday, 12/06/2017 I will be taking this forum off-line to move it to a new server.

As part of the server transfer, all the operating system and support software will be upgraded to latest versions and the phpBB forum software will have a major upgrade to V3.2.0.

As one of the measures to improve the ongoing security of the site, the...

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Yep now working fine :)
Thanks and well done.
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Last post by wurlycorner
20 Jun 2017, 19:27
Forum Upgrade June 2017 - Cache Clearing

by GiveMeABreak » 08 Jun 2017, 14:14

Forthcoming Forum Upgrade, June 2017

There is a likelihood that post-upgrade, some elements of the Forum may not display properly. This will be due to the cached or stored content that browsers hold locally on your device to improve webpage loading.

In preparation for the forthcoming Forum software upgrade (likely to be Monday 12th June between...

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Last post by GiveMeABreak
08 Jun 2017, 14:14
Phone won't stay logged in...

by Zelandeth » 03 Nov 2016, 18:21
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This started around the time of the most recent switchover to HTTPS.

Desktops are all unaffected, but on my phone as soon as I navigate away from the site I find I have to log back in on my return. So long as I leave the tab open and don't leave the site it seems fine - even overnight.

Running Dolphin browser version 11.5.11 on Android 6.0 on a...

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Thanks for taking the time to look into it. So far it seems to be behaving today.

I'll report back on whether that remains the case. Definitely doesn't seem worth investigating any further time into with the upgrade so close down the road though.
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Last post by Zelandeth
06 Jun 2017, 12:17
User Selectable Large Font Size

by xantia_v6 » 28 May 2017, 06:52

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As a solution to the issue of the forum font being too small for some users on some portable devices, we will be implementing a user-selected option to increase the font size.

This scheme is currently prototyped on a test forum that is located at (it will be live here after our next software upgrade in a few weeks).

If you log into fonts and...

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I'm not sure I follow the need for this anyway. On both my Android devices I can simply pinch and zoom in or out to make the text bigger or smaller as I wish.

Sent from my SM-G925F using Tapatalk
The subtlety is that if you make thinks larger by pinch and zoom, the whole page expands, and then you have to scroll backwards and forwards to see the...

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Last post by Michel
02 Jun 2017, 08:49
A request for admin

by daviemck2006 » 27 May 2017, 00:57

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Would it be possible to make a photo selected for an avatar to automatically resize to the correct size. I have tried on numerous occasions to set an avatar and failed because I have no idea how to resize photos on the phone/tablet.

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Its just on for a laugh just now as I am learning, and to try to lighten my mood a bit lol

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Last post by daviemck2006
28 May 2017, 01:04
Forum outage 26/05/2017 - now resolved

by xantia_v6 » 26 May 2017, 09:33

The FCF forum was down for some hours during the night.

This was due to a log file run-away that used all of the available disk space on the server.
The root cause is not yet known, but is not believed to be due to any recent changes to the server configuration. It could have been the result of some cyber attack on the site, or it could have been...

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26 May 2017, 09:33
Scrolling in Forum.....???

by hamster99 » 04 May 2017, 20:15

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Anyone else having this problem??............

When I am on the FCF site the scroll wheel on my mouse doesn't work.............scroll bars are fine and if a link from a post opens in the same window the scrolling works.. :? :?

Strange......

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Anyone else having this problem??............

When I am on the FCF site the scroll wheel on my mouse doesn't work.............scroll bars are fine and if a link from a post opens in the same window the scrolling works.. :? :?

Strange......
It sounds like a focus issue, maybe there is some "hidden" pop-up which has stolen the focus....

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Last post by xantia_v6
05 May 2017, 04:46
Poll

by xantiamanic » 13 Mar 2017, 20:26

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Can we assume that the poll, now closed and locked, can be classed as a 'once in a generation poll' as regards the proposed changes?

If so, i can head into an early retirement at peace, no more image driven 'subforums' with 'pictures' please ..... although i note that the closing post on the discussion seems to leave the issue itself open.

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Mike, we are always striving to make this forum the best and offer new benefits and improvements. This policy does mean that from time to time new things will be trialled...

I think we have learned from this that before invoking any significant usability changes the democratic process must be followed...

You can therefore rest assured.

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14 Mar 2017, 07:05

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