The one thing I like about this site is the reply at the bottom, my replies go straight in with no problems whereas before I may have had to type them a few times before being subbmitted.

55 Vicky & customline

58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100

59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?

Charlie. Your right in that the old site will continue to haunt us for quite awhile. I’m still having trouble with some of the pre Feb 7th links posted within the threads that still redirect to the old site. As I come across them, I’ll simply edit them so they see the new location. And those search engine links are going to be troublesome for a long time to come as the older search queues never seem to go away. This will be in Jim’s ball park to see what can be done with links that ‘redirect’. With the old address site no longer around, I doubt that a redirect will work. That’s definitely not my area of expertise.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Chuck. Try staying logged in. If you will simply access the forums through the main page, then the counter for the sites main page as well as your forum visits should be both registered. As far as I know, there is no time limit on the amount of time for being logged in. At this point, it appears the only way to unlog yourself is to not have the ‘auto login’ button checked when you login and then leave the site or exit the internet, ‘log off’ while in the forums, use the‘Delete Cookies’ button on the forum home page, or delete cookies from the computer which can be done in a variety of ways.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

I'm liking everything about it!

Finally got in ...thanks to Ted as well as Y-Blockhead for the assistance . New forum looks really good .

T

Don't worry Moon Shadow you count.

Mark

1956 Mercury M100
1955 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan
Delta, British Columbia

When I arrived in the states from India, I just clicked on the Y-blocksforever in my favorites bar and everything came up with the new site., never had to do any updating or anything, the new site just loaded on my laptop and home computer with no problems.

Chuck, to get back to the main page of forums I just click the home button in the left of the blue bar on top, the bar shows each link you are viewing and to go back to the This and That main page for example, just click on that.

55 Vicky & customline

58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100

59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?

A redirect would be great. Since the topic and post numbers have been preserved, it would be awesome to have a web server rewrite rule that magically lands people in the correct place on the new site. I can't help with IIS - if it were Apache I could give you an example rewrite rule.

Another useful project would be to go through the database of postings, and modify existing links. Ted, you've provided enormous help to many people who ask already-answered questions by posting a page of links to past discussions. It would be great if those links could continue to work. It depends on how InstantForum stores stuff, but a simple text substitution on all posts replacing the string "www.y-blocksforever.com/forums" with "forums.y-blocksforever.com" should do it. Something along the lines of:

update InstantForum_Messages set Message = replace(Message, "www.y-blocksforever.com/forums", "forums.y-blocksforever.com");

Obviously you'd need to use the correct database and field names. And definitely make a backup before trying anything like that! Also some magic to handle upper/lower case well. I think "collate" would help with that. But in theory it should be a really quick fix for a pretty big benefit.

I'm not familiar with MS SQL Server, but this might work:

update InstantForum_Messages set Message = replace(Message collate SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1_CI_AI, "www.y-blocksforever.com/forums", "forums.y-blocksforever.com");

Actually the auto login works too well! Since I want to be "counted" at least once a day I have to logout. Does the site automaticly log you out after a certain time of inactivity?
Also, I would like to see a link in the forum that went back to the main page for the site. The only way to go back there now is to reopen the link externaly. Chuck

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

Ted, We have talked about it over on the 57 Fords forever site. Now the guys over there are up to speed on the new Y site.

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