The new site has been great for me, even logs me in automatically and I have never had a site do that before even though I have asked them to.

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?

Billy. Glad you like it. I'm wondering now how many people (lurkers and forum members) that are still using their old links and continuing to get errors when attempting to look at the site. They would have no idea that the forum has moved to a new server. Without at least getting to the new forum, they would be clueless on what is going on and therefore would not be contacting one of the site moderators to have a look at their information.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

A redirect page will be best, if possible. The other day, I was looking for something on Yahoo and a link to a thread in the forum came up but it was the old forum so when I clicked, it didn't work. The problem with that is that it affects everyone, forum members and non members. New people cannot stumble upon the site as easily. A redirect can fix that.


Lawrenceville, GA

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.

  JUST A MIDNIGHT CRUISE DOWN THUNDER ROAD!!! TOM DRUMMOND MIDWEST DIRECTOR 57 FORD INTERNATIONAL

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

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");

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?

Don't worry Moon Shadow you count.

Mark

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

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

T

I'm liking everything about it!