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Merlin Jones wrote: ↑Sat Mar 01, 2025 7:41 am Wanting to leave, but unable to do so.

One, I would wonder why you want to..? Don't need to explain, or course, just very curious and wondering if everything is alright.
Two, it's as simple as not logging back in again, really.
Be sad to see you go.

The names have been changed to protect the guilty. Unless they confess in which case they were guilty already. guilty? is this a joke or are people going to be labeled now? Sounds like a joke. This is something we round here sometimes, take one sentence and throw out humorous variations. "He d...

lohengrin wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2024 6:48 am ...

you were one of the first to join so there was no need for an invite.

I'm uncomfortable as a 'trend-setter' and being the center of attention, so let's keep that low-key...

- Spamming inboxes with unwanted invites to his forum. - Attacking admins and the site owner. - Posts about AST forum states I was fine with him pimping for his site until that started. It is all unwanted content and not relevant discussion. And that's all he's contributed to this community over th...

Got nailed. Bonus.

He just offered to create a forum similar to SSM over on AST if/when this goes dark at any time, so why are people going nuclear on him? If you don't want to go onto AST, then don't , it is as simple as that. No obligations to do anything. Jesus, what's worse than SSM going out with a whimper..? Thi...

Okay, call we call this off now?

AST is back up. Just FYI.

Meanwhile we've got the FB group to manage which is quite frankly exhausting. Which shows that the Facebook group needs to be deleted in the interest of collective health and well being. Plus, I've checked the FB page for SSM and nothing in at least 2 months if I remember correctly. Can't help but ...

Mods are offering nothing because it's private. If the site owners wants ya'll to know he'll let you know. One of the biggest issues, tho', is that the architecture this forum is built on is obsolete and moving it would be neigh impossible or at least extremely tedious. Meanwhile we're open to expl...

I don't think anyone here is 'goading' the owner. More than anything, we just hope John and Linda are alright as their absence/silence is worrying . We just want to know what is happening. That's not a hard thing to ask for. Error creep is sliding in and we've found 'cheats' to get around it, and ju...

Just an FYI, John is not the only one with admin level access and the lack of movement here is due to people having real jobs and the general decline of forums all over. I'm sorry somebody pee'd in your Cheerios. The exit is over there. Do you have any idea what is going on? At the end to the day, ...

I like your weedios. and forgive me for being blunt here but john doesn't give a damn about this forum and he is the only one with access to fix it. John Lester has provided this space for us for over TWENTY-FIVE years ad-free. I am cutting him some slack in maybe starshipmodeler.com may not be the...

Thanks for the head up!

lohengrin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2024 1:07 am ...just have to laugh at the irony.

When AST didn't load at all, I felt like I was in a lifeboat seeing the Carpathia - just before it hit an iceberg...

For the first one, I may have to go through my phone and shut off any tracking data. Big middle finger to 'Big Brother.' For the last one, I think we should make the name Coast Guard Cutter as literal as possible. They see one of these narco subs, just run them down with a ramming bow and leave them...

I don't know what's going on here. I hope John and Linda well, though I do wish there was at least some notification of whatever is going on.
Just for myself, I appreciate your effort and am taking advantage of it, so, thank you.

Saturn wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 11:43 am

etssp wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 12:29 am Has anybody tried phoning John? His number should be +1 224 372 7428 according the web store.

John's not dead/missing. Just ordered from the SM store last week.

I'm assuming it was delivered?

Richard Baker wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 7:54 am The weird thing for me is that John, Linda and Every Moderator seems to have totally disappeared about the same time with no explanation

I hope none of then had a little ship named Minnow...

Just lacking oversight. I do hope John and Linda are well, but the mystery of the whole thing, not just them disappearing but the mods as well... I think we are coasting into oblivion here, which is why I'm trying for a little more of a presence on AST. It seems to be a real nice alternative.

So I still get that 500 error but other than that everything okay? Go to the other sites about the forum problems. they have a link that has fixed the 500 problem for most of us. The SQL error remains. Not fixed , but there is a 'work-around' that has alleviated the problem. I found that using http...

So the Marketplace got purged of old posts. Does anyone know if that is automatic?

WraithVerge wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2024 3:34 am Has anyone tried contacting John's wife, LindaSmile? Maybe she knows something about what's going on?

I think LindaSmile has been off even longer than John.

For the alternate site, I can't seem to get past the USS Defiant question... I always called it the Tick. For the alternate site, I can't seem to get past the USS Defiant question... I always called it the Tick. Noth8ng says you need to like every trek ship design, personally I think the Defiant lo...

Was checking the What's New page, and scrolling down, I came across this posted between 7/2 and 8/1.

A head's up: we'll be AFK from 3-15 August. The Store will be open, but nothing will ship 'till we get back,

So they went 'somewhere.' But that was almost two months ago...

Just checked the what's new here page and the wallpaper page has one for October so John's still around, just not logging on for some reason. IDK, kind of odd to upload one wallpaper and ignore everything else going on. Like giving a car with a busted head gasket a car wash. He probably cannot log ...

irishtrek wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2024 9:12 pm Just checked the what's new here page and the wallpaper page has one for October so John's still around, just not logging on for some reason.

IDK, kind of odd to upload one wallpaper and ignore everything else going on. Like giving a car with a busted head gasket a car wash.

Stu Pidasso wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2024 8:50 pm Nothing other that Trek? No thanks.

There is a section called 'Other S&SF Modelling' that has quite a few Star Wars builds and other sci-fi subjects.

just to be clear i'm not trying to replace ssm i just don't want to see another forum community destroyed. only a few are left i want to give you guys a back up just in case things go bad here some of the ssm members are already over at ast (i can create an ssm group so you can keep track of ssm me...

I'm open to it.