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by Thom
Tue Nov 12, 2024 8:34 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 189
Views: 50340

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

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...
by Thom
Mon Nov 11, 2024 11:19 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 189
Views: 50340

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

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... :wink:
:D
by Thom
Wed Nov 06, 2024 4:58 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 189
Views: 50340

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

- 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...
by Thom
Tue Nov 05, 2024 6:00 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: I broke AST. (Edit: fixed it October 29th)
Replies: 15
Views: 632

Re: I broke AST. (Edit: fixed it October 29th)

Got nailed. Bonus.
by Thom
Tue Nov 05, 2024 5:43 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 189
Views: 50340

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

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...
by Thom
Mon Nov 04, 2024 2:33 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 189
Views: 50340

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

Okay, call we call this off now? :roll:
by Thom
Fri Nov 01, 2024 10:06 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: I broke AST. (Edit: fixed it October 29th)
Replies: 15
Views: 632

Re: I broke AST. It will be fixed soon (yep it's funny).

AST is back up. Just FYI. :D
by Thom
Thu Oct 31, 2024 11:23 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale
Replies: 28
Views: 1560

Re: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale

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 ...
by Thom
Wed Oct 30, 2024 7:41 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale
Replies: 28
Views: 1560

Re: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale

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...
by Thom
Wed Oct 30, 2024 9:46 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale
Replies: 28
Views: 1560

Re: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale

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...
by Thom
Tue Oct 29, 2024 4:40 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale
Replies: 28
Views: 1560

Re: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale

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, ...
by Thom
Mon Oct 28, 2024 2:58 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale
Replies: 28
Views: 1560

Re: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale

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...
by Thom
Mon Oct 28, 2024 9:11 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: I broke AST. (Edit: fixed it October 29th)
Replies: 15
Views: 632

Re: I broke AST. It will be fixed soon (yep it's funny).

Thanks for the head up!
by Thom
Mon Oct 28, 2024 9:09 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 189
Views: 50340

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

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... :D
by Thom
Sun Oct 27, 2024 11:28 am
Forum: Lighting & Electronics
Topic: What is this?
Replies: 34
Views: 65042

Re: What is this?

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...
by Thom
Sun Oct 27, 2024 10:05 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale
Replies: 28
Views: 1560

Re: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale

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.
by Thom
Thu Oct 24, 2024 5:45 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 189
Views: 50340

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

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?
by Thom
Wed Oct 23, 2024 7:57 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 189
Views: 50340

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

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...
by Thom
Tue Oct 22, 2024 3:49 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 189
Views: 50340

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

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.
by Thom
Mon Oct 21, 2024 10:17 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: No forum complaints this week. Is the forum fixed?
Replies: 4
Views: 492

Re: No forum complaints this week. Is the forum fixed?

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...
by Thom
Mon Oct 14, 2024 10:42 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 189
Views: 50340

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

So the Marketplace got purged of old posts. Does anyone know if that is automatic?
by Thom
Mon Oct 14, 2024 10:15 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: my offer / ssm backup forum
Replies: 30
Views: 2031

Re: my offer

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.
by Thom
Sun Oct 13, 2024 12:14 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: my offer / ssm backup forum
Replies: 30
Views: 2031

Re: my offer

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...
by Thom
Sat Oct 12, 2024 8:25 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 189
Views: 50340

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

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... :-k
by Thom
Sat Oct 12, 2024 8:07 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: my offer / ssm backup forum
Replies: 30
Views: 2031

Re: my offer

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 ...
by Thom
Thu Oct 10, 2024 9:25 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: my offer / ssm backup forum
Replies: 30
Views: 2031

Re: my offer

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.
by Thom
Thu Oct 10, 2024 7:41 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: my offer / ssm backup forum
Replies: 30
Views: 2031

Re: my offer

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.
by Thom
Wed Oct 09, 2024 6:54 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: my offer / ssm backup forum
Replies: 30
Views: 2031

Re: my offer

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...
by Thom
Wed Oct 09, 2024 1:18 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: my offer / ssm backup forum
Replies: 30
Views: 2031

Re: my offer

I'm open to it.
by Thom
Tue Oct 08, 2024 9:28 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ROLL CALL !!
Replies: 53
Views: 3841

Re: ROLL CALL !!

https://y.yarn.co/73bc90c5-7546-4e03-93c8-9cbc9d92fff2_text.gif Image, what image?? huh, it's showing up on mine... :?: Anyway, it's part of the intro to how the Grinch Stole Christmas, an image closing in on a snowflake, where the Whos live. At then end of the movie, it draws back to show it conti...