Inliners International Forums General Discussion Bench racing Inliners Website and Bulletin Board

FYI, About a year ago Will Willis commissioned a group to look into revising the Website and the Inliners logo. A new website has been created along with two logos. They will be presented at the Convention. Our plan is to invite Chapter Heads who can't attend to join the presentation via an internet meeting.
Your Chapter Head will have samples of the logos shortly after the meeting. For those members without Chapters, we will make an effort to get them out for your viewing. We ask that you take a look a them and let you Chapter Head know which one you prefer. We plan to make a decision on the logo soon, so we can move forward with the implementation of the website. Also, a Facebook page has been created so the club will move into the social media arena. We hope this will bring some younger members into the fold. Good things are coming and we hope you will bear with us for a few more weeks.

That sounds good but please be careful in what you wish for. While up dating the site and possibly the logo are needed younger is not necessarily better. I for one have no interest in belonging to an import tuner group or Facebook.

Hey Beater, Thanks for the feedback. At no time has this committee ever given consideration to attracting the tuner guys. They are a breed unto themselves and may they stay that way. If you don't know there are a lot of 30's and 40's, even younger individuals that appreciate the kind of cars and trucks that Inliners International is dedicated to. This group, as well as, older folks are increasingly getting their news and sourcing information from social media sites. We are trying to make it as easy as possible for them to find us. I believe it is up to the Chapters as to whether or not they allow import owners.

There are several of those guys around here and they seek us at a lot at events. We are grabbing a few of them. I hope the new board will have a really good search feature. We loose a lot of potential members when they come here looking for info they can not find. Once a thread falls off our front page it is tough to find so we end up with lots of good stuff spread all over.

Beater, I don't know about the Chevy and Mopar guys but there are several Ford Inline 6 pages and groups on FaceBook already and those are sources to tap into to spread the word about Inliners.

Just to help answer efi-diy's question. The last post on the subject here was a few days short of a year ago. Since I'm no longer a member I figure the new Logo I never saw is none of my business.

The young folks want mobil frindly sites with Apps...!!! My grandkids don't even own a laptop or desk computer. Even the HAMB switched. Myself, at 80 years and get along fine right here but i do use a Laptop and have a Iphone and Ipad that has to be expanded to read the posts when i am away from home. I think the content is ok but just a little "old school" when on mobil phones..... I may be all wet but you asked for it.

I see there is still issue with the staying logged from one page to the next. What's Up with that YET?

Hmmm. I haven't had any problems on multiple computers.
Which browser do you use? Has it done a update lately?

I have to log in often. I just gave up mentioning it and yes I'm updated. It only happens here.

Beater,
I haven't had any problems for awhile of staying logged in.As for some of the other issues here.... wish I had some answers for ya.

No big deal. It's quicker than getting into my email. None of it is your job, they will do what they do. maybe

There really isn't any advantage to log in unless you are going to make a post or answer a private message. The only other forums that you see that are hidden is the "Bench Racing" one and a few others that don't see much action anyway. So if you only log in once a week or once a month, you don't really miss much because there isn't much posted there.

The whole site is floating in cyber space. Member Pages is just for members but nothing there works anyway. All the other categories have been the same for since 2013. There have been no new tech tips for several years. But there is a Facebook page. It will all be updated by and by.

Its comforting to know that the powers to be are looking out for our welfare. I mean, what's 2 years to do an update amongst friends.

The only part I would add. There is always room for more volunteers.

sounds like a plan to me. And I will add, why has nothing been done to the home page by the current volunteers ? Is there something going on that is not being shared with the rank & file ?
Just asking.

Doug,
To answer your question, I'm the only volunteer here right now and my Moderator capabilities are very few. I'll be honest I have no access or knowledge for that matter on how to change stuff on the website, the only one that can do that is the admin person Titen.

Thanks for the honest response, Maybe someone with the time & knowledge will step up & take over the administrators role.

YES! Quite a bit.

Well I see staying logged in from Page to Page is still a Issue unfixed.?????????

Larry it probably won't be fixed as Tim resigned from the BBS as I understand it. You might want to check your computer settings as mine stays logged in, even over night if I forget to log out.

Larry,
Bill has a good idea,I can jump back and forth from different pages and don't have to log back in.

First off I do not log off the BB. There are many times I can go Back and forth with out any issue for days/weeks And then Poof same O. Even did it on my Lap top Even when I was running windows7 and windows 10 My desk is running windows 7 So I dout it is a setting Issue.

Larry I'm sorry I understood it cut you off every time you closed a page, not once every week or so. if you don't log out it will drop you every now and then. I understand the server does that when it gets full and needs to clear space for other people. Many sites require you to log off or they will log you off after a certain length of time with no activity.

NP it was never a problem before. But the last yr or two This has been going on. But like I said Not a big deal to log off.

Have you tried going into your website settings "on Inliners" and clear out the cookies? It is in "my stuff"

One thing you all for get I used to mod this BB along with much other stuff.( when Jack was apart of this BB) As far as being able to get much deeper into the BB. So yes I know about deleting cookies. So I shall do it again and see how long it will last this time.
But like I said Not a problem.

Helped me....!!! held in for me about 10 days now...

I gave up on staying logged in a long time ago. If I'm logged out I just log in. It only takes a few seconds and it's one of the few things I remember how to do. It's kinda' fun.

Since my forum also uses UBB Threads software and I have the software designer and owners cellphone number and have talked to him numerous times in the past. I asked this question to him back when it was first bumping people off that tried to stay logged in. He said that it isn't recommended that you purposely try to stay logged in, and that many people have had problems with this in the UBB Threads later versions of the software more than those that didn't. So coming straight from the guy that designed this software, he said don't stay logged in as it isn't intended for people to try and do that. Its not that its right or wrong, but it requires programs inside your computer to stay active and running in the background that you aren't aware of that are running, and this apparently over time is causing these glitches in some peoples computer.

I had saved several links to information on the Classic Truck Shop site. They "updated" to a newer system. I went there a while back to access some Borg Warner Overdrive information. It is no longer there. They lost EVERYTHING! Links to that info is posted on this site but the info is gone. I'm just mentioning that as a heads up to those working on this site. There is info in old posts here that exists nowhere else and many of the posters no longer exist either.
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I just did a search on here Beater and found 5 or 6 different threads going back to 2003 if that helps.

I can get responses but not about what I'm searching for. There was a thread about rewiring a BW OD. There was a group called the Old Berb Club. The old links don't work. Maybe it's just me but the moderator said they lost it all and they were basically a clean slate.

Hopefully our new website won't lose any of our info. It would be nice if the search engine was better.

Beater's worries are justified.

I'm beginning to think our new web site is never going to happen.

If past track record were any indication, I agree.

I can't find it now, maybe it was removed, but there was a post that said it will be done by May. So soon.

I was told it would be done last summer. Then I was told we hired a company to do it and it would be up by the first of May, I guess I should of ask what year.

My understanding is the forum will be moved to the new website hopefully keeping everything intact.There is a lot of excess that is trying to be cleaned up such as multiple usernames by 1 person and folks who have not been on here in over 10 years or never posted anything in that time frame.