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Increasingly, engine professionals have migrated to our social media accounts as the primary place they choose to post comments and communicate with AERA staff and one another. We invite our current forum users to follow AERA on Facebook to post questions and interact with our 14,000+ followers. We are also on Twitter and Instagram.
By using social media, you will have a much larger audience and we feel that your overall experience will be more satisfying than the forum. Please keep in mind that we are not eliminating our forum at this time, however, we are exploring other options to try to make our online engine building community the best it can be.
1 of 1- LSAMS
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What happened to our old Forum?
What happened? I guess we will have to start over.
I know I've been a bit slack checking in here, but I was suprised to see the old forum gone.
Well I've been told that all good things come to an end, so I guess that's true here.
Hope everyone is well and I look forward to a new beginning.
LSAMS (Larry Smith Automotive Machine Shop)
- Dave Conway
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Re: What happened to our old Forum?
Not sure what happened but you would think in this day and age to copy the info that has been listed for over 10 years would be able to be done.
I undetstand some things are not cost affective but I guess thats life
Pro Power Engine & Machine
Victoria BC Canada
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- Rogers Performance
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Re: What happened to our old Forum?
I,am sure they made us re sign up to weed out old posters
- Dave Conway
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Re: What happened to our old Forum?
It may have been a casr where the new guys did not have the talent to cross it over.
Maybe Richard rook designed it that way to start with but its sure sucke.
It would have been nice to at least give the regulars a heads up to copy recent stuff
Dave
Pro Power Engine & Machine
Victoria BC Canada
www.propowerengines.ca
- jim
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Re: What happened to our old Forum?
We apologize for not giving you faithful readers a heads up before launching our new forum. That sure would have been appropriate. We needed to redesign our whole website to keep up with technology because we were having problems with the old platform in many areas. The old forum was not designed to easily export information which has made it difficult to transfer the posts seamlessly. We have archived the old posts and have been researching efficient ways to transfer the data, but in the process we get a bunch of code along with the posts and therefore can't just copy and paste. Please know that we will continue to look for ways to transfer the old posts as we know this is important to you, our faithful contributors.
This is a good opportunity to bring new and timely questions and concerns to this professional forum. AERA is committed to be the "source for information" in the engine building, rebuilding and installation business.
Sincerely,
Jim Rickoff
AERA President
- rcull
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Re: What happened to our old Forum?
As someone who has the thrill of maintaining a forum, considering the timeing of the change of forum to a hosted forum, I suspect the forum managers surrendered their independant forum due to a huge increase in spam attacks.
It's tough to beat a vbulletin forum.
Last edited by rcull (5/10/2015 9:23 pm)
- clyde3d
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Re: What happened to our old Forum?
AERA has over 3,000 members world wide but not sure how many employees to make a total personal count, yet there are only 57 registered members on this forum. Any ideas from members to get more registered since AERA doesn't seem to make it easy to log in.
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