Forum bombshell!

[french frank]

The link to the Facebook noticeboard has been given out twice in the thread already. It is https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094434990528 and you need to bookmark it. I don't think you have to sign up to FB in order to see it.

Absolutely right. This is just a pin board for me to post a notice if necessary - visible to all, not as harmful as using Google as a search engine, for emails - or watching YouTube!

Dave2002 - we don't know when FQ will pull the plug: it may well be before we've worked out where the forum will be (but we shall have the back-up). Hence the Facebook noticeboard for that emergency.

[DracoM]

[teamsaint]

It is really encouraging to see so many members prepared to help financially (as ff knows I would too). A new category of membership (Site supporter) could perhaps be introduced, though that might be seen as divisive; but who would be responsible for looking after the finances/bank account? That's a huge responsibility.

Let's hope the team find an appropriate alternative for us.

Some forums have a small annual fee, ( £5) for unlimited access and posts. and free access plus up to three posts a day for non paying members.

[DracoM]

Will we get the online link to any new Fprum?

[Joseph K]

Will we get the online link to any new Fprum?

Via facebook, once this one disappears, I think.

I'd financially contribute too. I once donated a small fee to a poetry forum which I think had a system set up not dissimilar to the one teamsaint mentioned above.

[Nick Armstrong]

The link to the Facebook noticeboard has been given out twice in the thread already. It is https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094434990528 and you need to bookmark it. I don't think you have to sign up to FB in order to see it.

I just get “Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid” each time I try the links that have been provided (I don’t care for me, I can find out by other means)

[french frank]

I just get “Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid” each time I try the links that have been provided (I don’t care for me, I can find out by other means)

It works for me - straight to the Budapest opera house balcony, as per the FoR3 website, but a bit lower. Safari isn't trying (CHORUS: Oh, yes it is!)

[french frank]

Another thought: we are setting up a mass mailing list to keep in touch with all those for whom we have a current email address . We shall send out the first mailing very soon with the information posted here, but I don't want to send out too often because although I've tried to clean it up (no double identities! no one who hasn't posted, no one who hasn't logged in since 2019 - still over 500 names), I still expect a large number of bounces coming into to my personal email account.

Eventually, if we get enough traffic using the site, Google will catch up with us, but that may take a little time.

[Cockney Sparrow]

I'm not sure I've seen it mentioned, but it occurs to me that it would be a good idea to download Personal Messages to my own computer a.s.a.p (even though I don't send many). Some help here on how to do it:

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?15415-How-to-archive-PMs

Former Yahoo groups have gone to Groups.io but it wouldn't be the same as this forum layout (I am a member of several groups there, it works well as a successor to Yahoo Groups but they were never a Forum). I've not been that happy with Google Groups (and Google may well lose interest in supporting them - like Yahoo decided to close Groups). I add my voice against Facebook as a re-location destination but thanks for setting up the last-resort FB page to view, to maintain means of contact.

I'd be happy to make a contribution (regularly, if needed). Thanks all involved, for the time and effort being spent finding a solution to this.........

[teamsaint]

Another thought: we are setting up a mass mailing list to keep in touch with all those for whom we have a current email address . We shall send out the first mailing very soon with the information posted here, but I don't want to send out too often because although I've tried to clean it up (no double identities! no one who hasn't posted, no one who hasn't logged in since 2019 - still over 500 names), I still expect a large number of bounces coming into to my personal email account.

Eventually, if we get enough traffic using the site, Google will catch up with us, but that may take a little time.

I need to update my email address, can this be done by me on my profile ? I can’t see where it can be done.
Thanks.

[Petrushka]

I need to update my email address, can this be done by me on my profile ? I can’t see where it can be done.
Thanks.

I can't find my email address on my Profile at all. Where is it?

[Cockney Sparrow]

I can't find my email address on my Profile at all. Where is it?

On the 2nd Red "band" - ring menu - from the top of the web page - it starts on the left "New Posts" then "Private Messages" then others - the drop down you need is:
"Forum Actions" -> "Edit Profile"

[Petrushka]

On the 2nd Red "band" - ring menu - from the top of the web page - it starts on the left "New Posts" then "Private Messages" then others - the drop down you need is:
"Forum Actions" -> "Edit Profile"

Thanks, it's there so no need to change. That should answer teamsaint's query as well.

[french frank]

SORTED

Oh, dear, team. It looks as if there was a problem with you logging in.

We can only contact you offline via your email address, and that seems now to be defunct - internally generated emails are bouncing.

You can contact us with contact@for3.org (as long as FQ survives) and update us there. The mass mailing will go to your old address (except I'll cross it off the list).

I need to update my email address, can this be done by me on my profile ? I can’t see where it can be done.
Thanks.

[teamsaint]

SORTED

Oh, dear, team. It looks as if there was a problem with you logging in.

We can only contact you offline via your email address, and that seems now to be defunct - internally generated emails are bouncing.

You can contact us with contact@for3.org (as long as FQ survives) and update us there. The mass mailing will go to your old address (except I'll cross it off the list).

Thanks FF, with you help and a nudge from a friendly forum member ( they are mostly friendly TFB ) I am all sorted and updated.