Fordification frozen this morning?

[bindernut]

Just curious here. With me not being too computer savvy is there something we (the users/members) can do or something we can NOT do to help?

get well soon Keith

[papabug71]

Just curious here. With me not being too computer savvy is there something we (the users/members) can do or something we can NOT do to help?

get well soon Keith

One sure fire way to attract spam is by posting your personal email addy in a post. This is a no-no on FORDification forums. If you see a post with a personal email addy or a hyperlinked personal email addy, you could politely ask the member to remove it remind them of the rule & ask them to use the PM function for personal buisness. You can also report it to a moderator. The key is to be nice about it. You don't want to come off as a jerk, but it is a rule that needs to be followed.

Go to any other forum that allows personal emails in posts & they have 10 times as much spam as FORDification does.

[sublimer]

It only lets me perform one search every few minutes, you should allow users to search as much as they like

It's really annoying not being able to use the search feature!

Otherwise, I got to google.com and search for site:fordification.com whatI'mLookingFor

[tmcalavy]

Amen.

[BobbyFord]

Prolly the dreaded "SumTingWong" virus that originated in China

[basketcase0302]

Continue to get the same prompt of "Sorry but you cannot use search at this time. Please try again in a few minutes."

Is this something that more bandwidth or server space would fix? Do we need to have a fundraiser here to help support it? Everyone here know the site is worth it!

[sargentrs]

I'll contribute! I really use the search function a lot.

[Atlas]

I still haven't heard any explanation as to what happened to me. Everything that I've ever posted or submitted has disappeared, including my membership and name. Everything is gone , over 1000 posts and many , many photos , all gone. I re-registered and have started all over, I'm wondering if anyone else had this happen to them ?

[robroy]

Good morning Dave,

While my account's OK and most of my stuff's still around, the other day I did notice that there are a number of posts missing from 1972 F250 12"x2.5" Bendix rear drum brake rebuild: advice?

The missing posts aren't the most recent ones either; it's as though some of the posts were sucked out from the middle of the thread. The reason I'm sure this happened is that recently, I went searching for the close-up photos I took of the large socket used to tighten the nut which holds the brake drum on, and the posts containing those photos were completely missing. Also missing from that same post, or a nearby post, were close-up photos of a brake service tool that I erroneously bought for the project (that tools turned out to be inapplicable to my specific type of brakes).

Since I put a wacky number of hours in to that thread I felt frustrated with myself to have seemingly lost portions of it--especially unknown portions of it that I'm only able to partially identify. I haven't gone through other threads to see how many other posts are missing, but it seems improbable that it's isolated to that one brake thread.

My reason for feeling frustrated with myself is that for a few years now, I've realized that the amount of time I've put in to some of the threads here is so great, that I needed to write a simple program to make a back-up of either all the threads I started, or even just a select few high-investment threads. The program would save the backups in a way which would allow them to be easily re-posted, should they ever be lost for any reason. Yet I never prioritized writing that program highly enough to actually start it, and now it looks like it's too late, at least to safeguard everything that once was here.

There's also a chance that the posts really aren't missing from the thread, and have merely been invented in my corrupted memory of what the thread used look like. And if that turns out to be the case I'll certainly be embarrassed.

Robroy

[91Bear]

Please try again in a few minutes.

I keep getting that message if I search more than one screen of results. It's annoying. Anyone else get that?

[sargentrs]

Yeah, every time now. Just have to wait a few minutes and you can search again. The big problem I've been having the past couple of days is a "The connection to the server has been reset" error on login. Goes on the say the server may be too busy, blah blah blah. Wait a few minutes and try again. 2 or 3 tries and I can get in....like now

[basketcase0302]

Guys, it's worked twice for me now...go into your cache and clear the cookies. Instead of all of them last week I just cleared the Fordification site here and immediate results. Where I could not search-then I was able to run a search. Don't know why-but it worked for me.

[jzjames]

"Sorry but you cannot use search at this time. Please try again in a few minutes."

This is the response I get alot when Im looking at the forum. It has nothing to do with any search Im doing, it happens when I hit the back button to the previous page.

Is the forum getting jammed up for others or is it only me?

[Swegner99]

It will do this to me from time to time, but only when im trying to use the search feature. When I leave a thread I dont use the back button, I go back to the top and click on the subcategory again.... that way it marks that I read the thread.

[Kurt Combs]

After I do a search, so I won't be asking the same question that has been asked before, I get a message when trying to go to the second page that I must wait to do another search. Anyone have a solution?