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Setec Astronomy said:
I thought you were a computer guy?
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I have been doing *enterprise* computing for over 40 years - large scale computing systems that make up the backend of pretty much any Fortune 100 firm, even these days. This is not in my wheelhouse - I have a passing knowledge as much of what we deliver to clients is (eventually) provided through some type of web or web-ish process, portal, or whatever the kids with the cool hair-do`s call it these days. So I know enough to be dangerous but don`t profess to be a web or web-hosting expert. I DO have the same experiences as many others here and elsewhere of having watched/experienced websites going offline and the various reasons behind that - both those given and those real. The transition of AGO from mostly OK, to kind of OK, to frequently unresponsive, to offline but with an explanatory banner page to online but with the wrong content and an expired/mismatched security cert has been distressing to watch as it makes me concerned that the entity managing this may not be able to preserve the *content* that makes/made AGO valuable to this reader. That said - I never paid a dime for it other than having been a customer of AG - so it`s not like I fell I have some right to get all honked off about it, just continue to be concerned that it *might* not come back or if it does it *might* not have been able to preserve the existing content.

So, yes, I am a computer guy but just not the right kind for this particular type of computing. In automotive terms I guess I`m more of a NA SBC guy in a world of turbocharged OHC`s. I *kind* of know how they work but not enough to offer particularly meaningful or helpful insight.
 
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Karl_in_Chicago said:
I have been doing *enterprise* computing for over 40 years
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I understand exactly what that is, I just thought as we transitioned from centralized systems (mainframe) to decentralized systems (PC`s) and then back to centralized systems, sort of (internet), I thought everybody wound up having to be a CNE etc. to get taken seriously. I guess you`re a dedicated back-office guy, a vanishing breed. I bet you used to do RPG back in the day.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
I understand exactly what that is, I just thought as we transitioned from centralized systems (mainframe) to decentralized systems (PC`s) and then back to centralized systems, sort of (internet), I thought everybody wound up having to be a CNE etc. to get taken seriously. I guess you`re a dedicated back-office guy, a vanishing breed. I bet you used to do RPG back in the day.
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Ha! Blast from the past. That`s even *farther* back when I was at a different firm (so maybe 45 years ago?) on a System 36 (precursor to System 38, precursor to AS/400 now iSeries) and we used RPG III . . . on 96 column punch cards, no less. As I rotated through many different hats *here* I did have a role where a bunch of AS/400 systems (using RPG) were ultimately under my umbrella but I was very hands-off on that as we were fortunate to have very capable staff on that platform.
 
Confirmed on the MP forum, AGO is migrating to new software. From what is coming up now at AGO, the software is Xenforo, which is what MP uses. Whether they do the same thing here or shut Autopia down remains to be seen.

This is the quote from over there from AG customer service:

[FONT=&quot]"We should have it back up shortly, we ran into some software issues and need to do a full update and migrate the forum into a new software due to unsupported software that is no longer available. "[/FONT]
 
I see the Xenforo appears to be up and running but can`t recognize my login/pw. Hope that`s temporary or they send out something to reset pw`s to gain access (or post similar banner on the site). Still hoping that they were able to xfer the content from the old system to the new system. fingers crossed
 
I`m going to miss the extreme ease of viewing it on tapatalk but I guess it`s better than being extinct
 
Stokdgs said:
When I click on "Store", now it goes to Autogeek...
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Ha...last week it went to a page that said "Autopia has merged with Autogeek" etc. and I think had a link to the Autogeek store. As I think I said earlier, that doesn`t bode too well for the continuing existence of this forum. We`ll see if they upgrade this to XenForo after they get done with AGO.
 
AGO is up but did not accept my creditionals so reregistered. There was no content and may have jumped the gun.
 
Other than you Bunky, it looks like most of (all?) the "members" are spammers, getting their accounts in so 2 years from now they can do a spam post and we can wonder how that happened
 
Vegas1 said:
Don’t know about the users but I can view all the forums using Tapatalk.


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It has no knowledge of my ID. Does everybody start over with no history with whatever name they wish to choose (even those of prior members)?
From the web interface I see one forum, the "Main" forum, and it has 2 threads - one of which is spam (first!).
 
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