|
Post by Jonathan on May 17, 2015 2:48:11 GMT
It's right beside the reply button.
|
|
|
Post by mary_beaton on May 17, 2015 2:49:47 GMT
It's right beside the reply button. Just went back and found it.
|
|
|
Post by Jonathan on May 17, 2015 2:59:55 GMT
I had to uninstall and reinstall it. One part was messed up. Works fine now.
|
|
|
Post by mary_beaton on May 18, 2015 2:27:29 GMT
Since "IDF" refers to the old forum, maybe we can now use "MCF" for this new Mc Creerians Forum. I bounced this around with Deb, Dot and Jonathan (who suggested the acronym) - we thought it sounded pretty good. What do you all think?
|
|
mmmtx
Debut Member
Posts: 23
Posts: 23
|
Post by mmmtx on May 19, 2015 2:22:37 GMT
Since "IDF" refers to the old forum, maybe we can now use "MCF" for this new Mc Creerians Forum. I bounced this around with Deb, Dot and Jonathan (who suggested the acronym) - we thought it sounded pretty good. What do you all think? Sounds like a perfect moniker to me. Thanks for thinking of it
|
|
season1
Debut Member
Posts: 15
Posts: 15
|
Post by season1 on May 21, 2015 20:00:42 GMT
I heard from other boards that the IDF owner would be back from vacation this weekend and will work on fixing IDF. But it looks like y'all already made quite a new home here Anyway, for those interested in The Voice, some IDF members have started an alternative to IDF at thevoiceforums.com Personally, I prefer the setup and ease of use of proboards forums like this one MCF is a nice name for this forum.
|
|
|
Post by Jonathan on May 21, 2015 20:08:20 GMT
Yeah that owner has said the same thing for 4 months now. I'm not expecting any miracle. Even if that site does come back, our new home is already much better than IDF ever was. Here at MCF we control everything and don't have certain mods with bias to butt into our business. MCF feels more like home than IDF and the original boards on AmericanIdol.com ever was.
|
|
|
Post by grandmadot on May 21, 2015 20:15:07 GMT
I heard from other boards that the IDF owner would be back from vacation this weekend and will work on fixing IDF. But it looks like y'all already made quite a new home here Anyway, for those interested in The Voice, some IDF members have started an alternative to IDF at thevoiceforums.com Personally, I prefer the setup and ease of use of proboards forums like this one MCF is a nice name for this forum. I went to see TVF. Wow, quite an undertaking representing every season the show has been on. With IDF down, many fans are scrambling to regroup. Thanks for sharing the site!
|
|
season1
Debut Member
Posts: 15
Posts: 15
|
Post by season1 on May 22, 2015 3:14:55 GMT
Yeah that owner has said the same thing for 4 months now. I'm not expecting any miracle. Even if that site does come back, our new home is already much better than IDF ever was. Here at MCF we control everything and don't have certain mods with bias to butt into our business. MCF feels more like home than IDF and the original boards on AmericanIdol.com ever was. I agree that this board is shaping up to be better organized than the Scotty forum on IDF, and I can understand the McCreerians moving out of IDF for good. Even if the IDF issues are eventually fixed, I don't expect them upgrading their software and equipment to accommodate the traffic especially with Idol being on its last season in 2016. It's a shame that y'all would lose a lot of history from IDF, unless there's a way to archive the threads. *** I went to see TVF. Wow, quite an undertaking representing every season the show has been on. With IDF down, many fans are scrambling to regroup. Thanks for sharing the site! You're welcome Hindsight 20/20 but it probably would have been best to start the TVF board and the launch better coordinated before it got so bad on IDF. Now the IDF community is fractured and it's hard to get the word out to most IDF members unless IDF comes back to life. Anyway, of the 3 different boards I joined after IDF went down, MCF has the best setup and functionality IMO.
|
|
vamp111
Debut Member
Posts: 5
Posts: 5
|
Post by vamp111 on May 23, 2015 21:47:36 GMT
Hi, its good to be here! Now we can have our own rules and not have to worry about the biased moderators at IDF.
|
|
|
Post by Jonathan on May 23, 2015 21:52:54 GMT
Welcome Vamp!
|
|
season1
Debut Member
Posts: 15
Posts: 15
|
Post by season1 on May 26, 2015 23:35:45 GMT
Looks like they're working on IDF. The error messages changed.
Instead of IPS Driver errors, I'm getting Error 522 now.
|
|
|
Post by stylin1188 on May 29, 2015 2:10:27 GMT
?
|
|
season1
Debut Member
Posts: 15
Posts: 15
|
Post by season1 on May 29, 2015 3:11:24 GMT
I mean that the error messages when you try to go to Idolforums is something about connection timeout (Error 522) instead of the dreaded IPS Driver (or Database) errors a couple of weeks ago, when the site went down. That, and the recent message on Twitter by the owner, make me assume that they're working on fixing the site.
|
|
|
Post by Jonathan on May 29, 2015 3:34:20 GMT
Idolforums has their own twitter handle. You would think the owners would post something on there. But they are so incompetent that they probably don't even know their own password for it. I think there has only been 1 tweet on there in the last 4 or 5 years. Pardon my language but these owners are the meaning of running something half assed.
|
|
season1
Debut Member
Posts: 15
Posts: 15
|
Post by season1 on May 29, 2015 7:46:10 GMT
I think nobody uses the idolforums Twitter anymore. The owner, @nxtom (I think) is the one who was responding to istersay before. But now, I couldn't find those tweet exchanges =/
|
|
season1
Debut Member
Posts: 15
Posts: 15
|
Post by season1 on Jun 6, 2015 10:05:01 GMT
FYI... IDF seems to be back in business this morning, for anyone interested EDIT: Update from one of the owners.
|
|
|
Post by mary_beaton on Jun 6, 2015 14:35:11 GMT
FYI... IDF seems to be back in business this morning, for anyone interested EDIT: Update from one of the owners. Thanks. Looks like a good chance to retrieve information we want to keep. I'm not sure to trust its stability.
|
|
|
Post by Jonathan on Jun 6, 2015 14:49:36 GMT
I say get everything while we can. Buzz said it's on it's last server and if it goes, who knows when the site will be back up.
|
|
|
Post by ptebwwong on Jun 6, 2015 17:43:49 GMT
For anybody trying to save pages in IDF, there's an option in the top right hand corner of the 1st post in each page, to download the thread. It goes to a new page with options of emailing it to you, saving it in Word, or saving it in HTML format. It only saves the page you are on.
|
|
|
Post by mary_beaton on Jun 6, 2015 17:50:24 GMT
For anybody trying to save pages in IDF, there's an option in the top right hand corner of the 1st post in each page, to download the thread. It goes to a new page with options of emailing it to you, saving it in Word, or saving it in HTML format. It only saves the page you are on. Thanks so much!!!
|
|
season1
Debut Member
Posts: 15
Posts: 15
|
Post by season1 on Jun 6, 2015 22:00:50 GMT
For anybody trying to save pages in IDF, there's an option in the top right hand corner of the 1st post in each page, to download the thread. It goes to a new page with options of emailing it to you, saving it in Word, or saving it in HTML format. It only saves the page you are on. I tried the Download this topic option, then clicked the HTML option. It brings up the save dialog (to save to hard drive). However, the saved HTML is in printable version (not full version) of the first page of the topic only. I tried saving the topic while I was on last page (1276) of one thread, and it still just saves the first page of that topic. I think your browser's Save Page, Complete function is better if only saving the current page you're on, as it saves all the images of that page in its own folder on your hard drive. You can technically create a different html file for each page of a thread, not just the first page, but that's tedious for threads with thousands of pages. Anyway, with IDF back, we can take this chance to save/archive info and media we want from that site. Also, maybe let others know of this alternative forum? (if that's ok to post on IDF).
|
|
|
Post by Jonathan on Jun 7, 2015 1:16:34 GMT
Well that didn't last long. I'm getting error messages and can only get on IDF sporadically.
|
|