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Old 11-04-2025, 11:40 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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I haven't been able to get into the forum in years and feared one of my favorite sources of info had disappeared into the ether. I am so glad you are back. Wouldn't have known if someone had responded to a post of mine from 2022.
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Old 11-08-2025, 08:57 AM   #2 (permalink)
 
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Wouldn't have known if someone had responded to a post of mine from 2022.
Yeah, when I made this post What's blooming in your garden? (bananas) an automated notification email was sent to you.

Thanks for posting and maybe it will get someone in charge of this site to send automated emails to all members letting them know the site is running well now.
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Old 11-14-2025, 05:51 AM   #3 (permalink)
 
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I have been able to log on the site straight away, for the past 2 days without any issues and no adverts blocking half of the page, like the good old days, just hope i dont jinx it
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Old 11-23-2025, 11:40 AM   #4 (permalink)
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I asked Jarred about lack of being able to access the site a few days ago and he told me that it was being moved to a new host and that it should work better than ever. Seems good!
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Old 11-23-2025, 11:46 AM   #5 (permalink)
 
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Fantastic news! I had always recommended the forum and now I can again.
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Just found out too!

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What a terrible experiment that was to see how long we could run on such old hardware. Sorry guys. Welcome back! A new beginning, on this stack.
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much smoother
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I only had to edit like sixty-seven thousand files to get this old forum, old wiki, and an old photopost, working on modern php, modern database, and a modern operating system. Let alone restrictions on port 25 with web hosts these days. Got around all the hurdles though.
If I missed something just give a shout and I will try to get it fixed promptly. Again, apologies but I hope you fall back in love with our website and I am glad to make any other improvements and fixes that are needed.
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Thanks for upgrading the forum.

Is it possible to increase the Disk space allowed on your account:

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I ran out of photo space a long time ago and now can only copy over older photos.
Give it a whirl, I increased the storage space for everyone. Good suggestion, thanks.
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Give it a whirl, I increased the storage space for everyone. Good suggestion, thanks.
Thanks for trying but for whatever reason I'm still in negative disk space.

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This is great!!! Thank you so much for all the hard work. Life has been a bit distracting over the last year and with the seemingly inordinate amount of time it was taking to even access one post, I just stopped trying. However, I have not stopped having fun with bananas and now I am so happy to see the group, and all of the fantastic info, insight and camaraderie, is up to speed again. Thank you, Thank you.
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Hello everyone! it's Matt. Good to see you all here. I am glad to be back on. I tried last year but nothing came up. I didn't forget. I was originally Kaczercat.
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Hello Matt and everyone else! Glad the site is back up and running smoothly for me again.
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