zigzag Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I'm surprised no one has mentioned this earlier. The Lounge and the Epiphone forums are now protected. I guess this means they can't be viewed by non-members or members who are not signed in. No more lurking. Curses!... Wus up widdat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I'm surprised no one has mentioned this earlier. The Lounge and the Epiphone forums are now protected. I guess this means they can't be viewed by non-members or members who are not signed in. No more lurking. Curses!... Wus up widdat? Are they protected from reading or just for posting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbreslauer Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Are they protected from reading or just for posting? i had to log in to read this morning, guess i can lurk no more... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hall Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 ever expanding CONTROL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karloff Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Quite frankly, all of this is starting to scare the hell out of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly campbell Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Quite frankly, all of this is starting to scare the hell out of me. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Why? Because this forum is about ready to go kaput and "fixing" stuff when it's already struggling has a way of backfiring. Just saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 So what? Why does it matter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Because this forum is about ready to go kaput and "fixing" stuff when it's already struggling has a way of backfiring. Just saying. they're putting robot tuners on it next month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Gibson Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 How can I lurk,spy and covet in secret anymore when put the software condom on here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabs Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I'm surprised no one has mentioned this earlier. The Lounge and the Epiphone forums are now protected. I guess this means they can't be viewed by non-members or members who are not signed in. No more lurking. Curses!... Wus up widdat? Maybe they did it to try and get more people to join... Like right now theres 16 members online and 442 guests.. So maybe it was their way of encouraging people to sign up? As for the other changes.. It does seem a bit odd to get rid of all that history... maybe someone new is in charge of the forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Logical, well reasoned moves towards social media. Why run a forum when you can just let AOL do it. When that happens, I'll bid all adieu. I don't do the myspace thing. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookery Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I just log in to view, no big deal for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Farnsbarns Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I just logged out as an experiment. Took me ages to reset my password. Forum admin tech peops, before you make all these changes here are some priorities for you... Google stopped supporting recaptcha1 a year ago, I'd implement recaptcha2 as a priority. A right pain to reset passwords. You're hosted on AWS. That's hilarious. Get a proper server. You're running ipboard 3.1, get with the patching program. It's a security risk. Perhaps fix the broken smilies. What version of PHP is that? We're up to version 7 now, ya know. I'd sort all that out, then start arbitrarily changing the structure of the forum, if you must. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Scales Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I was in the UK the past couple of weeks and not on here as often so may have missed it, but I haven't seen any threads from Gibson explaining all the changes and things to be aware of to assist users. If it exists please point it out to me so I can read up (thanks). If it doesn't then that tells you their care factor right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digger Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Maybe they did it to try and get more people to join... Like right now theres 16 members online and 442 guests.. So maybe it was their way of encouraging people to sign up? As for the other changes.. It does seem a bit odd to get rid of all that history... maybe someone new is in charge of the forum? I think that’s the idea alright. To get more people to participate, and that’s what we want too I’d have thought? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digger Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I was in the UK the past couple of weeks and not on here as often so may have missed it, but I haven't seen any threads from Gibson explaining all the changes and things to be aware of to assist users. If it exists please point it out to me so I can read up (thanks). If it doesn't then that tells you their care factor right there. I got an answer to a concern about the recent 30 hold on new post from Admin on the Epi side, so they do read what we are saying about the place I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karloff Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Why? was just joking. wasn't serious ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Scales Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Maybe they did it to try and get more people to join... Like right now theres 16 members online and 442 guests.. So maybe it was their way of encouraging people to sign up? I'm not sure that would be effective Rabs - there's usually hardly any guests (maybe a handful) on the Lounges - generally they are scattered everywhere and probably following results to topics they Google'd. They'd have to protect all the forum pages in that case and it'd be a nightmare to administer for mods and most people would just move on to their other Google results if browsing. Still, it'd be interesting to understand the protected pages thing and why its on the lounges only though - its a mystery to me but I assume there's a reason? KS Daddy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Gibson Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 1512513733[/url]' post='1897705']I'm not sure that would be effective Rabs - there's usually hardly any guests (maybe a handful) on the Lounges - generally they are scattered everywhere and probably following results to topics they Google'd. They'd have to protect all the forum pages in that case and it'd be a nightmare to administer for mods and most people would just move on to their other Google results if browsing. Still, it'd be interesting to understand the protected pages thing and why its on the lounges only though - its a mystery to me but I assume there's a reason? KS Daddy? Can't look at members profile either without signing in, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 I just tested it too. Yep. I did see there was a way to sign in Anonymous. Was that always an option? Maybe I'll try logging out and signing back in Anonymous to see what that does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted December 6, 2017 Author Share Posted December 6, 2017 And now the Gibson Lounge doesn't even appear on the menu page (Gibson Brands Forums) unless you're signed in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Scales Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 at least I can still do this ...ah, well....sort of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 I cant post Youtube videos. That might be a good thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 And now the Gibson Lounge doesn't even appear on the menu page (Gibson Brands Forums) unless you're signed in. Gibson probably doesn't want some of the nonsense in the lounge to show up in the search engines, makes sense to me. Like my post about a hooker with a hair back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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