(05-28-2025, 02:22 PM)Ombligo Wrote: Larry,

How about just a quick post with an update of what happened, what is happening with the forums, and your best guess if it is correctable?

If there's anything we can do to help, you have a few hundred folks who can do more than kibitz.

(Yesterday, 01:55 PM)troy.lynch Wrote: The old forums were pretty broke. For some reason they would come back as read only some times and the dates were wrong. These forums hadnt been developed is years so it was time to move to a platform that is atleast somewhat being maintained.

The login problem is the conversion imported users but not password hashes and didnt import permissions. We've populated permissions to most of the 8k users but seems it didnt populate the complete list. As this time we've been going thru and giving permission if it is requested in PM. Otherwise crating a new account will give you access as well.

(3 hours ago)The Original $tevie Wrote: Hello. It's $tevie. It looks to me as if someone has used my handle for a different account?
I see that I have posted here but just a  " ."   so wtf is going on, please?
I tried several times to log in but it insisted I was putting in the wrong information.
I know we were supposed to PM Troy but frankly, I got sick of looking for how to do that as an unregistered guest.
How did you all know to come here? I feel as if I have failed some kind of test not knowing about this and then not knowing how to get in.
If all our PMs are gone, I guess I don't give a darn that I am not myself. But I would like to know who "$tevie" is.
Thanks all.

(3 hours ago)Diana Wrote:

(3 hours ago)The Original $tevie Wrote: Hello. It's $tevie. It looks to me as if someone has used my handle for a different account?
I see that I have posted here but just a  " ."   so wtf is going on, please?
I tried several times to log in but it insisted I was putting in the wrong information.
I know we were supposed to PM Troy but frankly, I got sick of looking for how to do that as an unregistered guest.
How did you all know to come here? I feel as if I have failed some kind of test not knowing about this and then not knowing how to get in.
If all our PMs are gone, I guess I don't give a darn that I am not myself. But I would like to know who "$tevie" is.
Thanks all.

$tevie is you. All the logins were brought in (or as many as they could) but passwords apparently didn’t come over. Some were fortunately able to change or update their password and it worked, for some (like me) it took a bit of work but it finally took, and for others they have unfortunately had to make a new login and from there, emailed Troy to get their old nick back. 

In my case, I was able to search for usernames and found that I was there. I tried resetting the password, and from the email I got I tried the first of two methods stated in the email, which failed rather frustratingly, and then tried the second. It wouldn’t let me change it. About 20-30 minutes later I checked my email, and I saw that I had another email stating that “here’s a link to change the password” which actually worked. 

From my experience I can’t give any real advice, other than to tell you that the $tevie listed is actually you.