The Collings Forum

You are quite welcome Paul.

For the most part, the forum has been insulated from many things. I am very pleased about that. A blip here or there is just part of internet life.

Frank

This evening, the site took on a barrage of spam registrations and posts. Nearly 100 registrations came in a 1 hour period with increasing numbers coming faster and faster. To make matters worse, there were accounts that were already activated and were lying in waiting to be triggered to post at a l...

There is a tab called Attachments below when you are making a post. Click on that tab and add the files (pictures) that you want.

You're welcome. Glad to see you all here.

It has been a full year since this new site was formed! We did a soft start on this day, one year ago. It was several days before the word started getting out and it was a couple of months before Google and other search engines started to pick us up. Growth was slow at first but picked up once peopl...

The item is less the problem than the poster. Seems some issues on their end. To come specifically to this particular form and deliberately and persistantly post over a dozen shoe ads is a sign of some difficulty on their end. Delete buttons are a one click solution until they get it sorted out. Be ...

HI Dan,

When you are posting, there is a tab at the bottom left of the page that says Attachments (next to Options). Click that then add files (pictures).

That should do it.

Frank

The site is having some upgrades and work on the email notifications. I have asked an expert (Atomiklan) to help me with the email notification system and some other back end issues. The site may even been unavailable for short periods of time over the next day or two. Hopefully this will not take l...

It has come to my attention that people are not seeing their PMs for hours, days, or weeks. It requires logging in and looking at the notification tab to see that you have a message. Sometimes, when it requires PM communication with Elambo or me, or in the case of buying or selling an instrument, it...

The site has now been upgraded for SSL encrypted connections. The security certificate requires that you book mark the new https format and not the http. While the later will still work, your browser will not show the lock in the address bar and you will not have a secure encrypted connection. This ...