[Previologist]

Correct. But the fact the site is working fine today means nothing, and the photos will vanish anyway when this forum suddenly dies. It will work fine one minute or one hour, then it will be back to taking 1 to 2 minutes to load or not loading at all. There are threads on this problem going back for years. There are major red flags that this forum is becoming unusable and possibly unsafe.

A box of donuts to anyone who can find and link us to an active, responsive moderator or administrator. For all we know the site has been taken over by hackers who are just collecting ad money and email addresses.

[Moist]

Originally Posted by Endlessblockades

As others mentioned you can upload directly from a desktop using the paper clip. I sometimes need to resize photos because the native photo size of current mobile devices can be too much for the forum to handle. I just resize everything to no bigger than 1400 pixels in any dimension. Uploading local photos will benefit future info seekers and not cause the Photo No Longer Available issue when a hosting service goes out of business or user moves on or whatever. This site is loading fine for me today. Def use an adblocker of your choce.

I had no idea about that awesome!
I was always told to use taptatalk or an external source so its great to know you can!


I can't post :/
Error: Call to a member function shareads() on null in ..../includes/functions.php(5736) : eval()'d code on line 18
This is just one of the errors I keep getting.

[AuSeeker]

Originally Posted by Previologist

Correct. But the fact the site is working fine today means nothing, and the photos will vanish anyway when this forum suddenly dies. It will work fine one minute or one hour, then it will be back to taking 1 to 2 minutes to load or not loading at all. There are threads on this problem going back for years. There are major red flags that this forum is becoming unusable and possibly unsafe.

A box of donuts to anyone who can find and link us to an active, responsive moderator or administrator. For all we know the site has been taken over by hackers who are just collecting ad money and email addresses.

Somebody is active on a daily basis, I know this because I "report" all oblivious Spam posts to be checked out on a regular basis and that post/s are usually gone along with the poster that day or next day without fail.

That being said I assume that is being done by a Moderator who very likely has no control on how the forum runs and can't do anything about without Administrator "Permissions", usually all they can do is remove bad content/members, give rowdy members a timeout, etc.

[JustTroItIn]

I belong to a forum for every vehicle I own. This is by far the slowest I have ever been a member and it has steadily been worse over time. Something is up and it's not good as the archives have a lot of valuable info. It will be a real shame to lose it.

[MikeinNH67]

This is one a small amount of forums I frequent. Good people here and I enjoy the posts. Hopefully they fix the issues. For now, I right click on a thread I want to read so it opens a new tab. I do this for all the ones I want to read so end up with a few tabs open. I then go between them as they eventually load. Annoying yes but not as annoying as watching one tab. At least it's much better today.

BTW, I've never had a problem posting pics directly to the site.

[Kirk_B]

Is it possible to download all the data from this site to make a backup? You never know when this site could go down for good, would be a shame to lose lots of valuable information and tech tips.

[JZiggy]

Yes, the forum usability has reduced A LOT in the last 6 months or year. It's almost unusable via mobile now -- I don't even try.

DEAR MODERATORS -- WHERE ARE YOU?? Can you weight in with us, please?

At a minimum we need to keep the site from tanking. What do you need the committed members to do to help?

[Endlessblockades]

Originally Posted by Moist

I had no idea about that awesome!
I was always told to use taptatalk or an external source so its great to know you can!

No problem. i don't think I've ever viewed this forum on a mobile device since I'm surrounded by computers at work all day (sorry boss). Given the older nature of the underpinnings of this site, I can see how that might be more frustrating. I usually airdrop photos from my phone to a laptop, resize and upload. It's more steps and old fashioned, but reliable.

[mtbtim]

What I don't understand is why the person(s) who own this site barely lift a finger to make any improvements to make the site more enjoyable to use and contribute to. A large percentage of the contributing members have already disappeared and it's the contributing members that keep people wanting to return to this forum. If people ask questions and they get no responses, they'll just seek their information elsewhere like Toyota Facebook groups.

This site is a made for profit site. Why the owner(s) seemingly don't give a shit about the functionality of the website is perplexing. It would be like owning a restaurant with patrons complaining about the quality of the food and continuing to serve crappy food until they loose all their customers and go bankrupt. It makes zero sense, but there's a lot in the world that makes no sense these days.

[JZiggy]

YotaTech still seems to be operational. Maybe it's time to go back.

[Silver.T4R]

My thoughts exactly @mtbtim . I hardly contribute here anymore due to the fact that this site has so many issues, such as randomly breaking links to my build thread and worst of which is now failing to even load. I realize we're past the hay day of forms, but literally any other form I go to ih8mud ect, even ones that are a much smaller user base load nearly instantly and make contributing significantly easier by auto resizing images that are uploaded. I've noticed this forum have more and more bugs and now it seems that mods admin ect are ignoring people as there's multiple other threads where people have tried reaching out and haven't heard a thing or mods have closed the thread without helpful info.


It's genuinely a shame, as this site has the best userbase and tech out of any site I've found for 4runners and I think the user base would actually grow if the site functioned. It's dumbfounding to say the least, because as you said this is a for profit site where the owner makes money off users and sponsors. Seems like basic upkeep or updating software wouldn't be that much effort to do, even if it ment closing the site for a few days. I for one, would be willing to contribute too if needed as this is such a valuable resource. I'd hate for it to crash or permanently be down which it seems is the trajectory it's on.


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[Endlessblockades]

Right, and the only way I've found to help the site work better is to block all ads which reduces the revenue they are receiving. It's a downward spiral....

[AuSeeker]

The Administrator of the forum just posted at 5:49 pm est., the following about what's happening on fixing the forum....

"Please stay tuned. We upgraded the server, but still having intermittent issues. Working on it."

Wow the forum is super quick now

[Previologist]

Originally Posted by AuSeeker

The Administrator of the forum just posted at 5:49 pm est., the following about what's happening on fixing the forum....

"Please stay tuned. We upgraded the server, but still having intermittent issues. Working on it."

Wow the forum is super quick now

15 words after months of complaints. Impressive.

[AuSeeker]

Originally Posted by Previologist

15 words after months of complaints. Impressive.

If we were having to pay to be on this forum, then I can understand you not being impressed....BUT IT'S FREE....so be happy it's getting an upgrade....or just go to FaceBook!!!