Both forums are still operating. I try to keep this forum running as well as I can. There is one current issue that drives me nuts (slow DB entries that result in duplicate posts or SQL errors), but it rarely goes down entirely unless I am doing maintenance or something. Biggest issue with IFSJA (That I know of) is every user account has to be manually approved, and it often takes weeks for that to happen.Kali wrote:It's been a while, but I found a thread on IFSJA that claims people migrated over here as a result of all of the board crashings. Is this the place to be these days for everything FSJ?
There are converters available to take a vBulletin database (IFSJA) and convert it to a phpBB database (FSJN). I doubt the process is either smooth or painless...and I'm not sure how merging would work (specifically with duplicated usernames). But it seems like it would be possible. There is also cms2cms.com, which is not free.will e wrote:Generally there is an expectation that due to the lack of maintenance and admin rights the IFJSA will eventually die and not be recoverable.
Cecil14 wrote:The problem isn't just bringing the data over, it's also the site ownership. <snip>
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This is news to me (then again nearly everything is news to me, I was out of the IFSJA/FSJ game for nearly 8 years). I was planning on ordering several key parts from them as I was under the impression that BJs was the goto source for FSJ parts. Am I mistaken?Cecil14 wrote: Now that BJs owns it (I believe they still own it?), they seem to be content to just let it sit and make them money from ad revenue. They used to be active over there, but their business has gotten so bad that people basically ran them off the forums so they don't even appear anymore.
BJs is one of the sources, teamgrandwagoneer is the other one, but according to some there had been some issues with filling some orders in a timely manner... "There has been", I have not ordered from teamgrandwagoneer... so I cannot confirmKali wrote:This is news to me (then again nearly everything is news to me, I was out of the IFSJA/FSJ game for nearly 8 years). I was planning on ordering several key parts from them as I was under the impression that BJs was the goto source for FSJ parts. Am I mistaken?Cecil14 wrote: Now that BJs owns it (I believe they still own it?), they seem to be content to just let it sit and make them money from ad revenue. They used to be active over there, but their business has gotten so bad that people basically ran them off the forums so they don't even appear anymore.
I was not aware of the archive denial, but I am not surprised either.letank wrote:A few (many, can't recall) years ago thru the internet archive (archive.org and the wayback machine), a request was made to store ifsja data to their server, but the archival was denied by IFSJ owner.
Anthony, great reply on ifsja about the distributor vacuum advance, you beat me to it...
I personally have never had issues with BJs, though the last time I ordered from them was a long time ago. Their prices were pretty high at the time, and a lot of their stuff was really just repackaged from other places at the time. It was a convenience cost, and generally I don't mind shopping around for better deals if I can find it. What really burned me on them, personally, was shipping costs; they were cutting no deals at all on shipping at the time, it was outragious. That may have changed? I really haven't had the need to order anything from them for a long time.Kali wrote:This is news to me (then again nearly everything is news to me, I was out of the IFSJA/FSJ game for nearly 8 years). I was planning on ordering several key parts from them as I was under the impression that BJs was the goto source for FSJ parts. Am I mistaken?
There are at least two mods still over there, PlasticBoob and babywag. They've certainly got my respect, that is not a gig I would want. I'm not a fan of trying to save a sinking ship. I'll enjoy it while it's there, but it really bums me out to see it left for dead as it has been.jpswapmohn wrote:I think there is only one moderator over there now, and he does try to keep it alive. I am grateful to those here and over there that give their time to keep the forums operational. I would know so very much less about these rigs if it were not for these 2 forums! Both are great communities, and you folks are amazingly helpful.
I do remember that motor thread, that was a horror story. I remember a few other issues being brought up here and there vaguely, nothing I could try and link over, though. I've never seen anything officially "running them off," it's just pretty suspicious that they never bother getting on their own forum anymore. Definitely would give me a little lack of faith.SJTD wrote:Maybe Cecil can link some of those thread where BJ's was run off the Forum. I missed them and I'm on there daily.
Only thing I recall was a problem with a rebuilt motor a Brit bought.
SJTD wrote:Maybe Cecil can link some of those thread where BJ's was run off the Forum. I missed them and I'm on there daily.
Only thing I recall was a problem with a rebuilt motor a Brit bought.
I was redacting a reply in the mid morning, which was a new post about how the old guys (me now) fixed their vehicles before the internet existed, when we used our brain then looked at the TSM for those who had the TSM which was often riddled with conflicting typos (the 74 has a big one) to solve issues that dealership could not fix... for a decent amount of money...Cecil14 wrote:Thanks on the reply...it really burns me when someone like that comes into one of our pretty awesome communities. I know I look like the bad guy for saying something, but at this point in my life I really don't care anymore. Someone needs to do it.
Thanks for the clarification on ownership. It doesn't really make much difference, the situation stands pretty much the same either way, but good to have the facts.Ristow wrote:JC Jones owns ifsja. not BJ's,not ever. BJ's tried to buy or otherwise arrange ownership and JC turned them down. i'm no big bj's banner waver but i can't let the ownership mess over there be laid in their lap.
the site has not crashed in i believe,years. however it has not been updated either. it merely exists.
JC Jones has no interest in selling it,updating or otherwise. he came on back in 2014,after a long hiatus,with grand slick talk of turning it into a grand fsj forum-something we'd all heard before,blamed all the previous problems on Dome,said everyone there needed to step up (LOL),asked a bunch of questions that didn't need to be asked,would not read any of the answers,then was gone like a flash of light.
he posted twice in 2016 about generla forum issues and hasn't been back.
all the doom and uproar over the end of the forum back in the day,with the big exodus over here was really just drummed up drama. the only person in my opinion with a real legitimate gripe against that place is Tad and he seems to have let it go long ago so there's no reason to go into why. for everyone else it was a free forum,just like this one. nobody is owed a thing.
what wille posted above is a very plausible scenario.