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Forum host change & eliminating the lifetime membership option (for new folks)

UUUUGH, in working on things on the back end, I have come to discover that there are a bunch of paid "Members" on here that do not actually have existing, active paid "Member" upgrades.

I'm guessing that this is something that happened when we converted from vBulletin to Xenforo. The existing paid members when we upgraded were moved to the paid member usergroup, but the information about their current membership expiration was not transferred. Without an expiration, there was no mechanism to move them back to a basic registered user and they've gotten a free ride since they should have been downgraded.

It looks like this is going to require me manually vetting all of the almost 300 current users in the paid upgrade "Member"usergroup to see if this happened and downgrade them one by one if this occurred. :banghead:

I'll make another alert to people in the "Member" usergroup as a heads up.
 
I think I'm one of those cases. I won a gift membership in Jan 2018 and it never seemed to have expired or prompt for renewal. I'll remedy that once you sort things out a little more because this truly is a great forum and worth the money. Keep plugging away @bigwalton, you're doing great!
 
I just added a sticky post on the ScRamblings forum: anyone with the member badge currently can go ahead and upgrade to stay in that status. It will actually make my life easier because I'll be able to more quickly confirm your status and move on or, if you do one of the multi-year upgrades, I'll actually be able to skip checking you altogether with the way I can sort members on the back end.

This page will list any current paid upgrade at the bottom, if you have one. Otherwise you'll just see the various upgrade options listed.

If you don't have a paid upgrade it will look like this:
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If you do have one, it will show it in a "Purchased Upgrade" section with the expiration date listed (and this screen grab also shows the new "extend" button where you can purchase a full extension of the upgrade before it officially expires that is added on after your existing expiration date):
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Not to change the subject, but I’m loving the way some of the attached links show up. Instead of just a blue clickable link, many of them are showing up as a direct link to the website! Too cool!

Here’s an example- this post has both-
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That was confusing. But I think I am good. Hoping to get the hold upgrade done by month end.
 
PetesCj-8 said:
Whats the Benefactor banner?
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That’s for people who had the now retired Lifetime membership and also stepped up with some additional form of annual membership. There’s a discussion about it earlier in this thread.
 
barrys said:
Is there a way to preview a post still?
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Yes, the icon in the top right of the composition window, with the magnifying glass. :thumbsup:

The preview appears in the composition window and you click it again to go back to composing.
 
Belizeit said:
I think you did a good job, it was just a lot to take in for old Jeeps and older Jeepers with older smaller slower computers :D :shrug:
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Yeah, I can go off when I’m excited or annoyed and all this has got me into both :rotfl:

just ask if anything is confusing.
 
bigwalton said:
Which part was confusing? Do I need to explain something better?
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As stated, that was a but like drinking from a fire hose. I had to read it a few times to finally get it. Old dog type of things. You have trouble shot with me. You know I am not good with electronics and such. Hammer - good!
 
As Napoleon Bonaparte stated, “Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my Soldiers and I can conquer the world.”

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bigwalton said:
Yeah, I can go off when I’m excited or annoyed and all this has got me into both :rotfl:

just ask if anything is confusing.
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What happened to the cj-8 home page? I keep looking around for SOA membership but am now lost & refuse to pull over & ask like my wife keeps telling me to :geek:
 
GreatCJ8 said:
What happened to the cj-8 home page? I keep looking around for SOA membership but am now lost & refuse to pull over & ask like my wife keeps telling me to :geek:
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It’s always been there: http://www.cj-8.org/

Note the “.org”

We agreed to host the SOA forums here and I maintain a list of members for the badge based on a once-a-year membership list I get from the board but they’re a totally separate entity.
 
Is there a separate SOA forum on this site?

I joined SOA recently, but when I click the forum link on the SOA homepage, I get an "Oops!" page stating, "The requested forum could not be found."

Maybe I just haven't been added to the list, yet.

Sorry BW, I know this is thread creep, but since the question was asked here, I thought I might as well jump in.... :wave:
 
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