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

The information that was lost when cjoffroad and JU went down was sickening. wm69
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Sigh, That's an understatement!
I'll be going Gold soon to celebrate the new resto/mod/build Dustin has agreed to help me with.
We'll be starting that thread in late Winter/early Spring. He came down & we met at the Jeep. Real stand-up guy, this is gonna be fun!
 
GreatCJ8 said:
Sigh, That's an understatement!
I'll be going Gold soon to celebrate the new resto/mod/build Dustin has agreed to help me with.
We'll be starting that thread in late Winter/early Spring. He came down & we met at the Jeep. Real stand-up guy, this is gonna be fun!
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FANTASTIC!!!!!
 
Eric, thanks for all you do! I echo the comments above.

I like the Lifetime, but am not “married” to it. If I lost it, I might be upset for a moment, but would get over it.

In the end, I come here for the ad free calm Jeep talk and immeasurable knowledge. I will do what I can to ensure it remains that way.

THANKS!
 
Went ahead and did the Gold upgrade. Like I posted earlier, this community is like family and the info and camaraderie is worth every penny. Besides, with my new “direction” in life, I’ll have a lot more time to work on my Scrambler. Jeeps in general. I’ll post a new thread...
Eric, thank you again!
-Edit- I see the new “benefactor” designation! I love it! Thank you, Eric!
 
Randyzzz said:
Went ahead and did the Gold upgrade. Like I posted earlier, this community is like family and the info and camaraderie is worth every penny. Besides, with my new “direction” in life, I’ll have a lot more time to work on my Scrambler. Jeeps in general. I’ll post a new thread...
Eric, thank you again!
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Thank you Randy! I've been playing with an unpurchase-able Benefactor level, just applied it to you... I think it's getting to be a lot under your name if you have all of the ones that you do.

If you have this Benefactor level, I assume it would it be ok to take off "CJ-8.com Member"? Trick is that I don't know how to do that exactly...
 
bigwalton said:
Thank you Randy! I've been playing with an unpurchase-able Benefactor level, just applied it to you... I think it's getting to be a lot under your name if you have all of the ones that you do.

If you have this Benefactor level, I assume it would it be ok to take off "CJ-8.com Member"? Trick is that I don't know how to do that exactly...
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Yeah, the “Member” label is a bit redundant at this point. Although all the labels do look sorta cool- sort of like ribbons in the military!
 
I too had the life time and also did the Gold membership being it had been years of lifetime all ready.

Thanks for all you do to keep the board up and running for us all.
 
don87401 said:
I too had the life time and also did the Gold membership being it had been years of lifetime all ready.

Thanks for all you do to keep the board up and running for us all.
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Thanks!! I'll sit down tomorrow and go back through the new subscriptions. This will be a completely manual process (at least for now, there may be a way to figure it out automatically, I'll work with the new host/support guy on it).
 
I think the “member” is redundant for some of us.

The one I have been lacking on the the SOA. Think I joined years ago, but failed to renew.
 
I had to join the party and just went gold too. It's a small price to pay for such a great forum that I love reading and learning from. All the hard work that goes into this deserves to be supported. Thanks for everything that you have done and I will always contribute in any way needed!
 
@bigwalton
I did the Gold five year deal a day or two ago. Although I don’t currently own a Scrambler, I’m back in the market for one now! Wish I would have never sold the last one!

Thanks for all you do Eric!
 
Just paid for Gold.

BTW, we are on the way to getting 2 feet of snow today, and I still couldn't fix my real snowblower. Shovels and the little single stage it is, it just sucks, though.
 
CJeep said:
BTW, we are on the way to getting 2 feet of snow today, and I still couldn't fix my real snowblower. Shovels and the little single stage it is, it just sucks, though.
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A foot+ forcasted here. I drive a Peterbilt with a plow, bummer is it's too big to do my driveway.
 
As an update, I'm working through the benefactor thing on the back end, trying to come up with a way that it's applied automatically with the combination of Lifetime and an ongoing annual membership. I had the hope that it would be quite easy with a built-in system for "promoting" users, but that's not the case. I have to jump through hoops first.
 
OKAY!!! WHEW!

It took a brute force solution, but I've now gone through all 172 legacy Lifetime members and added a custom user field to their profiles. If you have it, you'll see it listed in your profile information. It's not editable for obvious reasons, but I figured I'd show it there for those that earned it.

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What that did is allow me to set up the "CJ-8.com Benefactor" usergroup as a "promotion" that will be applied any time you have an active annual membership moving forward -- any of the regular annual CJ-8.com memberships (whether auto-renewing or not) or either of the Silver or Gold memberships.

This is rolling through as the forum updates (every 20 minutes it runs the promotions) so everyone who has that pair of conditions should show very shortly and I'm obviously seeing some already.

Now that this is done, I want to work on how the other "badges" are being shown and I need to stylize the Silver and Gold levels, but at least we are now properly recognizing anyone who has stepped up in the biggest way to help support this forum. We can't do this without ALL of the various paid membership user's support but this makes me very happy now that we have it in place. :cheers:
 
Ok, now we have something for Gold and Silver and the user badges are getting out of control. I'll work more on that, need more time on the back end to get that sorted.

Gold/Silver people, please confirm you can still post and do everything as before, I want to ensure my new setup didn't break anything.

I'm not entirely sure what's going on with the Benefactor promotion, it seems to work automatically for some and not for others. I'm going to give it more time to see if it resolves as the forum software runs though it's processes.

I'm burned out on the admin stuff, I need a drink! I'll come back to this...
 
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