Welcome to the NEW AACA forums!

Peter Gariepy · June 26th, 2009

After 11 years of using the same forum software, I, with the approval of the AACA Board of Directors decided it was time to change.

Effective today (June 26th, 2009) the forum is now residing on new software. For those of you who want to know, it's call vBulletin.

There are COUNTLESS changes. I can not list them all here. I simply suggest you lift the hood and start poking around! If you have questions there is an extensive FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS database. Just click the "FAQ" link in the menu bar (above).

There remains countless details to address to make this forum better, faster, prettier, etc. Regardless, I know how addicted you all are to the forum so I chose to open it, even with the rough corners.

Thanks for your patience.

MCHinson · June 27th, 2009

Peter, Thanks for all of your hard work to get the new software up and running. I know that I am not the only one happy to see it up and running.

Mika Jaakkola · June 27th, 2009

ELEVEN YEARS ON OLD SOFTWARE?

(I love this smiley!)

Wow, well now the myth that in information technology world everyhing must be updated after 3-5 years has been proven FALSE

Thanks a lot Peter, I can imagine HOW HARD is to upgrade that old software to a new one and still hope that old messages and users are visible in the new software!

Thanks a lot!!

Peter Gariepy · June 27th, 2009

Actually, 11 years with the same software company. The old software was updated every year of 2. Version 1 to Version 2, etc. 7 Versions total.

Jim Rohn · June 27th, 2009

it appears I have lost any and all personal messages .... and I knew there was one that I needed to respond to

edit

all the "settings" were reset and the little popup was not bouncing

I found some of the messages, not all

oh, and i LIKED the old way where you could edit without having the "edit" tell tale appear

edit:

ok, found the rest of the messages now ... this will be awkward for a while

F&J · June 27th, 2009

Just a little humor, not complaining

It says:

You last visited: December 31st, 1969

Wow, that was a long wait for the new site

Trunk Rack · June 27th, 2009

GREAT ! Love that new AACA "logo" when you sign in. (or is that neato "logo" just for this forum?)

It shows the kind of cars people can relate to ! So glad they got rid of that "old timey" logo. (with the old "putt putt" cars).

Studemax · June 27th, 2009

Gee, it says I last visisted on December 31st, 1969.
The internet wasn't invented yet, right?
(LOL)

1948Lincoln · June 27th, 2009

I can beat that! I wasnt even born in '69! And it says I was last here in '69, must be a temporal paradox?

Dynaflash8 · June 28th, 2009

So far, there is no way to get to the Forum through my normal route, i.e. AOL. It simply will not work. I had to get here through Microft Internet Explorer. It's a more difficult route in that I'm able to use it, but only because I'm hooked up by DSL through EMBARQ telephone company. Conversely, the EMBARQ DSL is much more difficult to use for Email than AOL, plus I'd have to change my email addee for all of my many contacts, so I supplement the EMBARQ DSL With AOL. I can also make the site a "Favorite" on AOL which I can't do, at least not easily, with the EMBARQ DSL. I hope the change results in many benefits, as it was working okay for me the old way. It's kind of like having to buy new shoes when software changes.