New User Registrations temporarily prevented

[Robin Craig]

I have a bunch of people who I know who cant get on here.

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[Darrin Wright]

I also know of several people with restoration projects who are becoming disheartened with the inability to get on this forum and the lack of feedback when they follow the instructions in this sticky.

Perhaps they should, as Keith Webb has posted, look at alternative forums/social media to contribute to?

What is the problem?

[Private_collector]

Are the fraudulent attempts by people or are they being attempted by some sort of automated system? If the latter, wouldn't a form of 'type what you see' at time of joining eliminate the problem?

I also know folks that would like to be members. Glad this didn't happen around the time I joined, because MLU has proven priceless to the process of restoration!!! Shame to think others might not have the same opportunity.

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Darrin Wright

I also know of several people with restoration projects who are becoming disheartened with the inability to get on this forum and the lack of feedback when they follow the instructions in this sticky.

Perhaps they should, as Keith Webb has posted, look at alternative forums/social media to contribute to?

What is the problem?

Darrin, just to clarify I wasn't suggesting people go elsewhere... hopefully the situation with registrations can be rectified soon, I now these problems are being addressed.

[Darrin Wright]

I know Keith, just broadening our media horizons.

But what options do others have if they cannot get onto this informative community of like minded people? Just watch from the sidelines?

[Lynn Eades]

I am sure that, for what ever it is, Hanno has a good reason for advising that nothing is going to change, for now. It is only about a week ago that he posted.
Thinking about his voluntary work load, it must be time I made another donation. Thank you Hanno, for what you do.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

I am sure that, for what ever it is, Hanno has a good reason for advising that nothing is going to change, for now. It is only about a week ago that he posted.
Thinking about his voluntary work load, it must be time I made another donation. Thank you Hanno, for what you do.

And thank you Lynn, for bearing with me

H.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

All,

The main cause is lack of time

• If self-registration is enabled, the forum administrator gets swamped with spammers who have scripts running to register on forums across the internet. So we need a SW upgrade to be able to identify spammers, but for this we need to select a new SW package first as the current one is going nowhere. This takes time.
• So for the meantime we have to revert to manually entering new users. This takes a lot of time.
• In the meantime I am looking for a new forum hosting provider, which again takes time.
• Then we need to migrate the database to the new SW. This takes time.

In short (and I have asked before): if there are any (prospective) members with the required IT skills to solve these problems, please step forward!

Regards,
Hanno