F1NGers On The Web

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F1Ngers Web Forum

After being a newsgroup for such a long time, F1NGers as a discussion group has now moved entirely to the web. A new web based forum has been set up at http://forum.f1ngers.com.

Features normal to web based forums are inherently present:

  • Automatic registration after confirmation – no more waiting for manual approval.
  • Avatars – choose your own user display pics.
  • Signatures – add a tagline to the end of all your posts.
  • Polls – Want questions answered? You can do so easily now.
  • Topic Reply Notification – Get an email whenever a topic has new replies. (optional)
  • RSS Feeds – Keep updated within your feed reader.
  • Embedding YouTube videos – Preferably for F1 related stuff and not just Lolcatz or ICanHazCheezburger type vids.
  • Emoticons & Smilies – When pictures mean more than words.
  • bbCode formatting to dress up posts. – Pretty words.
  • Search prior posts. – Remember that time when….?
  • Private Messaging between members. – For when you want to proceed without the rest of us knowing you’re plotting a coup

Naturally, this is a work in progress, so please sign up and feel free to add your own views and suggestions.

If you can’t access the newsgroup at news.zeppole.com/F1NGers, please keep checking this website. We will do our best to keep it updated.

If we know anything you’ll see a notification on the left-hand side under ‘Recent Posts’, which is repeated at the bottom of the page – or click ‘Blog’ on the menu bar.

If there’s no message here, either the downtime has just occurred and we’ve not had time to update the site, or the problem is with your connection. These updates are because we think it is best to let everyone know that the problem isn’t with their connection and to prevent panicked emails flying around!

We are lucky in that we don’t often have downtime on F1NGers, so this shouldn’t be a big issue.

Keep checking www.F1NGers.com and if you have any ideas for future development of the site, do let us know!

Finally, donations are always welcome by using the form on the left-hand side of the main page or by sending something via Paypal to funds@f1ngers.com.

See you on F1NGers!
Pat W

F1NGers has a Last.fm group!

Firstly, for those who already have a Last.fm profile, simply click here to join the group.

Secondly, for those who don’t, what the hell is Last.fm?

Last.fm is a music site. If you love music as I do, this site will change your life, especially if you are a big listener of music stored on your computer.

It can track the music you play on your computer and uses the data to:

  • generate a personal chart;
  • to recommend other music you might like;
  • to generates DJ-free webstreamed radio stations, for which you can love/skip/ban the tracks;

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