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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.

Site Changes Feb’09

A couple of site changes – mostly in the backend, although a couple of noticeable changes to our front page as well. A new poll concerning the appearance of the 2009 season cars has been put up.

The chat room and the news widget have made way on the front page and we plan on posting a couple of member written posts about their experiences at various motorsport events soon.

[Status] Server Interruptions

Zeppole – the server host for F1NGers is currently undergoing tehnical upgrades and maintenance. During this time, we expect slow-downs, outages and general chaos to ensue. ;-)

If you’re unable to connect to news.zeppole.com , please try the alternate server news2.zeppole.com in your client. The web interface is currently unavailable as well. Details and updates to follow as we know more.

As always, if you need assistance, please drop us a line .

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

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