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t121anf
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PostPosted: 21:34 - 09 Dec 2013    Post subject: Gixerjunkies.... Reply with quote
Anyone know what's going on with Gixerjunkies, been down a while now.
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PostPosted: 21:42 - 09 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
It got raided.
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PostPosted: 21:45 - 09 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah all the gixxerjunkies sold up and bought S1000RRs. So all actual GSXRs are owned by commuters now.
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PostPosted: 08:33 - 10 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
MarJay wrote:
Yeah all the gixxerjunkies sold up and bought S1000RRs. So all actual GSXRs are owned by commuters now.


Nah you can keep your fugly bmw, I will stick with my trusty GSXR that doesnt eat its own engine after 5k miles thanks Wink
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PostPosted: 08:45 - 10 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
MarJay wrote:
Yeah all the gixxerjunkies sold up and bought S1000RRs. So all actual GSXRs are owned by commuters now.


Aye, give them another few months and they'll regret that decision like I did, S1K ain't all that great
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t121anf
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PostPosted: 19:22 - 10 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
More seriously anyone know what's going on?
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PostPosted: 20:15 - 10 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm pretty sure N30 knew some of the folk from the site, maybe he or his friends might know.
Do report back with your findings if you find out why.
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PostPosted: 20:23 - 10 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tink says
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sites been hacked and used up all novembers bandwidth limit and more besides


The whole closed forum thing really hurts the site, in my opinion if it was open like BCF then folk would be able to browse it and then be more likely to have a reason to register and join in on some of the topics. same goes with the for sale section, its pretty silly to only allow users that donate to view the for sale section which in turn limits the sellers audience.
Really no thought gone into at all.
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t121anf
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PostPosted: 21:41 - 10 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
At, but its December.....not a lot has been going on on the site for a while now anyway.
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PostPosted: 21:47 - 10 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
t121anf wrote:
At, but its December.....not a lot has been going on on the site for a while now anyway.


like i said mate, they aren't doing the site any favours with it being viewable to registered members only. I'm guessing they never backed up the site regularly and restoring it is a problem.
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PostPosted: 19:17 - 10 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
UrbanRacer wrote:
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sites been hacked and used up all novembers bandwidth limit and more besides


The whole closed forum thing really hurts the site, in my opinion if it was open like BCF then folk would be able to browse it and then be more likely to have a reason to register and join in on some of the topics. same goes with the for sale section, its pretty silly to only allow users that donate to view the for sale section which in turn limits the sellers audience.
Really no thought gone into at all.


OK, to correct a few misnomers and rumours seeing I was Admin on GJ.

No thought gone into it - nah, that's why we were one of the biggest one model sites in Europe with 6000 actively posting members.... Rolling Eyes

The sales section was never only visible to paid members. Any member could reply to posts or read posts in the sales area's.. It was only open to VIP members that paid a fiver to actually initiate posts in, but that was only introduced after we'd had several people who were ripped off by paying for stuff where the seller disappeared off the site.

By becoming a VIP member, we had more of a handle on them and the problem went away. It was always voluntary whether to become VIP or not, any money given went to the (quite substantial) upkeep of the site.


The site was closed to outside viewing to prevent scenario's like this one, where a Google search trawls up information that is posted in the site. We'd had a situation where one of our members had posted a libellous comment about a dealer which had not been spotted by mods or admin.

The site was facing a hefty law suit with myself and two other Admin as the named persons. I managed to sort the mess out with a fair degree of effort and negotiation with the injured party and after that I left the site closed to spambots and webcrawlers so it would not happen again. (see, there is that no thought thing going on again) Wink

I reasoned if anyone is at all interested in the site, then they would register (for free) - and around 6000 people did so....so maybe it wasn't all that wrong. Wink

The site was backed up regularly. I could have the site back up tomorrow - but the exploit that was used to hack into our server still exists, it is a flaw in vBulletin that anyone half decent at hacking can exploit again.

Our main IT guy has too much on his plate to put up a permanent solution to the problem so it stays on hold at the moment. I/we did not want 200 quid excess bandwidth bills every two weeks as was happening in November.

In addition to all that, the forum had been dying on it's feet for the last two years. It was a very close site at one time and we had some big meets, some great times and a good relationship with the motorcycle press, but all good things come to an end I guess, so I/we also question whether it is worth reviving it anyway.

A final decision has not yet been made on that.

If anyone needs more info - just ask me and I will give you the actuality of it, not myth, rumour or total bollox Smile


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PostPosted: 20:01 - 10 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Gixx6r wrote:

OK, to correct a few misnomers and rumours seeing I was Admin on GJ.


In addition to all that, the forum had been dying on it's feet for the last two years.

yeah .. would have done better if it had encompassed different types of bikes.


Gixx6r wrote:

If anyone needs more info - just ask me and I will give you the actuality of it
Charlie


you gonna send the membership invites to here Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 20:14 - 10 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
It started out on a free forum with maybe half a dozen lads that all had Gixers. Tink was the originator. I came on board a few weeks later Laughing

Yeah there are a lot of ways we could have gone with hindsight but Gixers were our roots. We stayed with that.

Over the period many of us chopped and changed bikes ( I have a 650 Kawasaki and a 675 Daytona at the moment), but that was where we'd come from so we ran with it.

On the site, there were sections for different bikes and all were welcome - but the url's that brought people in were the GJ.net, com and co.uk etc url's - so we stuck with 'em

Tink and I are really missing the site. We are exploring options but there are those hacking issues we have to sort before it can happen.

I never trawled for members on other sites. I would not start now - I only found this thread as a result of a Google search for something else and felt I should give the reality seeing we have few proper outlets to tell what happened Wink
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PostPosted: 20:24 - 10 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Gixx6r wrote:
It started out on a free forum with maybe half a dozen lads that all had Gixers. Tink was the originator. I came on board a few weeks later Laughing

Yeah there are a lot of ways we could have gone with hindsight but Gixers were our roots. We stayed with that.

Over the period many of us chopped and changed bikes ( I have a 650 Kawasaki and a 675 Daytona at the moment, but that was where we'd come from so we ran with it.

On the site, there were sections for different bikes and all were welcome - but the url's that brought people in were the GJ.net, com and co.uk etc url's - so we stuck with 'em

Tink and I are really missing the site. We are exploring options but there are those hacking issues we have to sort before it can happen.

I never trawled for members on other sites. I would not start now - I only found this thread as a result of a Google search for something else and felt I should give the reality seeing we have few proper outlets to tell what happened Wink


Well don't think for one minute you Japanese Jinxers can come over to bcf and have your own section. Shocked

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PostPosted: 20:27 - 10 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Laughing - given I have had two Hinckley Triumphs and 3 Kawasaki's since owning my last GSXR - I don't believe I'd argue against that Very Happy
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PostPosted: 20:28 - 10 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
I miss gixerjunkies! Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: 20:30 - 10 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
GixerKate wrote:
I miss gixerjunkies! Crying or Very sad


You have recently joined bcf so really you DON'T know what you've been missing Pet.

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PostPosted: 20:35 - 10 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'd like to think it'll live again Kate. As I said further up, Tink and I are trying to revive it. We both miss it like losing a limb Sad

Unless we can secure it though - we can't make it happen.
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PostPosted: 21:00 - 10 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thank you for keeping us up to date with what is going on with GJ Charlie.

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PostPosted: 21:04 - 10 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
why not start again using phpbb or something ?
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PostPosted: 21:58 - 10 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thank you for the update Charlie, maybe a holding page would have been better than just a dead link.
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It's okay, there's plenty of room here Wink

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PostPosted: 23:00 - 10 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 23:28 - 10 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Gixx6r wrote:
6000 actively posting members [...] the forum had been dying on it's feet for the last two years.[...] total bollox Smile

Skimmed a bit, admittedly.
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PostPosted: 17:18 - 11 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
t121anf wrote:
Thank you for the update Charlie, maybe a holding page would have been better than just a dead link.


Agreed mate. We were waiting on Leon doing that but it doesn't seem to have happened. The GJ Facebook site is still up and running though. About 400 odd on there Wink

crm250 wrote:
why not start again using phpbb or something ?


Fair question. Smile

Same reason I did not start another forum from scratch - because we have all the GJ database still intact on vBulletin. I am fairly web savvy, but I don't know if we can convert/transfer from vb to phpbb or any other format.

Something will happen, I just cant say exactly what or when at present. We need to get our heads together and see what options we have. Wink
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