alfaowner website down for a week :(
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It's still a mess. They are chasing multiple failures because of bad planning. Looks like they only tested it for the latest Browsers so most people are bewildered. But they are struggling on as if this type of upgrading is the normal way of programming. Tablets are stuttering along because the site now needs too much memory.
So I'm back on Pistonheads and hoping for a better home for Alfa related issues.
So I'm back on Pistonheads and hoping for a better home for Alfa related issues.
kapiteinlangzaam said:
The 'upgrade' is a complete shambles. To be honest Alfaowner has been a shambles for years.... the quality of the info provided by its membership is fantastic, but the ownership and how the forum is run (including the mods) is really very, very poor.
If a viable alternative were set up and well publicised, there would be an immediate and mass exodus I am sure.
Have to agree, beyond childish and with that I mean the mods are worse than the trolls. I simply left, can do without.If a viable alternative were set up and well publicised, there would be an immediate and mass exodus I am sure.
As suggested AlfaBB does it better.
Very hacked off with all the adverts on alfaowner.com ... they should make a choice, adverts or subscriptions ... not both. And if you subscribe you don't have to put up with the f**King adverts! (Apologise for choice language .. but they make it almost impossible to use on a smartphone)
kapiteinlangzaam said:
The 'upgrade' is a complete shambles. To be honest Alfaowner has been a shambles for years.... the quality of the info provided by its membership is fantastic, but the ownership and how the forum is run (including the mods) is really very, very poor.
If a viable alternative were set up and well publicised, there would be an immediate and mass exodus I am sure.
www.sportsalfa.comIf a viable alternative were set up and well publicised, there would be an immediate and mass exodus I am sure.
forum.alfa156.net/forum
omniflow said:
For technical stuff (on older Alfas) I am finding AlfaBB to be really helpful. Even the North America bias isn't a problem.
The best site really, there are more than a few of us who are not in America. It too (in my opinion) is slowly dying as the yanks can't talk to the more recent models and most are biased against them. Whilst it's an excellent resource, there's only so much you can ask about the older models that hasn't already been covered to death. So, the more questions asked about recent models the more will will be answered (by those of us not in America) and hopefully the site will grow.Marchione should buy both sites out, amalgamate them, add access to the archives and set up an in house restoration service next to the Museo.. Would be a better spend of marketing money than a dusty red Alfa being chased by Bjork
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