alfaowner website down for a week :(

alfaowner website down for a week :(

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Count Vampirski

Original Poster:

151 posts

107 months

Monday 20th April 2015
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alfaowner website down for a week frown

DamienB

1,189 posts

218 months

Monday 20th April 2015
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It isn't, they've just royally cocked up the URLs of most of the forums. Don't use a bookmark and go straight to the main site address.

Count Vampirski

Original Poster:

151 posts

107 months

Wednesday 22nd April 2015
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spent ages originally trying to get registered - now i get bounced out and as you say homepage link screwed........

OldEngineer

32 posts

218 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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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.

omniflow

2,545 posts

150 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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I stopped using AO around 3 or 4 years ago. It started to feel more like the marketing division of one particular specialist, rather than a general information sharing forum.

OldEngineer

32 posts

218 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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I've contributed hundreds of technical solutions to AlfaOwner. How can I get them on here?

Count Vampirski

Original Poster:

151 posts

107 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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the trader, from down south, C*?

omniflow

2,545 posts

150 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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For technical stuff (on older Alfas) I am finding AlfaBB to be really helpful. Even the North America bias isn't a problem.

errek72

943 posts

245 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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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.
As suggested AlfaBB does it better.

OldEngineer

32 posts

218 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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Unfortunately my input is 159/Brera and 156/GT

gazza82

24 posts

204 months

Friday 15th May 2015
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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)


Warnie

1,135 posts

198 months

Friday 15th May 2015
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I always used to use alfa156.net but that's died a death since I last had my 156. Now I use alfa owner but due to the size of the site you don't tend to get many answers to any problems you have.

Agree with the adverts to, it's far too slow.

Zombie

1,587 posts

194 months

Wednesday 27th May 2015
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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.com

forum.alfa156.net/forum

craig_m67

949 posts

187 months

Thursday 28th May 2015
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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

http://youtu.be/afVMqUBFxM0