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    • Forums Gents, Local engagement in the forum spaces is very low. I might try to incorporate some areas into posts or pages as I refocus but if there is anything of particular value to you in a forum please save it for yourself. Cheers!

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    • User Login Update I've updated our Scratch32 login process for all users and tested it using a generic test account. All users may now log in using any of these website links: The original MEMBER LOGIN widget at the bottom left of every Scratch32 page; The original Log In fields at the bottom of every forum thread; and The new LOGIN main header menu link at the top of every page (or the new LOGIN footer menu link at the very bottom of every page) which will take you to a new customized login page. After you log in you will see your avatar and user name shown at the bottom left of every Scratch32 page, along with a logout link. Please remember to log out using either that link or the logout link underneath the classifieds widget at the bottom right side of every page. After you log in if you wish to view your user profile click on either your avatar or your user name shown at the bottom left of every Scratch32 page. You can also edit your profile there, including changing your password or your avatar. Please note that after you log in there will no longer be a black account administration menu at the top of Scratch32 pages. If you wish to edit your user account, change your password or avatar or log out you will need to use the procedures noted above. Should you forget your user name you may now log in using the email address associated with your account by clicking on the LOGIN main menu link. If you forget your password you can have it reset by clicking on the Lost Your Password? link immediately underneath the new login page to receive an email allowing you to reset your password. ***REMEMBER TO CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER AS THESE PASSWORD RESET EMAILS ARE SOMETIMES FLAGGED AS SPAM. *** Hope this helps... Cheers!

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    • 1 year ago

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    • Spam Be Gone! Gents, After some time experimenting by allowing non-registered email posts within our forum recent spam attacks proved more than just an annoyance - so now only registered accounts can post to our forums. Please be advised that throughout this experiment our website was never compromised nor were any user accounts compromised in any way. If anyone or anyone you know wishes to participate in our forums please request or have them request to have an account set up. It is easy to do and safe and secure as well. Cheers!

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    • 1 year ago

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    • More Updates & Some Success! Over the past few weeks we've had some major updates to our website and, it appears, fingers crossed, that the issues we had previously of some accounts not being able to post automatically have been resolved. Nothing I've done recently in the settings solved this but an upgrade finally did. Yahoo!! Next up - to figure out why our website is so slow... but that is another chapter in this saga...  

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    • Scratch32 Accounts Gents, Given the relentless attacks on our website (and ongoing security issues they create) for the safety of our regular participants accounts not used (or logged in) for three months will be deleted without notification.

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    • 2 years ago

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    • Recent ‘Brute Force’ & ‘DD0S’ Attacks’ on Scratch32 Gents, Some of you may have recently experienced frustrating delays and/or errors loading pages and forms. This was due to both unprecedented cyber brute force attacks and new DD0S attacks on our website by hackers in multiple countries. Brute force attacks repeatedly try to crack administrator passwords to gain unauthorized access and DDoS attacks bombard the site with coordinated  zombies/botnets to flood the server and slow it down or even crash it. Welcome to 2021! I've been monitoring these attacks and tightening our login requirements using several tools. So far I can confirm that no breach has occurred although our website has been very slow at times. With https our site already offers the most secure server side connectivity as is possible so for all users/members there is no need to do anything other than ensure you follow safe internet practices, such as: ensuring your connection to our site is always secure - via https only (you will see a little lock icon beside the address); use a unique password for your Scratch32 account to ensure that should any breach ever occur your password is useless for any other web related services; change your password regularly; and avoid using auto login on your computer. Remember that under 'My Profile' you can also add/remove/edit your own contact information at any time. Please ensure that you only provide as much information as you are comfortable with. To have a Scratch32 account you only need to provide a valid login ID and email address - the rest is superfluous. Scratch32 does not process payments, payment information of any kind nor any financial transaction at all. Links to products from any of our advertisers are handled and processed separately and independently through their own secure servers. No data whatsoever is shared. For example, our title sponsor DArt processes every financial transaction through square.com . For those of you who I may not see over the upcoming break - stay well this holiday season and I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Remember that if we all do our part we will continue to keep Scratch32 safer for all of us to use for years to come.

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    • 2 years ago

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    • Scratch32 Administration Refinements Gents, I removed the black menu bar which used to sit at the top of the page which I believe many users found confusing and problematic to use. Some features did not work using the links from this bar, like changing your avatar for instance. Now if you want to change anything related to your own profile you will have just one option - to go to 'My Profile' in the top menu from any page - and everything there works. Create blog posts from your profile page as well. For new forum topics please make sure you are within the appropriate sub-forum first before starting a new topic, otherwise every new topic goes to the General Information forum. I'll do some housekeeping with this and hopefully everyone will be on board going forward. I also reset all forum user accounts to eliminate the problem that some accounts had with posting new forum topics and replies. I've tested this with a dummy account and it seems to have solved this problem for all accounts which have already posted a topic and a reply in the past, but hey, you never know. If you post a new topic or reply in our forum area and it doesn't appear online immediately after you submit it then it would need approval before being published - it isn't gone or lost - so be patient and it will be approved if need be...

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    • 2 years ago

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    • Scratch32 Website SSL Upgrade Gents, Over the next 24 hours Scratch32.com will be getting a long overdue SSL upgrade providing us all with a more secure and safe website connection. This option will cost more but so be it - the train is slowly pulling out of the station and we can no longer afford to miss it... So, the site may be down for a few hours while the migration occurs, but nothing else should change for scratch32 users - fingers crossed...

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    • 2 years ago

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    • 404 not found (top of page) error Members, after an upgrade this past weekend it appears that something broke and you may see a pair (or three) of these error messages at the top of every Scratch32 webpage. I believe it has to do with the template script referring to the background image and how it is displayed although I can't be certain... and I cannot change it or fix it through the front end interface... so in the meantime please disregard this message and carry on as usual... either a patch will be created by the developer to fix this bug or we will have to switch display templates (which I hope not to have to do)... Cheers!

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    • 2 years ago

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    • Updates Again… Gents, This weekend several upgrades were made to many of our plug ins and our wordpress server software - now up to v5.8... Among other things you will see that most profile pictures (avatars) for our users have disappeared. If you use a Gravatar image then this does not affect you. If your image has disappeared and you don't want to use Gravatar for cross platform image display then please re-submit your image next time you log in... images which did not meet the minimum avatar criteria may not display either, but you will be reminded of this when you upload an image... Also, smilies are gone and there are no plans to replace or add them right now... My apologies for the inconvenience.

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    • 2 years ago

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    • New User Accounts & Editing New Forum Topics and Replies… Gents, In response to several inquiries about why some topics or replies aren't posted or temporarily disappear without explanation I thought it best and most efficient to provide some background information about new member accounts and how new forum topics or replies can be edited. All new forum members must have their first new topic AND their first new reply approved by a super moderator prior to either being posted. After a new member has had their first reply approved all of their subsequent replies will be automatically posted.  After a new member has had their first topic approved all of their subsequent topics will be automatically posted. So even if your first topic was approved and you may post new topics automatically, your first reply to any topic will still need approval... They are treated independently. ALL members may edit their own topics and replies within 30 minutes of posting that topic or reply. Edits thereafter may only be made by the super moderator and only then in exceptional circumstances. If a new member's first topic or first reply is approved and then posted but they choose to edit that previously approved first topic or first reply within 30 minutes of it being posted then it again must be approved since it is treated as a new (and first) topic or reply. This will mean that it will disappear pending approval and any replies regardless of who they are from will receive error messages. The role of the moderator is to perform general forum housekeeping, to keep topics and replies on point and to ensure that offensive or inappropriate topics are dealt with accordingly. Moderators are not proof readers. Over the last several weeks up to and including yesterday experiments with some of the settings in our forums area may have at certain times provided or taken away opportunities to edit new topics and replies so please don't dwell on your own personal experience over that period. The settings mentioned above are now in place and should remain so for the long haul. I hope this helps...

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    • 2 years ago

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    • New Scratch32 Classifieds Area We now have a FREE classifieds area on Scratch32! Just click on 'Classifieds' in our top menu to see what is for sale (or wanted to buy). Or select 'Add a listing' from the 'Classifieds' drop down menu to post your ad right away! Users with a Scratch32 account can now post ads containing detailed descriptions and pictures of items they wish to sell privately for FREE. These ads can be read by anyone, including those without an account. [So you can post an ad and then link it anywhere else.] It is also easy for every user to manage their ads. All ads expire in 60 days. There are just three limitations: Only model slot car related content is permitted; No junk - only items of quality that you would or have used yourself; No retail sales or ads for inventories of items. Scratch32 will reserve the right to remove any ad(s) that do not comply.

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    • Inactive User Accounts Gents, With more than 100 user accounts the beginning of the decade is a good time to clean up our home - so I've initiated our website to automatically reset the passwords of inactive accounts. Accounts for which temporary passwords are not changed will be deleted automatically. Cheers! Art

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    • 4 years ago

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    • Major Update Coming Next Week to Scratch32 Folks, I must apply a manual update to our website but since there is a great chance things may no longer work as they do now (or not at all) I'm leaving it for later this week (November 8th or 9th) when I'll have extra time to wait on hold for technical support if things go off the rails. Sorry about that. BTW, this update should not change anything if it goes according to plan - so you won't notice anything if it is successful. :unsure: Cheers!

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    • 4 years ago

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    • Posting your raced model photos elsewhere made easy… As they say - a picture is worth a thousand words... to include any recent photograph of your model which exists anywhere on our website all you need to do (if you use Chrome) is to right click on the picture you wish to use (from our website) and select 'copy image address' - then just paste it into your post - the picture should appear as it does where you right clicked originally... :good:

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    • 4 years ago

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    • Calendar, Database & Model Galleries Updated Gents, Our Scratch32 calendar is now updated for the summer season - one new event may be in order in August yet but plenty of time to sort that out. I've updated our model database and it is now up to 134... with several still missing - models which may have been raced but which never had a form submitted are not included. Also, some forms were submitted but the models never showed or raced - so those forms were deleted - please submit a new form when you register any new model in any event - don't rely on a past submission... our gallery is also almost updated completely - stay tuned...

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    • 4 years ago

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    • Event Pictures Gents, From this point forward, pictures for all entries presented for events will be taken prior to the start. Additional pictures may be taken at the conclusion of the event, but this will be the exception.

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    • 5 years ago

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    • WordPress Update Recently our service provider automatically updated our website software (Wordpress) to a new version - v 5 - which now uses blocks - and with this has created a number of challenges for me to deal with on the back end. Things should be transparent on the front end however. I need to come to grips with these changes so I apologize for the delays with adding new content... :wacko:

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    • 5 years ago

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    • Several Updates… and a few Upgrades! Gentlemen, Over the past few weeks we've had a multitude of updates added to our humble little corner in this universe - and one that failed - so after many many hours of confligulating annurosis and conjugulations to the untowards things were finally stabilized. I've never been closer to a pale shade of white than I was recently during those harrowing steps... but all is good that ends well and which is unnoticed by most... So upwards and onwards Blitzen, Ruben & Bacardi - hmmmm - something isn't right - yes - the order.... One upgrade featured alternate randomly generated user avatars - monsters - and since we are all sick of the tapestry avatars the monsters looked fabulous so I checked that box instead... funny how that spurred some to add their own avatar now... but like the screenplay says - nothing is foolish - it only gets better!!!! If you think that was subtle - take a closer look around - you might discover something... :wacko:

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    • 5 years ago

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    • New Classifieds Plug In Gents, I've settled on an alternate classifieds plug in which works fine - Not my first choice but it is still good - and FREE! Many more things to configure... I'll have a few ads posted tonight to verify that everything works as it should for any registered user... :good:

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    • 5 years ago

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    • Classifieds Plug In Removed After several software and plug in upgrades on Sunday our Classifieds plug in broke - I've been working on fixing this over the past day but I haven't had any luck - so I've disabled it for the time being and will work on a fix or a suitable alternative - my apologies for the inconvenience.

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    • 5 years ago

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    • Gallery Feature Added We've added a new gallery feature. Go to the gallery using the link in either the header or footer menus. The gallery will include pictures from every event to supplement the event reports, plus others. User/contributor galleries (also for original pictures authored by registered users/contributors) may be available soon. Cheers! :good:

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    • 6 years ago

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    • 'Event Reports' Top Menu Link To make accessing event reports easier I've added an 'Event Reports' link/button to the top menu. This link will take you to a page listing all of the event reports so that you do not miss any.

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    • 6 years ago

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    • Upcoming Changes – Domain Name Change and New Format Upcoming Changes – Domain Name Change and New Format With the beginning of May approaching and the commencement of the scratch32 summer racing schedule the timing couldn’t be more perfect to initiate change regarding the r32 website. The existing format and layout are just too restrictive to satisfy scratch32 goals. So later this week and over this coming weekend I will be making several changes. All articles, photographs and forum resources will remain available and easily accessible by everyone after this weekend – but the emphasis of non-forum related material will shift exclusively to scratch32. - Cheers! - Art

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    • 6 years ago

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    • Forum Server Update (Feb 19/16) -now you can insert images from your computer directly into your post by clicking on the 'insert/edit image' button (to the far right of the toolbar under the 'Visual' tab) - this will upload the image to the server and embed it into the body of your text... you must do one at a time... [to insert a link to an image already on the web you can click on the 'Text (HTML)' tab and then use the 'img' icon/button to insert that link - which we were already doing before - use a separate line for every link to image to keep things tidy...] Cheers! Art :good:

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    • 8 years ago

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    • Forum Server Update (Jan. 23/16) The following was changed: -thumbnail images displayed for all pictures uploaded as 'attachments' to posts The following plug in was added: -thumbnail resizer The following was changed: -'attachments' displayed as thumbnails below posts resized to 80 x 80 pxs (now you can copy the link on the picture and paste it into your post to display the image within your post - remember to use the 'img' button above the text field for your post... Art :good:

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    • 8 years ago

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    • Forum Server Update (Jan. 21/16) The following addition was made: - In addition to Gravatar all registered users may now upload their own avatar; The following change was made: - To eliminate duplicate thumbnail images being displayed both in posts and replies the multiple image upload plugin was removed and a setting was changed to disable attachments from view unless inserted into the post by author. This means that previously convenient multi file uploading of pictures from your local directory to the server is no longer possible - you must upload each image one at a time right now. The following addition was made: - Voting and polls plug in added. Art :good:

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    • 8 years ago

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