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Now I can’t even log in to FSM. Seems like I was logged out automatically recently, and when I tried to log in now, nothing happens. However, when I click “My Account”, I seem to be logged into someone ELSE’S account, a user named John Blankenship?!
I’ve alerted Lukas, no worries, but curious if anyone else has experienced this problem?
Ha ha! I’M John Blankenship too!!!
The new board is worse than useless. I can’t even post on it now (“Sorry, something is wrong with your data.”)
That’s funny. We’re all stuck with John Blankenship now.
“I’M Spartacus!”
I don’t understand why they don’t take it offline while the issues are being sorted out. It’s been a week with issues now, hasn’t it?
Yeah, they really launched way too early. In Germany we call products like this “banana products” sarcastically because it only matures with the user 😉
Gee, the trouble does not stop it seems. Although you normally don’t really need a free virus/securitty scanner on a Mac I have one installed as a precaution (looking at Windows guys ;-)). I now even get a security warning about accessing the FSM site and its not any simple SSL certificate issue. I literally never saw this before anywhere else… Does anyone else get this, too?
Lukas posted on FB that he accidentally knocked the url out of place. The man with the screwdriver will come when he wakes up.
LOL your thread takes me back to when we migrated over to moviemusic.com like 25 years ago when the FSMessageboard went on hiatus. And lookie here at what I was able to dredge up:
Love trips down memory lane, Howard! I assume you wanted to post an image there. Click “IMG”, then paste the link of the photo, click “OK” twice, and there you go.
Ah, 2017. Not that long ago. I’m confident FSM is not in its “death throes”, as purported there. But definitely needs a few weeks to find itself.
Indeed. I just came from there after looking at my “Walking Distance” thread and every single YouTube embed does not work. Somebody had just posted their enjoyment of the Stromberg rerecording on a new thread and I wanted to direct them to that comparative study. Without the audio links it’s useless, along with the absence of paragraph breaks that makes text unreadable. Double whammy!
In answer to the topic question, the FSM website’s has been the one I’ve limited myself to, while moviemusic.com’s pretty much served as the go-to substitute when FSM’s went down for an extended period. And a fine substitute it proved to be. Trust me, I could have joined others but “real life” demanded balance with this peculiar hobby of ours. Similarly, I never joined any of the famous composer societies out there as I also wanted to celebrate all composers of really good film music. But still felt I could go toe-to-toe with any composer’s most devoted adherents when it came to serious discussions.
I’ve been trying to tune in to FSM now and then, but gosh, it’s challenging. Lots of members lost, the board is slow as hell, and most of the topics are about various nuts-and-bolts and shipping updates and what-have-you. I wish it well, but even if I weren’t afflicted with this tinnitus issue, I wouldn’t feel tempted to return. I hope Lukas & co. get to sort out the last issues.
I am peaking their regulary as usual. It got less active but besides some issues a lot members really over complained because not everything is exactly as it was for decades… That was to be expected. If we ever switch this forum to another plugin – the FMS formum is just another WP forum plugin than ours btw. – things also would change.
Adn that would be “just” a plugin within the same eco system WP. From the technical standpoint they are all lucky that the general content made it over from the stone age forum and site.
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