All the "Articles" are gone!
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All the "Articles" are gone!
Under the sticky "48/60 Forum Tips, Tricks, HowTo's" a great deal of effort was put into linking to Articles people wrote or created from information in threads. Things like data on widths of replacement axles, seat dimensions, IFS candidates and which donors to look for, etc. THEY ARE ALL GONE! I asked Fomoko1 to look into it, the response he got from the brass is that those pages went away with the Galleries...To me this represents a huge loss of tribal knowledge, and we should see if they can be restored. What do you think?
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they have been gone for some time now..... BUT they still exist if you search em with DuckDuckGo as an example .....
https://www.ford-trucks.com/articles...-transmission/
but you cannot get there from within the Forums... And Yes I think it is a great loss, all I can suggest to do is Save them to your Computer and Refer to them so you can use them Offline.... also the Wayback Machine could help you discover some of them too.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/articles...-transmission/
but you cannot get there from within the Forums... And Yes I think it is a great loss, all I can suggest to do is Save them to your Computer and Refer to them so you can use them Offline.... also the Wayback Machine could help you discover some of them too.
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I really think our forum is the red-headed stepchild of this site... if you click on "articles" all you see
is late model stuff... I wouldn't be surprised one day to log in and see all the old forums gone also
If it weren't for FOMOKO and our other moderators.. we'd have no representation at all. opinions... every body had one
be nice to get them all in one place and see if Ken would host them "over there"
john
is late model stuff... I wouldn't be surprised one day to log in and see all the old forums gone also
If it weren't for FOMOKO and our other moderators.. we'd have no representation at all. opinions... every body had one
be nice to get them all in one place and see if Ken would host them "over there"
john
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I assume the powers that be assumed we wouldn't miss them. If we tell them we do miss them, they could potentially be restored. How many people went to the linked articles? I don't know, but there was the option.
I forgot to mention, they told Morris/Fomoko1 to delete all links to them from the sticky.
I forgot to mention, they told Morris/Fomoko1 to delete all links to them from the sticky.
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Need more of us to weigh in.
Sure, a guy can save the links to his computer, but using the Albuq "tribal knowledge" standard, but then the knowledge only resides in the priest caste, not the tribe. The tribe knows nothing, unless the oracles speak.
I think many of us were hoping this would be the receptacle of knowledge for future seekers. Instead it has become the memory hole where only certain O'Briens can have access.
Sad.
Sure, a guy can save the links to his computer, but using the Albuq "tribal knowledge" standard, but then the knowledge only resides in the priest caste, not the tribe. The tribe knows nothing, unless the oracles speak.
I think many of us were hoping this would be the receptacle of knowledge for future seekers. Instead it has become the memory hole where only certain O'Briens can have access.
Sad.
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Need more of us to weigh in.
Sure, a guy can save the links to his computer, but using the Albuq "tribal knowledge" standard, but then the knowledge only resides in the priest caste, not the tribe. The tribe knows nothing, unless the oracles speak.
I think many of us were hoping this would be the receptacle of knowledge for future seekers. Instead it has become the memory hole where only certain O'Briens can have access.
Sad.
Sure, a guy can save the links to his computer, but using the Albuq "tribal knowledge" standard, but then the knowledge only resides in the priest caste, not the tribe. The tribe knows nothing, unless the oracles speak.
I think many of us were hoping this would be the receptacle of knowledge for future seekers. Instead it has become the memory hole where only certain O'Briens can have access.
Sad.
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Alas, although no longer new here, I am also a member of the tribe and know nothing. Do we need to message Morris and weigh in with our concern that access to our forum's articles not be lost? I'll gladly do whatever is thought to be most helpful.
Jim
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I think, and this is just my opinion, that by deleting the sticky, FTE will get what they want, more post counts. If a newbie stops in on this site and conveniently finds what they are looking for, then there isn’t more posts and in my opinion, FTE is all about post counts for advertising.
once again just my opinion