Please go back to the old CalGuns.

[sjrosenfield]

Why run the site off a personal server? Just have it hosted by a site online that doesn’t have issues. How about purging off posts older than 1-2 years. I mean this site is only a forum and shouldn’t have any of these issues. Not sure why it’s not getting rectified.

[Sgt Raven]

Why run the site off a personal server? Just have it hosted by a site online that doesn’t have issues. How about purging off posts older than 1-2 years. I mean this site is only a forum and shouldn’t have any of these issues. Not sure why it’s not getting rectified.

1) This is not on a personal server, it is hosted on a online hosting site.

2) You don't care about the historical information on the forums. Then you were not here making that history.

[lemans]

caguns is much smoother, but I'm sure we will get there with Calguns. Be patient.

[OrangeCurtain]

Whenever it is up and running I find it to be much smoother, faster, and uploads photos more quickly. Since it's free to be a member and post, I am grateful for all the mods efforts. It will get sorted!

[lexo98]

Well some of us pay and without any updates and constant ghosting is frustrating

[The Gleam]

....constant ghosting is frustrating

Well, it is Halloween.

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[Big Chudungus]

AFAIK site has been down for last 3 days

its the ONLY site I know with such issues. WTF

[phil conrad]

It's painful to watch a once great site slowly die

[splithoof]

Well some of us pay and without any updates and constant ghosting is frustrating

Why would you pay for this? Hopefully you got something of value. My being able to post this here is purely luck, as getting it work almost never happens. It will massively fail here in a few minutes.

[lexo98]

Why would you pay for this? Hopefully you got something of value. My being able to post this here is purely luck, as getting it work almost never happens. It will massively fail here in a few minutes.

Not paying because of what this site currently is, I’m paying for what the site once was. Lots of great info and I’ve used the classifieds quite a few times. They just need to be honest about there being light at the end of the tunnel or not.

[DougJ]

Well, this is the first time I’ve been able to get on in over a week and it’s been very intermittent since all this fail began, 504’s mostly. I’m so used not getting on I was shocked and now I don’t know what to do.

[sjrosenfield]

1) This is not on a personal server, it is hosted on a online hosting site.

2) You don't care about the historical information on the forums. Then you were not here making that history.

Thanks for clarifying it’s on a hosting site. I guess it must be a database error. A forum like this should not be having the issues it is.

t’s not I don’t care, I just don’t think “history” of the marketplace is that important. Other parts of the site, definitely worth keeping. But who cares how much a p229 sold for in 2019? I’m only 1 person with an opinion. I think this site is a huge need for the community, which is why I think it needs to be rectified sooner than later, otherwise the history won’t matter if it doesn’t have a future.

[The Gleam]

Thanks for clarifying it’s on a hosting site. I guess it must be a database error. A forum like this should not be having the issues it is.

It’s not I don’t care, I just don’t think “history” of the marketplace is that important. Other parts of the site, definitely worth keeping. But who cares how much a p229 sold for in 2019? I’m only 1 person with an opinion. I think this site is a huge need for the community, which is why I think it needs to be rectified sooner than later, otherwise the history won’t matter if it doesn’t have a future.

I agree about the history/archives of items in the marketplace. That's wasted storage. Any SOLD items or unattended items (not bumped) after 90 days should be removed. Not simply closed or marked SOLD - deleted.

Some argue they use that price-history as a price-resource; that's a terrible means for several reasons. The sale price here may have been negotiated lower than what the advertised price showed, and even then, a single classified price is not a best example of what a multitude of people or a collective fair market is wiling to pay. A final auction price is a better measure of that, such as Gunbroker auctions. Anything longer than 90 days is already out of date. The 90 days archiving at least allows both the buyer/sale evidence to debate a discrepancy or disagreement, but if they have not raised an issue within 90 days, it's likely there is no issue to raise any time thereafter.

Gunbroker does the same. After 90 days, it's gone. It's nobody's business what I paid for something 3 years ago, especially if I'm looking to sell something at some later date. Some idjit can do a search on some such thing on Gunauction.com and harp "we'll you only paid X for it in 2010, why you gouging me bro!" (in 2024) over mere inflationary increase and comparable market price by today's values.

It's also a privacy issue. Someone comes on here and sees just how many guns someone has bought historically, or what they bought, over a certain amount of time. That's why I never used iTrader and told sellers to not leave me any feedback over the years. I don't need that kind of history to show I'm a good buyer of good standing; the seller will know just by my approach, communication, reliability, and punctuality with no quibbles about price or the item, each and every time, because it was vetted prior to meeting in person for the PPT.

However, any other history of the past 22 years should be preserved; yet the irony is that if I click on older bookmarks to favorite threads for information I saved over the years, say from 10 years ago, or even doing a search for those same threads/topics now with the current search feature - nothing comes up - so does any of this argument even matter?


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[foothillman]

However, any other history of the past 22 years should be preserved; yet the irony is that if I click on older bookmarks to favorite threads for information I saved over the years, say from 10 years ago, or even doing a search for those same threads/topics now with the current search feature - nothing comes up - so does any of this argument even matter?


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It does suck that they no longer work.
If you had posted then you can search your or posters member name.
Unless you can remember about what year it was finding is very hard.
I wanted to check out an older post from MosinVirus about custom work done.
Had to advance search, MosinVirus and key word vertec.
Was able to find it so the history is still intact just not the bookmarks.

https://www.calguns.net/forum/interests-and-activities/gunsmithing-how-to/1339147-beretta-92fs-vertec-conversion

So history is archived and can be found one way or another.

[dayz2men]

Yes, do this.

Calguns, in the past year+ you lost two things that were critical: The karma system and your stellar uptime. Now, most of the times I visit the site these days it does not load. You're losing the magic. Big time. And yes the Search function sucks, too.