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Fellow Forum Goers, A security patch we applied yesterday (December 14) broke the site’s private messaging system. We have been unable to find a simple reason or solution, so unfortunately while we look for a way to correct this problem PMs will not function. They’ll be back up ASAP!

This is a repost of my new thread in [URL=”http://soundforums.net/required-reading/7513-advertisements-advertisements-advertisements.html”]Required Reading, here[/URL]. Please take any discussion there. [QUOTE=”Bennett Prescott, post: 58625″]It’s been about a year now since we started showing advertisements on this website, a decision that we came to after much discussion amongst David and I as well as …

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It’s been a surprisingly un-wild and wooly year plus that Soundforums.net has been in existence. We’ve gone from a late night idea to a relatively popular (1+ million page views a month from 25K unique visitors!) oasis in a noisy pro audio discussion world. During that time we have been …

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Hello SFNers, I am writing this post to explain about what we changed here at SFN to provide the speedy new forum performance. This is all in plain language with minimal computer jargon, as we want all users to clearly understand what their donations are doing. For those of you …

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When [URL=”http://www.soundforums.net/live/members/3-David-Karol”]David Karol[/URL] and [URL=”http://www.soundforums.net/live/members/4-Bennett-Prescott”]I[/URL] started this website a little over a year ago as the result of a late night conversation, we hoped it might grow to become a home for pro audio folks to hang out without feeling like their contributions only mattered in the context of banner …

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I just created the new Test Drive forum, and now I need to start my review of the McCauley M421 to go in it. Hopefully this will be a valuable resource for users and manufacturers alike. [QUOTE=”Bennett Prescott, post: 13423″]The idea behind Test Drive is to create product reviews driven …

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Dreamhost had a significant network outage that took our MySQL server offline, cause is still unknown. From [URL=”http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/”]their website[/URL]: [QUOTE=Dreamhost at 02:32 EST]Our admins are continuing to see networking issues in a specific row of servers at our LAX data center. They are checking for any abuse of the network, …

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