• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Allegory: Joe Blow Racing buys Gama Motorcycles

rajobigguy;86613 said:
I'm generally pretty good at picking up the point of of a moral story or fable but I'm quite lost here. So are you saying that this thread actually has nothing to do with the Bulgarian motorcycle company? If there is supposed to be some sort of parallel can you at least point me in the direction that I can view it from angle that I might relate to.
Or maybe it's some sort of computer code, I'm used to thinking of allegories as similar sets of numbers with a binary relationship.:excuseme:
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I'm thinking it has to do with the software that this site is on, but that's just a guess :excuseme: I'm even stoopider about software than I am about most things, though, so take whatever I say with a big grain of salt...:excuseme:



WoodsChick
 
WoodsChick;86615 said:
I'm thinking it has to do with the software that this site is on, but that's just a guess :excuseme: I'm even stoopider about software than I am about most things, though, so take whatever I say with a big grain of salt...:excuseme:



WoodsChick
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Got me beat. I can't connect the dots, allegorically:busted:
 
Its bleeding obvious,its got to do with that health care thing you yanks are on about,I think?Maybe
 
I think Coffee needs to drink more coffee or introduce more bran and fibre into his diet. Last time I went off on a allegory rant it turned out I was just constipated.
 
Zim;86653 said:
Its bleeding obvious,its got to do with that health care thing you yanks are on about,I think?Maybe
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Doubt it, Dean does not like politics here which IMHO is a good thing. Keeps people from saying stupid things and pissing people off.
 
There is a reason this thread is in the Main forum. The product in question is the software the forum is using.

Imagine getting an 'updated' product for your bike, such as a larger fuel tank from the factory for you wr125 st... but it turns out there was a casting issue and it is actually smaller than the one you took off. Then 'pretend' the original tank needed to be destroyed to use the 'updated larger' tank.

Then once you discover the tank is smaller, 12 hours later there is a safety recall because it will leak when temperatures get over 80F. A new tank is sent to you and you install it. It is still the same small size but 12 hours later another recall is sent out because the tank will shatter just sitting on the bike if the temp drops below 40F. Then the new tank is received and that fixed tank will still leak over 80F and still shatter below 40F.

And this goes on for weeks. All the while the original tank worked decent but is no longer usable.

It's like that. There were 4 major security patches to the software last week for the new version we are not using (because it is unstable). And even worse there were multiple security patches for the version we are using... and with each update more things are breaking... and more security issues, not less.


We have given up on installing updates at least for the time being. These issues have consumed my days for months and am currently shopping for different software.

If/when we do switch, it could seem difficult to use for some of you, at least initially. I've got a plan to alleviate those issues. However it should be incredibly cool and slick, and hopefully be far superior for keeping track of the important information instead of having that drift down into a sea of threads. At least that is the goal.

Think of it this way. The Important Info sticky in the TT 4st forum worked well, and that is sort of the same level of functionality I'm trying to achieve. I will probably be several months before anything happens, maybe sooner, maybe longer.

Here is the guy responsible for the 'lovely' condition of the company, Blob Frisco:

bob.jpg
 
O now I get it,Dean big pat on the back for puting up with it.My comment came from the only US news we get in OZ
 
Wetdog;86812 said:
Yep, constipated fersure.

:D
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Considering your avatar, that is a good thing for you :p


Norman Foley;86822 said:
Keep the faith.... I can't even imagine what a pain and then I bug you about little things.:cheers:
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No your questions are quite important to many of us, it's being worked on.

Zim;86871 said:
O now I get it,Dean big pat on the back for puting up with it.My comment came from the only US news we get in OZ
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No worries,

:cheers:
 
Today was a much better day. Getting all that off my chest lifted my spirits. I'm especially excited about some fun stuff that has yet to be. :)

Finger crossed things work out... with this new software.
 
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