Friday November 4th – 5pm  

2011-2012     Dungeness Crab Season Opener Party
Pillar Point Harbor – Half Moon Bay

See the Sticky Post in the General Forum for more details……….

Come meet and greet local Coastsiders (and some from further away). Club President Rick Ross  and Club Secretary/Grillmaster  Taj Sharma will be there.  Again, Friday October 28th – 5 pm. Open House and BBQ at IWE SPORTS    Located at: 1313 North Market Blvd., Suite 120 SACRAMENTO, CA 95834
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1313+N…95834&t=h&z=17

We’re pleased to announce that Tapatalk has been installed on the Coastside Website to improve forum access from smartphones.

While the dinner has already taken place, Sat. Sept 24th, please follow this link  http://www.coastsideclub.com/Dinner/2011_dinner.html  to a list of this year’s sponsors and donations for the 2011 Annual Coastside Fundraiser Dinner. Our sponsors came through in a big way which will allow Coastside to be strong in the upcoming legal challenges that are right around the corner. Many years of seeking fair treatment during the MLPA process has led to a lawsuit and we are grateful that our successful fund raiser is keeping us in the game. Again many thanks to everybody that donated, big or small and to all the volunteer staff that made the dinner possible!

After the software updates done Aug 25th we found that a small but significant number of people had troubles logging in to the forums. The solution for 98% of these folks was to clear their browser cookies. This can be done by going to your browser’s menu and looking for a choice similar to “tools”. There you should find the way to clear your browser cookies and let your browser learn the new website and make a new cookie. For anyone still having trouble logging on after clearing cookies, please contact the help desk at coastsidehelper@yahoo.com.

We are back online with the new look of VB4!

We made the long overdue jump from 3.7 to 4.1 and discovered a few things that you only find out about when you jump. We are aware of some minor bugs but they can be dealt with with the site back up.  It took awhile to make jump repairs and I would like to thank Brent and his team at KillerSurf.net for the allnighter and pushing through to fix the big bugs.

The Classifieds will be back as soon as possible. They are being upgraded to the newest version of that software.

VB has options called plug-ins. For example our old Spell Check plug-in isn’t compatible with the VB4 software.  Same with some other things you may or may not notice, Ads, Album features, these are being worked on in the background so please hold off reporting about these bugs for a few days.

On the other hand, if you find something like a broken link, do report it to me at coastsidehelper@yahoo.com. I will track bugs and relay them to Brent. We will work on finding ways to find other alternates for the missing plugins that are not supported. But really it’s just that they are now alternates vs. missing items.. lots of changes from 2008!

Go for it! Enjoy the new site. Please email comments and bugs to me at the above address and will tweak things as we go forward. The meat and potatoes portion of the website upgrade is done. Now we’re down to the fine tuning.

Dale Myer
Coastside Website Administrator

We’re nearing the final warning call. The site will be going down Wednesday late evening, for software updates. While the forums will likely have a new look, this procedure is to get our website software up to the current revisions as we are a bit behind. The classifieds are to be updated and hopefully no ads lost. THE REALITY IS when you do long overdue updates, problems can occur. When we updated the frontend, which is the front page and associated pages, a few months ago, a few bugs were uncovered that we quickly fixed. The version of classifieds being updated is old so make a copy of your ads and pictures if need be to re-enter into the updated classifieds. What I’m saying is we trust things will go smoothly but know how surprises can come up.

Make a copy of any pictures etc. that you have on the site but don’t have a personal copy.

Again we’re updating an old version of VBulletin to the latest version so hope for smooth but prepare for lumpy.  Worst case is the site will come back up with some bugs that need fixing. The sad thing is we can’t predict what will happen until we push the upgrade button. Other design changes will follow as we move forward but Wednesday night is a software upgrade only.