Hello everyone, for the convenience of anyone who wants to easily search the old Ship Forum (2001-2019), I have now added a custom Google Search feature here: http://warsailors.com/forum/ Also, anyone clicking on the search button in any of the archived posts will also get access to an updated old s...

Hello everyone, for the convenience of anyone who wants to easily search the old Ship Forum (2001-2019), I have now added a custom Google Search feature here: http://warsailors.com/forum/ Also, anyone clicking on the search button in any of the archived posts will also get access to an updated old s...

Hello everyone, I believe I am writing this message from our new webhost for warsailors.com. Unless I'm mistaken, the transfer seems to have gone smoothly. However, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me (my email address is konrad at lawson dot net) if you are having trouble posting on the f...

Dear Friends on the Warsailors Forum, This is Siri's son Konrad/Mitch. I'm visiting Siri and hope this finds you all well. Siri's hosting company was bought out by another company which is constantly trying to upsell us to another account so we are moving hosts in the next few days. Within a few day...

Just posted an update on this here: viewtopic.php?t=421

Should be working now!

Just posted an update on these issues, hopefully alright now! - KML

Happy new years everyone and greeting from Konrad, Siri's son, In December, 2023 Warsailors.com, which usually gets one or a few GB of traffic per month, suddenly got over 100GB of traffic from a small number of locations via some Amazon AWS servers almost all targetting the forum. It is unclear if ...

Testing image upload: To upload a picture, create a new post, and scroll down to the three tabs below (Options, Attachments, and Poll Creation). Click the “attachments” tab and then the button “Add files”. Select the file you wish to add (please try to keep the file sizes to, at most, a few megabyte...

UPDATE: Please scroll down and read the latest post on this thread for an update. _____ Hello everyone, Many of you may have wondered how to search the old forum now that they are just static web pages without the search function built in. You may have noticed that some of the old posts turn up on G...

Hello everyone, I think we have overcome the problem of spam registrations with the addition of a simple question to the registration form. For that reason, we have removed the "First two posts moderated" feature and you should now be able to post freely as soon as you register. Glad to se...

Hello everyone. I have created a simple question in the registration form for the forums that simply asks them to enter warsailors with a capital W before submitting their registration. I'm hoping that will be enough to avoid automatic bot registrations and reduce the spam moderation load for Siri. ...

Thanks to everyone for your patience. I would be grateful to hear anything which suggests there are problems. For example, if you find any links out there to old forum postings that lead to error pages or there are problems here with the new software. Hopefully the transition will continue to be rel...

Welcome to the new Warsailors Forums! From 2001-2019 we have hosted forums here but after a recent server upgrade, the abandonment of development on the open source Phorum software package, and some difficulties in upgrading the Phorum software we had installed, we have had to make the transition t...

Welcome to the new Warsailors Forums! From 2001-2019 we have hosted forums here but after a recent server upgrade, the abandonment of development on the open source Phorum software package, and some difficulties in upgrading the Phorum software we had installed, we have had to make the transition t...

Welcome to the new Warsailors Forums! From 2001-2019 we have hosted forums here but after a recent server upgrade, the abandonment of development on the open source Phorum software package, and some difficulties in upgrading the Phorum software we had installed, we have had to make the transition t...