The Tropical Fruit Forum

Tell him to check his email.  I sent him a temporary password.

Bear with us folks.  I am trying to get to the bottom of all of this.  We will likely unwind the Godaddy stuff shortly. 

Jake,

It seems we may need a bit of your expertise.. LOL

Godaddy blows.

They did remove a bunch of Malware last night, however we are still getting blasted by spammers.

I'm going to bump your account to a mod level for starters if you don't mind.  I will work on getting you an admin account if all goes well.

I added some settings to block spammers, requiring questions answered on the first five posts as well as more advanced captcha.

Jake,

That's one of the reasons we went with the SSL.  Another reason we lost Google ranking was because of the hosting update back in January.  Somehow there was a code that basically blocked all the search engines slipped in during the transition.  That was removed a few days ago.

After 11 years our forum is finally running on a secure platform! Our SSL Cert went into effect this morning without issue! This will allow additional members that were limited by our lack of SSL to join!

It will take some time for Google to reindex the content of our site is what the hosting company is telling me.  We moved from a much older, slower, and smaller database version.  We had no choice, as the company and web in general are moving to the newer version.  This site is over 10 years old and delicate.  Sorry for any loss of data, there was no way to preserve everything without spending money.  We should be good for now, and Google will reindex us in time.

Happy Holidays! It's that time of year again when we ask the members here to chip in what they can to keep us a member run private forum.  We have been up and running nine years now with the support of our members, and hope to keep it that way for years to come! I paid for the hosting of the website today at a total of $180.22 (receipt attached).  We had an incident mid year that required us to move to another hosting platform that cost about $100 to do, however the result lowered the annual cost for now!

If you have the ability to please support our forum! We can accept Paypal donations sent to ***Fundraiser Completed for 2021!***, that's me.  We are not looking to profit from the site, so please post what you contribute here so that others can see how much we are raising!

And thank you all of course for you continued involvement and support of the tropical fruit forum, we hope it benefits the tropical fruit collecting world!!

Those would be perfect!
 

That’s a wrap folks! A special thanks to all that have contributed!!

A special thanks to those who have already contributed!! We have currently raised $433.50 of our goal of $459.87 to stay running Advertising Free for another year.

It was brought to my attention that people were having issues adding photos to posts.  I have added an additional feature to the forum in the form of a blue "p" at the bottom of the text field when posting.  This should work if the old green "add image to post" doesn't!

A special thanks to those who have already contributed!! We have currently raised $268.50 of our goal of $459.87 to stay running Advertising Free for another year.

A special thanks to those who have already contributed!! (Tropical-Farmer), (Abimael777), and (Mikesid).  We have currently raised $85 of our goal of $459.87 to stay running Advertising Free for another year.