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‼️ CLOSING THIS FORUM & MOVING FORWARD
Due to certain software concerns with PHP and the future of Vanilla (the software that powers this forum), this forum will be closed permanently by the end of August 2025.
To be clear, it will remain here and operational, but in a browsable state only. You will not be able to log in, make posts, or view your private messages. All data I can expunge I will (e-mails, private messages, etc), and only the forum posts will remain. This will lock down and secure the site for the future, and minimize any effects of possible hacking.
At this time, a new Discourse-powered forum will be introduced, and an announcement post with a link to the new forum made as the final post on this site. I will also issue a 'Bulk Invite' to every forum member here who has earned veteran status and has been active in the last year.
This is all due to security concerns going forward, making us move to a modern forum software that is well-maintained.
Just to go over it once more: This forum will be closed and locked for use in a read-only state at the end of August 2025, and a new forum created on modern, currently maintained software.
Also at this time I will introduce a member-editable site: wiki.midwestaudio.club as well. This first addition to which will be downloads of venerable Excel worksheets (which most of us know well) created by Jeff Bagby. I'll continue to expand the wiki from there, and I hope others will help me build a repository of speaker-building knowledge accessible to all. I'm talking about detailing stuff like Hoffmann's Iron Law, basic concepts for enclosures, and so on. Also, I envision it as a place to record designs for those who wish to share them.
Feel free to discuss below in the comments, and I welcome any questions.
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With the basic collapse of PE Tech Talk, and thus the related Project Gallery becoming mostly irrelevant, a nice dedicated area at MAC to completed designs would be a great resource.
Thanks for giving serious consideration to cyber security.
I for one welcome our newer more up to date forum overlord.
Thanks Jason, for all this current and past efforts in keeping the form running smoothly.
Yes, thank you muchly
Geoff
Thank you, Jason, for keeping our discussion space clean and spam free.
InDIYana Event Website
Absolutely, it's been a fantastic forum thus far, looking forward to the next chapter.
Dang! But thank you for looking out for us Jason. I haven't been here in awhile but it is still my favorite (read only) speaker forum that I would divest in.
divest?
This sounds like a great move and update. Bad things happen once your forum is totally hacked and out of control! Looking forward to seeing what comes about.
Many thanks Jason for keeping this forum between the ditches - unlike many others.
Sehlin Sound Solutions
Thanks, Jason. Look forward to using the new site. Since we will not abe able to log into the old forum, I take it that my personal bookmark listing will no longer be available. I currently maintain a long list of bookmarks because this makes it much easier for me to find stuff from old threads. So, going forward, my plan will be to print out a hard copy of my current bookmark listing before the forum is permanently shut down. Then, when I need to look something up in a old thread, I can simply reference my printed copy to quickly search and find the old archived thread. Does this make sense?
Thanks for all your work Jason.
Yes, that will work. You could also simply copy the links into a word/text document on the computer, and if you saved it as a PDF you will likely have clickable links.
Done. Just saved my bookmark page as a PDF with clickable links and it works perfectly!! Thanks for the tip!
Try saving the the links file as an HTML format.
Then you can open it in your browser, click the links and also bookmark the file in your browser under "MWAC old site links".
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