There were several things that did not work with the new version of phpBB but overall we are in much better shape. The old & vulnerable php interpreter v5.4 had several weaknesses and was almost certainly how we were being hacked. Since all you see is the result, the starting point was a horror ...

Thank you Mike and Alex for working hard on upgrading the system :) I had not much to do with it. @Montenzi Design deserves 100% of the credit. Best I could do was stumble around. Fortunately for us, he has considerable experience in hosting. We are now using phpBB 3.3 (latest) and php 7.1.4 instea...

We seem to have fixed the problem yet again, with tech assist from Montenzi

They keep "fixing" it for us, but mung my ".htaccess" file - 3 times now starting with 10-March.

If it goes down, people like Pierre know how to ping me.

I should have one, possibly a spare. I am in Asheville until Wednesday late. I will check.

What I forgot to say is that I had to restore the backup and likely lost a few messages if not a full day (or more). It went down around noon Tuesday and I used the CodeGuard console to restore to about the same time on Monday. It could easily mess up the pointers for the "new message in follow...

Thanks Montenzi. I was getting a bit crazy without my UC pals... :ugthink: Yes, it was all about preventing mental health issues :lol: :ugthink: True. I was about to walk off the end of the dock into Bulls Bay and swim in the Atlantic. Dets for those of us who are technically inclined: It turns out...

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Yep, thanks for the tech assist from Montenzi!

Here we go (15 minute warning)...

This WILL be epic! Lorenzo runs fabulous campaigns...

Guys & Gals: I would like to congratulate every single winner, everyone nominated, PipChick for putting on yet another marvelous showpiece for all of us here at UnitedCardists, all of the contributors of prizes and remind everyone that things like this, the purposeful glee with which it was put ...

After suffering through no Internet for days (satellite modem died), I am back - in time for my birthday today. I enter the Medicare age today, so for non US folks I am 65.

Everyone please enjoy your holiday season time with friends and family!

Very nice, Kellar! So the KS campaign is one week out from yesterday? (next Saturday)

Somebody nominated the jokers of this deck for Best Jokers for this year's DOTYs but there're no pictures. Can someone provide pictures of them? Either here or send them to Mama Bear (PipChick), that she can add them in the nominations thread. "I have a crappy pix" (famous Ratman quote).....

canogie wrote:No go on the decks?

I have not heard from them. Let me check.

wait a sec... Is there a way to get Bill's comments back to the threads? Especially in the Pink Boar thread? Without his smart words it's so hard to show newcomers what a nice guy he is Unfortunately it is an all or nothing switch type thing and I figured that he had been quoted enough to keep the ...

He doesn't need to leave, I left him for us. Emily, please don't take this personally, you are more than welcome to come here and promote your deck. Bill obviously decided that it was OK to taunt my moderators with what I said in private. Not cool... Guilt by association is difficult to surmount, so...

Definitely be avoiding this one. Of course, even without the previous history, I have zero interest in this deck as it is just too boring. We often observe and say the same thing about decks that are intended for or aimed at use by magicians because of that precise fact: as collectors we want somet...

Guys & gals, you know I moderate in moderation, but let's keep it civil.

Bill and Emily are here to answer questions about their deck, let's keep the conversation limited to that.

I will agree with most and say

1: yes
2a: no, b: (best branded) yes

There's a chance that I may be able to get a few more of these 2019 Lotrek "Entertainer" decks, but you guys all got a bargain since they are already sold out. They will probably be $40 - if I can get them, will know later this weekend. I'd be interested in buying one as well :) If & ...

There's a chance that I may be able to get a few more of these 2019 Lotrek "Entertainer" decks, but you guys all got a bargain since they are already sold out. They will probably be $40 - if I can get them, will know later this weekend. I'd be interested in one, if you can. Got you covere...

Sorry, I kept the original thread up to date but not this one. Everyone except Canada and overseas shipments should have their decks by Friday (yesterday) even with the postage printing problems. Fortunately I kept them all in PDF format, so reprint of those needed was easy. Let me know if your note...

MPC, although you did make me go back and check. I don't know if EPCC has this feature, but MPC can make this thick ink on the cards that gives the ink depth and texture. The previous deck I have with this type of ink goes way back to Impressions Cardinal Edition ( https://www.kickstarter.com/proje...

USPCC being even worse at quickly replying to customers doesn't inherently make Cartamundi any better :? Absolutely not. The thing is that when people come to me (like Dr Immy Smith did two months ago), I know exactly where to aim, regardless of who her salesperson is - or even which country / divi...

Mike - I was not trying to talk crap about Jirs and although I am removed from the direct interaction with him, I gather that he is doing a good job. My comment was not about him but about production orders being pushed back to the tune of three months and that, in my book, is difficult to justify....

We'll, "let me say this about that" - Jirs Huygen is their Playing Cards Ambassador and he does a darned good job, but sometimes his hands are tied and we never seem to get used to the weird holidays and bank holidays in Belgium, so it is just a matter of time once in a while. Everyone sa...

... I still regret buying the Exquisite Bold when it came out. Tell the truth! We have come a long way since Bill introduced them even with the star cleanly punched through half of the cards. I have purchased many CARC decks even though there weren't a lot of unique features (you know the drill; mo...

Well, judging by the recent update from Ondrej Psenicka on his Butterfly deck where he said that Cartamundi has pushed his order back all the way to January 2020, I suspect you may be right. I hope that the situation is going to improve once they take over USPCC, otherwise we will be dealing with a...

It looks to me as though they used silver foil and inked the foil in several places. Some colors look shiny, but fuller than silver and gold. Whatever was done, you will like the result. Any time you can get a Lotrek deck for under $30 is a great deal, much less one with only 400 printed. Glad I co...

There's a chance that I may be able to get a few more of these 2019 Lotrek "Entertainer" decks, but you guys all got a bargain since they are already sold out.

They will probably be $40 - if I can get them, will know later this weekend.

mine arrived today. thx Mike. At this point all of them should have arrived, except for the ones that were sent overseas or to Canada. The single deck ones to Canada (2 out of 3) should only take a week more, but the one with 3 decks might take two weeks, because it has to go through cudtoms. (pret...