Mac Users trying to sign up

[papajohn97]

Forgive me for posting this comment if it’s old info. I’ve been trying to join this forum for years using my Mac or iPhone with no luck due to the Mac incompatible aspect of the security part of the sign up.I signed up this morning on my wife’s Windows OS laptop and it worked! Now I’m able to log-in and post using my Mac. Problem solved! 

I have been posting for a few years on Britmodeller (wonderful forum but mostly fern cars) and FSM (nice folks but somewhat of a wasteland for auto modelers). Really looking forward to posting builds and sharing comments on this board of incredibly talented builders. 

John

[Russell C]

Glad you could make the breakthrough! This is indeed the place for all variety of automotive building.

Perhaps the best of our computer geeks could get to the bottom of whatever your initial sign-up was. There's been later upgrades to the forum system here which apparently were less cooperative than they could have been. I joined in July 2013 with my then-5 year old iMac with zero problems (as a perpetuator of the PC - Mac wars, I avoid PCs like the plague). Might perhaps have been a browser not playing fair with the system here when you were trying to join.

[Dave Ambrose]

I'll admit that I've never signed up from a Mac. What was the problem? I don't recall anything in our sign-up process that's system specific. You do need an email address to acknowledge the sign ups. 

 

[papajohn97]

Russ, Dave,

Thanks for responding. When I tried signing up on my iPhone 7 or MacBook PRO (2019 model), I got the error message shown in the attached screenshot, “reCAPTCHA”. When I googled a fix, I was instructed to temporarily change my IP address settings to get around it. I did this in both my phone and laptop with no success. It could be related to our miserable Spectrum (charter cable) router/ service.

Anyways, problem solved for me. Looking forward to posting a few RFI builds later today.

 

[Dave Ambrose]

Thanks. That's a new one for me. I'll keep that in mind when we upgrade the forum software. 

[Snake45]

Dave, 

I have a friend trying to join here, but says there's a problem with the captcha thing that won't work for him. He says this link describes the problem and how to fix it at your end. Thanks! 

https://community.mybb.com/thread-219031.html

[Dave Ambrose]

Thanks! I'll get working on that.

[Snake45]

Looks like my friend made it in finally. Thanks Dave! 

[69_Stingray]

Yup, I' here and accounted for!