• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Cafehusky Lives To Fight Another Day!

Thank you both for your ongoing dedication to this site. It would have been a disaster to lose this fantastic source of information.
Let's hope it all goes through. If you need donations just let me know.
 
Thank you very much ladies. I just clicked on my thumbnail for cafe husky on my phone just to see what would happen, and to my surprise it popped up. I can’t even tell you the feeling I have right now. I’m pretty giddy actually. I’ve been out of the riding loop for a little while now after having my wrist rebuilt and life getting in the way. I finally made the decision to leave California and bought a place in Wyoming on 5 acres. The back 2.5 acres has been a work in progress for a track that the boys and I have been transforming. On top of that, there are riding areas all around me within minutes of my front door. Again, thank you very much as everyone knows that this site is an invaluable asset for anyone that rides a Husqvarna that is pre ktm.

David Shelby
 
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t it go down a time or two in the last couple years? Might have been a funding thing then, but it seems like it was after Coffee had been out of it.

Dirtdame and Woodschick, appreciate all your hard work for this Cafe.
I’d like to donate when that info comes about.
 
Hi to all
This is such a relief to have recovered the site.
A huge amount of effort no doubt.
I was a new member and unbeknown to me I had joined at the point where the rug was just about to be pulled from under everybody’s feet. I had just got into reading up on several issues and then the site closed.
A massive thank you to everyone, I am very glad to be a new member.
Best regards, Nick.
 
Glad to see Cafe Husky is back. During last years Covid self quarantine, I spent a lot of time reading thru the old posts. Great stuff. I learned a lot as well as picked up a few tips for my Italian Husky.
Thank You to everyone involved.
 
My Bad dream is over. At first i thought i imagined the whole thing, but no it actually happened. Thank you both for taking the helm.
 
WoodsChick said:
Ok, CafeHuskyites! Rumors of our demise were apparently premature! :applause:

We have been granted more time to get affairs in order here, and hopefully DirtDame and I will eventually be able to run CafeHusky the way Coffee had originally intended. I apologize for any inconvenience or heartache the temporary closure may have caused, and I'm hoping you're all as thrilled as we are to have this awesome community available to all again! :love:

Please bear with us as we work through the necessary steps to bring CafeHusky back up to speed. DirtDame and I both appreciate your patience and dedication during these crazy times!
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Hello Woodschick and Dirtdame,
I see people are still asking if you need donations, but I haven’t seen an answer. Can we contribute to keep the site up?
 
Is there any way the Cafe PayPal account can be set up to send an invoice or use the Pay With Credit Card feature for anyone who doesn't have a PayPal account? I think this would generate much more donation revenue. I'm not saying it's easy or perhaps this has been discussed, but as a non PayPal guy myself I would love to be able to chip in and this way would make it painless. Ty (as in ZipTy) wants to make sure we have a way to chip in sponsors again too, but that's another discussion.

Here's an example:
With the whole COVID thing all of the race entries are online Pre-Entry only for the most part now. Out here we use MotoTally quite a bit and when you get all your class and other info confirmed - you get the payment page where there's an option for PayPal account or CC. Pay with card, boom you're done. Plus it's set up so the PayPal fee gets paid by the entrant. A receipt is automatically generated and sent to confirm payment. I'm sure there's a fair amount of work to set something like this up, but if we could make it happen the Cafe can continue on.
 
Huskynoobee said:
Is there any way the Cafe PayPal account can be set up to send an invoice or use the Pay With Credit Card feature for anyone who doesn't have a PayPal account? I think this would generate much more donation revenue. I'm not saying it's easy or perhaps this has been discussed, but as a non PayPal guy myself I would love to be able to chip in and this way would make it painless. Ty (as in ZipTy) wants to make sure we have a way to chip in sponsors again too, but that's another discussion.

Here's an example:
With the whole COVID thing all of the race entries are online Pre-Entry only for the most part now. Out here we use MotoTally quite a bit and when you get all your class and other info confirmed - you get the payment page where there's an option for PayPal account or CC. Pay with card, boom you're done. Plus it's set up so the PayPal fee gets paid by the entrant. A receipt is automatically generated and sent to confirm payment. I'm sure there's a fair amount of work to set something like this up, but if we could make it happen the Cafe can continue on.
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Thank you for being proactive on this! Unfortunately I am a moron when it comes to this stuff. DirtDame is the brains of this outfit, and I don't know if she could do it that way or not. I'll ask her!
 
Huskynoobee said:
Is there any way the Cafe PayPal account can be set up to send an invoice or use the Pay With Credit Card feature for anyone who doesn't have a PayPal account? I think this would generate much more donation revenue. I'm not saying it's easy or perhaps this has been discussed, but as a non PayPal guy myself I would love to be able to chip in and this way would make it painless. Ty (as in ZipTy) wants to make sure we have a way to chip in sponsors again too, but that's another discussion.

Here's an example:
With the whole COVID thing all of the race entries are online Pre-Entry only for the most part now. Out here we use MotoTally quite a bit and when you get all your class and other info confirmed - you get the payment page where there's an option for PayPal account or CC. Pay with card, boom you're done. Plus it's set up so the PayPal fee gets paid by the entrant. A receipt is automatically generated and sent to confirm payment. I'm sure there's a fair amount of work to set something like this up, but if we could make it happen the Cafe can continue on.
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The problem is that this requires that I have full "super administration" permissions on the admin site to implement these sort of features....but I do not.
 
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