Although we still offer basic, Free membership, and Paying membership which entitles you to receiving our print magazine Pagoda World and our news letter, as well as full access to our technical manual, the membership system has been completely revamped on the new system.
Especially if you are interested in learning how to effectively upload pictures, it is well worth your time to try and read the answers to the Frequently Asked Questions listed below.
If this is the first time you (as a user of the old website) are on the new Pagoda SL Group website, please do the following exactly (and read or print the whole page before doing anything) as the website migration process has been unable to transfer your secret password:
if you or your e-mail provider are blocking mail from us (Earthlink is a good example) ensure that you allow all mail from admin@sl113.org prior to going through these steps
Enter your old forum username or e-mail address. This will send you a mail which will allow you to log in again. If you do not receive it within a couple of minutes, check your SPAM box
Go to the Profile to change your password to one of your liking, and to change your preferences or to check your Full Membership status
There are some helpful posts on the facilities of the new forum system in these topics.
And now try some posts...
If you have difficulty logging in using this procedure, please do notcreate a new membership. If you are a full member, that will create problems with your subscription. First make sure that your e-mail system did not mangle the link that was sent to reset your password. You may need to copy / paste the link in its entirety to your browser address line to make sure it works. It should look something like this in the URL window of your browser:
Note: in your message the numbers will both be different.
If you have (at one point or another) not followed these instructions completely and to the letter, and you are brought to a page that offers a password reminder only, your cookies are incorrectly set. You will need to clear your cookies, and go through the correct process as described above.
To clear your cookies in Internet Explorer you go to Tools / Internet Options / Browsing History / Delete... / Delete cookies. If you have a different browser, check it's help files.
If this does not work, please mail to admin@sl113.org for help with a description of the problem, and the URL where you end up.
Note that the next time you log in, you do not need to go through this procedure. You log in with your username (or e-mail address) and your password. Also note that we do not have distinct log in processes for the Forum and the Full Membership functions anymore.
