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About the Foum here

I once , 20 years ago started a forum for the Canadian vintage radio society
I got server space and launched a PHPbb forum
It’s free software and the costs were maybe 100 or something for the server space plus the domain name has some yearly cost something like 40 bucks maybe , not hundreds

I really struggled and it took time but mostly because I didn’t know what I was doing
I used akwayswebhosting which is in Texas it was just an arrangement I took over

I struggled to get enough traffic and I’d go to the club meetings and a lot of those old guys were not very computer Savy and couldn’t get much input or encourage them to use it

I did get a few members making posts and it showed promise some were too distant to go to local meets

It eventually got decided for me that the forum should be for paid members only and I didn’t think that would work because I struggled to get the post count up as a free forum I wanted to use the free forum to help draw in new members and to include distant members better

Eventually the group decided they wanted to hire a pro website developer so I passed the duties on and it might still survive , they tried to run it in some other software and it went dead slow and I basically washed my hands if it the club had some disconnects and tge politics I’ll leave out

The VCBC Volvo club of has a good core group of leaders , And a couple hundred ir so members
I wonder if someone could unite this forum with VCBC
or if someone might want to be involved in that
It would be a shame to see it go

Lots if forums run on PHPbb
When I ran it I had a lot if sign ins that beat the captcha mostly from Russia or Italy
I had to monitor the sign ins and manually let the real people in and not allow the spammers ( machines)

it was a bit of a chore and it probably needed some security updates ani being not too savvy it was a bit daunting
But that software works well, full of good features and I think if someone who knows what they are doing it’s possible to start one without it being a huge cost

I think the VCBC could really benefit from having an associated forum but I’m not sure if the leaders want to take all that on or who might , or if those involved in running this forum have really lost interest or what ?

I got into that “Mathiew’s forum” before I came here with this particular volvo problem , most were into newer cars and someone suggested I try here because there was little action on the older cars

If the forum is managed privately it can eliminate most ads and new users just naturally know how to use all the functions in a PhpBB forum

If this is moved , then it would help if the current owner could help by using this domain name and redirecting … then it would be possible to redirect members to a new forum so that returning members didn’t get lost , they would need to resubscribe and I don’t think I’d know how to import old posts so lots might be lost

This one runs on some pretty basic principles like Craigslist , the simplicity is cool but I have no idea how to post files or pictures , there might be pretty limited server space on the computer it’s running on

Probably most including me can’t see spending a lot of time at it but it’s possible I’m willing to contribute in some small way but wouldn’t care to own the responsibility

I’m in no way suggesting it should be “ taken over” just that rather than see it die a slow death , if the current owner wanted a break from it
maybe what’s going already could be transferred to someone with interest in maintaining a forum on some actual server space
I think a lot of old Volvo lovers would still like to have a forum that works well and I think a web forum would be a great asset to the VCBC
A lot of us have parts collections and interest in them still
I had to wonder if maybe there could be some coordinated plan plan to keep it going ?

Setting up a forum isn’t all that hard or super expensive for someone savvy
Getting the post count up is harder as the webmaster can’t make all the posts so lots of forums fail due to inactivity .

Phil







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