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I would like to see this site continue. Heck, some of my best writing appears on this site. :)
I admit I haven't been here much, so I'm a little blindsided by this news.
If Don is going to stop running this site and is willing to sell, I hope somebody buys it.
If somebody buys it, I hope they turn out to be good at the job and cool. If they turn out to be a big jerk, ... it would be no worse than the site closing. From my end, there is nothing to lose in the sale.
One more thing:
SAVE THE ARCHIVES!
If Don wants to close the site, then I am sad to see it go but I understand.
If everybody (or most folks) can agree on a new forum to inhabit, then in a sense the board lives! Whether or not the old URL will redirect to the new home matters little to me, just be sure to tell me where we move to if we move. (Ferengi Blue Room seems to be the place.)
But if there is any way at all to transport the archives to any new home we may find, that is something I would really like done.
As I said, some of my best work appears on these boards. There is good gaming stuff here, and also tons of analysis/discussion of the trek universe and trek in general. I'd hate to see it all go up in smoke.
In the meantime, I'll be backing up as much of my own stuff as I can.
The offer I made was to the community here -- To purchase the site and domains on their behalf. If there is no community support for the site does not make sense for me to purchase the site from Don, hence this poll and make to this community a proposal at the Ferengi Blue Room where many have move and it was suggest to me when I contacted someone who made an inquiry of Don. I have since been in contact with Don.Quote:
Originally posted by Dan Gurden
See, I had thought this thread was started by someone who had done just that? At least thats the impression I got?
Now I am confused.
And wish I had both ability and funds to make you the offer.
Apparently, the server will be shut down either because of Don's choice or because of the host company's rules.Quote:
Originally posted by Ineti
I must be dense because I'm not really understanding this comment. Transfer the site to where? To someone else's domain/board system?
I've thought about this a bit over the last few days, and I'd really hate to see this place go. While I don't believe I could afford to keep the place running by myself, I would be willing to participate in a group effort, perhaps with another two or three people to keep the place running. Would anyone be interested in doing so?
:) I send in an offer to Don for the Site but please continue to vote. It is a good way to measure support for the site and therefore what to do with it.
There have been over 800 view of this thread/poll, I can not believe it is just those that have voted or voice opinions on this thread. :confused: If you are visiting this thread, you must have some opinion on what to do, so please vote.
Some of those views are people, like me, who have voted but come in to see what people are posting. Others I assume are views by unregistered users. . .and thus not able to vote.
I would assume the number you see who have voted are the actual number of active TrekRPGNet users.
The ratio of votes to views (55 to 880+) is 1 to 16. The poll has been up since 8/13/2004, therefor up for only 7 days. I have also contacted over 140 of the top posting members of the site via email and have Private Message a hand full that have been on the site when I am. So 100 votes should have been vary likely. It is possible because I am contact via a yahoo email account that many of those emailed had the email treated as spam.Quote:
Originally posted by redwood973
Some of those views are people, like me, who have voted but come in to see what people are posting. Others I assume are views by unregistered users. . .and thus not able to vote.
I would assume the number you see who have voted are the actual number of active TrekRPGNet users.
Don Mappin indicated on Wednesday at that time all the active users have voted, but a few more have voted since then and since my last post.
What's the point of keeping the archives.. everytime when theres a new member on this board they forget the golden rule of forums: "Search is your friend"
:D
I don't post much, and I only drop in once in a while, but I would hate to see this go. As an example, I almost missed the closing date. :eek:
I didn't vote, because I can live with several of the options. But the minimum for me is that I want the archive to stay available online. There is a lot of good stuff in there. :)
I could afford a server with a 50GB transfer, and I probably has the skill to do it.
Don, I will send you mail with an initial offer and some questions (current bandwidth demands and database size mainly). I have not been able to look into if there is any transactional problems involved, as I am in Europe.
Spshu, just to make myself clear :) I am not out to compete with you. Its mainly that it is friday night, so the shut down isn't that far away. My main objective is not to loose the archives, even if there is just a handful who wants to access them (at least the bandwidth would be cheep is such case). I will include an offer for the site as well, as the domain name is the current way to find the forums. But at the moment, I think the site would be to much on my hands, and wouldn't contain more than it does now.
However, my problem is mainly lack of time. So, if not enough of the old moderators stays, it probably would become a read only place. I would hate that, but at least there is other boards now.
Because a lot of old-timers still remember that rule;)Quote:
Originally posted by Space_Cadet
What's the point of keeping the archives.. everytime when theres a new member on this board they forget the golden rule of forums: "Search is your friend"
:D
Well speaking as one of the Moderators, one of the voters, and as one of the catchment group of this website. I can confirm that if the site stays, so do I.
"At least until I'm dead or you find someone better."
Cpt. Lundgren
I can live with any of the options in the poll but would prefer that the site continue. It would hard to build another community to 2200+ members, some will probably never joint another Trek RPG site for fear it might happen again. I did want to compete with anyone either if they had better standing in this community.
Actually, that's not what I said. I said it was likely that all the active users had voted. I have no way of knowing if everyone who visits the site regularly read your message, not to mention voted on it. I went on to say that with Decipher in limbo and Star Trek interest overall (not just RPGs) waning, that Trek role-playing wasn't necessarily in a lot of people's minds at the moment, hence don't expect a lot of votes. This site has quite a few lurkers that just cull the threads for information but choose not to participate.Quote:
Originally posted by spshu
Don Mappin indicated on Wednesday at that time all the active users have voted, but a few more have voted since then and since my last post.
The Tuesday date was selected because I have to pay for the next month on Thursday. Hence my interest in resolving the situation without having to shell out for another month. If I accept an offer and make arrangements to transfer the site before then, well great. Otherwise we'll see what happens; I might have to reup for another month in order to sort this whole thing out.
Most likely I will take the site down, back everything up to my local machine, terminate the server, and continue negotiations in the background.
Dunno. :)