Rehashing an old subject.Supercharge the forum

[bostaurus]

I am glad you brought this subject up Steve. I have absolutely no clue about how these websites work but have often wondered if the Admin was paying out of pocket for our enjoyment. I would think that this economic down turn has affected him as well. We are blessed that my husband has a job so sending a fee would not be an issue but I do understand how tight things are for many folks right now.
It has been quite awhile since someone put something up on the auction for support of the forum. If the fee is a big issue than maybe we should be putting up things for auction. Most of us probably have a bottle hanging around that could be donated.
I don't know what else could be done, but this is a subject that needed to be aired. Thanks again Steve for being the lightening rod.

 

[GuntherHess]

wondered if the Admin was paying out of pocket for our enjoyment

yes he is , bandwidth costs money.

 

[morbious_fod]

Having listened to many podcasts, and been on many forums, I've noticed how a lot of them work and deal with the free factor verses pay for play. Most ask for donations, take on sponsors; however, none of them even think about asking for a fee to use their forums or listen to their podcasts. Both of which require quite a bit of bandwidth in order to exist. My point is that when you are wanting people to participate in your particular venture on the internet, you don't want to limit the amount of people who would frequent your particular web entity by expecting them to pay for the privilege. You can ask for donations, which usually works out pretty well if you have enough devoted fans, but relying on the good will of the participants alone is illogical. Sometimes you need sponsors.

Don't think, oh he doesn't understand what the owner of the site has to pay to keep it going, and just wants everything free. I have a much better idea of how much money goes into a venture such as this than many of you, I have my own website and have to pay out of my own pocket for hosting space for said website. Add to that the amount of time I spend trying to get information for the site, the costs of research material and gas, writing the articles, taking pictures, and purchasing examples to post, and you end up with a lot of out put. Do I make any money on the site? Not one penny, not even donations. It's a labor of love, a hobby, my little contribution to the greater knowledge base of the hobby and local history. I'm sure that the owner of this forum created it for exactly the same reasons. Want to see changes to the site that take money, donate.

 

[blobbottlebob]

but if we're gonna enjoy all this knowledge, opinion, back-patting and razor-sharp banter, somebody's got to step up and remind the group once in a while that this forum, and it's righteous father, are deserving of our occasional dribble of financial support.. !!

Here. Here!
Chuck, you're right back in it. I will dig something up and put it to auction.

 

[Steve/sewell]

ORIGINAL: Steve/sewell

This is a glass website when you arrive at it and the page loads you feel you are in the deep end of a built-in pool.There is too much aqua blue and not one picture of a bottle to be found..Morb there are 25 categorys existing now in which I have already included some of them.Forget the membership fee look at the following web sites. http://www.Oldsouthjerseyglass.com and forum member Mike George's website http://www.bottleshow.com The sites are warm and friendly looking and eye appealing.

[8D]...................................

 

[sandchip]

ORIGINAL: morbious_fod
Don't think, oh he doesn't understand what the owner of the site has to pay to keep it going, and just wants everything free. I have a much better idea of how much money goes into a venture such as this than many of you, I have my own website and have to pay out of my own pocket for hosting space for said website. Add to that the amount of time I spend trying to get information for the site, the costs of research material and gas, writing the articles, taking pictures, and purchasing examples to post, and you end up with a lot of out put. Do I make any money on the site? Not one penny, not even donations. It's a labor of love, a hobby, my little contribution to the greater knowledge base of the hobby and local history. I'm sure that the owner of this forum created it for exactly the same reasons. Want to see changes to the site that take money, donate.

I admit that I don't have a clue about what bandwidth is or what it takes to maintain a website. But since you do, Morb, can you give a rough percentage of our 10,000+ members that it would take, at $25 annually, to upgrade this site?

 

[bubbas dad]

keep in mind out of those 10,000+ visitors to this site there are only about 100 members who visit this site and usually there are only about 20 or so on at a given time. a large majority of the people listed as members sign on, ask a few questions and very seldom if ever return. most of the people shown as active user are visitors, as of this moment there are 20 member and 784 visitors.

 

[Oldtimer]

ORIGINAL: lobeycat

I like the green, leave the green! Wouldn't be the "Forum" without the goddamned green!
We've all been on other forums (checked out that sled page) is there anything out there easier to use than this antiquated out of date system? Do we tell our old family members we're taking them out for ice cream but instead drop them off in the middle of the woods because they're old and we have to drive them to the eye doctors and everywhere else for that matter? Well I do but I'm sure the rest of you wouldn't
Just because it's old and green doesn't mean it doesn't work, and work well. If you're worried about your earth shattering posts being buried because I'm posting pics of Ted Kennedy and King....I mean President Obama don't be. I don't think one person here looks at the first page, sees nothing of interest and goes back to surfing porn. I know I go to a least the third page before I click off and hang ten.
So there it's settled. Lets just forget about all this cutting edge technology. It's useless to us.

Now get in the goddamned car Oldtimer were going to Baskin Robbins

A change to invision forums would not only make things easier for us, it would make things far more attractive to those who come here...It's very plausible they are used to other websites with more color and features and then they see this antique forum software and don't give it the proper due it deserves. And this forrum software IS antique in internet terms.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Well spoken Oldtimer this was my whole point. This is a great place with some unbelievable people and knowledge. It just needs a little fine tuning. It is like having a 454 LS-6 with a blower, Edlebrock aluminum intake and headers flowing thru a fat straight pipe, a Ford 9 inch rear and you put all those great parts and atributes into..................................THIS

 

[Steve/sewell]

Instead of this.........................................................