Forum Status and Future Direction

[Terry Hanushek]

I definitely think that the blue board and the brown should be separate. Even though there is a significant overlap of members and discussions there are very different personalities as mentioned above - attitudes, search engine availability, etc..

Another this to consider is that this forum as a subforum of the brown board would presumably be done without the current owner and all of the history (218,000+ posts would be unavailable).

With the costs mentioned by Dave and Ron, I suspect then entire cost of the upgrade and reinstalled would be under $500 and could easily be raised from respondents to this thread. Heck, we may even be able to buy tGA's lunch on the day of the upgrade.

With admin control in our hands, the STx forums could be enhanced and Touring forums possibly added.

I'm in

Terry

[lateapex911]

Yea, Bills a great guy, and don't shoebox him into just ITB, he made speed in an ITS Corrado as well.

I think the obvious play is to upgrade this to filer registrations, and do it in such a way as to not lose the history and membership here. I've been wondering when somebody was going to ask for $$.

lets figure out a budget and do a drive. i'm sure the $$ and maybe a hosting budget could be raised.

[gran racing]

I am not saying they are not, but I would like to see someone go after "advertisers" that are relevant and a resource to all of us...

Who is someone?

Seeking cash for advertising on websites that don't have huge draws isn't an easy, at least for me.

[Ron Earp]

Alright!! Way to go and much thanks for all the work on the site!

[iambhooper]

Glad to see this bar is back open! Thanks!

[Greg Amy]

Thank you sir!!!

[Terry Hanushek]

Welcome back

Thanks for the effort repairing our data

Terry

[team-gpracing]

Great news!!

[quadzjr]

Thank you Sir. for your time and effort.