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I have discussed this some of you in the weeks before Christmas as to whether I close the forum or keep it open.
Chris Betson has kindly offered to host the forum on his servers so that means that we only have costs associated with the domain and its email registrations. These domain costs are about £15/annum.
I would like to thank Chris for his kind offer and also the support he has made to the forum since he joined a few years ago.
His work has enhanced the forum interface and presentation and allowed us to move it forward so that there is little need to change forum software.
In the longer term I will say that it is my intention in March 2023 to either close the forum or to pass it on to some other person who identifies themself to me as willing to manage and pay for the hosting and registrations.
I thank everyone for all the support that they have given me personally and to the forum finances that have enabled it to get to its 25th Anniversary in 2023.
In many ways social media has been the the killer for the forum as people can share their images directly on Facebook or Instagram or elsewhere so the forum has become of limited use where people look for solutions to some technical problem that they are encountering. Social media is particularly bad if you want to find things from the past as there is little or no indexing.
If anyone wants to take over the ownership and management of the forum then please can they contact me via a Personal Message.
Thanks
Jonathan
Last edited on Sun Jan 9th, 2022 12:34 by
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