Rumor that ClubCobra is going bye-bye.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by twobjshelbys

The problems that happen are in all likelihood caused by some corrupted database tables. Unless you're familiar with the organization of the forum database you'll have to hire someone (not cheap). Then add to that this forum software is no longer supported and the new versions that claim to use the same database file are fee based you'll face some expensive startups.

Trying to maintain the current structure is pretty much doomed to failure. Instead, the easiest way to preserve the wealth of information is to just use one of the many commercial spider programs to crawl the site and archive it in HTML format. It would be fully searchable, easy to reference, easy to go to individual threads, but you would not be able to, say, resurrect a five year old thread and continue on with a comment in true database format. All the information would still be there though.

Log in credentials could either be migrated from this site to the newest version of the software, which is slightly difficult, or everyone just establishes new logons -- there's not all that many of us left. But all forums would start fresh, but there would still be that one big, read-only, archive of everything that was ever posted on the original Club Cobra.

That's the easiest way to do it because, sooner or later, the pulse is going to stop on this site and there's no one around responding to Code Blue.

That said, if anyone out there is actually a pal of Brent M., it would be nice if he or she just picked up the phone and chatted with him and asked him just what's going on.