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-   -   Rumor that ClubCobra is going bye-bye. (http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/all-cobra-talk/142843-rumor-clubcobra-going-bye-bye.html)

joyridin' 10-07-2019 02:31 PM
Rumor that ClubCobra is going bye-bye.
 
There is a post on another Cobra site about this site. One of the people posting stated he was "notified" that ClubCobra will cease to exist soon. No date or time given.

Again, this is a rumor, but considering all the issues, it may be true. If you have pictures or information you value, you may want to make a copy just in case. I am sure everybody will be given notice, but sometimes things happen faster than you can react.

767Jockey 10-07-2019 03:07 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by joyridin' (Post 1467316)
There is a post on another Cobra site about this site. One of the people posting stated he was "notified" that ClubCobra will cease to exist soon. No date or time given.

Again, this is a rumor, but considering all the issues, it may be true. If you have pictures or information you value, you may want to make a copy just in case. I am sure everybody will be given notice, but sometimes things happen faster than you can react.
Where did you see this?

twobjshelbys 10-07-2019 03:13 PM
link to the other place?

jhv48 10-07-2019 03:27 PM
https://talkcobra.com/showthread.php...lub-Cobra-dead

twobjshelbys 10-07-2019 03:31 PM
I don't see anything there that we haven't jabbered about in the various topics here. Just that the site has issues and nothing is being done to address them and everyone wondering about the true interest in keeping it alive. This site is at risk. It's got end-stage kidney disease and is on dialysis. Not quite in a coma but not too far away. One more glitch in the database and it'd be on life support.

mrmustang 10-07-2019 05:19 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by joyridin' (Post 1467316)
There is a post on another Cobra site about this site. One of the people posting stated he was "notified" that ClubCobra will cease to exist soon. No date or time given.

Again, this is a rumor, but considering all the issues, it may be true. If you have pictures or information you value, you may want to make a copy just in case. I am sure everybody will be given notice, but sometimes things happen faster than you can react.
They said the same thing about CHR and ClubChopper roughly 8 years ago, both still around. Traffic down, I suspect both due to a lack of new builds, and a basic lack of interest in hanging out in online forums in general. Quite a few of the hot forums are waning these days.......As always, time will tell.

Alfa02 10-07-2019 07:15 PM
I spoke with a few club member's here in the PNW, we would be interested in taking this site over if possible. Way too good of a site (Info & Friends) to let it go by the way-side. Anybody else up for keeping this site going? Cheers Tom.

Gaz64 10-07-2019 08:03 PM
Of course.

There is way too much information on here, and the one of largest forum groups of guys and gals.

Gary

cycleguy55 10-07-2019 08:14 PM
I joined TalkCobra two years ago and, quite frankly, tired of it very quickly. IMO the chatter there was often juvenile and not of the same level of knowledge and assistance I've found on CC. There are times I don't login to TalkCobra for weeks, perhaps months.

Edit: I just logged in to TalkCobra and I note things haven't changed much. The first page of "What's New?" features more threads about other things than threads about Cobras.

twobjshelbys 10-07-2019 08:41 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfa02 (Post 1467325)
I spoke with a few club member's here in the PNW, we would be interested in taking this site over if possible. Way too good of a site (Info & Friends) to let it go by the way-side. Anybody else up for keeping this site going? Cheers Tom.
I think you'll find that you'll be in over your head fairly quickly. It's not going to make you any money (it will cost you alot) and will take a fair amount of time to put the data base back together. 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. Then you will discover that, like me, while this place is interesting and has a wealth of knowledge, it's not worth paying for.

1795 10-08-2019 03:59 AM
Tom,

See what you can do and let us know. It is worth a try.

Jim

joyridin' 10-08-2019 05:38 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by twobjshelbys (Post 1467322)
I don't see anything there that we haven't jabbered about in the various topics here. Just that the site has issues and nothing is being done to address them and everyone wondering about the true interest in keeping it alive. This site is at risk. It's got end-stage kidney disease and is on dialysis. Not quite in a coma but not too far away. One more glitch in the database and it'd be on life support.
The comment from a senior member was he was notified the site will cease to exist. The rest is just the typical complaints, but that post was a bit different.

Needless to say, this site seems to be on auto pilot.

mr bruce 10-08-2019 05:57 AM
all the stand alone forums are fading away, car ,bike, hobby, etc, old timers are dyin'off, the younger crowd use the Fasebook,

ALF 10-08-2019 06:06 AM
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Originally Posted by mr bruce (Post 1467335)
all the stand alone forums are fading away, car ,bike, hobby, etc, old timers are dyin'off, the younger crowd use the Fasebook,
But I'm not young (compared to others) and therefore I NEED ClubCobra :)

mr bruce 10-08-2019 06:09 AM
I'm with you ALF, but the times they are a changin'

t walgamuth 10-08-2019 06:36 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by cycleguy55 (Post 1467330)
I joined TalkCobra two years ago and, quite frankly, tired of it very quickly. IMO the chatter there was often juvenile and not of the same level of knowledge and assistance I've found on CC. There are times I don't login to TalkCobra for weeks, perhaps months.

Edit: I just logged in to TalkCobra and I note things haven't changed much. The first page of "What's New?" features more threads about other things than threads about Cobras.
I got banned for being too liberal over there. Of course they did not say that, they said people complained about me.

I hope this site can keep going.

patrickt 10-08-2019 08:42 AM
The Easiest Way...
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by twobjshelbys (Post 1467331)
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.:cool:

Karl Bebout 10-08-2019 08:54 AM
I would certainly hate to see the site go away. I've gotten lots of useful information here and the AZ Cobra forum is the main way we desert dwellers communicate about our activities. My 2¢ worth.

MEATMASTER 10-08-2019 10:00 AM
Try Facebook
 
Or you could just ask him on Facebook where he just posted yesterday :-)

https://www.facebook.com/brent.mills.520

snakeeyes 10-08-2019 10:21 AM
This is disappointing to read, especially after having been away from the Cobra hobby for about a decade and having just recently become active on this forum again. It's not surprising, though; as Mr. B intimated other platforms are replacing forums as the communication method. I couldn't recall my password when I wanted to post on here again and it took me several weeks and several different ways of requesting to finally get some assistance with logging in. Still sad. This has been such a great resource for so long, and I personally made some fantastic friends here, who in turn involved me in some Cobra-related activities I never would have dreamed I would have a chance to experience. I hope something can be done to save it if it's truly in danger of going away.


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