Forum problems

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by Alfa02

I will do that Patrickt, I'll call Bill S. since he has a direct link to Brent and see if we can get the ball rolling. Anybody else like add a few coins to help Brent to save our site ???? Here's your chance. Thank you patrickt for your input much appreciated, Cheers Tom.

Been through this so many times. Ad revenues keep coming in. People donate and things never change. Where does the money go? It's been this way for years now.

I've been following car forums for close to 20 years now. Many site admins saw their forum as a way to make a little money like Facebook endorsers do. Not a single forum that started charging is still in existence. The only one that survived went back to free and another has a tiered membership that exposes rights (eg the ability to post and reply to for sale topics vs read only for non paying).

I'd hate to see the forum shut down as it is a wonderful source of information. But until the owners tell me what is wrong and what it takes to fix it my pocket book stays closed.

Software has no moving parts. It doesn't wear out. It does get rotten (ref "windows rot" where Windows slows down after years of cumulative updates but the same version with updates remastered is fine) perhaps something as simple as rebuilding the existing os and fresh install of forum software will help.

In the end after 55 years in the hardware and software business the performance problems here are much more than downrev server as softtware.. Some of you may remember when it ran great like any other responsive forum...

Ps. The IT department will want you to reboot first.