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« on: June 05, 2016, 09:06:34 pm »
I’d like to float an idea that I feel is going to split to room a little but is as follows:
Do you think that closing down the MKB website and forum, and replacing it with a Facebook Group is a good idea?
I’ve been thinking about this today and it has occurred to me that our home for nearly the last 10 years has probably had its day for a number of reasons, but I would like everyone who reads this to think about their responses and post to the Poll I have created to support this question.
What has triggered this was noticing that I posted a comment on Ian’s RC Car thread a week or so back and since then only 1 thing has been submitted, Dean’s response when he got back from holiday saying my comment was cool.
This is my opinion:
We haven’t had a new member join the forum in years, and its been even longer since one joined who still posts regularly, the MKB as an American Car Club is long dead, we haven’t had a club meet since 2010 (The last Pics I have) It has been valiantly survived by the friendships it kindled before and after our little spat with the AACI about fuelling a Pallet Bonfire all night! How many of us call each other by our forum names in person anymore? None of us as far as I know.I just feel that it’s served its purpose, and very well, but it may be about time to take the poor old thing on 1 last trip to Dignitas and do the right thing.
In addition when was the last time any of us went to the homepage before looking at the forum, I know I haven’t done this in years, for all I know it’s covered in humorous pictures of Donald Trump’s ill-fitting Toupee...
There are a few pros and cons to doing this, ones that I have thought of are below but please feel free to add to this list in your posts below.
Pros:
- We don’t have to pay for web-hosting anymore (even if its not expensive its still a pro)
- We all communicate via facebook these days anyway (which didn’t really exist when this was created) and it would make life easier.
- The group can be created private and serve the same purpose as our forum does right now, for this group of friends to talk to each other and plan events
- We would have the option of making it a wider group later if we saw fit
- These days the whole site misleads people, we’re not the club our website says we are.
- Facebook works well with our smart phones (which also didn’t really exist when this was created), the forum really doesn’t
- We can still keep the name & logo, to remember where it all started… *sniff*
- The forum can be locked for new content, with a closing message, and allowed to die gracefully when the current hosting period expires.
Cons:
- Loss of the archive forum history (as it would no longer be online)
- A bit more of our lives would be ‘owned’ by Facebook
- Partial loss of a faded identity (Ryan’s opinion)
- Our epic smiley collection will die, only to be fondly remembered over a campfire and a few pints of homebrew
Please all have a think, and respond with your comments, feelings and opinions below.
Poll is attached, current results are invisible until you’ve voted.
Cheers.
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) at some shows this summer, camped away for the weekend as a big group, so that we can all make a new folder of photos for 2015 shows and have some memories to put in it.
