| It's a New Year... and what are we gonna do about it? |
Subject: It's a New Year... and what are we gonna do about it? by bogus on 2017/12/31 20:42:59 The site has about died... To be honest, it never fully recovered from when the host died nearly 3 years ago. For those that are not aware, we were being hosted by a firm called Beantown, they were bought out by a guy named Will who had a firm called Fleet Networks. In April 2015, Will stopped answering the phone and their security certificate expired. This means I didn't want to put my credit card into a system that wasn't secure. To make matters worse, at the same time, my credit card got hit for its automated payment! I was paying for nothing. That required a call to the bank and they were able to get me my last 2 payments back and kill off the auto pay. Whew. After several attempts to call and only getting a Spanish speaking outbound message, I figured that the gig was up and transferred everything I could to Go Daddy. The problem is that Fleet held the URLs for another 4 or 5 months. Which meant that for that period, even with email blasts, users were informed that we were gone... I did upload a page to reroute them here, but I don't know how long that lasted. I appreciate the loyalty of those that have stuck it out, but we need to get some new life in here. Any suggestions? One thing I want to do is return to the corvetteguru.com domain. I did finally get it back. I think corvetteforum.guru hasn't helped one damned bit. I want to upgrade the software... Xoops is stuck in neutral... they are "working" on a version 3.0, but that means the Xoops community needs to step up with new modules and they haven't. This is the same editor for the last 12 years... There are also bugs they can't explain or deny are happening. I also know that facebook is a major part of this... there are 3 or 4 dedicated pages for C4's alone, and the same for each other generation and 5 or 6 Corvette general pages. The problem? The same damned questions get asked over and over again and there is zero search ability. In part of the revamping, I plan on rebuilding the facebook page and in doing so, will reinforce the free forum with searching. Anyother ideas? Please discuss!!! I like having the site and want to keep it up and running. Just need some ideas. |
