Who's next?

[aircap]

It's a sad thing. When I finally got access to the internet, the first place I came to was here. This was the first forum I ever logged onto with a password. I've gotten so much out of it, it's really been great. But maybe it's time for the place to die. That would suck, for the whole landracing community - which is much bigger than it seems to be.

[SPARKY]

it breaks my heart that Slim seemingly can't recognize that his brain has 2 hemispheres :

LEFT                                                         /   RIGHT
REASON                                                   /    OPINIONS
LOGIC                                                     /    FEELINGS
FACTS                                                      /    FICTIONS
HIS/OUR WEBSITE BEHAVIOR HISTORY     /     BUCKET LIST DREAM OF TRYING TO CONTROL FROM THE GRAVE  UP YOURS 

[GW]

Folks - getting back to the issue at hand, landracing.com is in need of a steward. I have zero web skills. Who out there in this great worldwide community called LSR has the knowhow, desire, and bandwidth to carry along this valuable torch? If interested, please state so.

GW

[bubruins]

I sent Slim a DM but have heard nada. I made a copy of the forum for my own records, but would be a big effort to try to recreate online.

[racefanwfo]

I also sent slim a PM and have heard nada also.

[donpearsall]

Jon posts a lot on Facebook. Send a message there and see if you can get a response.

Don

[rockracer]

Like most democrats,  probably wants to see the place burn down. 

[ronnieroadster]

Like most democrats,  probably wants to see the place burn down.

  Gee your must be such a patriate to think Democrats would be so hurtful. Certainly the Draft dodging coward leading the Maga crowd is such a guiding
light no fires would ever take place by that group. LMAO

[bubruins]

At Don's suggestion I contacted Jon on Facebook and we talked on the phone today. He said he'll check DMs and try to find the right fit. If anyone reading this knows anything at all about websites and could be a good steward reach out to Jon and talk through it sooner than later.

FYI Jon said its on hostgator and the minimum fees are about $100/yr, though years he recorded audio and made trips to the BSF cost more.

[ack]

I sent Slim a DM but have heard nada. I made a copy of the forum for my own records, but would be a big effort to try to recreate online.

It?s really not much effort. Fairly simple to Migrate it to Discourse, a modern form. It looks like it is running on Simple Machine's, a dated free forum. I would migrate it to Discourse + enable AI moderation + preserve URLs. Runs about $120 to $130 a month. There is almost no management required maybe 10 - 15 minutes a day or less. It Auto-detects spam & bots, Flags toxic or rule-breaking posts, it Summarizes long threads, Suggests moderator replies, and Answer FAQs automatically. I would be happy to pay the monthly cost to keep it going and have the people that can do the migration if Slim or someone else wants to manage it. Or I might consider managing it.

[JAL AKA JL222]

I sent Slim a DM but have heard nada. I made a copy of the forum for my own records, but would be a big effort to try to recreate online.

It?s really not much effort. Fairly simple to Migrate it to Discourse, a modern form. It looks like it is running on Simple Machine's, a dated free forum. I would migrate it to Discourse + enable AI moderation + preserve URLs. Runs about $120 to $130 a month. There is almost no management required maybe 10 - 15 minutes a day or less. It Auto-detects spam & bots, Flags toxic or rule-breaking posts, it Summarizes long threads, Suggests moderator replies, and Answer FAQs automatically. I would be happy to pay the monthly cost to keep it going and have the people that can do the migration if Slim or someone else wants to manage it. Or I might consider managing it.

   ack... with your years of landracing, constructing, travels and the know how to run this forum.

                   You would be a great administrator   JL222

[Gary Perkinson]

Low blow about trump?  Not a bit.  Any supporter of him isn't worthy of smelling my dirty socks, much less running this site.  I've kept the site as clear of politics as I could for 17 years - but no longer.  I can't stomach those jerks that think he's a human.

I remember taking the time sometime in the last year to find you on Facebook and to let you know that the site had, in fact, gone dark, after which you contacted your guy in Australia and got it back up again. I remember thinking at the time, you know, maybe Jon needs some help, and I came really close to offering you that help. Sure glad I didn't. But you know what? I can still always move to Minnesota and open up a daycare...I mean, hell, I could buy everyone on this site a new streamliner with that kind of money...LOL! Just shaking my head...good luck with your problems... 

Guess your one of those deniers the January 6th resurrection never Happened!  Bone spurs six times draft dodger convicted felon AKA the orange jesus what a joke!

Uh, sorry, but I didn't intentionally and treasonously allow at least 10,000,000 unvetted and undocumented foreign nationals to simply stroll into the country...the people that YOU voted for did that. Have a good day!

[kiwi belly tank]

How about we leave the politics out of here before it destroys it! We don't walk into somebody's pit at the salt or Elmo & climb up on a soap box so don't do it here. This political "us or them" $hit is dividing Americans & I really don't like what I see. Can we just be like minded racers in this one little corner of the world, PLEASE??
  Sid.

[Sumner]

How about we leave the politics out of here before it destroys it! We don't walk into somebody's pit at the salt or Elmo & climb up on a soap box so don't do it here. This political "us or them" $hit is dividing Americans & I really don't like what I see. Can we just be like minded racers in this one little corner of the world, PLEASE??
  Sid.

Well said Sid.  Going forward if some of you still need to get your 'feelings' out how about doing it in a different thread?

Mike thanks for the very generous offer in regards to helping with the site moving forward.  Something that should be looked into.  Two observations/thoughts in regard to it.

One is that I've been on Discord for a couple years via another interest.  I find the format puts off a number of people who frequent more conventional forum formats such as this one.  Once one get use to it it is easier to navigate.   Also maybe it is the way the Discord channel I use has been set up.  I find that it seems less friendly for users to start new topics and the flow is different.  There again I've only used the one Discord channel and maybe there are other options on how one could be setup.

My second thought is that in the long run down the road a ways if the site has to find funding to keep it up can it generate $120-$130 a month ($1500 a year) to keep the site up.  I wonder if Jon has had that amount come in reliably yearly to this point.  Unfortunately a lot of users on forums see them as free and don't see the costs associated with keeping them up and also the amount of work that entails.  I'm wondering if there are other options out there that don't cost quite as much?

I was paying around $300 a year to keep my site up.  Then moved it and now it is about $200 a year.  Some years donations cover that but most years they don't.  I don't have near the traffic on it as most forum sites so not sure what is reasonable to expect to pay for a server that hosts a forum.  A quick search shows that maybe $25-$30 a month might get one some basic hosting with commercial software for the site.

Just to get this out there.....at 82 I'm not interested.....but hope someone steps up and maybe your the one Mike?

Sumner

[bubruins]

@ Sumner I made the same mistake of thinking Discord = Discourse as I also go to Discord occasionally. The latter looks like a nicer prebuilt solution, but pricey.

I think that $1500/yr might not be terrible now, but the beauty of this site is that it has been THE land speed archive for such a long time. There's not even a reddit space for it. Facebook is neat and flashy, but is so hard to go look back at prior content. I think it has to be a low sustainable price to survive the low interest/donation periods.