Hello everyone!
My name is Steve and I am a fellow gun enthusiast and forum nut. I have run forums before and have been interested in finding a new forum to participate in for a while. I came across this one a few weeks ago and it was exactly what I was looking for. I approached Norm about possibly selling it and we were able to work something out, and now here we are!
I know a lot of folks will be completely turned off by the idea of a new site owner and I completely understand that, especially an “outsider,” I just ask that you give me a chance and see if you like the result. I’d be willing to bet you’ll be very satisfied in a very short time.
I am not looking to change the “heart” of the forum, I’m just interested in participating in conversations with fellow gun enthusiasts as well as improving the look and performance of the site as a whole. I know it is weird but I really just enjoy using and running a forum.
I took over ownership on Sunday and immediately started working on moving the site, hopefully you have noticed the site is performing much better than it has been in the past few weeks. We still have one more move to make to get to our final “home,” but it shouldn’t be a debacle like the move on Sunday was. Normally I would have just waited until my new server was ready to avoid moving twice but I found the site to be almost unusable in the last few days and figured everyone would appreciate an earlier move.
To start I’d like to inform everyone about some of the immediate changes:
1. As mentioned above, we will be moving to a much faster and much more reliable server so your experience as far as site speed and reliability should improve greatly.
2. I feel like there are too many banner ads currently, I’ll reduce it down to two ads in the header and possibly one in the footer. There will never be any ads in the content of the site (In posts, between posts, etc).
3. I will go through each setting in the admin control panel and optimize everything, this should result in an overall cleaner and easier to use forum and may even result in more features than are currently available. ( I am about half way through with this, you may have noticed slight tweaks and changes already)
4. I will go through and clean up the forum layout and try to group common topics together and maybe add or remove a coupe along the way, I’d love to hear suggestions on this one!
5. I will expand the classifieds a little bit and loosen the rules on them. Classifieds are very entertaining when done correctly and can also be very helpful if you need something or want to get rid of something and would prefer to deal with someone in your own community.
I’d also like to hear any questions or concerns you may have, and would also love to hear any suggestions as to things you would like to have fixed or changed, and also anything you absolutely don’t want touched.
Just post any questions, concerns, bug reports, etc in this thread and I will get to them as soon as I can. If all goes to plan I will be on full time for the rest of today and most of tomorrow to answer any questions and to work on the site.
If you are experiencing issues with being logged out automatically, "What's New" resetting too fast, etc, then please delete your cookies for the site in your browser, that should get it back to normal.
Thanks!
My name is Steve and I am a fellow gun enthusiast and forum nut. I have run forums before and have been interested in finding a new forum to participate in for a while. I came across this one a few weeks ago and it was exactly what I was looking for. I approached Norm about possibly selling it and we were able to work something out, and now here we are!
I know a lot of folks will be completely turned off by the idea of a new site owner and I completely understand that, especially an “outsider,” I just ask that you give me a chance and see if you like the result. I’d be willing to bet you’ll be very satisfied in a very short time.
I am not looking to change the “heart” of the forum, I’m just interested in participating in conversations with fellow gun enthusiasts as well as improving the look and performance of the site as a whole. I know it is weird but I really just enjoy using and running a forum.
I took over ownership on Sunday and immediately started working on moving the site, hopefully you have noticed the site is performing much better than it has been in the past few weeks. We still have one more move to make to get to our final “home,” but it shouldn’t be a debacle like the move on Sunday was. Normally I would have just waited until my new server was ready to avoid moving twice but I found the site to be almost unusable in the last few days and figured everyone would appreciate an earlier move.
To start I’d like to inform everyone about some of the immediate changes:
1. As mentioned above, we will be moving to a much faster and much more reliable server so your experience as far as site speed and reliability should improve greatly.
2. I feel like there are too many banner ads currently, I’ll reduce it down to two ads in the header and possibly one in the footer. There will never be any ads in the content of the site (In posts, between posts, etc).
3. I will go through each setting in the admin control panel and optimize everything, this should result in an overall cleaner and easier to use forum and may even result in more features than are currently available. ( I am about half way through with this, you may have noticed slight tweaks and changes already)
4. I will go through and clean up the forum layout and try to group common topics together and maybe add or remove a coupe along the way, I’d love to hear suggestions on this one!
5. I will expand the classifieds a little bit and loosen the rules on them. Classifieds are very entertaining when done correctly and can also be very helpful if you need something or want to get rid of something and would prefer to deal with someone in your own community.
I’d also like to hear any questions or concerns you may have, and would also love to hear any suggestions as to things you would like to have fixed or changed, and also anything you absolutely don’t want touched.
Just post any questions, concerns, bug reports, etc in this thread and I will get to them as soon as I can. If all goes to plan I will be on full time for the rest of today and most of tomorrow to answer any questions and to work on the site.
If you are experiencing issues with being logged out automatically, "What's New" resetting too fast, etc, then please delete your cookies for the site in your browser, that should get it back to normal.
Thanks!