Forum Future?

[PeteS]

Sadly I am out of here for good, so I shall say goodbye before it shuts down on me. I have to accept I shall no longer run on the fells nor race, not that I did much of that anyway in the previous 10 years, prefering solo running. I should add I gave up FRA membership some years ago as it was very race orientated and I wasn't.
Because of this count me out for the new discord site, it is as good a time as any for me to draw a line through fell running as I have little to offer now - other than "Back in the old days we.......".
Had some great times on this site, back when it was booming with ridiculous humour and some great characters on here, sadly times move on and the past drifts away, I feel it time for me to cut the chord rather than dangle halfheartedly forever.
I shall look in and may comment up until "shutdown", but take this is my official end, and happy days for all the rest of you and the future.


Growing old sucks.

Cheers. Hopefully bump into you when I fincally get to cycle from Rhandirmwyn!

[Fellbeast]

I’m out as well, although to be fair I’ve been out for ages (aside from dropping in occasionally to disagree with the brainwashed GB news zombie folk)

The forum really meant a lot to me in the glory years (which for me were probably 2007 to brexit) and I even fantastically found my now wife here (obviously in ye olde dayes when women actually joined in), but online group chat has moved on and the forum hasn’t and probably couldn’t. As I said before even Facebook with all its problems and bastard adverts still knocks the forum into a cocked hat

I’m sure I’ll continue to bump into some of you, like Mike T the other day when I limped out of the Lakeland 5 Passes, although I’m guessing some of you will be too busy building your back garden survival bunkers in readiness for the UK going Muslim

[Graham Breeze]

So, I suggest that you say your goodbyes and move on. Massive thanks to Brett who has worked tirelessly as baby sitter for many years - he has far more patience than I.

And so, with my insouciant and customary sprezzatura I say farewell to joyous rodomontade for ever.

[Marco]

Shocking decision.

The forum is rolling along fine (admittedly with a smaller number of users than in times past), and this sounds like a personal grievance being taken out on the users of the forum.

From a personal point of view, when we were asked to form a "forum focus group", i offered my assistance in any way possible, whether it be some kind of admin/moderator/or anything else, and was not contacted once...

Closing it down is just an act of spite (in my humble opinion)

Pete

Totally agree. I no longer look here regularly, so I have only just discovered this (although it's exactly what I thought would happen for some time)

The good news is that Pete has created a very good alternative and, in more of an act of solidarity than a desire to post much, I have just joined it so I can show you here what it looks like.

For those of you who haven't joined yet, here are some screenshots, (which I have clipped so you can hopefully read them), of real discussions.







Is it easy to use? Looking at it briefly, it looks like it is. The one thing that strikes you immediately, is that it is much, much easier to add photos on Discord - so there's a lot more of interest to see.

For members who like what they see in the above pictures, and haven't joined yet, you can send Travs a private message and he will send you a link.

To people reading this who are not a member of this forum, or who have lost their log-in details, Travs has very kindly posted an email address on the 16th post of this thread

https://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/show...ithout-a-forum

Hope to see you all on Discord

[Llani Boy]

Top man, Marco!

[Mike T]

Agreed - well done Marco - and Travs of course.

[Witton Park]

Just don't go picking on me Marco