Forum Future?

[Graham Breeze]

Whilst I am still an admin on the forum, I stepped down as webmaster a while ago and don't often fiddle... and prob shouldn't but heyho.

I turned off the "new members" button because of the incredible quantity of spam registrations which I couldn't cope with.

The forum uses vBulletin (well outdated which needs upgrading to a new version or importing into a different format). I assume this hasn't been done because the Committee feels that FB (even the Yoof don't FB now) is the way forward.

Many forums (fora Graham, but probably not ) are dying on their bottoms which is a shame because FB is so transitory...

It's a great shame when looking back at the forum when it was at its finest, I made so many friends, had so many good times and met so many people at races...

I too feel that the end of the forum is imminent

edit - missing a few , and .

Yep. That's all true.

I think the Forum's last chance was The Forum Fights Back in the Spring 2022 Fellrunner.

For a long time the Forum was brilliant, informative, hilariously funny, witty, edudite, a vicious blood sport,
chamelionic,... because of the people who frequented it; but that population has gone.

Like other aspects of fell running things have changed and there will be no going back.

Oh Antonella Acciaiuoli - your time was so fleeting and now we will never see your like again.