08-06-2022, 12:54 AM
As far as I can tell the future of this site is less than certain. I've seen Guth's note of course, and many of the related answers, but nothing seems certain. Now as you're probably aware that some are working on solutions how to keep this site alive, but this may work, or it may not. Now image for a moment that the site was gone in a few days. How would you get in touch with other members ?
Correct, you could not, because the message board is down, the emails of other members are hidden deep down in the guts of this database, and I am not even sure that the admins have easy access to email addresses of members after the site is down. (Cormanus, could you confirm ?). This could be as much a blast to the future of our board and exchanges as the loss of the site itself.
I suggest two possible solutions - just as a backup in case things don't work out well for our site.
1) For all of us who are not too concerned about keeping their email address hidden / private: we create a central list of members with their email addresses. Anyone could volunteer to host this list which would look more or less like the "member list" on the top right corner. We could work out the details in the answers to this thread here. Each member would have to agree that the list with his user name and email is distributed freely. Admittedly, that's not everybody's cup of tea. Which takes us to solution 2.
2) all of you not willing to loose touch with the active members of this forum could (either temporarily or permanently) register at the German CB1100 forum. It is entirely irrelevant that the site is run in German language. Once you are registered (I would suggest to do this under your old user name followed by something like "US" (if permitted in a user name I would suggest _US or .US at the end of the user name created.
As the German site hosts the same "send email" or "send private message" system this would create a way for all interested members to stay in touch a) without exposing their email addresses, b) with or without ever reading one word in German on the site. All you need is a few instructions how to log in and send a message. Sounds convincing to me, and it is even thinkable that the separate threads in English could be added and slowly grow into the German forum. And if the US forum stays alive or comes back after a while, that's even better and no harm has been done.
Now, you might ask, why the German CB1100 site, why not some English Honda forum elsewhere ? Because many of the more generic Honda forums are much larger, and not focused on the CB1100. I think it is easier to take these steps on a smaller site with a relatively small user base.
If you want to have a look, the forum site's url is https://cb-1100.de/forum/
Please comment !
Correct, you could not, because the message board is down, the emails of other members are hidden deep down in the guts of this database, and I am not even sure that the admins have easy access to email addresses of members after the site is down. (Cormanus, could you confirm ?). This could be as much a blast to the future of our board and exchanges as the loss of the site itself.
I suggest two possible solutions - just as a backup in case things don't work out well for our site.
1) For all of us who are not too concerned about keeping their email address hidden / private: we create a central list of members with their email addresses. Anyone could volunteer to host this list which would look more or less like the "member list" on the top right corner. We could work out the details in the answers to this thread here. Each member would have to agree that the list with his user name and email is distributed freely. Admittedly, that's not everybody's cup of tea. Which takes us to solution 2.
2) all of you not willing to loose touch with the active members of this forum could (either temporarily or permanently) register at the German CB1100 forum. It is entirely irrelevant that the site is run in German language. Once you are registered (I would suggest to do this under your old user name followed by something like "US" (if permitted in a user name I would suggest _US or .US at the end of the user name created.
As the German site hosts the same "send email" or "send private message" system this would create a way for all interested members to stay in touch a) without exposing their email addresses, b) with or without ever reading one word in German on the site. All you need is a few instructions how to log in and send a message. Sounds convincing to me, and it is even thinkable that the separate threads in English could be added and slowly grow into the German forum. And if the US forum stays alive or comes back after a while, that's even better and no harm has been done.
Now, you might ask, why the German CB1100 site, why not some English Honda forum elsewhere ? Because many of the more generic Honda forums are much larger, and not focused on the CB1100. I think it is easier to take these steps on a smaller site with a relatively small user base.
If you want to have a look, the forum site's url is https://cb-1100.de/forum/
Please comment !