Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
Fay Hey Ssss Book.....farsebook or facebook ?????
.... i've no time for fb realy!! Below tank is for sale
my plywood tank build.
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...k-build-diary#137768
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Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
BLANCHARDSTOWN
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Although it does have its uses, keeping in touch with far away friends and family and so on.
Does my head in when someone puts up pics of family though
You do realise that when other people put up those annoying boring pictures of their kids they are probably doing just that - sending them to far away relatives? You are probably not the target audience. Remember when you had to go and get your roll of negatives developed, pay £12.99 before you even knew if any of them were worth sharing, pay more for extra prints, send them in an envelope to Auntie Ethel in Oz and hope they didn't get lost in the post in the 2 months it took for them to arrive?
We put photos of our daughter on our FB accounts for just that reason - to send them to her grandparents who live on the other side of the world. If someone finds that annoying well that's kind of too bad IMO. I find I get pestered by my "friends" to put up more photos of her though, rather than your reaction.
Besides, you can set it so you never see any photos from a particular person ever again.
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... i'd much prefer to email pictures which i do.whats up with all these stupid pages people like or all the awkward moments crap?... majority of it is that, absolute crap... it wouldn't be worth it for me, i'd only ruin everyone's buzz
Below tank is for sale
my plywood tank build.
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...k-build-diary#137768
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I can keep up to date with what they are up to, and vice versa. OK, a lot of the stuff they(and I)post is probably not to everyones taste, but then do you agree with everything your mate says when you're sitting chatting in the pub, or wherever? One thing that gets on my tits is going to check my page and there are dozens of daft 'picture sayings'(I might try add a sample below)as I call them that people have 'liked', but that's just part of it I guess, fair play to them if they have the time to sit there and go through all that keek, I wish I had that time.
There are the bad sides too, as has been mentioned, all the advertising on my page is related to searches I have done on my laptop, so obviously there is some sort of programme there that can 'intrude' in my laptop, I don't like that sort of sh*t, but guess we gotta take the good with the bad. I'm also very careful with what photos I put on my page, and what labels I put on them. I have ignored a lot of friend requests, for various reasons. 7 minutes after I activated my account, I had a friend request from an Austrian girl I worked with, and then travelled a bit with 10 years previously, but had lost touch with. Since then, we've had no other contact, other than maybe looking at each others pages, so is she really a 'friend'? I know girls who have 500+ 'friends', and yet are always asking me to go for a pint because they have no-one else to go with, so who are all these FB 'friends' then?
It,like everything, has it's pro's and con's, but for now I'll be sticking around as there are a good few people who I would not be able to keep in touch with without it, we're just not the letter writing type. I do find though, that the people who are the most negative and critical towards it, are those that have never used it, so I wouldn't listen to anything they say about it, as they obviously are not talking from experience, so their comments mean nothing.
Here's a sample of the sh*t posts I mentioned.
always on the lookout for interesting corys.pm me if you know off any!
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