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
FORUM IDENTIFICATION
My name is Tom Brecknell and I have been in and out of the Forum and fish keeping depending on my home and work demands. I always have a tank or two going at my house and I first joined the ITFS about 15 years ago.
When I joined the forum for the first time I used an assumed name as I wanted to hide in the background so nobody would know who I was. I used the name FRONTOSA as my very good friend Derek Doyle was breeding F1 Zaire Blue Frontosa’s at the time. Still something not many people have done to this day.
The reason for this post is that I think everybody should use their own name and put a picture of themselves up as well. Most people sign their posts with their own name anyway. So if you go to a show or a club meeting you will know the person on sight, which could make your first meeting with everybody a lot less awkward for you, and you can avoid them if you want. (Ha! Ha!) The last time this was suggested was a couple of years ago, a few people did change their names, but then again, I think everybody should. This is just my opinion not a request or an order.
Happy Fishkeeping,
Tom Brecknell.
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See what i mean the internet is full of dodgey characters!
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