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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

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08 Apr 2016 12:04 #1 by robert (robert carter)
I often check the bottom of the page when I log on just to see who's around but can't believe the amount of guests looking at the forum , it's a pity these won't sign up after all the bigger the forum the bigger the bigger pool of knowledge we have, so if any of you guests read this please join us ,we don't bite , some of our fish do though , but you will be welcome .

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08 Apr 2016 12:58 #2 by Jonlate (Jon Late)
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Just looked at that because you mentioned it. 161 on at the moment. But rather than looking at the 'recent topics' they have most likely googled something and this brilliant site has answered their question.
So they might never read this post :(
But here's for hoping :woohoo:

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08 Apr 2016 21:19 #3 by robert (robert carter)
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275 guests on our forum at this time , imagine the wealth of information that would bring us if they were members , Come on lads sign up

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09 Apr 2016 01:32 #4 by hammie (Neil Hammerton)
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Mostly bots and not people

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09 Apr 2016 09:40 #5 by JohnH (John)
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Mostly bots and not people


This dates back to a time - some years ago now - when the Forum servers were 'hacked', Darragh sorted this out for us, but immediately afterwards we were getting sometimes over 2.000 visitors (or 'guests') at any given time. Thanks to his good efforts this number has drastically reduced but not gone away entirely.
At one stage we restricted Forum access to signed-in members only but still a reasonably large number of 'guests' were in evidence, which led us to believe they were, indeed, not real people at all.
So, bearing this all in mind, it appears there will be little opportunity of converting many of the 'guests' into becoming members I fear., even though attempts (not to forget Robert's latest one). have been made in the past.

John

Location:
N. Tipp

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.


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It's a long way to Tipperary.

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09 Apr 2016 10:32 #6 by robert (robert carter)
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So basically they are ghosts, but the question is do ghosts keep fish :cool:

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09 Apr 2016 12:04 #7 by JohnH (John)
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So basically they are ghosts, but the question is do ghosts keep fish :cool:


Of course they do - I'll start the ball rolling with Phantom Tetras and Black Ghost Knife Fish, any others?

John

Location:
N. Tipp

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.


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It's a long way to Tipperary.

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09 Apr 2016 12:56 #8 by robert (robert carter)
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Ghost koi

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09 Apr 2016 13:04 #9 by JohnH (John)
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Obviously one for the ghostly pond-keeper...

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09 Apr 2016 13:20 #10 by Jonlate (Jon Late)
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I remember a Jeremy wade on his program fishing for 'demon fish' but don't remember if that was an actual fish species or a made up English name!!

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09 Apr 2016 13:25 #11 by Jonlate (Jon Late)
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And another one was in a recent PK article, the ghostly octopus off hawawi they have named Casper! :angel:

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10 Apr 2016 07:00 #12 by paulv (paul vickers)
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So basically they are ghosts, but the question is do ghosts keep fish :cool:


Of course they do - I'll start the ball rolling with Phantom Tetras and Black Ghost Knife Fish, any others?

John

Vampire tetra.

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