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
website very slow?
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No real loss if your not on ian,i agree this website is tortuously slow i use it less and less because of it...
cheers
ian
On the upside it's not that bad now
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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No real loss if your not on ian,i agree this website is tortuously slow i use it less and less because of it...
cheers
ian
On the upside it's not that bad now
loading the main page => 15 seconds
every click thereafter to open a specific thread or reply on a thread and it's another 15-20 seconds. And now it will be another 20 when i hit SUBMIT.
Something ain't right.
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Good points made by Miamiheat..........the forum is torture to get on to for a good while now and i know personally i'm logging on less and less now because of it
Ger
What do you call a three legged Donkey?
A Wonkey....duh ha
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I fail to see any good point in banging on about quality of a free service,
You get what you pay for,
(No offense administration)
If you can't log on here then go to YouTube or Wikipedia
See how much conflicting information you can get yourselves there
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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Sorry ger,
I fail to see any good point in banging on about quality of a free service,
You get what you pay for,
(No offense administration)
If you can't log on here then go to YouTube or Wikipedia
See how much conflicting information you can get yourselves there
My final contribution to this thread:
As I mentioned in the post that created such debate: I have used the services of a hosting company in Ireland that was really bad and drove me nuts on a daily basis. I switched to another and problem fixed (and money saved). Because i did not want to mention names I offered to be contacted by PM. So perhaps there is a tiny chance that this may be the problem in which case I am happy to recommend the name of the hosting company. If the problem is something else then i guess I can't help.
Have a lovely afternoon!
And John, Darragh, THANK YOU for this website: it is great in many ways and I just wish the best for it and your efforts.
Stephane
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ill give you a 63 litre jewel 600 tank brand new in the box you can stick it up for raffle and use the proceeds for the forum....
How does that sound???
Cheers
Ian
Ian's most rational post ever?
Its a decent gesture - if a raffle and a few quid would help, I'm in . . . I didn't realise that Darragh bore all the cost on his own and I'm sure even a few €10's or €20's would help.
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Fair enough lj,Free or not, I'm not sure how raising a technical issue constitutes "pissing and moaning". It's just a few people saying they have trouble accessing the site. If you were to follow your logic to its natural conclusion then no one would say anything, nothing would improve and this forum would grind to a halt, with no one contributing; static, stagnated and spent.
If there's an issue raised the administration gets on to it,
They do what they can as fast as they can,
I think it got blown out of proportion
Especially when one particular member decided to take a pot shot at administration,
And your perception of my logic is way off track,
It's an opinion of yours on my response to people's lack of faith of the forum administration
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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One down.
Who's next :laugh
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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It looks like Darragh has been busy, thanks. Site is pretty much zipping along this morning.
this is what he did:
yep much faster
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