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
Auction.....meeting and greeting thread
These events also mean a great chance to meet people trans mutate from digital avatar holding a mysterious username to real people.
So, from here, I met some very pleasant people. Had some extended chats with some, and some truncated chats with others (as there was other business on the day).
I met for the first time (although I had been told that some people had chatted to me at last years fish show):
Valerie;
JustinK;
Sheag;
DJK; and
Murph.
There were others, but I couldn't link the person to the username.
And, I didn't realise that 'Derek' on here was Derek from the ITFS. You can tell I'm newby to the ITFS.
And there are still people who I know in-person, but don't know their usernames here.
ian
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'Twas good to put a face to the name.
It was intriguing that we both sat at the back table!
(Cue the conspiracy theorists......)
(or is that the other lot?)
T.
Yeah. Quite odd......but also odd was that you commented on that.
When I entered, I passed Arabu et al who were on the front row.....and I said "I've never been a Teachers Pet....I'm off to the back".
(I always sat at the back of the class at school.)
Could it be an electronic engineers thing. ???
ian
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, anyway good to meet old heads and new faces again plus pick up some good bargins to boot... same time next year, or next show which ever comes sooner Fishkeeping the Only way to get wet and wild
currently 25 tanks, and breeding is the aim of everything i keep
location:Limerick
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I must have been distrated by the great deals in front of us evrywhere.would have loved to have a chat with you Ian; perhaps until the next auction like shamus says.
regards
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