So just to see if I got this: Was the forum basically suspended because we were too active?

Seems counter productive.

Quote from: "The Bamboo Forest"

And what would we change to?

MyBB would probably be the top choice. Either that or FluxBB.

Quote from: "The Bamboo Forest"

BTW TSM, what is the name of the host we're using now? (Host, not software)

X10Hosting.

So far, I haven't encountered any huge problems. But just out of curiousity, what made you choose this host over the others?

Switching over to Sub Silver until the backup is taken care of.

Are there going to be any other staff members besides Phantom, Ed, and TSM?

What about TMH? Also what about G. Mods and Mods?

As it was, it just seemed to me that things would be more easy to run if the staff are all admins. As far as Mike goes, he's out of the picture. So if you want to get technical, there will be no mods, just admins. This could change in the future if we feel there is a need for moderators, but at this time, I don't see that as needed.

All right everyone, it's been decided.

After the move, the staff will be re-organized with myself, Ed, and TSM all as Admins. I'm granting this to TSM due to his help in backing up the forum and because he established this new forum giving him technical administartion, so I feel it's only fair.

With that in mind, it seems that the majority of the board is in favor of a technical move. What we need to do now is take care of any unfinished business.

Once everything is straightened out, we'll set a date for the official "move", in which TSM will do a final backup of the forum and then we will officially start to conduct ourselves in the new one.

The only concern I can think of at this point is if Forumer will get onto us for making this move. As far as I know, this is in no way a violation of their terms of use, normally I wouldn't give it a second thought. However, I also did not know that they were closing down forums if the admin didn't post every 30 days, so I'm not exactly up to date on their policies.

I'm going to conduct my own research into this, but for now, as far as everyone knows, is this in anyway a breach of their terms?

Choice #3 is the best one as I see it.

However, if we were to go for option #3 TSM, would you be willing/able to be de-Admin'd after the current mods took control?

That's exactly the matter I've sent him a PM over. Because I felt that it was something that the two of us should discuss and not the entire forum. I hope you understand.

EDIT: TSM; I believe your PM box is full, plesae empty it.

Offtopic

I want to say, in terms of activity on the forum, I would certainly like to increase the activity, and this may be an opportunity for us to do just that. Now that's another conversation entirely and we need to focus on this main problem first, but I would just like to say that for the last 2 years, activity has been very good for the forum.

While it has amounted to roughly 10 regulars, that's very good for us compared to our first 3 years, in which we would have periods of large activity followed by periods of close to zero posts for weeks at a time. As a forum, we've been doing all right.

Well I have an actual excuse this time.

The internet was down in my area for most of the day.

Anyway, all things aside this topic still needs to be adressed. How we go about it doesn't matter at this point, as long as we decide what it is we want to do.

For over a year now we've been discussing the concept of moving the forum. This could mean many different things.

What we need to do is identify our choices of action and move from there.

Now we have a few choices. As I see it our main choices include:

1. Complete Forum Move: This would entail closing up shop and simply moving to a new forum with a new host. A complete new start.

2. Change of Venue Move: We move away from a forum host and establish a different kind of community. A facebook group has been discussed, however I feel that that would be just a fraction of the new community we would establish. This could be anything from a chat group to a complete website depending on what direction we go in.

3. Technical Move: While I'm not very tech savy I know several of the members here are. After having the forum backed up, if there is anyway we can transfer the data to another site, that could be a possible choice. Again, I am not sure at all if this is a possibility, but I feel it does need to be mentioned.

4. No Move: We stay where we are despite the problems Forumer has given us.

Now no one of these choices is perfect. What we need to do is discuss which of these are possible and what it is we want to do.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we ARE the Legends of the Hidden Temple community. When I started this forum it was nothing more than an experiment. While this is by no means a large community by the standards of the internet, we have proven to be an established community. The fact is, while the discussion mainted here is mostly through regulars, we have become a hub for the Legends fandom.

The fact is, this is not a choice that I alone should be making, this is something we all need to decide on. I'm open to anything at all, feel free to make suggestions. My main concern is that our community continues to exist. What we've established here in the last 5 years is pretty nice, and I know that no one wants to see it die.

Thank you very much, and sorry for the late post.