Forum Restructuring and Forum closures

[RazorUK]

For the less attentive of you - We've merged some of the forums, restructured the site a little to make it easier to find some of the more popular forums and have done some pruning of posts and posters that haven't graced us with a visit in 6 months or more.

Posts that do not have any activity in them for the past 365 days have been pruned and depending on the size of the database we may look to shrink that window by half again.

Doing backups and forum upgrades is a pain in the ass on larger databases. Similar measures are being pursued on our sister site Milanmania.

Oh and to throw a little good news your way - I renewed the FF domain for a further 2 years as good faith to those of you that have agreed to help us out, and to those of you that have already thrown some of your hard earned green our way for the site.

You guys rock and long may it continue!

[OSF]

Thanks for the good work, buddy! :rocker:

[Jacob]

Thanks, Andy. You da man! :cheers:

[RazorUK]

I've also been working on reducing the number of visits from the search engine bots, they are raping us in bandwidth. So I've basically told them they are not allowed to look at our images, since they are the biggest drain on bandwidth:D

[Jacob]

:D

And your signature reads: "The RazorUK universe." Indeed it is. ;)

[RazorUK]

Jacob is a female force :zany:

[Jacob]

:stuckup: :blues:

[xerx]

i'm very disappointed that the Bulgarian Football forum was merged with others :frown2: , coz i really hoped that some day it will start growing. and this is a huge step in the opposite direction. i put the efforts in trying to attract people this way (you can see how many people have viewed the Bulgarian Football thread after Bibi's and my ads), but i guess it was not enough to keep a forum opened up according to you. FF is losing me as a regular, will occasionally stop by though. it is not acceptable for me to see five Potuguese 'forums' so to say on the main page, and a bunch of threads that have nothing to do with each other under the branch European Football. with all the respect..

[RazorUK]

I can fully understand your frustration, and we were hoping that the Bulgarian forum would grow. Despite your efforts (and they were truly appreciated) the forum never took off to the level that we can justify leaving it on the front page.

The last thread and post in the forum was 08-24-2005, well over a month ago at this point in time, before that the last post was 07-05-2005 (which incidently was just a researcher looking for information) and before that 06-02-2005. Having a forum to yourselves for 3 posts in 3 months is just not sufficient to attempt to show to new people that we have an active bustling forum.

Lack of activity breeds lack of activity.

If we'd have had 3 posters in there posting once each twice a week the forum would still be open. Instead we had 1-2 posts per month for the last 3 and it sadly wasn't growing at the required rate to keep it open.

Heck I know how it feels I had a Liverpool forum that I couldn't build activity in and had to merge it into the English forums.

We'd have no problem re-opening it if the activity is there and we do hope you'll stick around and prove us wrong.:)

[Ljubuski]

Razor is a legend.

Cheersch