[SiteWolf]

haloran added a nice donation recently, so we want to thank him for that

We sincerely appreciate ALL those who donate. We need to make that easier to do.....adding more options like Venmo, Square, Leaguesafe, etc as options....and we need to give you more reason to....that is until we can get enough going for the site and its traffic to do more of the heavy lifting.....

Which brings up a couple things. Our new server setup is not a flat fee situation. We need to lock it up at lower prices or the monthly cost is only going to go up moving forward. If I gathered correctly, somewhere in the $500 range covers us for a year, $1000 would cover us for 3. Not suggesting that has to happen, or happen from donations, just sayin' Nick and I want to lock in lower prices, which would mean doing something soon.

On a totally different subject- forums. You may/may not remember/realize that we've been operating on an older version of vbulletin for years, one that we no longer have to pay an annual license to use, but also has severe limits on what we can update. Plus, it's taken some creative hacking for Nick to get around the fact vbulletin assumes it is going to be the primary login for a site.

So, just as happened a number of years ago with a previous iteration of our forums, we may be faced with it being logical moving forward to archive our current forums and start fresh again.

Let's face it....forums across the web are simply not used like they once were. They still serve their purpose, but are simply not 'office water hole' communication center they used to be. These forums have been nice to have, there are things we could have done with them over the years that we haven't....but a simpler, cleaner, leaner setup might serve our purpose just as well while also eliminating some of the quirks of moving between the forums and the site.

When you think of how you communicate elsewhere around the web and/or how you'd like to here, what's the 2018 version of your thinking? Inquiring minds want to know!