Who wants to go back home?

"Hooome. Home on the range, where the deer and the antelope plaaaay"...........

I think if we did move back, it could do with a lil clean up in places.

lmao sowwwyyyy, couldn't resist that one Cel.

I'm against it.
It has exactly one feature I miss, which is a quick and easy Posts Since Last Visit button. Other than that, I do not miss it one bit.
It really doesn't matter that most of our content is there because it's still perfectly accessible for anyone who happens to want to read it, which I doubt anyone is doing (or would do) with any frequency.
Forumotion sucks, and going back for nostalgia's sake isn't helping anything. We'll just get right back into the same do-nothing rut. No thank you.

Now, is this place better overall? I think so, but I will agree there's plenty of room for improvement. With talk of a merger on the (somewhat) distant horizon, if anything now is the time to check out every forum type we can so that we don't end up not liking whatever we end up with.
By all means, do what makes you happy, but make sure that what makes you happy is also what you need.
And for Lod's sake, don't go diving under the old security blanket. It's worn, full of holes, and too small. If we want to grow we have to start by outgrowing that.

So, get out there. Everyone should hit every type of forum they have time to visit. A specific game's forums, a general gaming forum, a car forum, fly fishing, toast, or triskaidekaphobia. Doesn't mater what kind of forum it is. Pick a couple and get to know them. No recruiting, no advertising (What would be the point if we plan to move in a while?), just get a feel for each place. Then come back and talk about it here. What you liked and what you didn't. What was new to you? Doing this moves us forward and prepares us for the future. That's what I think we need, and it's something forumotion could never do for us.

I wouldnt rely on those numbers tbh. Im sure we show up in all the Pro Boards forums as a link just as I see tons off off site links in our own. Bored people browse. But I doubt any of those 200 ended up here with the intent on being here, or even staying here. Another thing to consider is that every time one of us sits on this index with out logging in...it counts as a Guest.


I dont see the old site as a security blanket. Imo its better software and I would much rather use it. Not just from the Admin panel, but the post editor on this forum just blows eggs out shells imo. I personally just dont like this place.
The old site....It has all our stuff. It looks full and used and not empty.
IDK. I cant image what this place has that we need. It has nothing. Half the plug ins dont work. We lost a few members because they would have rather stayed there or had an easier time logging in and browsing there.

Im seriously missing what is so great about pro boards. We are going to have to rebuild no matter where we are and I have plans for that already.

I dont fully agree with that. Even if it was a crappy version, it had its own mobile app. There are a few who used it for easier browsing. They dont come here because they cant view it as easily.

But whether we stay here or not, we need to find a way to make the site more accessible to mobile users.

I was under the belief that we came here knowing it might not be permanent though. FM sucks too, no doubt. But at least we know how it sucks and how to use it.

I guess a poll may be in order. I will add one now

Realy a mobile app??
I use my phone most of the time and I never new we had an app!?
Pretty sure at one point I ask if one could be made but got told no?
And as a phone browser I can use both forums as gods as each other!

Well, idk if I would say FM is the easiest. But its known. Im not so sure there is other free forum software out there though any better than it or where we are now however. There arent a whole lot of options outside buying forum software.

And yes and no wadey. We were not allowed to really make one at the old site. But forumotion had one of its own. For a good long while it was in a beta form and could only be used to browse as a guest. A few months before we packed up and left they had it functional to log in and post etc.
To the best of my knowledge they dont have a plug in or something similar here on pro boards. Im not sure for which site you are speaking.

FM wasnt broken Monkey. It just didnt have everything in it we wanted. I wouldnt say here is broken either. One doesnt seem to be any more restrictive than the other. For me, this is a case of having a forum full of topics. A much more solid frame to build on. I mean, we have three years of stuff there. The number of people visiting is something we have to work on regardless. We have forums here with no posts in it what so ever. Thats what I think most browsing would consider empty.

moving back simply because there is more older posts there is a stupid reason to go back.

I like the features here much better my only complaint is I cant quote someone and put any text before that quote.

dont weigh my opinion too heavily though, Im only hanging in by a thread. I come by every once in a while to see if anyone has posted any replies to the few topics I care about, I see im still last post and I bounce back out for a bit.