i know i spent a huge amount of time clearing out those email as they came in. a lot of them you would email them back and half the time no answer was ever received. i did get a lot of people on as a result of it.
there was a time period that no emails were coming through though and something was broken as was the password reset. both are now fixed.
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😂 What a coincidence!
Well I've been 'away' for a few years because I can't afford to play with cars. I still have my 75 kombi that I plan to resurrect soon, and a 65 notch that I hope to restore to road-going condition at least.
Like most people, I use Facebook and I'm a member of the aussieveedubbers Facebook group, but who runs it? It's great for general interest and networking but it really has nothing on this site. Are the two even related?
Kruizin Kol
Hi all
I've been painfully aware of the decline in posts here. To some extent, I have always expected it to dwindle over time, as the number of aircooled VW's dwindles.
The great thing is that aircooled VW owners are passionate about their cars, but particularly in Australia, we did see a bunch of bus related forums and other forums with limited membership pop up. Whether they felt the need to do this or not, I'm not entirely sure, but it's not hard to run a forum. It is hard to run it well - get a nice VPS for a decent price, making sure backups are in place, and so on. Luckily, we've been pretty lucky in that regard over the last few years.
One of the things I've been thinking about is how to drive traffic here. We've had a few false starts, such as using a CMS like Drupal and so on, and none of those worked as well as I would have liked. At one stage, I looked into moving the forum software to be inside Drupal as they have a forum software, but it's really broken.
Recently, I have been contemplating using a third party forum software (XenForo) but that also has not gone anywhere. I like XenForo because it allows mobile phone usage, which considering that I see a lot of traffic from mobile devices, and I know how horrible mobile access is to the forum. XenForo is not great at mobile usage either, but it's still better than here.
Part of the problem is that this forum software which I helped develop has a BUNCH of features, more than most out there. Going to anything else will mean a reduction in features. I don't know if you all use them, but that's something to consider.
I've looked at Tapatalk for mobile integration, but what happens there is that I lose all the limited advertising funds I get now (meaning I really will be paying to run this place), and you still get ads on your mobile devices, but we don't get any of that.
Facebook integration is one of those things I've resisted as I don't want to tie us to the FB platform. The forum has an active FB group with a bunch of members there, so in some ways, that's fine, but again, we don't get any money from that.
So it's interesting - where do we go from here?
Andrew
I like the software that KC uses.. Haven't tried it on mobile though...
If it is a business, You have to make money, otherwise it is a hobby! Its your choice! However, I hope it does not fail as it is a highlight of my day to read and watch others do what I dont have the time for yet! keep it up and i will still be here! Thanks.
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old people like me (43) like the forum, young people like facebook. they will come back down the track.
I'm 13, and if that makes me young, i'm not on facebook at all. 🙂
That's cos yer under the car all the time Denver.
I agree though, haven't been on myface account for 5 years and don't even know if it still exists, same with my spacebook.
Here, Samba and sometimes kombiclub
That's the lot
Oh and just commodores (not even a member) when trying to fix my dunnydoor again.... and again.... and again.......who thought putting a fuel pump in the fuel tank was a good idea!
ooops, going back to my corner.
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