Future of the Forum - Aug/24

[sorepaws]

Mike,

Thank you for bringing to our attention a similar situation in the S2K community, their approach is certainly worth exploring further as at first glance it includes solutions to at least some of the important objectives of our proposal and my subsequent responses.

I could not see the logo/link referred to in your post could you please add it?

Could you please also send me contact details for people at both the S2K entities so I can talk to them directly to understand it better before Kaz calls me?

Based on further comments by others after my latest responses yesterday to Mike and Kaz I again assure NSXCB members neither I nor THNOC have any hidden agendas and are certainly not trying to steamroller NSXCB administrators. We are simply trying to provide options for an enduring solution to the funding requirements of NSXCB and find ways that THNOC and NSXCB can work more effectively together for the benefit of the NSX Community.

I hope we can now pause further comments on our proposal until Kaz and I have spoken and reported back, I am not suggesting other matters related to the topic outside our proposal are paused of course.

Thank you again

Neil

Neil,

this is the link to the page on the S2000 Club site https://s2kuk.com/s2kuk-forum.php - you will see the text I copied and within that the mentioned link.

[Papalazarou]

That appears to be the concensus here but that isn't what was in the proposal....

Agreed. Knowing this. My confusion is; Now, why are we even discussing something we did not ask for and do not want?

[NSX 2000]

Found this old thread from 10 years ago

http://www.nsxcb.co.uk/showthread.ph...-be-Poll/page3

So a bit of context to the history of this subject.

Very interesting to see so many of us are still here and still have an NSX.

[mutley]

Found this old thread from 10 years ago

http://www.nsxcb.co.uk/showthread.ph...-be-Poll/page3

So a bit of context to the history of this subject.

Very interesting to see so many of us are still here and still have an NSX.

Ahhh I remember those days ! This goes back to the days where the events (Silverstone Classic as it was) and the discussion for PLI requirement, which if I remember correctly is why it all started in the first place.

As this has morphed a bit due to the discussions on the future of the forum hosting/ taking over of the Admin positions to run the forum etc. ( or have we spun off on another tangent?)

Cheers
Jim

[Silver Surfer]

At the end of the day..we all want the NSXCB forum to be open access for everyone like it is.. and the Club was to help attend events and to a bonus to be in a formal car club (may help with valuation/insurances etc). The 2 are not mutually exclusive.
We want to attract new members, we want it to be affordable and optional if you want to pay for additional privileges etc.
The Club is an extension from the Forum with the same veteran members from the Forum in both Forum and Club. The Forum has different members as Admin and the Club now has different members on the board from when it was started.
The later indifference in opinion has lead to the separation as us and them.... !!

The Forum needs funds to maintain and progress with updates. We all want it to be user-friendly like many modern Forum sites. The cost of this needs to be met with a non-profit way and be transparent for all members to see...this is for the Club also!
The Club has now been successful with current board to increase membership by 5 folds ...this should easily help to fund the forum and increase traffic...again what's not to like?

There should not be any personal differences impacting on function of both.... and unilateral decisions are unhelpful and should be a consensus model.

I will stop here as a contributor to both...Just my 2P worth as usual.

As Forumadmin said...enjoy the rest of summer and hopefully a solution will be found in a simplistic manner.

SS

[Kaz-kzukNA1]

At the end of the day..we all want the NSXCB forum to be open access for everyone like it is.. and the Club was to help attend events and to a bonus to be in a formal car club (may help with valuation/insurances etc). The 2 are not mutually exclusive.
We want to attract new members, we want it to be affordable and optional if you want to pay for additional privileges etc.
The Club is an extension from the Forum with the same veteran members from the Forum in both Forum and Club. The Forum has different members as Admin and the Club now has different members on the board from when it was started.
The later indifference in opinion has lead to the separation as us and them.... !!

The Forum needs funds to maintain and progress with updates. We all want it to be user-friendly like many modern Forum sites. The cost of this needs to be met with a non-profit way and be transparent for all members to see...this is for the Club also!
The Club has now been successful with current board to increase membership by 5 folds ...this should easily help to fund the forum and increase traffic...again what's not to like?

There should not be any personal differences impacting on function of both.... and unilateral decisions are unhelpful and should be a consensus model.

I will stop here as a contributor to both...Just my 2P worth as usual.

As Forumadmin said...enjoy the rest of summer and hopefully a solution will be found in a simplistic manner.

SS

Well said, Silver Surfer

[Kaz-kzukNA1]

In case someone joins the discussion half way through without visiting the 1st post, please note that this thread is not just about the feedback on the recent proposal from Shawnsx5 (Neil) who is representing THNOC.

Apart from forum software upgrade is needed, nothing decided and hence the very reason for starting this thread.

I’ll chime in from time to time to remind the purpose of this thread.

[Kaz-kzukNA1]

As per another thread linked at the beginning of post #1, the discussion started mainly because of the frequent server crash due to frequent visits from AI bots, use of aged platform with several difficulties (photo must be manually compressed and re-sized if uploading directly, etc), security concern (though, it’s public forum so anyone can register and the door is unlocked until certain level), etc.

Despite all these, when you look at the amount of Platinum contribution (rolling 12 months so hard to tell but ‘probably’ something like £150 – 200/year) VS the running cost (I ‘believe’ it’s about £500/year), clearly not cost effective.

[Kaz-kzukNA1]

Fortunately, we still have fair amount of fund (will ask one of the administrator to chime in as I never got involved on the financial side of this Forum) that I ‘think’ we have at least more than 12 months on deciding the next platform/direction.

Hence, this thread was started.

[Kaz-kzukNA1]

As part of post #1, there was recommendation from forumadmin (Kevin) who was part of the original creator of this Forum.
In there, there was a suggestion to change the name of the Forum.

And another voice to change the name was included in the proposal from THNOC.

Regardless of people replying back to Kevin’s proposal or THNOC one, we can see lots of feedback on this.

Each is considered as just one voice.

Same goes to me.
While I support Kevin’s wish, my view is to keep ‘nsxcb’ name as is.
Just another voice.
Nothing more nothing less.