[Coco] A New CoCo Forum, just what we need?

[Bill Pierce]

We had a good forum up until just recently...
Brian Blake had the tandycooco.com for about 3 or 4 years and recently shut it down due to no interest (early this year?).
His forum had catagories for about every aspect of the Coco with areas for "other" computers as well. The forum had a file area as well as group and personal photo galleries. It started off with a few good discussions, but within a couple of months, dwindled down to almost nothing (2-3 posts a month) and after giving it a good shot (3-4 years), he eventually just shut it down.
He advertized the forum here as well as the FB group on a regular basis.
People who read email regurlarly, like this group, they just read the posts while checking their mail... FB users like the Coco FB page as it's right there when they look at their phone... Forums don't adapt well to the cell phone users (from the sigs I see, abo 60% of the users).
Since we've had a big influx of new users (both here & FB), this may have changed, but I don't really see people breaking away from their phones and going to their computers (if they even have one), just to log into a forum.

 
FWIW, the owner of coco3.com (Roger's old forum) contacted me a while back about reopening that forum (a popular favorite)... He is willing to take it back to the old style, but needs someone to run it. That would be the best place as most already had memberships there and was a very active forum until it was over run by spam due to a bad redesign, no one maintaining it and an "auto-sign-on" bot that allowed the spammers to sign up. With a couple of moderators and bringing back the old style, it would be the best bet.

 

Bill Pierce
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