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

[Fred Hicks]

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On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Salvador Garcia via Coco <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

>  CoCo3.com was the first CoCo resource that I found. I registered, had
> some problems with my login, but Roger helped me with that. I went to the
> chat area, but rarely found someone.
> I am grateful for this list - thanks Dennis, for maintaining it.
> Salvador
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>     On Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 8:08:01 AM CDT, Bill Pierce via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
>  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.
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> 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.
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> Bill Pierce
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