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Well DJ, I will be very interested to hear about this 'plan'. It is news to me.DJ said:The plan is to get this forum up and running to replace the old 1, we advertise .net heaps and it's not getting enough content due to lack of contributors, plus the proboards 1 IMO anyway looks old and we could do with an update
Jeff (LouMacari) said:Chris, I understand your concern. It has always been 'the plan' to have a united fans website that incorporated all things 'Mariners Supporters'. From the day that marinators.net started, topics like 'should the current discussion forum at proboards be simply linked to from the marinators site (as it has been so far), or have its own discussion board on here, or have proboards somehow 'wrapped' within marinators.net' have been discussed by many people.
Nothing was done about that as things were working quite well but at the end of the day, it was still 2 separate sites.
Moving forward, if we want to have an online merchant area for marinator merchandise, up to date current info, important notices for marinators club members etc. the fans must be using the site on a daily basis and whilst numerous people have been invited to contribute content to keep this site up to date (yourself included), they just aren't doing it with any regularity, thus leaving it to a handful of the same people all the time contributing and whilst their efforts are appreciated, everyone should be able to have an input.
This board isn't a replacement for the proboards discussion forum but an attempt to get more people on here on a regular basis and that is why it has not been publicly announced as such, but left to see who registers and who doesn't. Those that want to use it will do so and those that don't won't.
This format to marinators.net will also allow for a 'marinators club' members only section (something I have discussed with you in the past) and has an intergrated calendar which will have all mariners related activities listed which is something that Adz has been trying to do on marinators.net for a while but unable to (for various reasons, time being the major one)
Ultimately, no one can make the decision which board will be used except the fans and if they don't want to use this then fine, but it is still a much better way for marinators.net admin to get out all the info it wants to get out in an interactive manner and in a way that obviously the fans like.
Hopefully that has clarified some grey areas for you (and possibly others)?
Not really Jeff it is even more unclear.Jeff (LouMacari) said:Hopefully that has clarified some grey areas for you (and possibly others)?
DJ I note the accident, and these happen. :ashamed:DJ said:tbh Chris it was a complete accident that the forum went live - but once it was up it was up, however have not put a note on the other forum yet as we still have a few things to discuss.
I think it's pretty important for the Marinators moving forward that we continue with this and I'm sure Jeff has discussed with you the reasons why.