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Posted by: timothy_nd28 Jan 18 2013, 09:32 AM

This means nothing, just wanted to see what others thought.

Posted by: balljoint Jan 18 2013, 09:47 AM

About you?

Posted by: SLKWrx Jan 18 2013, 10:17 AM

And here, I thought this was going to be a debate about distributors...

Posted by: 914itis Jan 18 2013, 11:34 AM

I voted to leave it alone as, not only that the site is fine , but we have to also remember that, redesign will be time consuming for Andy. He is great enough to keep is going as he is not making a dime out of it. Any updates or changes should be his decision.

We appreciate you Andy.

Posted by: Woody Jan 18 2013, 12:14 PM

Forum is great as it is. If you don't like it you could try the club site.

Posted by: LotusJoe Jan 18 2013, 01:10 PM

I don't know what this means

"ILBT, and update as well"

Posted by: HarveyH Jan 18 2013, 02:15 PM

Not being a geek I have no idea how much work would be involved in migrating the site and all of it's historical information to a new platform but based on the discussions in the other thread I'm pretty sure it would be a really major undertaking. While a new updated platform might be able to supply some whiz-bang stuff, the existing platform seems to fullfill all of the functionalities we really need.

On top of this, Sir Andy and the Administrators provide these services to us on a gratis basis taking time from their families and sometimes their employment obligations.

Of course if at some future time this platform becomes untenable we should look at options available at that time, INCLUDING how to compensate the administrators for their time and expenses involved in a platform migration. From what little I know this would realistically require $$$$ from each of the members.

Sir Andy and the Administrators
This surely isn't said often enough:
"Thank you for your time and efforts on the site. Without your abilities and dedication this site would have long ago gone the way of so many other sites."



Harvey.

Posted by: KELTY360 Jan 18 2013, 02:58 PM

"In Andy We Trust"

Posted by: Kirmizi Jan 18 2013, 04:10 PM

Posted by: scotty b Jan 18 2013, 04:23 PM

please show this thread to your friend that made fun of this forum

Posted by: timothy_nd28 Jan 18 2013, 04:29 PM

QUOTE(scotty b @ Jan 18 2013, 02:23 PM)

please show this thread to your friend that made fun of this forum

Posted by: David J Jan 18 2013, 05:08 PM

It works. Leave it alone.

Even though it may seem like a thankless job, I'd like to say thanks to the Admins for all their time and effort, 914 World is a fabulous resource for teeners.

Posted by: PanelBilly Jan 18 2013, 07:37 PM

Can we get some more options?

Posted by: wndsnd Jan 18 2013, 08:18 PM

QUOTE(HarveyH @ Jan 18 2013, 03:15 PM)

Not being a geek I have no idea how much work would be involved in migrating the site and all of it's historical information to a new platform but based on the discussions in the other thread I'm pretty sure it would be a really major undertaking. While a new updated platform might be able to supply some whiz-bang stuff, the existing platform seems to fullfill all of the functionalities we really need.

On top of this, Sir Andy and the Administrators provide these services to us on a gratis basis taking time from their families and sometimes their employment obligations.

Of course if at some future time this platform becomes untenable we should look at options available at that time, INCLUDING how to compensate the administrators for their time and expenses involved in a platform migration. From what little I know this would realistically require $$$$ from each of the members.

Sir Andy and the Administrators
This surely isn't said often enough:
"Thank you for your time and efforts on the site. Without your abilities and dedication this site would have long ago gone the way of so many other sites."


Yeah.......What he said.......



Harvey.

Posted by: kg6dxn Jan 19 2013, 12:47 AM

I like it the way it is.

Most other forums (VW, Audi, etc) are updated and I find them difficult to navigate. This one is easy.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it...

Posted by: bulitt Jan 19 2013, 09:03 AM

Many forums start out free, and easy to use.
Then Pop up advertisers appear and you have to upgrade to some premium user to get rid of them.
Then you have to pay to advertise.
Then you get bombarded for "donations".
Then it gets upgraded and all the old threads get stored in some hard to access location.
Then the Admins take it all too seriously.

This is a wonderful forum, with an astonishing amount of info, great people, and the best Admins.

IT ain't Broke!

Posted by: struckn Jan 19 2013, 03:32 PM

I thought this was "A POINTLESS POLL". I was going to say YES go Pointless with Pertronics?

Posted by: Katmanken Jan 19 2013, 06:07 PM

Many years ago I had the opportunity to work at a company that tried to innovate a PC that could run off of 1.44 MB floppies. For you young punks, a floppy was a small disk of magnetic tape that ran in a sleeve and could store a whopping 1.44 MB.

We actually designed a PC that could store the entire boot and operating system on the 1.44 MB floppy, and then we added a working version of Microsoft WORD on the SAME FLOPPY.

Imagine how small the core startup/operating system must be to fit on the floppy, and how small the core Microsoft WORD operating system must be. I had one in my office, and had over 50 WORD documents stored on the same floppy and could never fill it up.

Had a separate boot/fsystem/EXCEL floppy and never filled it up with my 50+ EXCEL documents.

Microsoft came in several years later bragging about their wonderful upgraded software and how they had ( and I quote} "Over a million lines of code...". And, a like number of lines of code in each of WORD and EXCEL. We wondered how much of the code was "fluffy crap" (pay me by the lines/ hours of code), how much was totally useless features that no one wanted, and how much was simply vestiges of canceled crappy code/feature writing.

That taught me that our code was "tight", and because there are so few lines to exploit, I bet you couldn't hack it.

So here we are, thirty years later and I bet the bloated operating systems/ WORD/ EXCELL each contain a BILLION lines of "crap", er I mean easily exploitable "improvements".

So tell me again how "old" this site code is, and why we need a bazillion lines of newer crappy, bloated, easy to hack code???

Yer not a hacker are you??

Posted by: euro911 Jan 20 2013, 12:47 AM

Remember MS embedded a flight simulator program in Excel 97?

Posted by: tracks914 Jan 20 2013, 09:03 PM

If I really liked change....... I wouldn't still be driving a 1973 car.