I would like to thank those who have made this site what it is over the years, especially the moderators and admin! Without your struggles, this site would be nothing but bloat, full of spammers and malware! Thank you!
Like many of you, over the years I have enjoyed this website and used it to learn and share soaking trips and knowledge. While I wasn’t the most active participant in the forums, and more of an unregistered lurker for many of those years, the thought of forever losing SF was one I could not accept.
After little thought I decided to offer my resources and knowledge to help SF live on. While I have become the official owner of SF, this is not my site - it belongs to each and every one of you, the users. I see SF as a community of users, viewed by users, created by users, managed by users, and content posted by users. Thus I will be asking you, the user for your input and thoughts.
Looking to the immediate future:
In the next few days the site will be disabled while everything is packaged up and moved to its new home. During this time some updates will be applied and a few minor tweaks to the software will be made to help prevent spammers. Once everything is stable the site will open back up and be back to business as normal, I expect this to happen no later than Saturday the 11th.
Looking to the future:
Photos: To help counteract the headaches and make this forum more of an information exchange, one of the first changes I plan to implement is to allow photo attachments in post. I feel that such a move would make those of us who share photos a lot happier to skip some steps! Thoughts?
Design: Over this winter when things slowdown, I'll be looking to give the overall design of SF a small facelift, just to get away from the typical phpBB look. Nothing radical, simple yet distinctive.
Logo: I know over the years there has be attempts (some good ones too!) to brand SF. I’d like to see a dedicated logo for the site.
What ideas do you have for SF? What do you see in the future of SF?
Please, at any time, if you have any questions of concerns, feel free to contact me via PM or email: soakersforum@gmail.com
Thank you and soak on!
~Dan
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