Whats the deal?!

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Permalink Reply by SV_Joe on November 8, 2007 at 10:18pm

I think so. I know there is a butt load of sv's here in deep south texas. I've seen many but never had a chance to talk to them.

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Permalink Reply by Adam Chabira on November 12, 2007 at 8:53pm

Honestly, I think the new format doesn't lend itself to posting and carrying on discussion. It's colorful and slick looking but that's about it. We can request and accept "friends" but we can't carry on a decent conversation. Gotta ask youeself what's important...

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Permalink Reply by Blue650 on November 13, 2007 at 6:35pm

Well unfortunately I have to say I too think this format is not working. Hell I don’t even check this site on a daily basis any more. It used to be the main stop! I really like this format but I have to agree with Adam, it doesn't lend itself to posting and carrying on discussion. So let’s post up and take a poll who wants to change it back?
I VOTE FOR THE OLD FORMAT!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Patrick McKinnon on November 15, 2007 at 10:09pm

I'm not convinced phpBB had any features this forum doesn't (bookmark http://texassv.ning.com/forum if you prefer).

There wasn't much activity on the site before I switched to Ning either. Probably 1 to 2 posts a day. Certainly not enough for me to pay for hosting and spend time fighting off spam users which were over 50% of the registered users. Luckily most of them never successfully activated their account. For that matter, nearly everybody that signed up got the activation email marked as spam by their email provider. This was a significant problem, and not one I could effectively deal with.

I'm interested in suggestions on how we can improve the community. I do however think the real problem is not whether we are using Ning or phpBB, but that nobody (count me as the worst offender) has really promoted the site or tried to grow the community for quite a while.

I'd love to start doing some regular meet-ups. I don't however know any other riders in Austin, so I'm a pretty crappy promoter ;-)

Any ideas?

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Permalink Reply by JFoster on April 5, 2008 at 12:26pm

i wonder if they have a texas only meet up kinda like the national sv rally..

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