Where will people be posting

[Mamaswan]

In fairness to Phil, it has to be a new set up. No way would I hand over a legacy of 25 years hard work.

 

[K23]

This morning, I have spoken to my son (a former Swansea ST holder), who is currently having his company's website overhauled by an old friend of his who is a professional website designer. My son contacted the guy, who now lives in Australia, and he responded immediately by saying "uppa Swans" ! I didn't know he'd been to Swansea Uni and went to a few games while he lived there so he already has some affection for the place and team. My son sent him a link direct to the existing forum so he now has a pretty good idea of the sort of thing we need.

Anyway, his initial reponse was that it would be easy for him to set up and he asked a) would I be running it (I said yes, I suppose so) and b) would I be moderating it (I said preferably not, but existing mods have already offered). He's looking into it and will come back to me or my son shortly regarding costs and timescale. I have a good feeling that this could have legs.

Watch this space.

 

[Neath_Jack]

This morning, I have spoken to my son (a former Swansea ST holder), who is currently having his company's website overhauled by an old friend of his who is a professional website designer. My son contacted the guy, who now lives in Australia, and he responded immediately by saying "uppa Swans" ! I didn't know he'd been to Swansea Uni and went to a few games while he lived there so he already has some affection for the place and team. My son sent him a link direct to the existing forum so he now has a pretty good idea of the sort of thing we need.

Anyway, his initial reponse was that it would be easy for him to set up and he asked a) would I be running it (I said yes, I suppose so) and b) would I be moderating it (I said preferably not, but existing mods have already offered). He's looking into it and will come back to me or my son shortly regarding costs and timescale. I have a good feeling that this could have legs.

Watch this space.

And that’s an example of the community of this board

It may be dysfunctional but aren’t most families these days

 

[bakajack]

This morning, I have spoken to my son (a former Swansea ST holder), who is currently having his company's website overhauled by an old friend of his who is a professional website designer. My son contacted the guy, who now lives in Australia, and he responded immediately by saying "uppa Swans" ! I didn't know he'd been to Swansea Uni and went to a few games while he lived there so he already has some affection for the place and team. My son sent him a link direct to the existing forum so he now has a pretty good idea of the sort of thing we need.

Anyway, his initial reponse was that it would be easy for him to set up and he asked a) would I be running it (I said yes, I suppose so) and b) would I be moderating it (I said preferably not, but existing mods have already offered). He's looking into it and will come back to me or my son shortly regarding costs and timescale. I have a good feeling that this could have legs.

Watch this space.

Great, I would love for something similar to this to still be kicking around post May.
No offense to the Indy but their forum looks like it was made during the era of myspace

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

I've been building websites since 2002.

This site uses the NewsUp WordPress theme (59 dollars/year) and
Xenforo for the forum (100 dollars a month).

There would be a one-time cost migrating users (members)

It would also need hosting, a domain name, and SSL certs, costing around 300/year

It could be set up to look identical. Obviously, would not do that. Respect for Phil.


But then comes the hard bit.
Who would moderate it?
Who would provide content (amateur journos/writers)?
And then the obvious handling of legal issues and their costs

 

[bakajack]

I've been building websites since 2002.

This site uses the NewsUp WordPress theme (59 dollars/year) and
Xenforo for the forum (100 dollars a month).

There would be a one-time cost migrating users (members)

It would also need hosting, a domain name, and SSL certs, costing around 300/year

It could be set up to look identical. Obviously, would not do that. Respect for Phil.


But then comes the hard bit.
Who would moderate it?
Who would provide content (amateur journos/writers)?
And then the obvious handling of legal issues and their costs

Not that most of us would touch them with a ten foot pole but if only we had a supporter's trust that we had paid subs into for years who could fund that.

 

[Muteswan]

This morning, I have spoken to my son (a former Swansea ST holder), who is currently having his company's website overhauled by an old friend of his who is a professional website designer. My son contacted the guy, who now lives in Australia, and he responded immediately by saying "uppa Swans" ! I didn't know he'd been to Swansea Uni and went to a few games while he lived there so he already has some affection for the place and team. My son sent him a link direct to the existing forum so he now has a pretty good idea of the sort of thing we need.

Anyway, his initial reponse was that it would be easy for him to set up and he asked a) would I be running it (I said yes, I suppose so) and b) would I be moderating it (I said preferably not, but existing mods have already offered). He's looking into it and will come back to me or my son shortly regarding costs and timescale. I have a good feeling that this could have legs.

Watch this space.

I’ve sent you a message.

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

K23 - the costs are in my message above,

excluding

if anyone needed to be paid for setting it up

moderating it
providing content / articles
legal representation for issues when they arise

 

[cmajack]

And that’s an example of the community of this board

It may be dysfunctional but aren’t most families these days

Absolutely, most of the real characters in sport and life in general are one sandwich short of a picnic , me included.