[30] If you are reading this message then you will have paid to join the A2OC or donated in the past to support the club - if you have done either of these (or both), I am very grateful and you can be satisfied that you have supported the permanent stability of this site and the club site.
However, whilst the forum is still used and posted to on a regular basis, you will have noticed that the forum numbers have been growing very slowly.
Before I locked everyone out, the member count was over 600, and now it shows 106 members.
There are two options:
1) I can leave it as it is with slow growth - on average 2 new forum members per month.
OR
2) I can unlock the forum and allow anyone to register at any time (as before). This obviously provides less of an incentive for people to join the club, which would worry me but at the same time would ensure that more people use the forum and ensure that it remains busy with a diverse range of people using it.
The club benefits would remain exactly the same except that this forum would be free for anyone to join.
This second option would I presume bother many people who have paid to join the club specifically to use the forum and so this is the reason I have created this post.
Please let me know your thoughts on this...
Thanks,
Stuart.
Are you coming to the club social?
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Stuart Diamond: A2OC Founder | Forum Administrator
2001 TDi SE: Cobalt Blue Metallic | Open Sky Roof | Kenwood Mask CD | Front Centre Armrest | Front Centre Tray
A2OC: www.Audi-A2.co.uk | www.A2Forum.net
However, whilst the forum is still used and posted to on a regular basis, you will have noticed that the forum numbers have been growing very slowly.
Before I locked everyone out, the member count was over 600, and now it shows 106 members.
There are two options:
1) I can leave it as it is with slow growth - on average 2 new forum members per month.
OR
2) I can unlock the forum and allow anyone to register at any time (as before). This obviously provides less of an incentive for people to join the club, which would worry me but at the same time would ensure that more people use the forum and ensure that it remains busy with a diverse range of people using it.
The club benefits would remain exactly the same except that this forum would be free for anyone to join.
This second option would I presume bother many people who have paid to join the club specifically to use the forum and so this is the reason I have created this post.
Please let me know your thoughts on this...
Thanks,
Stuart.
Are you coming to the club social?
________________________________________________________________________________
[img=left]http://www.a2forum.net/stuart.gif[/img=left]
Stuart Diamond: A2OC Founder | Forum Administrator
2001 TDi SE: Cobalt Blue Metallic | Open Sky Roof | Kenwood Mask CD | Front Centre Armrest | Front Centre Tray
A2OC: www.Audi-A2.co.uk | www.A2Forum.net