Pacemaker Fishing Forum

For me, the "unfollow" button is my friend on FB.

I just want to keep up with friends, family and fishing.

But sadly, I have some friends that I now unfollow because of their constant tirades....about many things. Not sure if they would do that in a normal social setting.....

Creating a private FB fishing page seemed like a better alternative. That's what I was originally thinking about.  Invite those that you want to share fishing stuff with and that's it. But...since lots of folks here don't use FB, that idea is now in the toilet.

The "problem" is that folks are now used to posting pics instantly off their phones. To post a pic here, it's cumbersome. Lots less posting of fishing excursions than before. The website and applications are old. I have no clue how to update and really don't want to spend the money to do so. Plus I have to monitor the site all the time.

Ernie, I belong to a facebook group that is private (again for gaming only), but it would make it easier for photos and videos.  I think your idea is a good one.  Our members here believe in sharing our passion of fishing and being outdoors.  I don't recall anyone ever talking politics or having rants that weren't shared by all of us (weather for instance).  Let's give it a try with the active members and see what happens.  Whatever happens....I'll support it.

Ernie wrote:

backtofuturetoyota wrote:

Let's give it a try with the active members and see what happens.

Issue is that a lot of the guys here are not on FB....I think starting an FB page would dilute this and I would then be monitoring 2 sites....

I agree with Ernie......I would not use FB or post on it.

Can you not export the data into a flat file that can be parsed?

Ernie I understand your concerns. It reminds of a song in the 80's that sung about how MTV killed the radio star. Sometimes just a small tweak in old platform can make it work better. The site is not broke I am very happy with it. The question comes to "how people can upload pics from there phones." Well one of many sites I post on is using Tapatalk but I still post the way I have always posted. And to be honest none of the members who are over the age of 50 have learned how to use it yet. LOL..They do extract fees from your users to turn off ad's.

Perhaps a hosting site with the membership could solve this. Just spitballing here..

I would really miss this place, so many good friends and memories..

Capt Mike

Last edited by captmikestarrett (Feb-02-18 3:21PM)

Go for it..

Capt Mike

I would say first figure out if export is possible before updating so all the data can be backed up. Worse comes to worse I'm sure one of us could write a site crawler to manual extract all the posts. I could hack one together if need be but it might take me a while

Actually I vaguely remember someone here posting about a site that will archive your website for you? Curly perhaps? That might be a quick and dirty way to back it up, and then it can be parsed later to extract the content.

Last edited by firemunkee (Feb-03-18 10:53PM)

Curly wrote:

Your webmaster that set up your site can do a backup.  Any webmaster worth half their weight in rock salt can do it.

Easier said that done...don't know where he is these days. I don't know any webmasters.

But I know I checked before and the answer was not an easy one.

Ernie wrote:

Well.....if the site goes down....c'est la vie!

I was able to download the latest version but did not find an "exe" file to get it going.

Ernie wrote:

Ernie wrote:

Well.....if the site goes down....c'est la vie!

I was able to download the latest version but did not find an "exe" file to get it going.

I don't know anything about being a webmaster, but a quick glance at the PunBB Wiki http://punbb.informer.com/wiki/start seems to indicate upgrading involves replacing files on the server where the site is hosted? Also might be a good idea to first upgrade to 1.3 then to 1.4.