Good Bye Ole Friend

[Barrion2018]

In ~3-days, we will no longer be able to post on this site, that's sad. The new site, SmokerBuilderU is great, but for some reason I still prefer this one.

Good bye ole friend!

[hogaboomer]

The new site is pretty dead, this sucks. I tried it, it don’t work good.

[Pete Mazz]

I prefer this one as well but I'm a dinosaur

[hogaboomer]

I’m a dinosaur too, but this forum just works better.

[Big T]

[Barrion2018]

I was just being nice when I said "The new site, SmokerBuilderU is great."

I'm really not a fan of the new site ether. I still visit this site more than I do the new one.

Wishful thinking, but it would be really nice if one of the site moderators for this form would take the rains and keep this site going. Just a thought.

[hogaboomer]

There’s an old saying: Don’t fix it, if it ain’t broke.

[Barrion2018]

[tRidiot]

There are problems with this site that can't be easily fixed. Software gets old, security issues, compatibility issues, etc. Coding costs money. And sometimes problems aren't able to be overcome with simple fixes - and hosting costs money, too. A lot of it.

[BitBucket]

It's your site to build your way (or the way the Mighty hosting platform requires?)--and Smokerbuilder has been great--I have it as one of my home tabs for 8 years. But I browse anonymously unless I have something to say or want to see build pictures only available to members.

Put yourself in the position of a new unregistered visitor to the new site though. There's a paragraph that talks about features coming, but I can't see what features exist. Not a sample, not screen captures of the new forums, not a 'thread of the day' or anonymous trial (you've used up your unregistered views for the month or whatever) just...register or go away.

About those new visitors: nothing from the new site comes up in search. I'm not sure it allows search engines to crawl it. A trailing Disallow: / in robots.txt file may be the culprit.

It may be search crawl denial is deliberate, but if you're not driving new traffic to your site and membership attrition is guaranteed for life reasons, eventually you're talking to yourself, not building a thriving community.

I say this with respect because I love my smoker and I couldn't have built it without the helpful wisdom and encouragement of this forum--if you want to drive passion for the pursuit of building smokers, it seems self-defeating to wall off every bit of content on the new site from the entire internet.

Anyway, I do hope for evolution and improvement! --BB