David Off wrote:
Ace wrote:
On 5 Feb 2004 06:14:39 -0800, (David Off) wrote:


The Ski Club of GB has decided to close its chatroom to the outside
world. The website claims the change was made today to preserve a
fantastic resource that contains "extremely valuable information
about resorts, ski schools, websites, equipment, accommodation, and
a lot of general chit"

Although it seems the real reason was a lame-ass Microsoft based
user interface that let imposters register the same usernames as
existing members and then post insulting messages.

I'm sure you will join me in welcoming any Ski Club chat refugees
that wind up here.


Well it was particularly unusable, it has to be said. But it was
generating an impressive amount of traffic, nonetheless.


Yes, it is a shame that some people had to abuse the forum and some of
the members. I realise that the SC and its members fund the site and
the SC politburo can do as it damn well pleases but I think it was a
bit precipitous to just close things like that. There are lots of
solutions if funding is the real problem, such as google ads.

The 60K + posts (which, as you say, is a very impressive figure) were
not all generated by SC members. It is a bit like getting people to
contribute to an open source software project, then closing it and
selling their efforts.

Anyway I hope the remaining members keep things active.

Well, I just tried to get into the forums but I just end up in a loop with
the page saying that only members can use the forums 'click here to log in'
and upon clicking the link it tells me I'm already logged in and do I want
to log out. I can't seem to actually find any forums at all now.
Some quaility threads on the go in there but the whole web forum thing (and
their version in particular) makes it nigh on impossible to actually look
for any replies, you normally have to go through the whole disjointed thread
to find just one response.

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James...
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