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  1. Good luck guys and gals. Most importantly - Hail to the team we all love and better days ahead. Best of luck.
  2. It might make more sense to stay with Invision if you want to basically continue on as you have - it would probably be the cheapest option again assuming the team is willing to help you move it to a private account. You would have all the server costs and have to have guys to learn the software and become competent in admin duties. At least you would have the ability to keep the site current and updated though which obviously the team has not made a priority. Would save you upfront money purchasing other software and setting up a new site. But I would look at whether Invision is the best long-term software (and I can’t give any guidance on that as I am Invision ignorant).
  3. The other factor would be if you want to retain an archive of previous posts. That could increase your costs. You should have no problem technically with importing/migrating the current database (if the team agrees to give you access) but that might require a higher tier (and higher cost) server.
  4. Just my best guess to do a quality site with the kind of traffic here, I would guess 2-3 grand to get it up and fully built (again, dependent on how many bells and whistles you want) , and then $1000-$1500/quarter to keep it up and running. The quarterly cost could be more dependent on how much bandwidth you’d need based on high traffic.
  5. Another resource you might want to look at is The Admin Zone. It's great because while there are software-specific subforums, it's basically a site for those who are interested in or have already started a forum. I mean, it is a one-stop shopping place for 'Everything you ever wanted to know about starting a forum but were afraid to ask'. The Admin Zone is another Xenforo-based forum, so again, that might say something I have found it a very friendly site full of experts (very similar to the old vbulletin.org forums that used to be a place for vbulletin forum owners to find answers on). You will find folks who are passionate about other forum software brands, including Invision.
  6. Very true. I have always enjoyed the tech aspect - how to add some feature to the site, or solve or troubleshoot a problem. I mean - the discussion is awesome too and of course the members, but if it weren't for the technical and creative part of it, I probably wouldn't have been interested in doing a site. It's a lot of work - more than one would guess up front.
  7. We haven't allowed political topics in over 5 years, because we couldn't find a way to manage member on member warfare. Most of our 'righties' are long gone, so there were casualties on both sides. Kudos if ES has been able to manage it without the fallout. We could never figure it out. So much more fun now that we steer clear of politics and 'social' issues.
  8. I'm not arguing whether forums/messageboards have *value* - they of course do. But they are dying as a social media entity. Whether vbulletin, Xenforo, or any other of the primary forum softwares out there, the number of communities has dramatically declined over the past decade. And even in surviving forums, traffic is way down. ES has always been the dominant forum amongst Redskins fans but during the peak of forum popularity, there were numerous new threads started every day with energetic discussion ongoing. That is no longer the case here or on almost any other forum, at least in the context of what it once was. Of course the quality of product the franchise has put out hasn't been helpful, but it's a larger trend than something specific to this team and the fanbase. There are exceptions. I'm a member of a Xenforo golf-oriented board @TheHackersParadise which thrives - but that's because folks are rabid about all things golf. I have no doubt that new ownership and a return to a winning tradition (if it happens) will boost all Washington Football forums traffic and membership. But it will never return to what it once was, before there were large-scale megasites like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc... I hate it, not only because I run a similar fan forum, but because again, there is what you get at Chi-Chi's or McDonalds, and then there is a finely crafted meal at a family-owned restaurant. It's not at all the same experience, but folks seem to want what is quick, easy, and generic.
  9. A @Blade thread certainly gets ones attention, even one almost a year old. Just a couple quick thoughts, the comments about forums dying - are dead on. The whole messageboard phenomenon that ES and other topic-specific forums rode throughout the 2000's began to die a slow death the minute Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, etc... arose. The analogy I use is that amazing family owned sphaghetti house that can't survive chain restaurants like Olive Garden and Red Lobster popping up in their backyard. Folks are lazy. They want to do one-stop shopping where they can talk about anything and don't have to put more than a couple of sentences together to do so. They want that predictable, fast food that never changes even if it's not quite as good as that handmade meal they used to enjoy. It's a shame, but that's just the reality of the world we live in. There are still a lot of great forums out there, but you have to hunt to find them. They survive largely because of the connections and loyalties folks forge that are difficult to replicate on mass social media sites. The people that stay do so for the relationships, not the subject matter. But even those that have survived are shadows of their former selves in terms of traffic and popularity. No idea what the Harris group will do with their social media footprint. Hopefully they at least remember that their are a number of fan communities that support Washington Football (beyond the one they reportedly own :)) out here full of passionate people who have been fans their entire lives. If they truly want to have their finger on the pulse of fan sentiment, there are few better places to measure it than fan forums and messageboards. If they had understood that during the previous name change process, we wouldn't have been saddled with one with almost negligible fan support. Just my .02 (not .06) cents.
  10. Mararito's the guy we should be talking about this morning anyway.
  11. Those are good points. I've seen a few that acknowledged 'he was the better fighter tonight' - so its not unprecedented.
  12. I agree - he fought tough. On the other hand, it never should've gone to the scorecards since the cut clearly was the result of a punch - in other words, Clottey stopped him plain and simple. Judah's punch count #'s were dropping like a rock, so I think the result was inevitable when the cut occured, although you never know what will happen in boxing.
  13. I agree. I think he fought hard and showed a lot of toughness. I just wish he could 'publically' acknowledge a loss. Watching him congratulate Clottey, I think he was gracious and knew he'd been outfought. Why he can't do that in front of the cameras, I don't know - I think its sad and embarassing.
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