Downtime Today (29th July 2009)

[R31Nismoid]

To tell you that you are not doing a good enough job with the limited funding there is avaliable

[JJay]

To tell you that you are not doing a good enough job with the limited funding there is avaliable

limited funding comes down to much of how the forum is setup, its moderators and how it betrays itself in comparison to other forums like boost and nissansilvia

[PranK]

limited funding comes down to much of how the forum is setup, its moderators and how it betrays itself in comparison to other forums like boost and nissansilvia

Good thing we have the best moderators in the business.

[JJay]

LOL

[Keeper]

Good thing we have the best moderators in the business.

+1 for the mods not being too shabby

[W0rp3D]

Any idea how much longer it will be before the search function is back, the question i have may have been answered but i doubt it.

[R31Nismoid]

limited funding comes down to much of how the forum is setup, its moderators and how it betrays itself in comparison to other forums like boost and nissansilvia

The forum is setup excellently.

Its run to exist, not to profit (like boost cruising/NS.com).

There is a key difference it think you fail to comprehend. Loz makes quite a pretty penny out of NS.com each year... but im sure you already know that.

Im no saying this is the best forum feature wise, however i think the community here on SAU is arguably one of the best

[PranK]

Any idea how much longer it will be before the search function is back, the question i have may have been answered but i doubt it.

Oh bugger, it was back but is down again.

I'll sort this out tomorrow (Sunday).

[W0rp3D]

Oh bugger, it was back but is down again.

I'll sort this out tomorrow (Sunday).

It was fixed an hour ago but now its down again.

[PranK]

It was fixed an hour ago but now its down again.

The problem is that because we have 2 web servers, it is fixed on one but not the other, so it will work intermittently. Doesn't help when testing

[ONE-VIA]

im pretty sure im not the only one that has this problem but when i post something it says i posted it 4 hours ago :S

i was sleeping at 10

[daisu]

I'm still having issues with the search function not working. Also, the time says I posted 4hrs earlier.

Edited August 4, 2009 by daisu

[PranK]

Search and date/time is now fixed.

[W0rp3D]

I'm still having issues with the search function not working. Also, the time says I posted 4hrs earlier.

I just did a search with out a problem.

[Silvia GTR]

I'm still having issues with the search function not working. Also, the time says I posted 4hrs earlier.

Same here

[R31Nismoid]

Its intermittently falling over @ present - Could be another day or two, something else must be up with it

[JJay]

The forum is setup excellently.

Its run to exist, not to profit (like boost cruising/NS.com).

There is a key difference it think you fail to comprehend. Loz makes quite a pretty penny out of NS.com each year... but im sure you already know that.

Im no saying this is the best forum feature wise, however i think the community here on SAU is arguably one of the best

ohh yeh, im aware of the pennies it makes for him each year, specially the parties he puts on at his place on the goldy every now and then

but the point to what prank would want to be doing is making the money to cover the cost to run this place instead of pulling dosh out of his families pocket every year.

i for one know of a few businesses here in qld that dont want anything to do with sau because of it's moderators and admins.

then again, some of them also dont want anything to do with arrogant skyline drivers just like we dont want anythin to do with ferrari drivers, am i right?

[PranK]

There are always going to be people who don't like us for whatever reason. We have been the reason behind a few branch-off forums like Skylines-NSW and others. At the end of the day you simply cannot please everybody no matter how hard you try and if those businesses dont want anything to do with us, then thats fine. Just means that we have more room for the businesses who do.

I used to almost lose sleep (literally) when people decided to leave because they didn't like the way things were run, these days I just let it happen and hope that the members who stay will give feedback and constructive criticism about how we can make it better for them.

C

[R31Nismoid]

ohh yeh, im aware of the pennies it makes for him each year, specially the parties he puts on at his place on the goldy every now and then

but the point to what prank would want to be doing is making the money to cover the cost to run this place instead of pulling dosh out of his families pocket every year.

i for one know of a few businesses here in qld that dont want anything to do with sau because of it's moderators and admins.

then again, some of them also dont want anything to do with arrogant skyline drivers just like we dont want anythin to do with ferrari drivers, am i right?

Well we have over 50,000 registered users

I think roughly 20 businesses paying to advertise to that member base...

And just another silly stat - the For Sale area's as a total, have over 1,000,000 views a month.

As C said, if there are some places, somewhere, who dont like SAU - good luck to them.

The traders we have here are all happy, a fair few have been paying regularly for 3-4 years and i get enquries about once a month from businesses and some come onboard, some do not.

So the forum without question exists and survives no problem there, but that is all it will do, exist and run. It's not going to make 50,000/year as that's not what SAU is about IMO.

[RBPOWA-(TJ)]

limited funding comes down to much of how the forum is setup, its moderators and how it betrays itself in comparison to other forums like boost and nissansilvia

there doing the best they can in there private time.

they have lives outside of this to feed their family's, in there spare time they could be going out shooting pool, going to pubs. but when the shit hits the fan's as Mod's they stay in and fix the problem, so just sit back and be patient.

keep up the good work guys