Upgrade Rally Anarchy? PLZ READ

So I've kind of let this site sit in deep-freeze mode for a while, I closed signups about a year ago? maybe longer. I still approve new people that bother to email me but other than that, I didn't really have the time or desire to police it once it got to a stable base. Some a-holes got to me, I guess.

But believe it or not these forums get a lot of hits, I guess there must be some good information that Google is finding. So I'm wondering if maybe I should open the site to new registrations again...

I'm also thinking of upgrading the site to have all the features of my other car sites, like car registry & photos, member blogs, tech articles, events calendar, etc etc. It would look like this -> http://www.mx5world.com/

Thoughts?
Leave it as-is or make it the ULTIMATE RALLY SITE EVERRR

Skye
Moderator ex absentia

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/21/2010 02:47AM by Skye.

"car registry & photos, member blogs, tech articles, events calendar, etc etc."

I thought about each one, and I'd vote no on each one. They all sound like more work.

The one thing I would change here is that the default setting for seeing a post is "single post with links to following posts". It would me much improved if the default was "show all posts in the thread", which is the setting that most of the folks with user accounts use.

Other than that, it would be nice to find some volunteers to add to the random images in the header.

Cheers!

Anders

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Grassroots rally. It's what I think about.

"car registry & photos, member blogs, tech articles, events calendar, etc etc."


I agree with Anders RA can live happily without these features. Some more pictures in the header rotation would be nice too.

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Matt Smith

Racing in glorious black and red

My daily life is a Saab story (sold!)

Skye,

I agree with Matt and Anders. I like that the site is plain and simple. Finish your car instead!

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Robert.

"You are way too normal to be on Rally Anarchy." Eddie Fiorelli.

I'm with the others, I don't see how those things are needed.

Agreeing with Anders = Evil Minion Army forming!

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Matt Smith

Racing in glorious black and red

My daily life is a Saab story (sold!)

Curious about closing registrations... we keep sending new guys from SS over here to get sucked into JVLs evil web (chuckle). Can they not sign up easily?

Beyond that I kind of like the way it is. I've been involved in a couple boating websites over the years and it can be huge work and problems after a certain point of growth and "flash".

Who is footing the bill for this place? We always pitched in to help on other sites.

I really like the site the way it is. I think its a great resource. I recommend it folks getting interested.

-Al

I'll add in my 2 cents (CDN), keep it simple, this place rocks because the conversation and the people are the focus. Rally "MySpace" already exists elsewhere, and it's kinda lame IMO...

t

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Pure mathematics is the enemy of every truly creative man -- Sir Alec

Leave everything the way it is.

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Michael LeCompte

i agree about making the default for the page view. otherwise, leave it be.

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Hey Skye,

only thing that might be just a little EASIER is alternate font like italic, bold, size..
Colors is always fun, too.
Photo could be just a little easier for those who don't nose.

And enabling embedding soooooper bitchin Group F videos would be nice...

As for new members, maybe that is something to discuss the howzto so youse dun't have to.

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John Vanlandingham
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I've never understood why you can't upload photos in the for sale section, but you can everywhere else.

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Grant Hughes

Screw Anders... :-)

Just kidding. I agree with what has already been said.

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-Brian

Keep it simple. JV's tweaks are about as far as I'd go. There should be a bunch of SAAB pictures available soon for adding to the rotation in the page header.

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
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