Chinertown
Chinese Carbon Road Bikes => Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components => Topic started by: ry on June 04, 2025, 09:17:37 PM
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Sorry to be off-topic. Who is the admin?
These guys did it back in 2017, can we too? https://forums.unraid.net/topic/54962-goodbye-smf-forum-migration-on-monday-2202017/
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Sitar_Ned is the forum's administrator. You can reach out to them via PM or email.
I do support the idea. The software is really dated and things break a bit too often for my taste. Not sure how much capacity they have to actively maintain the forum and/or a migration.
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It definitely feels dated and the forum has had an unusual amount of downtime recently, but in a way it makes me nostalgic of simpler times when not everything was centralized on the same apps :) At least it's not tapatalk ::)
What I definitely do wish we had however would be a faster pace chatroom for quick questions and discussions that don't quite warrant "polluting" the forum
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It definitely feels dated and the forum has had an unusual amount of downtime recently, but in a way it makes me nostalgic of simpler times when not everything was centralized on the same apps :) At least it's not tapatalk ::)
What I definitely do wish we had however would be a faster pace chatroom for quick questions and discussions that don't quite warrant "polluting" the forum
A chatbox would be spammed with people that aren't active here with the dumbest questions on where to buy counterfeit products ::)
But it would be cool for all the rest :)
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SMF is very nice. Maybe just update to the newest version to avoid borken pages? I like it here.
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Broken pages suck indeed. Other features are still alright. Only mobile use is suboptimal.
Nevertheless - big thanks to admin ;) :)
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Sitar_Ned is the forum's administrator. You can reach out to them via PM or email.
I do support the idea. The software is really dated and things break a bit too often for my taste. Not sure how much capacity they have to actively maintain the forum and/or a migration.
Honestly, not much capacity at all. It's just me and I am in no way a web developer or webmaster. Just a simpleton Arkansas mountain biker that somehow figured out how to get this forum up 10 years ago.
I know the broken pages are annoying... and I am sorry about that... I do try to fix them immediately when they pop up so please do let me know.. I really appreciate it. I do have plans to upgrade to the latest SMF version to fix little issues like that but I'm sorry to disappoint anyone but there are no plans to "modernize" the forum in any way. No desire to have some modern mobile-friendly, super slick, dark mode interface. Chinertown will remain old-school looking with zero ads and zero optimizations for Google search. My main goal going forward is to keep AI out of the forum as much as possible. That's just my jam but I do understand if it isn't for everyone.
That said, I am certainly open and interested to hear everyone's input/advice/ideas and really appreciate it.