Kyle Posted December 29, 2022 Report Share Posted December 29, 2022 Hey folks, I think everything runs its course and since I have not been updating db.com, I have not giving much attention to the forums either. At this point, there is a ton of great discussion here. I think invision has a self hosted option, but I don't see a price for it. It might be expensive too. In any case, these forums are $30 a month and lately I don't see the value in keeping em going because we don't have a lot of activity. I don't want all the content deleted, but I'm at a point where $30 every month is getting old for me. Any thoughts? I'm also willing to transfer ownership if anyone wants to take these over. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klipsch Posted December 30, 2022 Report Share Posted December 30, 2022 Hey Kyle, Appreciate all your time, effort, and money in keeping this place going. Sad to see it go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peniku8 Posted December 30, 2022 Report Share Posted December 30, 2022 7 minutes ago, klipsch said: Hey Kyle, Appreciate all your time, effort, and money in keeping this place going. Sad to see it go. I can only second this, you were doing god's work here, much appreciated. Would be neat if there was a way to archive everything and make it accessible, since theres tons of valuable information on here. I've been thinking about something like this for a while, just not in this context, but how about moving data-bass/those who are interested over to Discord? I'm member of two other audio-related Discord servers and the information throughput and value in the discussion is through the roof! The instant-messanger style combined with forum architecture is super cool imo. We could make a new server with live sound&cinema sound based topics. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SME Posted January 2 Report Share Posted January 2 Happy new year all! Kyle, please also accept my gratitude for what you've done already and for your willingness to consider transfer of ownership. Peniku8, please accept my apology for not getting back to you last spring. It was a crazy time, and I ended up needing to take a break from things for a while. I hope that these forums continue in some form or another. This leads to a very important question: What is to become of the rest of the data-bass.com website? To be honest, I'm not clear on how ownership and responsibilities are shared between Kyle and Josh Ricci. Is Ricci around to speak for himself? Some more questions for Kyle: How quickly are you wanting to finish your role? Do you want to wrap this up ASAP? Or are you ok with keeping things going to allow some time to do a transition? Do you have access to useful stats for the site? For example, view rate, unique visitor rate, data transfer trends, total users, etc.. Some of these stats could be useful if exploring service alternatives. Looking ahead, unless we decide stick with Invision, we really have two concerns to discuss. The first is to do with preserving the existing (legacy) content. The second is to do with finding a new home. Regarding the first concern, I worked with Kyle in the past to do some automated changes to the content to correct broken links caused by limitations in Invision's automatic upgrades. With his help, I can probably download the content and convert it into static web pages that could be served from any static host. Ideally, we would have continuity between the old and new system, with no break in the conversations, but that may be difficult unless we stick with the existing Invision platform. We'd have to migrate user accounts in addition to conversations. With something like Discord, I don't think this could be accomplished easily if at all. I don't think Discord can import the archived legacy content either, so we'd still need a static host for it. The archived legacy content could be served from the same place as the main data-bass site, but that depends on its future as well. I have a number of other significant reservations about using Discord which I can outline later, but I do concede it has a big advantage in that it's low cost (or free) and low effort to administer. Anyway, I hope Kyle and/or Ricci can clarify the situation with the main site, and I also hope we hear from more forum participants, particularly those who might be interested in contributing in some way. Speak up! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peniku8 Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 On 1/2/2023 at 2:40 PM, SME said: Happy new year all! Peniku8, please accept my apology for not getting back to you last spring. It was a crazy time, and I ended up needing to take a break from things for a while. No worries, I figured Happy new year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricci Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 Kyle let's have a conversation soon. I can take over the payments for some time. I'd really hate to lose everything at either the main site or the forum, but since I've been spending times with other endeavors for a few years and don't have time to post like I used to the traffic has gone downhill. Perhaps there is an interested party at another website or forum that would be interested in taking over? Unfortunately for the future I don't know if or when I'll have time to do testing like I used to. I have far too much on my plate. I have no web developer or programming skills and no time to learn it either so that's another piece of the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kipman725 Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 Even in an archived state the site is very useful, I don't know anywhere else with such subwoofer data. 30$ a month to run a small forum is excessive, there are few active threads like the SKRAM and SKHORN thread, these could be restarted on DIYA? Perhaps the forum content could be captured somehow and hosted cheaply? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plans.systemes Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 Hi ! I've been surfing the forum since a few days as a guest. 30$ is indeed a heavy price for a forum, I guess i needed to create an account to share my though on this. First of all, thanks to Kyle and the moderators for all the work around this forum it's a little gold mine. I know and used the wayback machine to scroll through some long gon website or even access file deleted years ago, maybe this could be the way to preserve this forum in a last and final state ? http://web.archive.org/ I also own a website based accessible for free, gathering slowly more and more cabinet plans, though I cannot host a forum with it, I would be very happy to centralise the cabinet plans and side informations that has existed on this forum as a way of preserving the work and knowledge already done (PS: SKHORN and SKRAM interests me very much ! 🙂). https://planssystemes.notion.site/ My website costs me 0$ per months when I don't modify it thanks to Notion, so I'm in a state of mind of keeping it up for as long as possible. Let me know what yall think about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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