litterbox-cental.com forum
Robert Deliën
As some of you may already know, per January 27 the #1 cat litter box authority on the internet has ceased to exist: http://www.litterbox-central.com is no more. I consider this a sad day for cat fanciers and a big loss for the internet.
Fortunately, the contents are still available on The Way Back Machine, but it no longer functions as a forum:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141227160935/http://www.litterbox-central.com/litter-box/
According to Jeff, the owner, the community just isn't involved enough, legitimate new user signup had dropped down to less than one per month and participation was low in general. The costs and the sheer amount of work could no longer be justified.
I feel that we, as a community, may be able to turn things around, but that will depend on the posts below. What do you think?
Cheers,
Robert.
Earl Poon
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Earl Poon
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Catman <craz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I won't use Facebook for anything anymore, so don't even thing about going
> there!
Robert Deliën
I don't know, but I don't think that was the main issue. Sure, the forum was running at a loss, but the amount of work keeping spam out, moderating the forum and updating the forum software were the big issues.
I could probably park the forum on a friend's rack server in a data center, but I just don't have the time to moderate the post, and I would really have to look into the forum software before I'm able to update it.
Earl Poon
George Scott
just maintaining it. Even if you had free hosting, it take dedicated people
and a lot of time to keep it going.
-George
Kevin Oberlies
You could always try Google+. They have some good community pages that make it easy to set up and discuss whatever interests you.
That isn't Facebook, and they have a lot of groups who swear by it.
Another option would be Discourse. That is more of a straight forum software, but it is much nicer to use. That one has more of a setup cost, however.
Neither of these will solve the engagement issue, but they might help a bit.
Full disclosure, I work for Google, but I am not getting paid to endorse it or anything. I just think it is better for community discussions than anything else.
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Cathy Johannes
I am very sad to see it go! The site provided many with so much information and help! I got a lot from the board! I am grateful to still have the Google group!
I understand the time issue being even more demanding than the financial issue. I maintain a website without a forum added to it; and it is very time consuming to keep updated.
Cathy
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Subject: Re: [catgenius] litterbox-cental.com forum
You could always try Google+. They have some good community pages that make it easy to set up and discuss whatever interests you.
That isn't Facebook, and they have a lot of groups who swear by it.
Another option would be Discourse. That is more of a straight forum software, but it is much nicer to use. That one has more of a setup cost, however.
Neither of these will solve the engagement issue, but they might help a bit.
Full disclosure, I work for Google, but I am not getting paid to endorse it or anything. I just think it is better for community discussions than anything else.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015, 07:59 Earl Poon <bamz...@gmail.com> wrote:
Would you know of the number of active forum members for the forums?
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Robert Deliën <rob...@delien.nl> wrote:
>> What is the monthly cost for operating the forums?
>
> I don't know, but I don't think that was the main issue. Sure, the forum was running at a loss, but the amount of work keeping spam out, moderating the forum and updating the forum software were the big issues.
>
> I could probably park the forum on a friend's rack server in a data center, but I just don't have the time to moderate the post, and I would really have to look into the forum software before I'm able to update it.
>
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