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The_Trician Trade Member Offline Posts: 7721 Total Thanks: 8 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Electrician	This forum's dead........ Oct 6^th, 2007, 12:50am WTF has happened over the last 12 months or so? Next to no new posts, previous members disappeared completely. Perhaps SS ought to close it down and save himself some cash? Views folks? TT
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Andyco11 GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 8 For This Post: 0	Re: This forum's dead........ Reply #1 - Oct 6^th, 2007, 8:39am Swings and roundabout running forums some days you have loads of people on and the it all goes quiet but it will pick up again
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sparky415 Trade Member Offline Its more complicated than I first thought Posts: 679 Total Thanks: 0 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: This forum's dead........ Reply #2 - Oct 6^th, 2007, 9:50am No! Where would we go for decent sensible advice if this weren’t here? I don’t want to end up asking questions on the Screw fix Muppet show I know it’s a bit quiet but Im just starting another little project and Im sure there’s going to be some silly questions coming soon
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Reply #3 - Oct 6^th, 2007, 10:22am

sparky415 wrote on Oct 6^th, 2007, 9:50am:

No!

Where would we go for decent sensible advice if this weren’t here?

I don’t want to end up asking questions on the Screw fix Muppet show Angry

I know it’s a bit quiet but Im just starting another little project and Im sure there’s going to be some silly questions coming soon Undecided

i agree sparky415 the screwfix forum does seem to have all them muppets on there, its more like a pantomime than a serious chat forum. Grin

plus you dont have so many smilies to use as on here so thats a bonus for this site

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sparky415 Trade Member Offline Its more complicated than I first thought Posts: 679 Total Thanks: 0 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: This forum's dead........ Reply #4 - Oct 6^th, 2007, 10:46am Its the smilies that Im here for
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scotspark Trade Member Offline mmmmm it's gonna cost you!! Posts: 3074 Total Thanks: 10 For This Post: 0 scotland Scotland Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: This forum's dead........ Reply #5 - Oct 6^th, 2007, 11:33am yeah has been deathly since all the downtime probs. would hate to see it shut as its rthe only forum i look at. can't be bothered with screwfix to much bitching. misssing a lot of previous contributors.
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Reply #6 - Oct 6^th, 2007, 12:16pm

We are up with a years hosting at the moment - so no chance of it vanishing for 12 months anyway!

Even then, I see no point in letting it go - It will work around again and become busier........we just need our regulars to remain with it and keep supporting the forum Wink

It really is not a money issue - The forum will remain here while there is regular traffic.

Currently, we have many members viewing the forum, but not many posting.

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Reply #7 - Oct 6^th, 2007, 1:33pm

Lectrician wrote on Oct 6^th, 2007, 12:16pm:

We are up with a years hosting at the moment - so no chance of it vanishing for 12 months anyway!

Even then, I see no point in letting it go - It will work around again and become busier........we just need our regulars to remain with it and keep supporting the forum Wink

It really is not a money issue - The forum will remain here while there is regular traffic.

Currently, we have many members viewing the forum, but not many posting.

Badger - Have you not found the extended smilies Smiley

what is the difference between trade and full members?

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Lectrician Administrator Trade Member Author Offline Ask The Trades Posts: 8814 Total Thanks: 109 For This Post: 0 Braunton, North Devon United Kingdom Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: This forum's dead........ Reply #8 - Oct 6^th, 2007, 2:33pm Trade Members have access to the trade boards. Full Members have reached a certain post count. You can be a Full Member AND a Trade Member. Super Member > 2500 Senior Member > 750 Full Member > 175 Junior Member > 15 Newbie < 15
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JerryD GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 109 For This Post: 0	Re: This forum's dead........ Reply #9 - Oct 6^th, 2007, 7:13pm Lec, can something be done to modernise the page logo? It is dated and depressing. Also, how does anyone find us from a general Google search (assuming they don't know of ATT in the first place). Just searching for 'building advice' or similar does not find us. In fact, how does anyone new find us?
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Reply #10 - Oct 6^th, 2007, 7:20pm

You would be supprised how many visitors come from google searches. The forum logs all referals, and the majority are from google.....let me grab some examples.....

As for the pic, I am not much of a graphics wizz. The top pic is just some images bodged together.

If anyone is into logo design, I think we would all be happy to see what you offer! I believe there are some sites that offer free design to give some apprentices some experience..........maybe I will take a google.

The below post shows the latest referals - 1000 minutes worth. The number in the bracket is the amount of referals.

If you click the links to the likes of google etc, you will the search words type in by the searcher in the google search box.

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plugwash Administrator Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 1383 Total Thanks: 0 For This Post: 0 Trade: Not Specified	Re: This forum's dead........ Reply #12 - Oct 10^th, 2007, 10:15am the difficult to answer question is what portion of those hits are just flybys and what portion actually stay. My guess is that most just google for a problem and hit some post on here from some time ago.
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Lectrician Administrator Trade Member Author Offline Ask The Trades Posts: 8814 Total Thanks: 109 For This Post: 0 Braunton, North Devon United Kingdom Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: This forum's dead........ Reply #13 - Oct 10^th, 2007, 11:08am Yup, this is true, but it does atleast show that we are being indexed. When the forum was down all the time, the search engines start to 'derank' you and remove dead links, atlease we still pop up on the search engines.
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ChubbyPhaseWire GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 109 For This Post: 0	Re: This forum's dead........ Reply #14 - Oct 10^th, 2007, 3:54pm sparky415 wrote on Oct 6^th, 2007, 10:46am: Its the smilies that Im here for
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