And while one end of the earth sleeps the other kicks on
Great work Justin, fingers crossed for the positive outcome we all want and need.
I know you want to keep the place as is and are passionate about it enough to front a large amount of your own money for this so I respect your decision and of course you have my support. However after sleeping on it (ok technically it was a short medically induced coma :lol: ) I've been thinking...
* Why should Justin have to spend so much of his own time and money on this. It speaks volumes about the guys character which should already be well known to all but really, why spend so much on buying out a crook who sold us all out and a guy that's made a bad uninformed business decision ? Spending even 10% of the ballpark figure that's being tossed about would set up a villian-free new community for us that would last the ages.
* ES.com is just a name and at the end of the day means nothing. It's not ebike related and in 6 months time once the new forum is in full swing we'd actually be better off with an ev related URL.
* New and better urls are free or cheap as chips. We have Justin's offer of ebikes.com, mine of electric-revolution.com and several others, or even start fresh with a topic relevant URL
* It seems that we can simply copy the database across to a new location so we won't lose any content. It may not function 100% as it does now but that information wouldn't be lost, if posts couldn't be resumed to existing threads it could atleast be hosted as a searchable archive. We already lost a big chunk of the hosted photos and files recently that are now gone for good. We still have all the text though and even if we had to rebuild from this point it wouldn't really be the end of the world.
* I actually wouldn't mind starting over and would look forward to rebuilding and contributing to tech and instructional DIY threads. Within weeks the influx of noobs would populate the rest of the site with their usual questions about what the best kit, how to increase the performance of their 36v SLA ebike and how to build a kit for $500 that has a 100 mile range and does 50 mph :lol: