Trying to liven this lot up.

[Neil]

Couple of things I'm doing or about to do, doing or done trying to bring some people and life back to these forums.


Have an ad for Reno in the upcoming Wood Review magazine which I may let run for a few editions.
Also a small Newsitem (few paragraphs) in the following edition. Might help but won't be surprised if it doesn't.

Can't advertise in The Australian Woodworker Magazine anymore as it is now also defunct. No more magazines will be published.


Getting ready to do a mailout to registered members of Reno and WWF alerting all to the forums being back up and running (currently crawling) on line. Have to be careful with mailouts as there are so many that a bulk mailout can shut down all 3 forums with overload.
Will take almost a week for all to be sent and will possibly crash the email system with returned emails due to address changes, deaths, and the like.

Unfortunately the mailout won't get to any of the members who had signed up for the previously closed forums as none of that info is/was/had been available to me, so probably preaching to the already converted.

Anyone with any other ideas for promoting these forums please respond in this thread. All suggestions will be looked at and worked on if at all possible to do.

Cheers - Neil :U

[ErrolFlynn]

Consider introducing a blog page

Each week a new topic would head the page, with older topics being retained. Maybe monthly. The articles can be literally on any subject that anyone wants to write about, providing it relates to forum content in some way. At the end of the blog, there is a provision for members to make comments on the blog with the discussion becoming a new thread, with both comments and the blog becoming a permanent record. Perhaps the threads could be held in a devoted blog forum with the blog title being the thread title. (The original blog article would probably need to go through moderators to keep advertisers or spammers out.)

Trade-qualified members might like to present their skills or experiences. Perhaps something funny happened that they’d like to share. But anyone would be welcome to tell of their projects (providing they were interesting), along with a few pictures, and maybe what they learned along the way.

Perhaps if any engineers, architects, or anyone else is willing to share their knowledge then a blog might be of interest. Have you published anything? Then provide a cut-down version, if you think others would be interested.

This is not my idea. It’s one I’ve seen work quite well on another site. And some interesting articles have been posted by the average Joe Blow.


Survey page

I think you used to have one, or perhaps that was some other site. I can’t recall. It might be worth considering. What sort of survey? Off the cuff – the best sealer for outdoor use in my experience is…(then list them), or the most difficult timber I've worked with is… (and list the options). Suggestions for surveys are put by users.

[Neil]

Blog can be done. Wasn't all that popular on WWF so haven't bothered since.

Can look at survey forum as well. No harm in trying new or different stuff. Leave it with me.

Cheers :U

[havabeer69]

you need to go full gen alpha and get some viral tiktok/reels out there....

[Neil]

Did anyone get the email sent out on Monday 16th? :?

I haven't had any response at all, including the many hundreds of bounced emails I expected to clog my inbox due to auto replies, changed email address, deaths, and the good old, get lost don't bother me. :no:

So have a feeling that they didn't all go out. I received it as an Admin and moderator but that's all. Don't want to send it again if I can see that some others received it or could get pinged as spammer or just start ticking people off.

Cheers - Neil :U

[Neil]

havabeer69[/COLOR]]you need to go full gen alpha and get some viral tiktok/reels out there....

:lolabove:Hehehe...
Good suggestion, might just as well go full nutter and go onto X as well. :boxing5:
However, we've got more than enough problems as it is without doing that.:gaah:

Imagine the influx of spammers, scammers and other ne'er-do-wells that would flock to the forums, running rampant, with tiktok and X mentality.
Strewth:smack:

[ErrolFlynn]

Not me.

[ForeverYoung]

not sure how you go about it (with little to no cost) but somehow need the forum to get in the hit list of the search engines ...

eg search for Estimating weatherboard material coveragebrings up the forum as well as Blocklayer, James Hardie & Bunnnings :)

[ErrolFlynn]

This post opens just like any other, for me. I am using Firefox.

[havabeer69]

and people claim our generation will do anything for likes :oo:

[Neil]

Sorry for the (This post requires you to click the Thanks button to read this content.) message.
'twas my fault. WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN! Hopefully it won't happen again. :B

All fixed now.

Was trying yet again to get the likes thingy back up and running on here. Didn't work but didn't create a problem for me with the message that was showing. Just found out about the problem 30 minutes ago and have been able to fix it with one click in a check box.:U
Cheers - Neil :doh:

[Neil]

not sure how you go about it (with little to no cost) but somehow need the forum to get in the hit list of the search engines ...

These forums are searched by Google and other search engine bots and within minutes a post is listed with them. However the only way to have that happen is to have people posting and if there are no posts there is nothing new to list in their search engines. It's a great big roundabout and if the roundabout stops running so does the search engine.

However I just noticed that some searches that should come to here are being sent to the closed WWF version of Reno which I need to divert from WWF to these forums for all future searches.

That may help.
:fingerscrossed:

If we can get some posts happening in the new Marketplace forums that may also help. The marketplace on WWF and to a lesser degree have been instrumental in bringing large numbers of web surfers to both those sites, who otherwise would never of found them and in a small way often helps to getting new registrations from interested people.

Cheers :U

[ForeverYoung]

Did anyone get the email sent out on Monday 16th? :?...

nope.

[Neil]

Thanks for that :2tsup:

[Cliff Rogers]

Did anyone get the email sent out on Monday 16th? :?

I haven't had any response at all, including the many hundreds of bounced emails I expected to clog my inbox due to auto replies, changed email address, deaths, and the good old, get lost don't bother me. :no:

So have a feeling that they didn't all go out. I received it as an Admin and moderator but that's all. Don't want to send it again if I can see that some others received it or could get pinged as spammer or just start ticking people off.

Cheers - Neil :U
G’day, I got mine, it was in the junk box in outlook, I look in junk occasionally, a lot of people don’t.

[Strungout]

Great news Neil
Put a Link up on FB - woodwork groups
I just found the email
This use to be such a great mob and its good to see some old names around

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Great news Neil
Put a Link up on FB - woodwork groups
I just found the email
This use to be such a great mob and its good to see some old names around

[Neil]

Thanks Strungout. Well done.

As for the emails. There were 106,760+ emails to go out. Started yesterday morning at 10:45am at 2:15 when the power went off the mailout stopped at somewhere around 3,000.

Ok I'll just start where the the last lot left off... Nup!!! you can only start at the beginning and that's not going to go down well with those who have already received one not with the mail server or the spam patrol.:censored2:
Will see if I can get a workaround but not confident.:gaah: Might have to write a script get steven to write one. :roll:

[Neil]

OK looks like i may have got out more emails than I thought. At least 8,378 as i had an email from Shedhand and that's his User ID # ant the emails go out in order of ID#'s from 1 to 100,000+.
Al least that's something. Might wait to see if I get any more emails with higher #. https://www.ubeaut.biz/woohoo.gif

[Neil]

Wow another email in puts the mailout up to 41,094... Much more than I thought.

Maybe it didn't shut down the mail out when the power glitched and turned off the computer.

[craigoss_]

I used to participate on the old renovateforums and only just noticed this forum came back alive again. My old username didn't seem to work on this new website, so I needed to sign up again. The place does seem pretty quiet, evident from the lack of replies to my recent threads.

[craigoss_]

I noticed when signing there are several places over the website and emails received where the links point to WWF, whereas it should be linking people back to this website. See example below of the welcome email, it's a bit confusing, and has formatting issues.

537697

[Neil]

I noticed when signing there are several places over the website and emails received where the links point to WWF, whereas it should be linking people back to this website. See example below of the welcome email, it's a bit confusing, and has formatting issues.

537697

Thanks for this Craigross, I have found a few spots where there are problems like this. Will fix this one later today.

Cheers - Neil :U

[Neil]

Just finished 6 hours patching up some 80+ mentions of Woodwork Forums and links to WWF that should have resolver to Renovate Forums when the shift was done.

Searching for more at the moment on here and also on WWF where some of the search engine results may be ending up instead of here even though the Reno Forum on there is closed to searches and posting. May have to delete the whole thing and see if I can get Steven to write a script to bring the searches back to here.

Never rains... but it bloody well pours. (Sorry about that) :B
Never fear, it'll all be fixed sooner or later. :superman: Da - da,da,da - da - da,da, daaaah!!!!

:D

[Neil]

Survey page
I think you used to have one, or perhaps that was some other site. I can’t recall. It might be worth considering. What sort of survey? Off the cuff – the best sealer for outdoor use in my experience is…(then list them), or the most difficult timber I've worked with is… (and list the options). Suggestions for surveys are put by users.

Product Reviews Now up n running (reinstated from WWF) in this Forums & Members section.