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Hi all,

Apologies for the downtime yesterday. I’ve recently taken over the website and was in the middle of moving it to a new hosting provider. I’m still working on upgrading the site to make it more user-friendly and modern.If you’ve got any suggestions for the website or ideas on how to improve the community, feel free to drop them here.

Massive thanks to all the moderators and members who’ve helped grow this welcoming footy community.I’m keen to chat more and get to know the community once I’ve had a chance to sort out all the admin and boring stuff.Appreciate your patience.

P.S. I’ve turned the annoying ads off (I think).

Well done new admin for turning the advertisements off. They were quite annoying! 

Welcome to Ozfooty as the new owner. I'm the previous owner who sold it to the guy you bought it off. I'm also Ozfooty admin and been activating new members, filtering out the spammers and bots. If you see my username you can email me and I'll fill you in on a couple of problems. I tried emailing you but it came back undeliverable.

Nice to meet you, thanks for creating some a great community. Fixing the email is on my list of things to do this week.

Thanks for the new ownership updates and work you are doing.

One suggestion I have is to clean up the topic threads a bit, there are some that have not had posts for literally years and I think a cull is needed to clean up the site.

Also can we get personal message option back?

As Bazza said, there’s a lot of unused threads.  Perhaps you could bundle a lot of them up into just a few.

Such as? I had a broader view to attract a bigger audience. Hopefully the new owner knows how to use Google word search and other ways to attract participants in other sports and activities.

Another very annoying thing I couldn't get the forum template to fix after the last update a few years ago was the quote function. It's very annoying. If I am using my laptop or iPad it's not a problem but my smartphone it's very difficult

After quoting someone's post to reply to it you need to click on the bottom red line under the quoted post. On a laptop or iPad it's easy but on a smartphone you have to click on that red line rapidly to place the cursor outside the quoted text. A very tricky thing to do.

If you could fix that it would be great.

I gotta laugh at the amount of people saying cull some of the categories. Is that much of a problem for you to simply bypass them? Most of the quiet categories are at the bottom end of the forum anyway. Talk about first world problems in the extreme. Or most likely coming from past trouble makers.

If there is a cull of categories you end up with too many topics clogging up General and The Bar. I have moved many topics to where they belong.

I open up to Recent Topics and that’s all I ever look at. I wouldn’t even know what other topics there are.