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Maybe reach out to previous regular posters who haven't contributed for a while and also a number  who got banned for having a different opinion to a previous owner/admin. We've lost a lot of good contributors

Definitely agree that lots of Topics that are seldomly or never contributed to could be either compressed or removed. 

Lol showing the new owner how ungrateful you are to previous owners who kept the site alive for everyone's benefit isn't a wise tactic.

It has been set up similar to Big Footy with a wide variety of categories and other sports and life interests and those categories have regular traffic and activity on that site. Ozfooty needs traffic and probably modernising with some social media links to help drive new traffic and a new audience instead of those living in a bubble as evidenced here pushing for categories that aren't being utilised to be culled.

Just out of curiosity DD, are you the new owner?

Needs a long long overdue tidy up..

The Bar Break and General News, wtf is the difference, no body sticks to it, cut it back to General News and Breaking.

AFL
Adelaide nothing for nearly 8 years,,,LMAO.. several others 3, 4 and 5 years,

You only need AFL - Dockers and Eagles and then a Thread for other teams.

Soccer, a total mess - even funnier most teams have not had single post EVER, , tidy that up A League and then Glory.
Have an EPL and an International - ditch the rest.
Basketball, one folder needed only.
Motorsport the same Cars and Bikes in one.
Racing the same Racing and Pacing(SFA Interest) one only needed.

Bazza wrote:

Needs a long long overdue tidy up..

The Bar Break and General News, wtf is the difference, no body sticks to it, cut it back to General News and Breaking.

AFL
Adelaide nothing for nearly 8 years,,,LMAO.. several others 3, 4 and 5 years,

You only need AFL - Dockers and Eagles and then a Thread for other teams.

Soccer, a total mess - even funnier most teams have not had single post EVER, , tidy that up A League and then Glory.
Have an EPL and an International - ditch the rest.
Basketball, one folder needed only.
Motorsport the same Cars and Bikes in one.
Racing the same Racing and Pacing(SFA Interest) one only needed.

You've got a narrow minded view that West Australians are the only target audience. One recently returning member under a new alias always complains about lack of AFL interest, well your answer is cut it back to just Eagles and Dockers. That's what the original author did with "the rest" clumped all together.

If you want to attract AFL enthusiasts you need a separate thread for each club. The new owner might want to make Ozfooty AFL focussed and the WAFL section might be relegated under AFL. Who knows but the new owner needs to get a decent return on his or her investment and that will require google ads lads and a bigger audience.

If the new owner wants to attract soccer, horse racing and motor purists, then I'm sure they would appreciate separate categories. I agree the ammo section could be trimmed.

DD wrote:

Lol showing the new owner how ungrateful you are to previous owners who kept the site alive for everyone's benefit isn't a wise tactic.

It has been set up similar to Big Footy with a wide variety of categories and other sports and life interests and those categories have regular traffic and activity on that site. Ozfooty needs traffic and probably modernising with some social media links to help drive new traffic and a new audience instead of those living in a bubble as evidenced here pushing for categories that aren't being utilised to be culled.

You can't help yourself can you DD...just proves my point. The new owner has asked for feedback and you have to interject when you don't like the feedback. 

If it needs more traffic then having an over opinionated admin/owner with a history of deleting posts, suspending or banning members for having a different opinion and voice was only ever going to decrease traffic. All while the same owner/admin suffered verbal diarrhea on nearly every topic and could say whatever they wanted. 

This wasn't welcoming to lots of new members and drove lots of others away.

Doesn't take much effort to see how many regular posters haven't posted for a few years. 

Where have these posters gone:

• ArkRoyal
• Cardy
• MarkOlsen
• Stand the Test
• Leedy
• Tiger of Old
• Leather Stops
• Dwert
• Astro
• jackspratt
• Unholytugboat
• Singha
• ooollllrrrrry2
• Falcon
• Mr Mysterious
• kirbs
• terror
• PD1899
• Royal 2019
• Demon Strate
• Devonleigh
• therealswansman
• Talking Footy
• Birdman
• Rookie Draft

All regulars who posted 300+ times but haven't posted since somewhere between last year through to a few years now. And that's 25 out of the 90 biggest contributing members on this site 

Some of those have passed away. Some got what they deserved because they thought it's okay to get personal and criticise the owner. I doubt the new owner will take too kindly to copping the same treatment. But in reading all of this the new owner might be thinking crikey what have I got myself into here?

My advice for what it's worth, ignore the petty whinging and whining about condensing the topics, just fix the Gremlins this site requires major software updates which are significant and take considerable time and resources and use social media and google AdWords to drive traffic.

Private messaging is broken and quoting a post using a smartphone is difficult. There are a lot of moving parts to a forum like this. There is the website platform (kind of like windows), then there is the template (the forum itself), then there are extentions and plugins. They ALL need to be compatible and updated regularly. 

If you update one and not all then it just falls apart. Big job. Expect Ozfooty to go offline for extended periods while updates are taking place. Just hope the new owner communicates this with a heads up.

You just can't leave it alone can you Anchorman?

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DD wrote:

You just can't leave it alone can you Anchorman?

DD, It is not a case of leaving it alone, jst wanting you to listen to what the posters here ARE NOT telling you.
I understand the troubles of running a site.Not like this one, but a site of my own.
Trust me , I donot want to fight or argue, I just want to posat and feel welcome to do so here without worying if I am going to upset you or the NEW OWNER.
I will await the response from the NEW OWNER. I know that IF I get a response, it may well be a new owner, but if I find myself being banned again, then all will know the truth.

 

You just don't get it. Who do you think approved you to come on here and I knew who you were when you were whinging within 5 minutes on being back in this forum.

It's not about you. What ruins forums is people who bitch and moan and carry on. This site runs brilliantly without people like you that just want to pick a fight. Football supporters are fickle. When their team is winning they are active, when they are going shit they disappear especially when they lose hope.