Last call for an owner for the boards!

[primsong]

For those of you who missed it, the message boards at lotrfanmb / lotrfellowship are now offline as no one has as yet responded to my requesting a new owner for it... it's not too late to bring it back on if anyone would like to take on the annual payment of $107. I can pay it to bring it back up with a reimbursement, then transfer all the info to that person so it would be theirs to manage from that point! (really, it isn't hard to do, the controls are all labeled).

The boards are a very out-of-date version at this point but if you like you can either just let it keep going along (most of it still works fine - just occasional password or posting issues) or you could update it to another version if you are the enterprising sort.

I'm sorry I can't keep supporting it anymore, it's been such a wonderful season in our lives and I've been so blessed to have had the opportunity to know all of you - I'm still hoping someone from our old gang might come along to keep the homestead going with a fire in the fireplace.

Comments

[linaewen]

Thanks for posting this, I didn't know this was happening. Unfortunately, I can't take this on, either. It really is sad to see it go. Here's hoping someone decides to do it, so we can keep the fire in the fireplace!

This makes me wonder about the future of the LOTRFanclub Scrapbook -- is that in any danger of going away? I check in there fairly often, more so than at the Fanclub itself, so I hope it will be staying around!

[daisy_gold]

It was such a shock to find the boards gone this morning.
I wish I had the tech knowledge to run the site.
My offer of financial help still stands. I would love to see how things on the boards might come back to life once the TV series on Lord of the Rings starts.
You did wonderful work with the boards Prim and made it such a happy place to be. Many, many thanks.

[middleearthmunchkin]

So how many people are willing to help financially? (I am, as well.) Daisy_gold said so below, and I think it was Strange Elf who said they'd be willing to help back on the thread on the boards?

Prim - if the person who 'owns' the board didn't do anything at all to the site, would it still exist? I mean, how much effort was it for you to do stuff? How often did something 'break' that needed fixing? I'm thinking of taking it on, at least for a year, and maybe we could try to advertise some sort of several reunions this year to try to get people to hop back at certain intervals, and if there's enough interest maybe we can get a more steady financial support/site-person to run it for longer.

Funds

[onomir]

I’ll pay the annual fee, For years to come, if allowed
Please advise

We have a New Owner!

[primsong]

Our good Onomir has agreed to take on the Lunarpages account,may the hair on his toes never fall out!

I will work with Lunarpages tonight to get the boards back online so we can go forward with the exchange, which will also make them available for further discussion there instead of through DWth. ^_^