lotrfellowship | Last call for an owner for the boards!

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The boards are a very out-of-date version at this point but if you like you can either just let it keep going along (most of it still works fine - just occasional password or posting issues)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

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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!

Sadly, the Scrapbook will also be retired this year - it will still exist on my computer though, so if someone needed something they could still request it and I'd be happy to dig it up for them.

Guess I'll have to get moving on copying some of the things I want to keep for future reference! :) Any time frame for how long it will remain up?

To my understanding at this point, the Scrapbook itself is hosted on bookloaf.net, which Treble & I still own - it makes no difference in price to us if we keep it there on bookloaf - so it could remain up but the lotrscrapbook domain will not be renewed. I assume this means it could still be gotten at as long as the direct url instead of the redirecting domain name are used to access it.

Golly, I haven't even looked at the things on bookloaf in...forever. Boy is some of that out of date, kind of embarrassing really.

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Ah, okay, good to know! I do access it directly at bookloaf via direct link. There's a ton of stuff there, some worth looking at again and again, while other stuff is definitely dated! It's a great collection for reminding me of what it was like to interact with everyone during those years.

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.

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.

The biggest effort was in initial set up and launch, now that all the extras (like smileys and profanity filter, etc) are already there it's very, very easy. I think the only thing we had this past year was when photobucket went kablooie and took several people's avatars with it so I had to log into their various accounts and choose one for them from the stable of pictures we already built up there. I remember it wouldn't let me access Din's account so she still has a "image not available" but I was able to do the rest. The admin controls are pretty well labelled and easy to navigate, and very, very rarely needed.

Of course you could do whatever you wanted with it - delete unused sections, make new ones, change the colors... it's all flexible. There are sites with forums for that type of board where people with more know-how can show you how to do things if you wanted to get adventurous.

What I've done thus far was to pay the annual fee up front and then have the voluntary monthly sponsors just reimburse that expense to me, picking up any gaps if needed.

Let me know if you want to go forward with that and I'll get the payment to Lunarpages to get it turned back on asap.

Oh, and also a couple times people got locked out, either because they'd changed their email or lost their password.

You just go into their account (easy to do a search for their username) and either update the email on the account if needed, or just assign them a new simple password. You then email to let them know what it is, they can then log in themselves with that simple password and re-set it to whatever they want. Not complicated.

Are you able to help out financially with the site? I'm thinking of taking on the site for at least a year but was hoping to get more people to share the cost with.

I can help a bit, but my funds are limited, so I can't do as much as I would like to. I can probably do up to $35 --- would that help any?

I can manage £40 which is about 50$. I don.t have Prims email to send it. I use paypal but have forgotten how I did it last time.

Okay, I'll do it. Looks like we have 3 people to reimburse you (daisy, linaewen, and myself). Does this site have a PM system here to hash out details on that?

That'd be great! I think with three of us we could each do $35.

Sounds good. Just let me know how to send the funds.

I have heard from Onomir today, who is also interested in helping; I'll wait to see if he is able to log in and join the discussion here -- if not, I'll represent his interests as we discuss the details.

You can PM people by clicking on a person's name, which links to their journal. Then go to their profile and click on Private Message (in my layout, it's in a list of options in the upper right hand corner). Onomir of this community is also interested in helping; I'm hoping he can log in himself to have input.

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

I’ll pay it.
I’ll mail it or deliver it in person ASAP
Upon direction prim.

Have to head out the door just now, but I'll send you a note!

Okay

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. ^_^

Please call or text message me when you can.

Please help get onomir log in for FOME again
siradaono@msn.com

Awesome! So are we splitting it four ways, or are you taking on in full?

I planned on paying it in full and am working with Primula and the Host Site but some have also expressed a desire to pay so I think we can discuss going forward. I defer to Primula and we shall see. Thank you very much and I do like you FB game page 👍

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