Kelsey Media buys Morton’s Titles

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Wotsup is fine for keeping in touch, and all the bands I play in have a wotsup group.

However, anything you post soon gets hidden by a deluge of other posts and finding something you want to refer to involves scrolling back for 20 mins. It’s not a forum substitute. Ditto Facebook…posts here today…gone tomorrow.

The eventual extinction of whsmiths from our high streets will have dire consequences for hundreds of publications that they sell. Tesco or Sainsbury’s will only stock a very small selection of the most popular titles, as will independent newsagents compared to the vast rows a smiffs.

I don’t think it costs a fortune to have a website…we could do our own…..

Doom and gloom.

Ashley

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

I don’t think it costs a fortune to have a website…we could do our own…..

Ashley,

For the number of members we are likely to have it is unlikely to be financially viable plus a reasonable degree of software and computer expertise is needed to set it up and run it.

Once set up you are entering the internet jungle. Your site will be targeted by web bots and automated hackers as a matter of course. If you are unlucky you will be specifically targeted to the extent that the site becomes unusable. There are methods of warding off these threats but they can be time consuming and expensive and need expertise.

As an example, when accessing the Mazda 6 car owner website which I belong to this morning I was presented with the screen below. normally there may be one or two posts but today there were pages of automated spam posts.

On another forum devoted to ferries on which I am a moderator I have been fending off attempts to flood the pages with irrelevant information on airline schedules.

I still have moderator status on the Model Engineer website and most days I wake up with up to half a dozen email warnings of attempted spam posts.

Most of this stuff goes on in the background so users are protected but Mortons and other Forum providers are spending a lot of time (and often money) in keeping things that way. If you set up your own forum then you you will be in the front line!

A lot of the disruption can be traced to Russian origins. They just try to create random chaos.

Colin

 

 

 

 

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

Well, the switch hasn’t been flicked yet then!

I’m having problems with using via my Android tablet again, i.e. the site is out of date as regards posts.

Probably a waste of time reporting the problem again which as Ray has said has led to the loss of previous ones and also does nothing to help with increasing new members.

Chris

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

I always access this site (and the ME one) from my PC which seems to be generally reliable although the occasional reset requires logging in again (twice!).

I have no news on the changeover, Lindsey said she would update me when she was able to do so. Understandably there is confidentiality involved while issues associated with the sale are worked through.

Colin

 

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

Yeah, I use my PC, as I have to, and for updating blogs as I generally have my photos on it. But most of the time I use my tablet for catching up on forums and Facebook groups so I find it frustrating when I can’t do it. And of course fewer folks have PCs nowadays as they can use tablets and phones.

Chris

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