It is that forums loss, that they chased you (good people) off.
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What is the measure of a good forum?
People might be a good logical answer, but before you can put people in a vessel like a building or a sailboat, a good foundation needs to be laid down.
This forum has an all but perfect set of foundations set up to support people wanting a sailboat forum. It works great on personal computers as well as with apps on iPhones and iPads. This post is done using my iPad and their free app from apple. This support is not something you find at any other Mac site that I know of.
A forum with confusing rules about what can be posted, or changing rules about what can be posted puts off members.
As an example, a forum which I will not mention by name (lol) has a member trying to remove a personal ad for the sale of his 99X. It has sold. Repeated efforts requesting that the ad be dropped have failed because the mods say only the admin can do that function, and he is far too busy to be bothered with forum business with things like jobs and family. That is going on as I type this, it is pretty sad. The guy wants the phone to stop ringing about a sailboat for sale, and no can do, they are too busy. The only guy that can cancel the ad we are told has not posted on his forum in years because he is too busy? Too busy to help members with a problem their site is causing? Brother. Lol. Of course, most members there have no idea of the issue, because the thread was placed in the dead, no one has the keys to the place, called the pub, the off topic forum. What is off topic about a guy needing help stoping an ad? That is web site business, but that forum has no place for web site business, repeated requests for help through PMs goes unanswered. When he uses their forum to ask for help, the thread is mouth balled to the pub, where no one sees it. The mods can't even leave the guys request to be left alone in the sailboat threads where people may see his request to not call and bother him, they moved it to a locked down thread no one sees. Why? Why would they do that?
I read there only now. Never log in anymore. It does have some good information there because of good people. Tonight I learned about a ozone generator I had not heard of before, and I will call the company tomorrow to order one. Small size, powerful, robust, perfect for sailboats. Ozone kills and eliminates mold. Zaps it dead and gone. I intend to live aboard my boats at times, and I want a fresh smelling boat to enjoy. Put it on a timer and run it two minutes as you fuss top side. Open the cabin up to fresh air. Perfect. I have used ozone generators for years, they are a great tool to clean things.
My suggestion is, you found the best forum on Macs to post in, right here, and the best forum on true Mac sailboats with kicker engines rather than power sailors, by leaps and bounds.
Get out your smart phone, download the free app, and enjoy all this site has to offer, which is a great deal.