I have deleted all members who have not made any posts. The cost of the forum is rocket high at the minute so I am hoping that by deleting members who do not use the forum will help. It might even make the forum run a bit quicker (hopefully!)
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It may also be a good idea to delete any members who have not visited the forum in over a year.
4piggiepigs
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I don't get how many spammer's get on, it took me age's to sign up because i didnt tick/untick the box about being/not being a spammer!
I think that is a great decision and so is the one to delete people who have not been on as I have noticed a number of people recently logging on to rehome piggies or to seek one piece of advice and then they vanish. Spring cleaning the site would be good.
nutmeg
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Even for these people, I think it would be good to allow a decent amount of time before deleting, as they have cared enough about their guineas to come on looking for help. xx
I meant after a year, I was just giving that as an example, of course people should be allowed access but if they have not used it after a year it may be because of the reason I gave above x
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I would like to donate towards the forum (will probably have to be after Christmas) how can I do that? 
Claire W
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I would like to donate towards the forum (will probably have to be after Christmas) how can I do that?
I would as well. I donated last year but didn't this year
We have so many new members with very similar names which is frankly ever so confusing. (threepiggies, fourpiggies, xyz mummy...)
Would it be possible to offer again the option of a name change for a given date and whoever would like to change their names can pm furryfriends beforehands, so she can do it all in one go to spare her too much work? That would also give members the option to check through members' lists and make sure that they are choosing a unique new username.
Would it be possible to offer again the option of a name change for a given date and whoever would like to change their names can pm furryfriends beforehands, so she can do it all in one go to spare her too much work? That would also give members the option to check through members' lists and make sure that they are choosing a unique new username.
Gems
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I was just wondering whether you managed to change providers or if you had to renew with the same host?
4piggiepigs
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My sister in law picked a name almost exactly like mine,she asked to change it but was told only if it was really necessary.
happysaz133
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I think thats a good idea too, the site does seem to be running faster since you did it Appreciated!
Appreciated!
doglovinpiggylover
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i would be interested in donating after christmas too, i love this forum and find it very helpful and informative as well as friendly x
Laura-CCC4
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Could either Ellie or Debbie please just make a post explaining the features that have been removed? I noticed the Game Room and Live Chat has gone, and just discovered Member Profile pictures have gone too.
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My profile pic is still there :{
Laura-CCC4
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Weird, mine has gone on its own, as have some others I checked......?
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I have clearly missed that post of Ellie's. Anyway, I am of the opinion that an official announcement about which forum features have been removed would not have been remiss - considering the number of people who frequent this forum and the fact that not even forum buddies have an idea what is going on!
If Ellie is short of money, why can't you have another action for donations? I haven't seen one this year.
PS: I would also like a better facility to contact the mods and an answer to the points I have brought up in this thread.
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4piggiepigs
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I would donate after xmas. It's a great forum.
PS: I still have a profile picture, for some reason.
PS2: What about albums? There has been so much confusion that it would be much easier not to have any at all, but instead have a new guinea pig blog section, where members could have a permanent thread about their piggies, for instance.
PS2: What about albums? There has been so much confusion that it would be much easier not to have any at all, but instead have a new guinea pig blog section, where members could have a permanent thread about their piggies, for instance.
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I think Wiebke has raised some good points, I thought it would have been nice to have an announcement about which features have been removed.
I think getting rid of the photo albums would probably be a good idea too, after all there are many online photo hosting sites which are free to use.
Natalie
I think getting rid of the photo albums would probably be a good idea too, after all there are many online photo hosting sites which are free to use.
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Well Wiebke, you clearly missed the thread about donations too!
http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=56773
The cost of running this forum is increasing greatly as more and more members join. This weekend we had to purchase more bandwidth or we would've been fined for exceeding our limit for the month. I personally funded a percentage of this as we didn't have sufficient funds left. Hopefully we have now purchased enough bandwidth to last a whole month, but rather than risk going over our bandwidth and incurring extra charges, we have now requested that once we reach our limit for each month that the forum is disconnected!
With regard to contacting moderators, you have the private messaging facility for this. Please remember we all have jobs and a life outside of the forum and can't always make ourselves immediately available. However, we will always reply to you.
Ellie is looking into ways to make the forum run as efficiently as possible whilst remaining within the budget we have, and this has resulted in certain features that are not guinea pig related, to be removed. These features needed to be removed quickly as we were in danger of incurring charges we would not have been in a position to pay. Ellie did make an announcement, but action had to be taken quickly.
I hope this answers your questions.
nutmeg
Senior Guinea Pig
More than happy with changes if it saves money and quickens it up for us,I don't come on to play games, and really not bothered about having no mugshot.....saves everyone the pain of viewing it! lol xx
Wiebke,
I am sorry that I am not here at your beck and call - I am currently very busy with my teaching job. There is a lot going on at the minute such as new marking policies, courses, xmas play, marking, observations, planning etc etc.
The other day, during a bit of time I did have to spare, I looked at our bandwidth usage and noticed that we had gone way over - we were looking at over £100 charge. The first thing that I did was remove un-necessary features of the forum such as the arcade, chat room and games room. This is a guinea pig forum after all and those features have nothing to do with guiena pigs. If you would like to play online games then go to an online games website. If you would like to use a chatroom, find an online chatroom. There were many new members abusing the features of The Games Room as they were being encouraged by some members to use it as a way of increasing their post count so that they would be able to use other features of the forum. The next thing that I did was ring Debbie and ask her how much donations we had left. I worked out that we needed to spend £150 to increase our bandwidth limit for the rest of the hosting year. If I didn't act immediately, we would inccur the £100 charge as well as having to upgrade the following month (total coming to over £250!) Debbie informed me that we were a bit short so she gave me her card details so that she could fund the rest of the costs. Somebody had asked on the forum where the Game Room had gone and I quickly responded saying what I had to do to ensure that we kept the costs down. I did not have time to post a full message at that time to explain what had been removed.
Regarding your comments that you would like a better facility to contact mods then no... you have the option to PM us and that is it. We all have lives outside of the cyber world and have a right to our own privacy and time away from the forum.
I thanked your comment about being happy with the changes!
Just wanted to make it clear that the thanks wasn't regarding your comment about saving everyone from seeing your picture! 
nutmeg
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Ha ha, wouldn't have blamed you if that was the decider!I thanked your comment about being happy with the changes!
|)|)Just a wee thought, and I appreciate this would take a lot of time which you may not have, but could it be possible to clear threads that were made before a certain date? That would surely clear a whole load of space but I have no idea how easy it would be to do.
Not trying to interfere just wanting to help by thinking of ways to reduce the costs x
Not trying to interfere just wanting to help by thinking of ways to reduce the costs x
nutmeg
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That's a thought, certainly for maybe the 'general chat' section, as it's not always pig related so wouldn't affect anyone searching archives for help. xx
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