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Posted by: Carls_jeep
« on: November 01, 2010, 08:52:00 AM »

Using your line of thought why would anyone have joined in the first place. When CJ3 started it had nothing so you would not have joined it then but later when you found it there was a lot of info so you joined.

Your thought process is flawed, if you are searching for answers you search everywhere. What you may perceive as a useless site may have more info than you think.

As to a prominent link on the top of the page saying something like, "To search for info on the old CJ3 site go here" may work. The thing about these forum boards is you have to be smarter than they are and for the most part we are. I think when Jeep R locks the old site and has a way to save it and search on it all the members will join, at least the ones who really like the site and the other members.
Posted by: RussellL
« on: October 31, 2010, 11:27:50 PM »

Yes, I saw the link to the old board, but that does not answer my previous comment.  If I were a newbie just starting to learn to use the online resources available, and I came into this new forum looking to learn, I would see a forum with just a few posted questions and I'd leave without joining and never come back.  

Searching for a link to archives, in a thread in a different forum only works if you know about it beforehand.  Even if you had a big button on the front page that said ARCHIVES I doubt that most new users would find it very quickly, and being directed to a dead forum isn't likely to attract new members.

When I was first learning and discovered this forum about a year ago, one of the first things I saw was a huge wealth of questions and answers to browse through.  It got me interested and hooked, so after a while I joined and started asking my own questions.  But I spent several months reading old messages and new ones that came in at the same time before I felt like I knew enough to contribute.  I really feel that losing that ability will be a huge loss.  

I know that things change and especially with computers you have advance just to keep up, but the greatest value (by a very large margin)  in a forum like this is the ability to preserve information and pass it on to other people to help us preserve our antique jeeps.  People like Wes K and many others spend a lot of time gathering and compiling information to preserve it because preserving that info is important and valuable.  The rest of us benefit greatly by their efforts.  Giving up all that old knowledge, or hiding it in an archive, is not moving forward.  



Posted by: ersatzS2
« on: October 31, 2010, 05:45:17 PM »

Just go to the 'Website Feedback' forum and check out the 'other forum' thread for instructions on how to search old forum.  
Posted by: RussellL
« on: October 31, 2010, 11:14:46 AM »

I sincerely hope that the old messages will be easily available to all, here.  When I first got started I learned a huge amount by browsing the board looking for interesting subjects.  Some of the threads I was reading were years old.   I did not know what I didn't know so I couldn't search for topics.  I had to browse them and basically read everything.  I sincerely hope that the same will be possible for new members.  Right now if I was a new person joining the forum I would not see much of anything and would leave.  
Posted by: danorte
« on: October 30, 2010, 09:25:48 AM »

I think the question is where is all the old stuff going? will it transition to this site? One place one site is best in my opinion. Thanks North
Posted by: Forum Master
« on: October 30, 2010, 08:49:45 AM »

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Hi folks,

I am wondering what has happened to our CJ-3A website? �Do we have to create new user id's and passwords? �Where are all our old threads and the HUGE wealth of information that they represent? �I had questions posted that I was waiting for comments on. �

Sign up here and post your questions here.
Posted by: Carls_jeep
« on: October 29, 2010, 10:51:47 PM »

You can post the questions here as a guest obviously but why not join us.
Posted by: Russell(Guest)
« on: October 29, 2010, 03:51:50 PM »

Hi folks,

I am wondering what has happened to our CJ-3A website?  Do we have to create new user id's and passwords?  Where are all our old threads and the HUGE wealth of information that they represent?  I had questions posted that I was waiting for comments on.