Wow!
I'd never have thought when I had the idea to start this forum that
it'd take off so quickly & so well.
I had actually mocked this up some time ago, but never bothered to make
it 'live' figuring that there probably wouldn't be that much interest -
most Commodore users seem to be C64 worshippers. However, looks
like I've been proved wrong. The board is getting a couple of new users
per day & most new users are contributing. There's been well over
250 messages & we're still less than three weeks old. Quite an
accomplishment I reckon.
File areas are doing well also - we have in excess of 650 downloads
available, I have a lot more to add & members are uploading
regularly too - with a bit of luck, we'll ultimately have the largest
collection of Commodore 128 software available anywhere. Once it
reaches a decent level, I'll start making the collection available via
CD ROM (I doubt there's enough stuff out there to need a DVD for, but
you never know.....). Downloads are doing well, at last count over 200
files have been downloaded.
The forum software we're using is PunBB, a small & fairly fast
distribution that is easily 'modded', in fact there are quite a few
mods installed to our forum that add certain things & help to
improve the overall experience for members & visitors. One of the
integrated mods tracks the board against other PunBB boards, you can
see how we're doing by following this
link. The stats
aren't live, but are updated every day around 6pm AEST.
Speaking of timezones, seems we have a problem with organising a weekly
chat, looks like our users are rather spread out across tyhe planet
& we also clash with the C64 IRC chat. Some suggestions around time
probably wouldn't help.
Topically, the board is doing very well with a large selection of items
that are generating a decent amount of replies. The risk was always
there that the forums would bog, but fortunately this doesn't seem to
be happening - there's a few posters that are doing some pretty major
contributions to the message areas - thanks guys, keep up the good work!
We're currently running one coding comp that has another month & a
half to run, creating music demos for the 128 - no submissions yet, but
plenty of time to get your entry in. Once this one finishes, we'll move
on to something else, I have a few ideas, but obviously I'll go with
suggestions from the members as well as to what they'd like to see
coding-wise. Along the same lines, we're in embyonic stage of
discussing a new, modern BBS package fotr the 128, some great
suggestions coming in - hopefully we can keep the energy up &
actually start development soon(ish). We need volunteers! Check out the
thread in the 128 programmers forum.
Some stats for the board up to today :
Members : 38
Posts : 258
Topics : 78
Files : 691
Downloads : 258