Growing on the Edge

[charlie]

As most of you will have already seen GOTE has run into problems I have copied Kev Spence's message below in case anyone hasn't seen it

Sadly Growing on the Edge forum will close this year!

I would firstly like to thank all the forum members who have contributed to the discussion on edgy plants for their area’s over the last 16 years.
I would also like to thank all of you that have helped with funding the forum of which we could not have continued if it had not been for you many thanks.

We started in 2007 with around 5 mods 2 have since passed away others just drifted off into differing social medias.
David and myself had kept things going for the last 10 years David looked after the monies and backed the forum up monthly through the Hostmonster site and we took turns to make sure everything worked ok while either of us were away on holiday.

I myself looked after new members who wished to join and had to delete spammers trying to infiltrate the board around 5 /day at the moment.
I also liked to generate interesting threads from our garden and our travels abroad keeping the board ticking along.

This all takes time and as the older you get you realise how precious your time is so I feel after 16 years my time is up.

I had hoped to offer the forum to any other interested parties but I am fairly sure an I.T expert and plant nerds are few and far between and we have developed a few problems now.
If there are any interested parties who wish to add this forum to there website please be in contact here or by p.m.
I was thinking more the larger websites that already run a gardening website hosting their own open gardens who will have the tech guys already in place.

I seem unable to get access to our hosting service "Hostmonster" as David's e-mail is the primary form of contact and they will not change it to my own e-mail without a court order. :roll:

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Ultimately, the only option you have would be to provide us with a valid Court Order directing Bluehost to transfer control of the account to the appropriate party. The court order should include the username for the account, a list of domains, and if applicable, associated hosted websites and email accounts.


We did have an error code pop up from time to time which David cleared through the hosting site so if that happens again is all over there and then.

I think the forum will continue for awhile into this year as David had paid for hosting the forum and name up front again Hostmonster will not even let me know how long is left sighting their privacy laws.

So if there are any members here who wish to keep in contact with other members or interesting threads you wish to keep do it soon.
The Edge Galleries have some old interesting photos in them of which I will be copying.



A difficult thread to write

Kevin

If anyone reading this has suggestions and is not a member of GOTE please pass them to me and I will pass them on

[Chad]

Apart from suggesting he gets Aiden involved it looks as if GOTE is irrevocably terminal.

Chad

[charlie]

I will pass Kev his email, but it doesnt sound if he would be able to access things, I had to pass him all the pass codes etc before he could help me with PTB

[John P]

Charlie one of the main problems these days is Facebook, its killing forums, as the Internet did with the quarterly printed EPS Chamaerops magazine that was produced from 1991 to 2012. (Members can read and download all copies on our website.)

HTUK was thriving a few years back but for some reason Dave Brown closed it, probably because of Facebook. Its good that his son is able to give this site the appropriate IT support. EPS Facebook is thriving with members, a lot of whom deserted the EPS forum. We have had a new a new up to date forum written for us to compete with Facebook, that will hopefully attract more exotic plant participants. We were lucky to have our Admin Team member Vic's brother in law set up our new website and now maintain it as our IT professional.

Hopefully some of the traffic from GOTE will come here.

John

[charlie]

Starting to get one or two refugees from GOTE

HTUK had a data breach problem and was hacked, I think you can still read it but they have blocked new posts - shame

Not a fan of Facebook as stuff disappears very quickly, but I do look in so as not to lose contact with folk who have abandoned forums and of course some people do both!

[Toby]

Hi from one of the refugees, glad this forum still exists, will be posting here for sure.