Future of Website

Apologies to all for lack of updates on this website in the last several months. Lack of time and motivation.  After doing this for 17 years, I’m a little burned out.   As another bill for the website will be coming soon, time to reevaluate options. Changes in the internet world have relegated parts of this site to be somewhat obsolete. These are some possibilities:

1. Shut down the site when the current term is up
2. Have someone else take it over
3. Enable contributions to cover costs
4. Re-vamp the site using WordPress as a content management system and include more contributors
5. Move much of content to Facebook, drop the website.  Allow others to manage it going forward.

#1 is easiest for me. New registrations have dropped to maybe 1 per month. There is a huge amount of content, here, but not much new added recently.

#2 would be some effort, but I’d rather see it kept going in some form.

#3 Though $100-$150 / year may not seem like much, over 10 years it is pretty significant. Every year, it gets harder to renew. 20-25 people /year donating $5.00 would be all it would take to remove any financial issues.

#4 is something I’ve been planning, but it is a major effort and haven’t had time. It would make things easier to manage in the long run, and allow more contributors to the site.  Depends on #3 and whether there is enough interest in keeping a website going.

#5 Facebook is free, allows more user interaction, but would allow news and photo sharing. Some people refuse to use Facebook however.

#6 Maybe something else I haven’t thought of?

Feel free to comment or send me an email.