Suggestion: Members Ride/Car diaries, Its own section. Options

[whatthe]

Putting this out there. If mods/admin wish to create a Members Ride/Car diaries section for member who wish to create a diary?
As certain members are putting it in General Chat and some are putting it in Multimedia.

Rico.

[HaysoosKreesto]

Cool idea, small update though, call it a journal. Its a bit more manly

[presure2]

i wish we had some way of making changes to the site.
but since chris is the only one who can, and is never around, it isnt going to happen any time soon, sorry.

[Defgeph]

Buy a fixed gear bicycle......

[njccmd2002]

^^^ lol,

i have been asking for the ability to get extra pictures, but I know it never happens, my biggest fear is one day this site will be non-existant, and then what?

Lets be thankful he still has it on the air. Thats at least something......

If this site ever dies, what will happen to all the knowledge?

[pittfirefighter]

^^^ lol,

i have been asking for the ability to get extra pictures, but I know it never happens, my biggest fear is one day this site will be non-existant, and then what?

Lets be thankful he still has it on the air. Thats at least something......

If this site ever dies, what will happen to all the knowledge?

ok completely off topic but i have to say i have the same fears... i mean... i get all my parts here... sell all my parts here... share all my knowledge and have learned so much...

i think it may be appropriate to start a little fundraiser for coomer... i mean hes kept this thing running for so long and doesn't even have a celica!!

with the permission of the Mods, i want to start a fundraiser for coomer... i think a lot of people would be happy to pitch in a few bucks to make sure this thing stays alive... i mean look how many people we have on here daily... members... if everyone pitches in a 10 spot... just a thought

[presure2]

permission denied.

i've talked with chris before about taking some $ from members to run the site, hell, i've offered to cover the costs myself to keep the site up to date and to keep adding features, ect. he just wont accept it.
my hands are pretty much tied up at this point as far as the site is concerned.
its really starting to feel like the old celica.net site that ended up leading to this site, and later celicatech being created because of this very kind of problem. (the og's will know what im talking about here)
its really a shame.

[njccmd2002]

wow i just saw that site, its really dead no new posts in one year....

so thats the story behind this site... Its a shame.. It always happens that way.

i believe there is only but a few hundred members that keep this site active, all the good ones are selling their cars..

[MaskedMan]

i believe there is only but a few hundred members that keep this site active, all the good ones are selling their cars..

Don't worry guys! A good portion of those members who keep this site alive sold their Celicas a long time ago . It's a really good site, and for every member who sells their Celica, there is a new Celica owner. New Celica owners are going to be the future of the site, so for those current owners who decide to sell their Celicas, please take 6gc.net into consideration and watch who you sell your car to .

[dustin15brown]

I've mentioned to Coomer multiple times about a paid membership with extra benefits: larger PM box, more pics, Premier Members only where there are no 'rules' really.... They did this on my350z.com and it works awesome. I paid $30 for a year and the 'anything goes' section alone is worth the money. Also we get a little "premier member' emblem under our name.

[supershannon77]

That would be awesome DB but I think Coomer is gone...I sent him a message on facebook for permission to use the 6gc logo but he never got back. Its sad but he did create a great site. I would def pay for a Premier membership.

[dustin15brown]

I messaged him again today, and I still have his cell number and I might give him a ring

[manphibian]

It is a shame......

Coomer never responds to any messages i send......

As soon as a few of the main posters sell their Celicas, this site will die

[supershannon77]

The sad part is I have this odd feeling Coomer doesn't mind if this site fades away He seems like a really nice guy but just lost interest in Celica's completely.

I saw he was working on an iphone app for his other sites...a 6gc app would be cool lol.

I don't see why he doesn't hand the site over to Manny who can lets say make griffgirl a mod and she can do all the programming or w/e that goes into a site.

[SwissFerdi]

^I would agree with that, maybe not the handing-it-over-to-Manny part...

But that would work. I could see Luke running the site as well..

[njccmd2002]

there is only about ten users that contribute with 90% of the knowledge here, the rest of us are just learning.

Its a shame this site is not as active as it was 2 years ago, when i came in, more people doing real swaps, now is all very quiet, here and there. Nothing really exciting going on...

[pittfirefighter]

there is only about ten users that contribute with 90% of the knowledge here, the rest of us are just learning.

Its a shame this site is not as active as it was 2 years ago, when i came in, more people doing real swaps, now is all very quiet, here and there. Nothing really exciting going on...

i don't know about that.... the swap section has been pretty busy lately it seems.... it seems everyone is jumping into a 3s swap now...

this thread makes me sad

This post has been edited by pittfirefighter: Dec 13, 2009 - 8:31 PM

[Bigblock]

IIRC Coomer went into the chatroom around a year ago and there were only 2 or 3 ppl in there at the time. Hope he doesn't think that was a sign of things to come!! It was late at night like around midnight. He said the basics--"Hi how's it going?"...etc. IDK if he's tried since or still drops into chatroom.
I would also VERY MUCH consider an anual fee or donation to keep this site going. I mean I have learned some stuff from MANY of you individualy & reading threads. There is SO MUCH MORE to learn & share!!
The Haynes book is ok, but details aren't covered very well--this community fills in the blanks!!AND THEN SOME!!!
Parts, ideas, pics, feed back, YOU FOLKS, etc-- CAN NOT BE REPLACED!! 6GC is a FANTASTIC SITE!
WOOTS to the mods for ALL THEY DO also!!!!

(edit)
I don't want ANY ownership-- I have no qualms paying dues!!

This post has been edited by Bigblock: Dec 14, 2009 - 5:48 PM

[malpaso]

I'm really sad reading what is written here aboit Coomer... . 6gc.net is great place and only one "home forum" I have. Ther are many other forums I participate but this is only one I feel like at home... It would be really sad to find out this site is fading away.

[SwissFerdi]

^ Then it's up to the members who care (like us) to contribute if necessary. I'm down to donate if need be. But if something were to fail with the code and the site would crash, and only Coomer could fix it...we'd all be royally f*cked.

[njccmd2002]

^ Then it's up to the members who care (like us) to contribute if necessary. I'm down to donate if need be. But if something were to fail with the code and the site would crash, and only Coomer could fix it...we'd all be royally f*cked.

wish there would be away to save all this info...

i mean, ive been on celica tech and the uk site, and it is not for a 6gc, not the same people.

well, well just keep beating the dead horse, on and on and on..

[Defgeph]

There is no quick fixie here, we need to pick a gear, lose the brakes, and pedal our way towards the future of 6GC. Bring your bicycle helmets.

[yarik83]

I think what we really need is to switch gears completely. We have all (well old farts anyways) been on this site since basically day 1. It would be a good idea to take 6gc.net and make it a 6gc.net club welcoming old members back with other cars. Face it lads... celica is an aging car and there is no substitute for it. 90% of people on this forum could not afford to purchase a new celica (if we were to commission some shop out there to actually build brand new 6gc celicas) and 90% of those who left are driving another car. We need to give them a reason to come back. Since our community is a friendly community but its not a "royal following community"... our community is an aging community.

Think of low riders. Does not matter what car you drive as long as its a low rider and is 1900-1980 car. Think of drifer cars. Does not matter what make or model but those lads end up having a heck of a fun time every weekend. Think of mud racers and rally enthusiasts and other car nieches where people kind of huddle together.

We rarely have get together events and when we do we usually have questionable turnout. Not like usa is a small country or island nation where there are 100 celicas and all 100 come. That aside I think one of the reasons why we are loosing members is because there is no upgrade for a celica... well there is the 7th generation but we all know that 6gc is the best celi ever.

I keep bringing up mutsubishi evolutions (partly since I can practically taste the smell of my future car) but their community is like a cult. Does not matter if you drive evo 1 or evo 10.. you are a part of a special nieche of enthusiasts. In many ways it builds community, especially if your first car was evo and your next car will be evo and your car after that will be an evo etc and all evos kind of flock together. I learned it first hand since I attend evo meets all the time. Here in florida (where we cant seem to properly organize a celica meet) there are several chapters of evo club and they all meet several times a year with a huuuuuuuge turn out. Last one counted like a cajillion cars. All passionate and forever evo addicts.

With celicas.. I think we need to bring the old spark back.. well at least people like Ferdie should. They are the "us" from 2002. They just got their celicas and that new smell of an old car is still in their veins and their brains are filled with excitement.

In all truth I would not mind pitching in for a website and I am sure other members would too. We could call it the same thing but add a little sense of community into it. It is hard to make people do things they do not want... but regular meetings and outings and other miscellaneous events could potentially bring back our good old community from brink of extinction. Maybe 6gc.net stickers that we can give to all members to promote the site or something...

For 10 years I thought of ways to make our community active and after 10 years of theorizing I came to a conclusion that personal commitment is THE key to community's success.
Here is a link to what other car communities do on a regular basis.
http://forums.evolutionm.net/southeast-reg...9-pictures.html

[presure2]

You guys are failing to realize one thing.
It's not about money. If that were the case, the site would have been long gone a long time ago.
Chris has just decided it's not worth it to him to take the time needed to keep the site moving forward.
He's busy with other things.
It has been that way for a few years now, he just comes around less and less to the post where when the site goes down is the only time he is active now.
I have been trying to get him to do a "premium membership" kind of thing or somthing like that for years, to get more pics, more storage, pic hosting ect with nothing to show for it, other than him telling me there is plenty of server space, and allowing me the ability to upload files to be hosted on 6gc for the stickys.
It's frustrating for all of us, and it's a shame, because we have a great community of people here, that he created the forum for. It is his vision that brings us all together.
No one wants to see this forum wither and die, and as long as the site is hosted and functioning, I don't see that happening , but we as a community deserve to know IF the site will exist in the future at least.
/rant. Lol

[yarik83]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fT0yUwB5gA

me want florida celica meeetings to be like that

[presure2]

There is no quick fixie here, we need to pick a gear, lose the brakes, and pedal our way towards the future of 6GC. Bring your bicycle helmets.

You posted as i was in mid rant....lol
maybe we should join the bycicle fourm......I'm too lazy to actually ride one tho...lol

[yarik83]

I have been riding my mongoose xr200. Spring, Summer and Fall usually 15-20 miles every day. Here in my gated community we have 26+ miles of paved trails in the forest and while I am a lazy shmuch it was a perfect substitute for when I quit playing video games. After riding 7 days a week I lost 16.5 lbs, gained muscle tone, a tan and overall I actually enjoy riding now. Its starting.... that is kinda iffy. I am taking my 3 month break right now because it gets dark early but will resume in march. I will be riding my bike to work. My new office will have showers there so I will save a ton on paying for gas like I am right now with my 50 mile round trip commute.

[lagos]

There is no quick fixie here, we need to pick a gear, lose the brakes, and pedal our way towards the future of 6GC. Bring your bicycle helmets.

You posted as i was in mid rant....lol
maybe we should join the bycicle fourm......I'm too lazy to actually ride one tho...lol

According to Coomers Twitter update "coomer is making @pedalroom faster! Playing sysadmin can be fun at times!".
He is of course talking about his new bicycle website http://www.pedalroom.com/.

I don't mind the guy having other projects, but I just wish he would jump on here and fess up that he's long lost interest in the site, instead of giving us some BS excuse about how busy he is.

This site is 1 missed hosting payment away from being gone forever, and as the years go by, thats getting closer and closer to becoming a reality.

[flyinglizard]

Just contacted him on pedalroom, voicing my concern. Hopefully he gets back to us in one way or another. I'd hate to see this site fade away. I have huge future plans for my car and desperately need you guys for help in the coming years.

[presure2]

There is no quick fixie here, we need to pick a gear, lose the brakes, and pedal our way towards the future of 6GC. Bring your bicycle helmets.

You posted as i was in mid rant....lol
maybe we should join the bycicle fourm......I'm too lazy to actually ride one tho...lol

According to Coomers Twitter update "coomer is making @pedalroom faster! Playing sysadmin can be fun at times!".
He is of course talking about his new bicycle website http://www.pedalroom.com/.

I don't mind the guy having other projects, but I just wish he would jump on here and fess up that he's long lost interest in the site, instead of giving us some BS excuse about how busy he is.

This site is 1 missed hosting payment away from being gone forever, and as the years go by, thats getting closer and closer to becoming a reality.

agreed, art.
for example, i posted back in october, in the mod forum, about rusty helping reworking the stickys.
not a single word from chris.
meanwhile, just YESTERDAY, he blogged on pedalroom about working on the site to make it faster.

it's a shame to let the future of this site just kinda fall by the wayside.
we've got some great people working on things for the celica that were never available back in the day, and guys that have been around since the beginning helping out people when noone else knew how.
guys like tweak, who've been around since the beginning, and guys like vincent, the guys at rtp, wolfie, ect who are taking over for and going beyond what guys like doggy ect did for us as a community. just to name a few.

i've known we've been driving blind for a long time now, and i've been communicating via PM with lots of diffrent members old and new about various ideas, suggestions, requests ect for the site, which unfortunately my reply 99.9% of the time ends up being "sorry, thats the kind of thing only chris can take care of" and its sad that there is nothing i can do about it.
as the guy who ends up looking and feeling like the bad guy because of my "position" on this site, it sucks to know at the end of the day, it really dont make a diffrence at all, because the guy i am supossed to be helping out really dont give a good sh*t about the site anymore.

its really just getting old at this point.

[SwissFerdi]

I propose the creation of a back-up site, and letting EVERYBODY know of it. Put dedicated members from here in charge of it (I nominate Michelle, being the sexiest beast of us all, to run the website since she knows how). That way, if this page ever comes up as site not found...we at least have a meeting place to try and recover information and membership. If need be, we can make that the new 6gc.net in case this site fails. We need a place to carry on this community.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Dec 16, 2009 - 6:26 PM

[lagos]

I propose the creation of a back-up site, and letting EVERYBODY know of it. Put dedicated members from here in charge of it (I nominate Michelle, being the sexiest beast of us all, to run the website since she knows how). That way, if this page ever comes up as site not found...we at least have a meeting place to try and recover information and membership. If need be, we can make that the new 6gc.net in case this site fails. We need a place to carry on this community.

If we make a "backup site" we might as well just make a new site to move onto on our own. Problem with things like that is that we will loose a lot of members as some people will either not get the memo or not want to move.

This similar thing happened with celica.net back in the day. The moderators had issues with the sites owner not being involved, so one day they just had enough an created celicatech, copied any important posts over, and deleted just about everything on the old site.

If this place ever explodes, I'll probably just be on celicatech.

Worst part about all of this is that I sent chris a msg over twitter saying that 6gc doesn't know what its like to have a sys admin, and sadly he just ignores that and any msgs people send him about this site and doesn't even bother to come in here to see whats going on.

[SlvrCelica09]

The only solution to this problem is out of our hands. As long as Coomer is the Admin we all have to live with the site's current settings. Perhaps someone should contact him and offer to buy out the site.

I am getting paid friday..

[SwissFerdi]

If we make a "backup site" we might as well just make a new site to move onto on our own. Problem with things like that is that we will loose a lot of members as some people will either not get the memo or not want to move.

This similar thing happened with celica.net back in the day. The moderators had issues with the sites owner not being involved, so one day they just had enough an created celicatech, copied any important posts over, and deleted just about everything on the old site.

If this place ever explodes, I'll probably just be on celicatech.

Worst part about all of this is that I sent chris a msg over twitter saying that 6gc doesn't know what its like to have a sys admin, and sadly he just ignores that and any msgs people send him about this site and doesn't even bother to come in here to see whats going on.

No, I just propose a blank forum. Nobody needs to sign up over there, but in case sh!t does hit the fan here, we know where to go. Know what I mean?

[lagos]

The only solution to this problem is out of our hands. As long as Coomer is the Admin we all have to live with the site's current settings. Perhaps someone should contact him and offer to buy out the site.

I am getting paid friday..

Scary thought!

If we make a "backup site" we might as well just make a new site to move onto on our own. Problem with things like that is that we will loose a lot of members as some people will either not get the memo or not want to move.

This similar thing happened with celica.net back in the day. The moderators had issues with the sites owner not being involved, so one day they just had enough an created celicatech, copied any important posts over, and deleted just about everything on the old site.

If this place ever explodes, I'll probably just be on celicatech.

Worst part about all of this is that I sent chris a msg over twitter saying that 6gc doesn't know what its like to have a sys admin, and sadly he just ignores that and any msgs people send him about this site and doesn't even bother to come in here to see whats going on.

No, I just propose a blank forum. Nobody needs to sign up over there, but in case sh!t does hit the fan here, we know where to go. Know what I mean?

Yeah 5 people would remember it and everyone else wouldn't know what happened. Plus staring a new forum from scratch is rough, not to mention that it costs money for hosting and the form license.

[supershannon77]

What if we all join together and all send him a message on pedalroom or twitter or anywhere?

[lagos]

In all honesty, I think Coomer should hand the site off free of charge to Manny. This site has zero advertising and generates no income. Its only value is its loyal users that made it what it is over so many years.

The saddest part about all of this is that the changes that people want are 5minutes and 3 mouse clicks away from happening. And yet we can't even get that much to happen.

What if we all join together and all send him a message on pedalroom or twitter or anywhere?

He'll come in here and say "oh sorry guys, ive been super busy with work. I promise the site wont go away and ill do what needs to be done", then we wont see him for another 3yrs.

[SlvrCelica09]

He'll come in here and say "oh sorry guys, ive been super busy with work. I promise the site wont go away and ill do what needs to be done", then we wont see him for another 3yrs.

wow.. haven't been here long enough to know.. is that how he really is?

[MaskedMan]

He'll come in here and say "oh sorry guys, ive been super busy with work. I promise the site wont go away and ill do what needs to be done", then we wont see him for another 3yrs.

wow.. haven't been here long enough to know.. is that how he really is?

Don't forget to add, "There are going to be some new updates soon so keep your eyes peeled!"

[johnnehh]

This is a depressing topic.

[Rusty]

...lol I'm doing a coomer

So far I've only done 2 stickies, but from the amount of views they have so far, I think they're working. There is going to be a new sticky thread soon so keep your eyes peeled!

[dustin15brown]

I wrote on Christian's facebook wall today, hopefully i get a reply to this since my emails failed.
i'll prolly call/text him this week

There is no quick fixie here, we need to pick a gear, lose the brakes, and pedal our way towards the future of 6GC. Bring your bicycle helmets.

I used to question your sexuality..... but thank you for confirming all my thoughts....

But really, not bad jeff, not bad

[Coomer]

Sorry guys, I'm a terrible admin.

I simply can't find the motivation to work on 6GC any more. My other big site, my girlfriend, and my job consume all of my attention. I'm still as busy as ever, except I sleep a lot less now so I can get everything done. It's 12:41am right now - I have to be up at 4am to finish up some last minute work.

6GC is currently on a stable server along with a couple of my other sites. I have great incentives to keep the server up, as well as a responsibility to at the very least keep this site up. That's why when it's down, I do fix it. When the chat was bringing down the server, I had to remove it. I owe it to you guys to make sure the awesome amount of knowledge and community that this site contains doesn't disappear.

About the chat, it's a very old piece of software, and it's written in a way that it isn't efficient, especially given the technologies available today. I should have re-written it, but I just do not have the motivation and spare time to do so. Realistically, it probably won't come back online - the server cannot handle it and re-writing it is a ton of work. About other feature requests, again, I don't have the spare time and drive to work on this site, or several of my other sites.

I'm sorry. I don't know what to do. I've got to sleep, but I'll think about this...

[lagos]

Sorry guys, I'm a terrible admin.

I simply can't find the motivation to work on 6GC any more. My other big site, my girlfriend, and my job consume all of my attention. I'm still as busy as ever, except I sleep a lot less now so I can get everything done. It's 12:41am right now - I have to be up at 4am to finish up some last minute work.

6GC is currently on a stable server along with a couple of my other sites. I have great incentives to keep the server up, as well as a responsibility to at the very least keep this site up. That's why when it's down, I do fix it. When the chat was bringing down the server, I had to remove it. I owe it to you guys to make sure the awesome amount of knowledge and community that this site contains doesn't disappear.

About the chat, it's a very old piece of software, and it's written in a way that it isn't efficient, especially given the technologies available today. I should have re-written it, but I just do not have the motivation and spare time to do so. Realistically, it probably won't come back online - the server cannot handle it and re-writing it is a ton of work. About other feature requests, again, I don't have the spare time and drive to work on this site, or several of my other sites.

I'm sorry. I don't know what to do. I've got to sleep, but I'll think about this...

Chris, none of us care about the broken chat feature. We just want a system admin/owner to be around to make even the simplest site requests that the community asks for (adding a new forum, or promoting mods or whatever). The type of stuff that takes 5mintues of an interested administrators time to do. With you being not interested anymore, it prevents the community from growing.

I know you promise to pay the bills and keep the lights on, but honestly a lot of us are worried that the guy paying the hosting bill has zero interest and engagement in the site, one day it could just go away without notice.

This post has been edited by lagos: Dec 17, 2009 - 4:44 AM

[dustin15brown]

Honesty, I respect that.

This post has been edited by dustin15brown: Dec 17, 2009 - 4:56 AM

[njccmd2002]

its ok to sleep, i do it sometimes, but is there another way we can help, i mean some changes can be done by someone who knows, and pretty sure somebody in the site, can do it.

This site has the potential, lets not waste it. We are doing things with cars that have no aftermarket support, and we kick ass....

just going to celicatech does not cut it, and a new site not good. 6gc to me was the first forum i have ever been that is interesting just to read and laugh and learn. I had never touched a car before, in the way 6gc has tought me, i have touched my car in places i would never have dreamt of, lol

somewhere else is just that, somewhere else.

We dont need state of the art forum, we need the simple stuff. Pics, ability to change things, etc.

[SwissFerdi]

Coomer, good to see you posting, I have to say. Now, while you're here, why not make a deputy admin? Again, I think Michelle (GriffGirl) should be put in charge of managing the web site as far as modifications and code goes. That way, Coomer will still be in control, but then there's somebody to take care of our requests, and there are quite a few.

[_Jim_]

^ Smart man. Michelle (Griffgirl) is VERY capable of handling the code needed to cover the requests of fellow members.

[marco-polo]

In all honesty, I think Coomer should hand the site off free of charge to Manny. This site has zero advertising and generates no income. Its only value is its loyal users that made it what it is over so many years.

The saddest part about all of this is that the changes that people want are 5minutes and 3 mouse clicks away from happening. And yet we can't even get that much to happen.

i know there is no income or advertisment, but whenever i do post up a new mood or status on myspace or facebook i put 6gc.net after every post....and almost everyone asks me about and goes and checks it out!
so i mean i try to a certain extent, but no where near enough! and thats what is really sad...

This is a depressing topic.

indeed it is!

This post has been edited by marco-polo: Dec 17, 2009 - 6:02 PM

[MaskedMan]

In all honesty, I think Coomer should hand the site off free of charge to Manny. This site has zero advertising and generates no income. Its only value is its loyal users that made it what it is over so many years.

The saddest part about all of this is that the changes that people want are 5minutes and 3 mouse clicks away from happening. And yet we can't even get that much to happen.

i know there is no income or advertisment, but whenever i do post up a new mood or status on myspace or facebook i put 6gc.net after every post....and almost everyone asks me about and goes and checks it out!
so i mean i try to a certain extent, but no where near enough! and thats what is really sad...

I don't think that's what lagos meant by advertising. I think he means that the site doesn't have banners and pop-ups for other companies showing up anywhere on the site. Other websites make money by advertising for a company on their website somewhere. But 6gc doesn't do that, which is nice, but since we don't have that, 6gc.net doesn't generate any income.

[Rusty]

Coomer I wouldn't call you a terrible admin. Just a very busy admin.

from my experience on updating the sticky threads I begin to understand the amount of time & effort that goes in to do work, create new features etc (as you can see I've only done 2 so far )

I think we were all worried that, you where not coming on here or not resonding to messages and where worried that this place could close down. But its nice to know that this place will stay up.

[lagos]

^ Smart man. Michelle (Griffgirl) is VERY capable of handling the code needed to cover the requests of fellow members.

I just want to point out that this forum just runs Invisionboard software. There is really no hard coding needed. Its all done through a web interface. You just need someone with admin rights to do things like update the car of the month, add a new forum, etc... basic everyday stuff thats needed.

[SlvrCelica09]

IMO Chris was pretty dismissive about this issue.. I really think this site will be terminated before updates occur. might as well just live with the site the way it is guys.

[flyinglizard]

^ Smart man. Michelle (Griffgirl) is VERY capable of handling the code needed to cover the requests of fellow members.

I just want to point out that this forum just runs Invisionboard software. There is really no hard coding needed. Its all done through a web interface. You just need someone with admin rights to do things like update the car of the month, add a new forum, etc... basic everyday stuff thats needed.

+1 It's just basically a template and someone has to fill in the blanks. Nothing too complicated here.

[97lestyousay]

wtf?!?, the chatroom is broke?
Don't we already have a diary in our profile?

This post has been edited by 97lestyousay: Dec 18, 2009 - 1:50 AM

[dustin15brown]

Insert ignorant comment..........

IMO Chris was pretty dismissive about this issue.. I really think this site will be terminated before updates occur. might as well just live with the site the way it is guys.

^ here

[malpaso]

IMO deputy admin is one and only way to go... and if it's in good hands everything would be perfect! And talking about Michelle, she has those good hands . She has my trust (I know my trust is not important in matter of ownership of this site but I wanted to share )

[SwissFerdi]

^ Technically, yes it is. You just bought another Celica, did a transformation etc., so you'll be sticking with your car for a while. You and me and the others that are still attached to their 6GC are the ones that will keep this site alive through activity and participation. I know I'll be around for a while (putting myself on a pedestal here, deal with it ), and I will damn sure be needing this site for help and information. It just cannot die.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Dec 18, 2009 - 12:35 PM

[Bigblock]

...WOW...

OK so IDK sh*t about computers.

What is someone like me who doesn't know how to help - do?
I am willing to donate if that helps get a "life support system" or some kind of back up.

Seems Coomer Does care by stating he'd keep this on!
It WOULD be nice to know we can have a " new cave " to park the Celicas in seeing how things take up space,files,servers,etc... IF there's a system crash...

[lagos]

Here is proof of how much Coomer cares...
He knows that we are worried and that we are having a discussion in this forum about the problem. He logs in on December 17th, 2009 to make that one single post and doesn't bother to check back in for the past 5 days or so to read any of our replies or questions.

Meanwhile since the 17th the pedal room got:

December 17, 2009
Image Sharing Enhancements Part 1

December 18, 2009
Bug Fixes

December 20, 2009
Yesterday...

December 20, 2009
Photo Sharing Options

December 21, 2009
Infrastructure Improvements


I feel like I'm dating a girl who I know will one day leave me, and quite frankly I'm kind of sick of wondering how soon that day will come.

[samir0189]

I don't think we should go and bash Coomer for losing interest in something he no longer has, that is completely understandable to me.

I think we should be thankful he says he would keep the site running and that the mass of 6gc knowledge wont wither away. I really doubt we'll see the day where we will get updates again, but really guys, isn't having AT LEAST the website good enough? We should be appreciative that Coomer has taken the time to fix the site the last few times it has crashed and that he promises that 6gc will still be here tomorrow.

It would be great if he would appoint someone who has the know-how and such to work the back end; but I am really overall glad and breathe a sigh of relief everyday when I see the front page.

[BonzaiCelica]

wow ha crazy. I didnt know all of this was happening until I started reading this whole topic about 20 min ago. Ya I think nthis website is fine the way it is. Yes some updates here and there would be nice and about 2 more pics on our profile would be good. Ya Coomer has lost all interest in 6gc community Hopefully things work out for the best and he hands over some of his admin control to other members.

[SwissFerdi]

I'm happy with the website being up for sure, and that's my fear...that one day one of my homepages won't be found anymore.

[Defgeph]

The solution to the problem is so simple.

Dump this site, everyone move to pedalroom, flex our wings, take over, and can call it Celicaroom

[Keiri]

The solution to the problem is so simple.

Dump this site, everyone move to pedalroom, flex our wings, take over, and can call it Celicaroom

No one let Def plan an assault.

PS: Can we join Pedal Room if we have Huffys?

[njccmd2002]

just put some pedals on the celica on the wheels and take the brakes off, call it a day

[Nartanian]

I vote that the admin rights be handed to someone else. I completely understand how busy Coomer is, so with the best of interest in mind for both him and 6gc, he should let someone else own the site. That way he won't have to worry about repairing this site if it goes down and we don't have to worry about this site disappearing. Both sides win.

[BonzaiCelica]

We need to update the parts database, there are a few items I would Like to add on it!

[GriffGirl]

just put some pedals on the celica on the wheels and take the brakes off, call it a day

I already have pedals on my Celica, they're called gas, brake, clutch and dead.

If Coomer's willing to share sysadmin rights, I'd be happy to help. I'd probably initially want to share it with someone else on here though, since there's a lot of updating that needs to be done. If Lagos were down to help and Coomer set up the permissions, I think we could get the site dusted out and cleaned up pretty nicely!

Coomer, if you read this - as for the chat, I've got a chat running that's built for phpbb3 and so far as I know hasn't caused any issues w/my hosting server (I'm sure I'd hear about it if it did). https://blueimp.net/ajax/

or just put a redirect onto the 6gc /chat index to http://www.griffgirl.com/forum/chat/

just put some pedals on the celica on the wheels and take the brakes off, call it a day

I already have pedals on my Celica, they're called gas, brake, clutch and dead.

If Coomer's willing to share sysadmin rights, I'd be happy to help. I'd probably initially want to share it with someone else on here though, since there's a lot of updating that needs to be done. If Lagos were down to help and Coomer set up the permissions, I think we could get the site dusted out and cleaned up pretty nicely!

Coomer, if you read this - as for the chat, I've got a chat running that's built for phpbb3 and so far as I know hasn't caused any issues w/my hosting server (I'm sure I'd hear about it if it did). https://blueimp.net/ajax/

or just put a redirect onto the 6gc /chat index to http://www.griffgirl.com/forum/chat/

lol as I was adding that reply, the site went down for about 5 minutes I think

[CelicaST_CALI]

Id rather have a few ads here and there to make some income to get a admin that will update the needs/wants of the site...

This post has been edited by CelicaST_CALI: Dec 23, 2009 - 9:47 PM

[lagos]

If Lagos were down to help and Coomer set up the permissions, I think we could get the site dusted out and cleaned up pretty nicely!

Anything I can do to help, I will... but it might be a good 6months until we hear back from him about this.

[presure2]

If Lagos were down to help and Coomer set up the permissions, I think we could get the site dusted out and cleaned up pretty nicely!

Anything I can do to help, I will... but it might be a good 6months until we hear back from him about this.

or the site crashes....whatever comes first.
at this point, it is what it is.
we'll sit here, crying and moaning about the site, and chris will just do what he wants, when he wants.
its been that way for a few years now, we've (IE, I) have just been doing the job, keeping the site as calm as i can, and he pops in once every six months or more, and looks like the hero.
its re-goddamn-diculous is what it is.

[SwissFerdi]

^ Which is exactly why I'm proposing a back-up site, doesn't have to be more than a blank forum. As long as there's an address to go to when 6gc.net suddenly crashes.

[presure2]

^ Which is exactly why I'm proposing a back-up site, doesn't have to be more than a blank forum. As long as there's an address to go to when 6gc.net suddenly crashes.

you can propose whatever you want. until somthing happens, its all talk.
a back up site, without all the info this site has, is usless, IMO. if someone can keep and up to date backup of the site, 100%, thats great, but i dont see that happening, and without the info this site has, and its member base, any other website is gonna be pretty much a waste of time.

even if we were to start a new site, we'd loose alot of the base membership we have now, its just how it goes. its exactly what happen with celica.net back in the day. (which became celicatech)

what we REALLY need to do, is to get chris to help us set the site up on a new server, that has nothing to do with his other sites, and then have people like griffy, and art help us get this site back on track, and moving forward.

[SwissFerdi]

I see what you mean, and of course that would be most preferable, but I just don't see that happening. People also carry knowledge, however...I just think it would be a good backup plan in case that the site can't get transferred to another server, or else disappears.

[njccmd2002]

well we can come up with a plan!

If the site ever crashes everybody can meet in the celicatech 6th gen section to later discuss possibilities. At least its a good start.

not knowing where to start is the problem.

[lagos]

^ Which is exactly why I'm proposing a back-up site, doesn't have to be more than a blank forum. As long as there's an address to go to when 6gc.net suddenly crashes.

you can propose whatever you want. until somthing happens, its all talk.
a back up site, without all the info this site has, is usless, IMO. if someone can keep and up to date backup of the site, 100%, thats great, but i dont see that happening, and without the info this site has, and its member base, any other website is gonna be pretty much a waste of time.

even if we were to start a new site, we'd loose alot of the base membership we have now, its just how it goes. its exactly what happen with celica.net back in the day. (which became celicatech)

what we REALLY need to do, is to get chris to help us set the site up on a new server, that has nothing to do with his other sites, and then have people like griffy, and art help us get this site back on track, and moving forward.

Yeah I totally agree. No need for backup sites. It would be just a waste of time at this point.
If this place ever goes down, we will meet up on other celica sites and setup a plan to make something new. In the mean time we just have to figure out how to save this place as it is.

[BonzaiCelica]

I think I just might commit suicide if the site goes down!!

[GriffGirl]

If the site goes down or something, I'll help to setup a new site, no problem. Domain registration and hosting is about $120/year, so if I could get help w/the initial startup from site members, were we to get to that point, I can work on getting advertising to pay for the site for subsequent years so the site is self sufficient financially. We just need to come up with a domain name. 6gcelica (dot) com, anyone? It's available.

[manphibian]

lol, bit premature perhaps

[CelicaST_CALI]

6gcelicamania.com, 6gcelicaforums.com



6gceli.com?Or griffys is good

This post has been edited by CelicaST_CALI: Dec 28, 2009 - 8:46 PM

[96bluevert]

I think Coomer is still doing alright keeping this place maintained for now.

From the looks of it, no one has complained about errors or anything of that sort for quite a while (that I know of).

[96stgreendemon]

this all makes me sad, it would suck if my homepage didnt come up one day, this site has changed so much about my car and all the knowledge that i have found out about my car, this site is amazing it has everything, its gonna be a sad day when this site does not work, but im down for 6gcelica.com, i would be down for a membership fee or helping with the start up fee to get another site and just copy the stickies to that site, i know that we could have at least 40 people including i that want this site to be what it can be, but we all know it will most likely never happen, so i agree with griffgirl either taking over this site or running a new celica site. anyone else?

[njccmd2002]

bring it to the new year!!

http://www.httrack.com/page/2/en/index.html

copy the whole website to browse it offline as a memento, probably 1gb of pages...

[BloodyStupidDave...]

If Coomer's willing to share sysadmin rights, I'd be happy to help. I'd probably initially want to share it with someone else on here though, since there's a lot of updating that needs to be done.

I think having three or four people with sysadmin rights makes a lot of sense. I would be very willing to put my name down as long as at least two others also have rights (I have a very busy work life and don't want an AWOL period to cause problems for others). I also have some mysql, php, smarty, perl and python skills (my day job) so might be able to add a few little features from time to time.

BTW, if anyone has an email address for Chris, please can you PM me it. I have his @6gc.net address but mail to that address is bouncing.

[manphibian]

We can keep going over the same thing forever, but it doesn't look like anything is going to change for the foreseeable future... sorry.

[GriffGirl]

Eff yew, Mr. Hanky!



I agree though, a backup plan is good to have but let's not all go into hysterics over this. Nothing's actually even happened other than chat being pulled. I mean, we're still here, aren't we?

[Coomer]

Hey guys, just hopping back in after thinking for a while. I've spent a few weeks contemplating what to do and discussing it with my girlfriend (who is on your guys' side and won't leave me alone about this), and though I haven't made any final decisions, I have been thinking hard about what to do.

I'm actually going to spend the next hour or so looking into adding another admin and the implications there. Off the top of my head, I know that there are several powerful administrative features that could potentially bring down the server by accident, so I'm investigating that. I'm also looking into how I can add another linux user on the server with access to the 6gc source code, database, etc. That's a fairly large sysadmin task I think, but I'm going to look into it right now.

So yeah, still thinking, but I'll post again soon with more details.

[CelicaZR]

Dont give up on us Coomer

[SwissFerdi]

Hey guys, just hopping back in after thinking for a while. I've spent a few weeks contemplating what to do and discussing it with my girlfriend (who is on your guys' side and won't leave me alone about this), and though I haven't made any final decisions, I have been thinking hard about what to do.

I'm actually going to spend the next hour or so looking into adding another admin and the implications there. Off the top of my head, I know that there are several powerful administrative features that could potentially bring down the server by accident, so I'm investigating that. I'm also looking into how I can add another linux user on the server with access to the 6gc source code, database, etc. That's a fairly large sysadmin task I think, but I'm going to look into it right now.

So yeah, still thinking, but I'll post again soon with more details.

Genuinely good to see you being involved. Again, I recommend GriffGirl for the admin job.

[GriffGirl]

I'd do admin for administrative and not policing admin. I don't want to be a cop on here, because I'd ban probably a good third of the people on here. lol

[njccmd2002]

WOOT WOOT for coomer!!!!!


we are here faithfull as ever.

[BonzaiCelica]

there is hope!

[Rusty]

cheers Commer. Whatever is planned, I'm sure everybody will be happy with it

[malpaso]

I'd do admin for administrative and not policing admin. I don't want to be a cop on here, because I'd ban probably a good third of the people on here. lol

I believe we have very good guard dogs here what we need is someone who cares about technical things to not let page in "coma" because of silly things like:
- front page desperately not up to date...
- is there anyone who approves high-res images?
- new featured ride
- new extras
- update on parts database (dead links for example)

etc... nothing to do with police . So... IMHO (repeat: in my humble opinion) you are qualified for this

[manphibian]

Chris is working on adapting the admin tools so we (manny) can take control of the site admin.

We already approve hi-res pics, looking to add the other points you mentioned soon Martin