Just so you know

Originally Posted by Elmago99

I'm sorry but I'm a little lost here. What is exactly the issue? If the site changes to the point where it's very different from now, I'll probably not use it. For instance, I do not like the Red & Black forum....

I've only been on this site since this past summer, and love it. If financially this site cannot stay up, I certainly understand as the world is in a global depression. However, I'm not fully comprehending what the changes are as I'm not a computer expert.....

What don't you like about the Red & Black forum? Out of curiosity, may be to our benefit moving forward here on MM, I would be interested to hear what you think doesn't work there (PM me if you don't want to post publicly)



As far as our future goes:

Because of both financial reasons and (perhaps less so) time reasons I am looking to make the site run cheaper and be easier to manage. One of the things that came to my mind was to turn MM into a WordPress (+ bbpress forum or similar forum) site. Why?

WordPress (+ bbpress forum or similar forum) can run on cheaper server and are easier to manage because of the tools that come with them. The question then becomes how much different will MM be using bbpress or similar forum and if this change will be ok or accepted by users like you. All other forums will be different, from the vBulletin we are using now, but the question is by how much. To be honest my 'first consideration', bbpress, will be very different. That is why I am hesitating to jump straight into bbpress but I may have to eventually.

Hope this makes some sense, please let me know if it doesn't