Closing forum

[Chris Stewart]

I have become kind of bored with this forum project so I am thinking I will go to a blog instead. Thanks to everyone who has participated.

[The BN Guy]

Sorry to see it go but I totally understand and will be back often. Just been real busy lately with student projects. Thanks for giving us a place to visit and post up.

[Chris Stewart]

I've enjoyed your input.

I still want to do something along this line. Promoting green ideas, providing a place where homeowners can get advice and also I would like to do more towards uniting residential designers and promoting learning and professionalism within that group.

After two years of effort on this forum though I have decided that the vast majority would rather not participate in the open community that I had envisioned.

But facebook and other networking sites and all these blog sites seem to be the way to go. Even though I don't find them as conducive to conversation.

I was just sitting here trying to think about what kind of blog site I might want to do.

[intheusa]

Chris,

I wouldn't be to dissapointed. It seems across a range of forums people are looking to be popular at expense of posting general nonsense material.

Just in case you decide to keep your forum open for awhile I have a very good background in energy and building design with regards to energy.

If its costs regard hosting your forum their are some really inexpensive hosts ( about $80/yr) with good storage, performance and up time with no reasonable limit on data transfer.

If you want some input on the home you posted recently on this site send me an email.

As a practicing engineer I find it interesting.

[Chris Stewart]

Hello intheUSA,

Thanks, it is an interesting project which is still not in the building phase due to a sluggish economy and need to sell an existing house.

As you can see I have not fully committed to closing yet. It isn't a matter of cost rather just not enough participation. And then I started getting overrun by spammers. They seem to have bots that can break the encryption keys now a days.

(but that has not been a problem recently, and maybe if I spent more time learning the forum software I could beef up the security some)

I can't remember now if I have disallowed posting in most forums or what.


...anyhow I still check up on this forum every once in a while and am always interested in hearing anyone's ideas on any of the projects.

[The BN Guy]

Sorry I got caught up in life...I still plan on coming back from time to time. I've found several helpful items here.

We'll all come back in time I'm sure. Once the economy gets back up and running I'm sure we'll be busy then. Hopefully!

[Chris Stewart]

Hello, good to hear you are still busy.