Good Evening Everyone,
I am busily working away at the new (I hope) message boards. I believe I am getting a handle on the idea here and think I have one set up getting ready to go. We have decided that since the promo site is stting at the top of the listings on the other server that we would go ahead and use that site for the message boards. Now, all I have to do is transfer our articles and information over there. I am currently setting up the message boards as I already have all of our group pages backed up and easily transferable. I don't want anyone to go without the message boards and those are what will need to be rebuilt from scratch.
We elected not to go with Multiply as there has been a multitude of problems attempting to get support from them since the notice went out. I set up an admin account over there on the 16th of Feb and oops! forgot my password and I ahve emailed customer service several times but they have not answered me yet. This cannot be good as I cannot get in to do anything if they take the information from here to over there. Nobody else will have access to it but me as the group administrator. It bothers me that I cannot get a response after 5 days so apparently they don't think much of their users. Thus, we based the decision of where we are moving to on that.
We looked into 6 different places very carefully and created a dummy group at each one to see which one would serve our needs the best. If the one we are setting up now turns out to give us problems, I have a second one lined up already to just switch over to easily and it can be up and running in a couple of minutes.
Over the next few months this will be home as information is being transferred from here to there. But I will be adding your user names to the message board list over there. When we are ready to move permanently or a month or so prior to closing you will all receive the link to begin using that as our new home site.
I will be posting the updates of our progress frequently on the board here and everything will be available for your use just like it is now. It will be really hectic while we are in this trasitional stage and I know you will all be struggling along with me. I will do my best to make it as painless as possible.
Please know that I care for each and every one of you very deeply and I will not abandon you. It will be strange and things will be all new to all of us. It will take time to learn the new way of posting and finding our way around. But we will be able to do it together. We can make this an exciting new start for our group and maybe some new members from the other server too!
Love, Summer