Thread: Some AULRO history

Originally Posted by one_iota

Ray,

You have never used a spade when a shovel would do the job.

maybe i should of just uesd a pick in the first place
that would of saved a few drama's in the end.................

Originally Posted by one_iota

Ray,

You have never used a spade when a shovel would do the job.

I thought Ray's tool of choice was a kubota

Mark

well, inc, pedro , bigbugga, and a few more were the beginning of a great trip i joined in way back then, we were in it before the first major crash, and i don't remember who was around at the beginning, save to say i think i was amongst the first along with pedro and was it pheonix or ferno or did they come later.
i think i was number five member of daves new venture into this land rover world in which we and many others have become close friends.
the only bit i don't know now is when we first kicked off.
i suppose dave knows, as he set it all up, however we all lose so much information in 'puta crashes and upgrades etc. that history is lost so quickly.
anyway i love this community and am glad to see somany enjoying incisors persistance to keep it all running.
must be time to resubscribe or something.

Originally Posted by dullbird

part of the 90 you have to take into account that we have seperate forums for clubs..also the markets section is now divided up...

I hadn't included the Markets section, that would make over 120 forums and sub-forums, as there are 31 sections in Markets alone.

Originally Posted by dullbird

I was against the sub sections at first but I think it works really well I have recently got a series 2a and it much less confusing for me to hop into that sub section and know what ever is talked about in there is relevant to me...rather than trying to work out that what they are talking about wsa a series1 or a 2 or a 2a or a 3....

I agree with you entirely, I use the Isuzu 110 and WA specific sections a lot, it's great for a specialist cars / areas such as that.

I think the problem I see, when I compare this site to others I use, is that there's quite a bit of overlap as to where a post can be placed. This could particularly confuse a new member (of which there must be many each day given the sites membership growth over the last 7 years). For example a technical question on D3's may end up in a regional section, when it would probably be more visible in the D3 specific forum.

There are also at least 5 forums (excluding markets) that haven't even had a single post so far this year! There are others with less than 10 posts in total. Surely they should drop off?

Anyway, I'm not complaining, it was just a general observation. The site is great, the people here are great, the atmosphere is great and well moderated. I'd like to give a big thanks to those who spend so much of their time (and probably money) to make it what it is.

Jon

to save me searching as I'm now curious which 5 forums are you talking about? that haven't had a post in I mean.

...I can remember that crash....

Originally Posted by dullbird

to save me searching as I'm now curious which 5 forums are you talking about? that haven't had a post in I mean.

There are a couple of Club forums that don't have many, or recent posts.

Aside from that, last year's calendar vote forum and SA trip reports are the only ones that I can see - neither have had posts since last year.

Link ye here -
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Originally Posted by harry

well, inc, pedro , bigbugga, and a few more were the beginning of a great trip i joined in way back then, we were in it before the first major crash, and i don't remember who was around at the beginning, save to say i think i was amongst the first along with pedro and was it pheonix or ferno or did they come later.
i think i was number five member of daves new venture into this land rover world in which we and many others have become close friends.
the only bit i don't know now is when we first kicked off.
i suppose dave knows, as he set it all up, however we all lose so much information in 'puta crashes and upgrades etc. that history is lost so quickly.
anyway i love this community and am glad to see somany enjoying incisors persistance to keep it all running.
must be time to resubscribe or something.

I was around then, although without the '130' tag.
I didn't wander in much, and couldn't get in at all after that crash, the software (or someone else ) just wouldn't let me back, it kept saying something like my email address was already in use, the member name I tried to use wasn't recognised bla bla bla so i just got frustrated.
I'd have a go at trying to log back in every so often and kept getting rejected, so it must've been after another big crash a few years back I was able to rejoin. The place was fairly rocking by that stage too, wheras early on it was like one post a day....