• There seems to be an up tick in Political commentary in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site we know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religiours commentary out of the fourms.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politicion will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment amoung members. It is a poison to the community. We apprciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Its that time of the year again.

huub vink

huub vink

Administrator
Staff member
You most probably already noticed, but the donation drive has started to keep the Sim-Outhouse in the air.

As you can see at our target, Dave did his very best to reduce the cost where ever he could. Although the amount needed is lower, we do realise we are a shrinking and ageing community, for which quite a few, money has become less obvious, as they have left their working life behind them. Therefore all donations big are small are highly appreciated!

The main costs are for the server (hosting), the rest is for the software licenses and a small part is local state tax.

When possible I hope you will all find your way to the "donation button" to keep our small community alive.

Regards,
Huub
 
Hi,

I'm Priller from the Dark Side. Like every year, I donated.

To quote a certain artist: "this is my church, this is where I heal my hurts"!

Call it massochism! :biggrin-new:

Priller
 
Ha ha..yes, I couldn't believe how fast, but it is for a much smaller amount...still good news though!

S
 
A big thank you for all who wanted (and were able) to contribute. I was indeed a smooth ride this year.

As Dave did a great job to reduce the costs, it wasn't a huge amount this time. Next big step will be the migration to the new forum.

Cheers,
Huub
 
Huub,
Will there be another financial requirement, or is this years contribution goal for that migration?

Cheers

Shessi
 
There isn't a real time frame yet. The new forum is currently in the testing phase. For the moderators and admins to get familiar with the software and to iron out some of the things we like to iron out...... In general the looks are a bit different, but it works pretty much the same. Some minor things were missing, but Dave has been able to make some change to restore functions we had in the old software, but weren't default in the new software.

For the people with a sharp memory, remember the vBulletin software we are currently still using dates back to the days Netwings was still alive (Netwings used the same software). So it shouldn't be a surprise that the software needs to be replaced.

The costs for the migration are all included the donation drive which was just successfully finished. And we don't foresee any extra costs.

Cheers,
Huub
 
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