Once a thriving lively marketplace for discussions, enquiries, mentoring, trolling and bad technical humour, the ALIA On-Line Forums have been closed. In the days before the arrival of interactive social media, forums such as ALIA’s bulletin board provided an important place for information exchange and social interaction.
When the ALIA On-Line Forums went live in May 2003 they were heavily used, with dozens of postings per day on subjects as diverse as where to get a feed after a bump-out or which replacement lamp worked better in a patt 263/264.
Recently the number of postings have averaged less than one per month, which hardly justifies the administrative load of dealing with spambot registrations and attempted break-ins. So, as part of the revamp of ALIA’s online presence, we’ve decided to close down this now-outmoded discussion platform.
For many years it was an exciting place to hang out.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Forums Admin.
