If the forums at DSLReports.com were to disappear suddenly, forum users might find it hard to regroup. So I made this website to allow users of the excellent DSLReports forum VOIP Tech Chat -- in the wake of a sudden disappearance of the DSLReports forums -- to discuss creation of a substitute forum. I'd probably create an email list for a discussion of how to proceed. Currently, this site is a placeholder, ready to become a street corner on which to gather.
Right now, my only task is to get you to note this site's address for future reference: www.9forums.com
If the forums do ever go offline, I invite anyone to email me immediately so I could launch the discussion here. (Otherwise, I may not notice for a day or two.) My email address is:
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Random Notes:
-- Feel free to suggest improvements to this placeholder website. I'm no genius.
-- I hope that DSLReports lasts forever and if it dies, that it dies gradually. However, useful websites sometimes die suddenly, and that's why I made this site.
-- Users of other DSLReports forums could gather here to regroup, too.
-- Any replacement forum would probably be a dedicated discussion website. Initially, it could run on one of the forum software packages that are included in cPanel, the popular webhosting control panel. I doubt that I'd try to run any replacement forum: I'd leave it to others. There's probably no money in it.
-- Reddit has a VOIP forum at https://www.reddit.com/r/VOIP/new , but that forum requires posters to have acquired Reddit "karma" through a history of Reddit use. That's a deal-breaker for many potential posters.
-- One possible solution to a disappearance of VOIP Tech Chat would be a decision to flock as a group to some other existing VOIP discussion forum.
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