I was looking through some old threads this evening and was thinking how so many of our old friends are no longer showing up here for one reason or another.
After looking at my post about the cattle train check out the comments by our friends that don’t come around much anymore.
We need to figure out how to entice them back.
I saw I lot of guys that I remember and enjoyed talking with but I believe 1/2 are deceased? I’m the freaking kid here at 53. However my outdoor RR of over 15yrs is still going!
Well, over at Mylargescale.com, the only old-timers left are live steamers and a couple of others. However, the Co. is doing a solid job of attracting new visitors - the ‘new members’ and ‘beginner’s’ forums are very active. Verticalscope, as they have many sites, probably spends a lot on SEO [Search Engine Optimization - how far down on the results your website sits when someone searches.]
You could certainly send all the inactive members an email?
Okay, okay, I guess I should get back to posting rather then just lurking. I’m still quite active in the shop. I’ve just finished a few Hartford kits for my DSP&P line.
I decided not to just sit around and wait for more kits to come out, but that could be a while.
So I decide to drag out a kit my wife bought me 2 Christmases ago. It was and still is the only RR item she’s ever bought for me. I’m guessing this might take me a while to finish. It promises to be the most challenging car to build, and that’s saying a lot.
Some of you may have seen one of these.
I’ll start another topic to detail my progress.
You are correct. When I searched for a garden train forum last year, I found “My Large Scale” first. I believe there was a post that linked to info on this forum. I do read both, but this forum is a better fit for me.
Yep, I lost a lot of the SEO stuff when I switched to this new software. They now have a plugin that I should install.
I have been very very active on the indoor layout but somewhere along the line I dropped out the need to post project photos, partly because I hate to show incomplete work and the garage is still a huge mess so its very hard to get good pics. But I also notice I haven’t been posting on Facebook either so its not just me not posting updates here, its everywhere. I won’t post on MLS partly because I’m still angry about the Thanksgiving Picture Massacre but also it looks like alot of old names are no longer there or are over here or one the British GSC, which I’m also not posting on. The new format here makes posting from my phone super easy so its really just down to me needing to make a better effort at participation.
Dang Vic I’m still thinking about your post but what is MLS ?
From a newbie, what is this referral?
When the new owners took over MLS a few years ago the set up new programs and lost about 90% of every body’s archived pictures and didn’t even try to get them back, pissed off a lot of people.
I see, now I understand, thanks.
Indeed. The screwup indicated an unstable management, server, staff, or all three. A lot of us abandoned MLS for LSC, and had to say adios to years of build threads.
Yeah what they said, over the Thanksgiving holiday somebody just pulled the plug on everything. To many of us it was deliberate because they didn’t want to be bothered transferring everything to new servers. I lost literally hundreds of photos and drawings, the loss rendered most of my posts there and here, dozens of build logs and layout progress posts, useless because all the pictures were lost. I have not forgiven them.
Rooster. Today given the sites content, it stands for My Live Steam 
Even more interesting, sometimes you come across an old post with the wrong photos. I found one with photos from the old Long Beach Queen Mary show!
I saw that too. Don’t know how that happens. I eventually went thru most of my significant posts and using edit removed the old photo links, I was able to cobble together enough images to repost and give them some sort of continuity.
