can we do better than 10%

[James77MCI8]

Nice try Sean, but neither. But I do appreciate you spending the time to research it .

[Singing Land Cruiser]

Did someone stick their head up their NING again?  

[Seangie]

I see and understand the attraction of NING but the fact that they own all material created on the network and you have no say in that is a little scary...

Here is a quick write up...take it fwiw but I'm not interested at all...

http://www.thecommunityarchitect.com/2009/06/01/ning-review/

-Sean

[trucktramp]

It looks like the people have spoken.  Let's see if anyone listens.

[Jeremy]

I've not contributed to this debate as I've no experiences or opinions regarding the Ning platform...but I am still left wondering why a change of platform is even being considered (or is it already a done deal, and the existing website will shortly be switched off?).

Can anyone explain the thinking here? There's plenty of debate about the format of the magazine, but none about the existing website and forum as far as I know - it seems to be the one thing that everyone likes. So why change it? I can see the benefit of having photo hosting etc added to the site, but there's no way that kind of thing requires a whole new platform.

Jeremy

[HighTechRedneck]

I can't speak for the business anymore.  But I do know that MAK has affirmed here in the forum and offline that there will be no changes planned for the forum software or hosting.  And except for the Classifieds part, the main site will remain as it is.  I am not working on the Ning project so I don't have much information there.