Hi peeps,
I'm pleased to announce that Discuss.Tennis, Tennis-Prose and Tennis Frontier will be combining forces at the end of this week to forge a new website.
The new website will fall under the Tennis-Prose.com domain and this forum will be rebadged as the Tennis Prose Forum. This Xenforo board software will be used to run the forum, so Discuss.Tennis posters won't notice much of a change other than the branding and the site address.
Techie Notice
The only minor issue you may encounter when you first goto login to the new site address is that your browser won't have retained any saved passwords (as the website address is new), so make sure you know your password! If you can't remember it and it's just been autosaved in your browser, then it's not really going to be an issue, you can also quickly hit the forgotten password link and do a reset.
Forum
All the posts and posters from the Tennis Frontier Forum will merged into this board. Any posters who cross-posted on both sites can login using their normal Discuss Tennis accounts. Your Tennis Frontier posts and post counts will be added to your account here.
Downtime
The Discuss.Tennis site will close at 7pm Sunday US EST. Tennis Frontier board will close at 10pm Sunday US EST. The Tennis Prose website won't experience any downtime.
and then...
The new board which will have the address tennis-prose.com/tennisforum will be active around 4am Monday US EST. (This new address won't work until that time). There will be redirects on the old website addresses for Discuss.Tennis and Tennis.Frontier, so if you visit a page on one of those sites, you will be redirected to the relevant page on the new address.
Moderation/Admin
The new site will not have moderators, but will have admins that maintain the site with a light-touch (only if required) moderating policy.
The Future is Bright!
The new site will strengthen the community - we have pro writers such as Scoop and Dan, new commenters from Tennis-Prose (lots of knowledgeable peeps), and the combined user base of Discuss.Tennis and Tennis Frontier. Tennis Boards and forums in general have closed down in numbers over the last few years, largely due to the advent of social media... however, a good forum is still viable and we will have the numbers with the new move.
Thanks
Thanks to @scoop of Tennis-Prose, kskate and @El Dude from Tennis Frontier, @Moxie from here and our favourite Brazilian poster @mrzz for triggering a chain of events that should prove to be the best one in the long term for visitors of all three sites... and thanks to all those who helped support this forum over the last couple of years with their patronage and behind the scenes. @Billie who is taking an extended break is another who helped a lot with getting this place going.
New beginnings!
Cheers BB
I'm pleased to announce that Discuss.Tennis, Tennis-Prose and Tennis Frontier will be combining forces at the end of this week to forge a new website.
The new website will fall under the Tennis-Prose.com domain and this forum will be rebadged as the Tennis Prose Forum. This Xenforo board software will be used to run the forum, so Discuss.Tennis posters won't notice much of a change other than the branding and the site address.
Techie Notice
The only minor issue you may encounter when you first goto login to the new site address is that your browser won't have retained any saved passwords (as the website address is new), so make sure you know your password! If you can't remember it and it's just been autosaved in your browser, then it's not really going to be an issue, you can also quickly hit the forgotten password link and do a reset.
Forum
All the posts and posters from the Tennis Frontier Forum will merged into this board. Any posters who cross-posted on both sites can login using their normal Discuss Tennis accounts. Your Tennis Frontier posts and post counts will be added to your account here.
Downtime
The Discuss.Tennis site will close at 7pm Sunday US EST. Tennis Frontier board will close at 10pm Sunday US EST. The Tennis Prose website won't experience any downtime.
and then...
The new board which will have the address tennis-prose.com/tennisforum will be active around 4am Monday US EST. (This new address won't work until that time). There will be redirects on the old website addresses for Discuss.Tennis and Tennis.Frontier, so if you visit a page on one of those sites, you will be redirected to the relevant page on the new address.
Moderation/Admin
The new site will not have moderators, but will have admins that maintain the site with a light-touch (only if required) moderating policy.
The Future is Bright!
The new site will strengthen the community - we have pro writers such as Scoop and Dan, new commenters from Tennis-Prose (lots of knowledgeable peeps), and the combined user base of Discuss.Tennis and Tennis Frontier. Tennis Boards and forums in general have closed down in numbers over the last few years, largely due to the advent of social media... however, a good forum is still viable and we will have the numbers with the new move.
Thanks
Thanks to @scoop of Tennis-Prose, kskate and @El Dude from Tennis Frontier, @Moxie from here and our favourite Brazilian poster @mrzz for triggering a chain of events that should prove to be the best one in the long term for visitors of all three sites... and thanks to all those who helped support this forum over the last couple of years with their patronage and behind the scenes. @Billie who is taking an extended break is another who helped a lot with getting this place going.
New beginnings!
Cheers BB
