One solution is to cut and paste pieces written for the forum and put them into appropriate club journals. I did this for the animal stories recently so they are preserved for posterity. Does anybody mind if I plunder the forum in this way?
I certainly don't.
I agree with Tim, it isn't a race.
Here is an image of a facebook building, read about it here
https://www.wsj.com/articles/archit...look-at-facebooks-new-headquarters-1430992803
The company turnover billions, employs 100,000's makes huge profits etc etc....
UKC is owned by Tim and me, we run it from home, usually sat on the sofa with our laptops - we are ever grateful to our Team of Moderators who are volunteers. UKC isn't run for profit but thank goodness for Inglesport, SpanSet, Starless River and Warmbac for their kind, generous support, what we don't use running UKC we use to support various aspects of caving.
You'd be surprised how much time running UKC takes up - I've not been well this Summer and have had to take a back seat (better now, hoping to do more as Autumn/Winter progresses when we're busier anyway). Previously we've had stalls at Hidden Earth, run the Grand Prizes many times at CHECC, been heavily involved in promoting caving at Kendal Mountain Festival. We've offered rope to expeditions, run competitions for some pretty good prizes and best of all we've turned UKC round from a negative to a positive place to be online, and
upgraded the softwear. UKC was really busy during covid, I'm proud the forum helped to entertain folks during that awful time. We care about cavers, caves and caving, I doubt Mark Z gives a shit though, too busy counting his money.
So how can we ever, ever compete? We can't and we aren't going to lose any sleep over it. UKC is here, run by cavers for cavers - it's the best forum in the UK and we try our best
If you're happy with facebook taking over all aspects of caver connectivity, fair enough, nothing I can do about that. If however you would like Descent, club journals, UKC etc etc to still be around, it's simple - engage. Lurkers, why not register and join in - if UKC entertains you, give something back, 'like' a post maybe?? Tell your mates about UKC, share UKC on SM, buy a copy of Descent, write an article for your club journal etc. I know many of you do and you make a difference, thank you.
Cheers, Pegasus xx