NeilW
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True, I think your right mate . Even a separate nano category would be pushing it really, I was only offering a suggestion in response to Dan. Sadly it seems were all too busy with 'non-planted-life'
Thanks. We are the UK Aquatic Plant Society and I don't see that changing, to be honest. Rightly or wrongly, I'm quite proud to be associated with the UK planted tank and aquascaping hobby and I hope this is reflected through UKAPS and its name.foxfish said:I think this is a great forum although its title probably restricts membership from outside of the UK.
Mrmikey said:So thinking about it would be good to see three examples of the same tank set up for different price ranges and what could be achived in that tank, listing rough prices E.g budget tank, bit of cash tank and a minted tank.
....but could the journals and gallery sections have drop downs in the titles (like the For Sale section) where you can specify pico, nano, small, medium, large or divorce ( ) size tank, so for anyone quickly browsing through looking for inspiration, they can rapidly identify the size of the tank.NeilW said:True, I think your right mate . Even a separate nano category would be pushing it really, I was only offering a suggestion in response to Dan. Sadly it seems were all too busy with 'non-planted-life'
I did think of that, only problem is that you cannot have different tags per forum, so all the tags from the Sales section would be available for selection on both sections which would make it messy for users to select.bigmatt said:....but could the journals and gallery sections have drop downs in the titles (like the For Sale section) where you can specify pico, nano, small, medium, large or divorce ( ) size tank, so for anyone quickly browsing through looking for inspiration, they can rapidly identify the size of the tank.
Any thoughts?
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Came across this thread and found that sentence amusing, in the short-term! hahaha 🙂In the short-term we've a new administrator, LondonDragon aka Paulo.
Ah, the good old days. Did you think you'd still be here over 12 years later doing the same job?Came across this thread and found that sentence amusing, in the short-term! hahaha 🙂
To be honest, I wasn't sure UKAPS would survive that long, at the end of the day this is funded by donations and the bulk comes from sponsors, so we are glad that some sponsors have stuck around and supported us to enable the forum to stay online at least, because member donations are a rarity these days. (no digs, most of us are feeling the pinch these days).Ah, the good old days. Did you think you'd still be here over 12 years later doing the same job?
Perhaps the forum needs a donation drive to help raise some much needed funds?because member donations are a rarity these days
Perhaps the forum needs a donation drive to help raise some much needed funds?
This could be in the form of members donating plants or no longer needed equipment and giving the proceeds to the forum, or simply highlighting the fact that the forum doesn't run on fresh air and needs peeps that can spare a few quid to donate.
If you don't ask, you generally don't get.
That was the whole point of UKAPS to start with, have a friendly place to discuss all fishy things, regardless or age, gender or experience!For me, many of the members now feel more like friends that you can rely on rather than just letters on a page.
Many thanks mate 🙂 much appreciatedYou have done and are doing a stellar job mate, thank you very much for all your time and effort.
It takes around £1500 a year to keep UKAPS afloat, we had a good surplus when we had 10+ sponsors, which over the years has been gradually reducing, so the question is more what happens when it dries out, which I don't have an answer for at the moment 😉If you don't ask, you generally don't get.
£1500... that shouldn't be an issue... if we get a good group of active members to generously donate say £25 a year or whatever works for the individual member - which by and large is a relatively small amount compared to the money we spend on the hobby and the value we get from UKAPS (personally I haven't donated nearly enough to make up for just a bit of all the money I saved on pre-made fertilizers vs. mixing my own based on the advice I've gotten on this forum 🙂 ). Perhaps whomever donate (regardless of donation size) will get a badge on their Forum ID or something (lasting 12 months)... Tacky as that may sound, living in a country that is immensely charitable, in terms of private donations of which most are tax deductible, small things like that - call it braggadocious if you will - makes a difference. Maybe its a US thing... we are sort of silly that way 😉It takes around £1500 a year to keep UKAPS afloat, we had a good surplus when we had 10+ sponsors, which over the years has been gradually reducing, so the question is more what happens when it dries out, which I don't have an answer for at the moment 😉
We did consider this, but again opens up a possibility of division between members, which again we didn't want, but might have to consider. Like I said with the donations we get and sponsorship money at the moment we are OK for the time being. The bigger, the buffer, the bigger the security ongoing, hosting costs like everything else have gone up quite a bit over the last couple of years.Perhaps whomever donate (regardless of donation size) will get a badge on their Forum ID or something (lasting 12 months)