Skip Barber Racing School liquidation sale

[dalyduo]

We could repurpose it toward the Lucas race series and school. I think Gerardo would be on board with that.

Originally Posted by sydude

Viz - I'll make sure the site stays up for at least the next few years, it doesn't take much in terms of money or time. Long-term is something else, ultimately it's going to get forgotten about unless it serves some new purpose.

[sydude]

Originally Posted by dalyduo

We could repurpose it toward the Lucas race series and school. I think Gerardo would be on board with that.

Glad to do it, but re-purposing it is the easy part. The question is, will anyone use it? Texting, Facebook and all of the other new kinds of 'short form' kinds of communication have completely decimated the way we used to interact with each other. It's completely changed us. Personally, I don't like it... there's no more real public dialog. Now it's all about quick (and usually valueless) statements that people make, where any resulting dialog is tertiary at best, both in substance and also in form (where they get buried as 'comments'). And all of this stuff mostly disappears quickly into the ether, where there's no real construct of valuable or resourceful information getting accumulated over time for the public to take advantage of.

My 2 cent rant is now over, but it will still be sitting right here, easily browsable and searchable for the next few years at least.

[Tireman]

Social media has its place, but I, for one (of many), frequent many, many specific interest/purpose websites where there are lengthy lists of special forums geared to tailored interests and needs. Places such as garagejournal.com could never impart the wealth of knowledge shared there on a social media platform. It's like trying to watch television by reading a book and vice versa. There's a time and place, and need, for everything, and forums are still valued and needed.

Ultimately though, it's up to the users to make any website/forum worthwhile. We did it before, we can do it again in the context of what is still relevant to share via forums.

Viz

Proud frequenter of: garagejournal.com, specracer.com, corvetteforum.com, tdiclub.com, hearth.com, and others