Some GRA Forum stats, opinions, and a handy feature....
I just discovered a handy forum feature that I thought I'd share, and more by accident than design.....
If while logged on to any page of the forum, you click on the 'GRA Logo' at the very top left hand side of the page, it will take you straight over to the main GRA Website (http://www.greeves-riders.org.uk/). This is handy if you need to look up a frame number in the 'Identify' table to help a member (for example), and saves you having to open the main website up in another 'window' and flick back and forth. To get back to the forum, simply click your 'back' button (top left on your computer screen 'toolbar') until you get back to where the page you were originally viewing. Neat!
Of course, some of you may well have already discovered this, but I've been doing it the 'hard' way since we went live....only four years and two and a bit months now....
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Thinking of that, I went back to have a look at the very first thread ever posted on here, and it made me smile to think how far the forum has come since those early 'baby steps', with Colin and I trying to figure out how it all worked and Ian (Rob's son, and website guru!) kindly (and patiently) taking us under his wing and guiding us gently towards enlightenment! Here's the thread, just for a bit of nostalgia...!
http://www.greeves-riders.org.uk/for...hread.php?t=16
I then decided to get the old calculator out and do some adding up (between crayoning....!) Incredibly, since that evening of 18/12/2009 when the forum went live, as of this morning there have been 3,076 threads posted, and an amazing 23,831 posts made, and climbing! Not all of them have been about emu's or eBay either!!
Not too shabby for a small classic British motorcycle club then! As the GRA Forum is now into it's fifth year of operation, I would like to offer my thanks and appreciation to all of the contributors who have made it what it is, for joining in, for offering and sharing their views and opinions (good, bad and ugly!), helping members with advice, and just being a part of it really. We are a wide spread and disperate bunch in every way imaginable, often with very different views, opinions and backgrounds, but ALL with a common interest in a small but valiant manufacturer of British motorcycles from a bygone age, and this is our meeting place to indulge in all things Greeves, our passion, and it is because of your efforts and enthusiasm that the forum has thrived.
I know it probably get's some people's back up when I witter on about 'the viewers', but the simple fact is that many people log on here each day in the hope of seeing something 'new' and the interest is certainly there...but without 'the contributors', there would be nothing....That is all I'm saying.
So, let's all keep up the good work, with all the helpful, informative, enjoyable, insightful, supportive, positive and above all FUN posts that the forum has received over the years. Speaking for myself, I think it's ok to 'agree to disagree' if things get a little 'heated' now and again (not that it happens very often...!), and I'm convinced that the majority of people who use this forum are of similar mind, in that everyone's opinion has value, whatever that may be. I think this is borne out in the lack of problems this forum has had, when compared to many out there, and the fact that for the vast majority of the time we are all pretty much singing from the same hymn sheet.....("Blue is the colour, Moorland is the name....."!)
Anyway, these are just some thoughts to offer everyone. Feel free to comment, agree, disagree, etc etc. That's an important part of what the forum is for, after all, and your thoughts, opinions and posts are important, valuable and yes, 'necessary'.
Finally, a HUGE and heartfelt thank you to Rob and Ian for giving us all this fantastic resource in the first place.
Sincerely,
Brian.
If while logged on to any page of the forum, you click on the 'GRA Logo' at the very top left hand side of the page, it will take you straight over to the main GRA Website (http://www.greeves-riders.org.uk/). This is handy if you need to look up a frame number in the 'Identify' table to help a member (for example), and saves you having to open the main website up in another 'window' and flick back and forth. To get back to the forum, simply click your 'back' button (top left on your computer screen 'toolbar') until you get back to where the page you were originally viewing. Neat!
Of course, some of you may well have already discovered this, but I've been doing it the 'hard' way since we went live....only four years and two and a bit months now....
!Thinking of that, I went back to have a look at the very first thread ever posted on here, and it made me smile to think how far the forum has come since those early 'baby steps', with Colin and I trying to figure out how it all worked and Ian (Rob's son, and website guru!) kindly (and patiently) taking us under his wing and guiding us gently towards enlightenment! Here's the thread, just for a bit of nostalgia...!
http://www.greeves-riders.org.uk/for...hread.php?t=16I then decided to get the old calculator out and do some adding up (between crayoning....
!) Incredibly, since that evening of 18/12/2009 when the forum went live, as of this morning there have been 3,076 threads posted, and an amazing 23,831 posts made, and climbing! Not all of them have been about emu's or eBay either!! Not too shabby for a small classic British motorcycle club then! As the GRA Forum is now into it's fifth year of operation, I would like to offer my thanks and appreciation to all of the contributors who have made it what it is, for joining in, for offering and sharing their views and opinions (good, bad and ugly!), helping members with advice, and just being a part of it really. We are a wide spread and disperate bunch in every way imaginable, often with very different views, opinions and backgrounds, but ALL with a common interest in a small but valiant manufacturer of British motorcycles from a bygone age, and this is our meeting place to indulge in all things Greeves, our passion, and it is because of your efforts and enthusiasm that the forum has thrived.
I know it probably get's some people's back up when I witter on about 'the viewers', but the simple fact is that many people log on here each day in the hope of seeing something 'new' and the interest is certainly there...but without 'the contributors', there would be nothing....That is all I'm saying.
So, let's all keep up the good work, with all the helpful, informative, enjoyable, insightful, supportive, positive and above all FUN posts that the forum has received over the years. Speaking for myself, I think it's ok to 'agree to disagree' if things get a little 'heated' now and again (not that it happens very often...!), and I'm convinced that the majority of people who use this forum are of similar mind, in that everyone's opinion has value, whatever that may be. I think this is borne out in the lack of problems this forum has had, when compared to many out there, and the fact that for the vast majority of the time we are all pretty much singing from the same hymn sheet.....("Blue is the colour, Moorland is the name....."!)
Anyway, these are just some thoughts to offer everyone. Feel free to comment, agree, disagree, etc etc. That's an important part of what the forum is for, after all, and your thoughts, opinions and posts are important, valuable and yes, 'necessary'.
Finally, a HUGE and heartfelt thank you to Rob and Ian for giving us all this fantastic resource in the first place.
Sincerely,
Brian.
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