First off, I find the idea of shutting down this messageboard extremely shortsighted. It is very easy to have messageboards fully integrate with social media. It would have been far better had the organization had an admin or mod just post social media feeds directly to this board. Users could easily click the links, which would still generate revenue without alienating fans who love this board. This move shows terrible disregard for those users that have posted here for the last several years. I understand their are financial benefits to operating from social media, but there are also intangible benefits from allowing a community to engage in thoughtful (and sometimes brainless) dialogue that isn't limited to 140 characters. A messageboard, in a sense, is free marketing that builds loyal customers. People can share their passion and "expertise," for lack of a better word, and spread that excitement and knowledge to others. I am very disappointed in the Jaguars organization for authorizing this move and will not be participating on social media.

 

That said, it would not be terribly difficult to make a new messageboard from scratch. It's even possible to migrate a lot of what is on this board to another forum... messages, users, postcounts, etc, assuming the administrators could give us access to that info. Is there a way of finding out if we can access the information here? There is a cost to hosting and a cost for a web site name, but I don't think it would be that much. We could find out what the cost would be, set up a donation page, and get all the information migrated to a new board. It would take some work, but we wouldn't lose this community.

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