Cannot believe this is happening. I feel as if a great part of my life is disappearing somehow. I do not have the gardening knowledge to offer help to folks, but I do read the whole forum on a regular basis and enjoy not only the pictures but also reading about how many of you cope with different gardening conditions - some disasters, many successes, all are so informative and very interesting. With my age and various health issues, gardening is actually beyond me these days, but I sit outside and let my imagination run wild remembering the many gardens that I have been fortunate enough to have owned, even created, in the past, helped by all the wonderful threads on here. But, and it is a huge but, the friendship I have found on here posting on the Forkers Thread has been amazing and so very welcome. I dont do What's Ap on my phone and am not 'techy' at all but I will give a try at joining the GC forum in the hope of finding some of you on there. Such a shame we couldn't find someone to set up a new private forum for us all to join, but such is life I guess. So many thanks my friends, happy gardening days to you all and good luck for the future should we not meet again.
I posted on Gardeners Corner for awhile but gave up quite awhile ago because it wasn't as good as this forum. Less knowledge on the whole and even some bullying from some people. Perhaps that's all about to change with a big mass migration with people from here. My name there is also Redwing.
Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
Probably best to contact the mods directly (phone them?) to ask about options for keeping the site read-only or to transfer the content to another host (removing the GW branding).
"No longer able to support.." seriously?? I had a website in the early millennium, and never had a reason to 'not support' anything even on dial up Internet tech! Shame on you GW! This is THE best place for tips, advice, banter, support, and I expect for many people it's their social life. Why do they just hand it over to some people who have the time and skills to run it as a seperate site, or move it all to another platform? Sorry, there's no excuse. 🤬
Cannot believe this is happening. I feel as if a great part of my life is disappearing somehow. I do not have the gardening knowledge to offer help to folks, but I do read the whole forum on a regular basis and enjoy not only the pictures but also reading about how many of you cope with different gardening conditions - some disasters, many successes, all are so informative and very interesting. With my age and various health issues, gardening is actually beyond me these days, but I sit outside and let my imagination run wild remembering the many gardens that I have been fortunate enough to have owned, even created, in the past, helped by all the wonderful threads on here. But, and it is a huge but, the friendship I have found on here posting on the Forkers Thread has been amazing and so very welcome. I dont do What's Ap on my phone and am not 'techy' at all but I will give a try at joining the GC forum in the hope of finding some of you on there. Such a shame we couldn't find someone to set up a new private forum for us all to join, but such is life I guess. So many thanks my friends, happy gardening days to you all and good luck for the future should we not meet again.
There are certainly options to create a new forum, but most likely it would involve a blank slate. Not impossible mind. Not free either - I imagine a few hundred quid per month would cover licensing and hosting etc.
"No longer able to support.." seriously?? I had a website in the early millennium, and never had a reason to 'not support' anything even on dial up Internet tech! Shame on you GW! This is THE best place for tips, advice, banter, support, and I expect for many people it's their social life. Why do they just hand it over to some people who have the time and skills to run it as a seperate site, or move it all to another platform? Sorry, there's no excuse. 🤬
This forum has been a great source of inspiration, knowledge and amusement for me for over three years and will be very sadly missed. Thank you to everyone for your generosity with time, knowledge, wit and inspirational photos! I hope this continues on Gardeners Corner, it’s easy to sign up!
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But, and it is a huge but, the friendship I have found on here posting on the Forkers Thread has been amazing and so very welcome. I dont do What's Ap on my phone and am not 'techy' at all but I will give a try at joining the GC forum in the hope of finding some of you on there. Such a shame we couldn't find someone to set up a new private forum for us all to join, but such is life I guess.
So many thanks my friends, happy gardening days to you all and good luck for the future should we not meet again.
I posted on Gardeners Corner for awhile but gave up quite awhile ago because it wasn't as good as this forum. Less knowledge on the whole and even some bullying from some people. Perhaps that's all about to change with a big mass migration with people from here. My name there is also Redwing.
Shame on you GW! This is THE best place for tips, advice, banter, support, and I expect for many people it's their social life.
Why do they just hand it over to some people who have the time and skills to run it as a seperate site, or move it all to another platform? Sorry, there's no excuse. 🤬