Making a Swedish Forum

[Princess Celestia]

Thinking about whether to rebuild the old lost MLP forum in my own language in Sweden. It was a variant focused on collecting and is as old as MLP Arena or so.

It's been gone about 4-5 years now.

Forums are certainly not as relevant today and all users have found new platforms for their MLP collecting.

But maybe for nostalgia? I miss it anyway.

It was called "the grape valley", translated from Swedish.

Here a snapshot from Waybackmachine

https://web.archive.org/web/20190103001014/http://www.druvdalen.forum24.se/

Should I do it?

It's a lot of work, costs some money, but why not?

Do you think it's worth it?

[Shaiyeh]

Princess Celestia, you can still make forums for free.
A lot of the art was made by Annie and Brainshake,
Brainshake and me were admins at the end of Druvdalen - if you want I can talk to her to talk about it, as she was more of the forum owner and I personally feel like it would be nice to at least have a chat about it
You could also ask for opinions in the swedish facebook group. There are a lot of us that miss Druvis, but chances are it won't come back to life just because it's back online, unfortunately.


BC - I know builders like Squarespace have drag and drop features. There's always some youtuber who has a deal on it, but I haven't looked into how expensive it is to run once that offer runs out. Best of luck with it.

[Taffeta]

I've heard about druvdalen, and I think it's a shame it's no longer a thing. As a UK and European pony geek so much useful information has come out of discussions that happened there (and from ponypeople in Sweden in general, whose brains even now I am picking).

The problem is a lot of forums have died. A lot of people have abandoned forums and migrated to social media. For better or for worse, this is the internet now.

On the actual topic. I used free sites for the early iterations of my website. They are still online but flooded with ads and broken images...I no longer have access to them to take them down so although the information at times is questionable (lol) it's nostalgic.

BUT the reason I moved to an actual host was the advert issue. Even with ad blockers.

My domain name is bundled with the rest of my internet package.

If you do go down the road of setting up a website, something I would recommend is domain privacy, which is where your domain's owner's address is not public. Mine lists the address of my hosting company.

[Princess Celestia]

How quick was that?

Amazing!

Shaiyeh you got PM

Well I really want to have all the hosting and ownership, no adds no messy look.

If the old owners approve the use of the old name, we'll then let's get started!


Post Merge: Today at 12:55:37 AM

Hmm, boring!

No, the old forum "owner" does not want the site to be resurrected in any form. So I give up!

I'm completely giving up on MLP, can't stand all the some times very weird people in the pony world anymore.

Really thought it would be a pleasure for everypony to revive the fine old forum.

Princess Celestia will return to her element, so think of her when you see the sun.

Princess Celestia

[Shaiyeh]

This is simply not true, all we asked is that it doesn't have the same name.
like I told you, you're very welcome to open a new forum, and I think the Swedish community would be happy to have a non-facebook place to chat.
I am very sorry this upset you, but I think it is reasonable for the owner and admin to ask for her forum name, and personal art not to be reused, and I also think it is reasonable to simultaneously move on in life to new things.

Again, I am sorry. But I also want to reiterate that nowhere have we said that you cannot open a new forum.