[twobjshelbys]

The end is inevitable. Even if you guys were to convince Brent to take it over, soon you'd be in the same situation - that of a never ending money pit. Eventually you'll time out on it too. It's not clear at all which is dying faster - forums or Cobras... The population for both is diminishing at a rapid rate and the overlapping set even faster.

Sorry, but there are only 4 car forums that are currently on line vs a list of about 20 that have been relegated to the boneyard folder from when I started about 20 years ago. Another site failed to renew its domain a couple of weeks ago... Before that it had only a few posts a year at least one per year was from me who wondered who and why the site was still being paid for...

We have no insight into what the ads pay towards site operation. The possibility exists that it might be enough to keep it even. Attempts by other sites that wanted to go to a pure pay (membership) all have failed.

But I still assert that the problems this site has are database corruption and not related to "software past its expiration date" or old servers that are overloaded and that upgrades to either will just be an expense for no fix.