As many of you know, R3Owners.Net has been a testing platform for me to provide answers to technical issues and indulge some techno-geek things I wanted to try.
While the experience has been invaluable to me, I also wanted to thank you for your patience and contributions. All of the cool-geeky-techno things being done here are great, but you are the reason why R3Owners.Net is still here and moving up.
More To Come - Be Safe
- Low-Level OS - didn't yield much results, other than what I did here didn't result in a meltdown. Getting a site to utilize commonly-unused resources on a server can cause premature hardware failure and/or an expotential increase in queued resources. I almost burned one server three years ago doing a similar config - but not this time
- Photo Albums - Before R3Owners.Net was publicly announced, I was doing tests here on various ways to migrate image data as well as trying some integration techniques. The experience was profound, causing me to wipe the original site and start over after a catastrophic event. What you see today is a completely new approach that may become the basis for what I use going forward.
- Search Engine - Optimization Results were beyond my expectations. There is no other dedicated Triumph Rocket III site on the planet rated higher than R3Owners.Net (which is also because of your contributions). While techniques here are well beyond what any site is doing, including TriumphRat.Net, there were still some frustrating problems. I know what needs to be done to resolve this, so it's another "live and learn" situation.
- Navigation - This site is easy to use, but the future revision will include something better that goes more along with what I've done in the past.
- Moderator/Admin Functions - Many of the newer forums already have it, but I still wanted to try some things in this area. The end result is a situation where we have more features than is used; probably overkill.
- Custom Groups - Are supported here with lots of features, but no one ever used it. For a smaller site, it is reasonable that groups wouldn't be used often because the community feel already exists. I've learned that a better test is on a larger site.
- Reviews/Web Links - Are listed here, but I never installed the module for them.
- International Forums - We had them here, and they did get used, but it seems the majority were English-Speaking anyway and using the other forums; so we removed them. R3Owners.Net still has support for several languages.
- Look / Logo - R3Owners.Net is a cool-looking site, but there are some things I think can be done better.
While the experience has been invaluable to me, I also wanted to thank you for your patience and contributions. All of the cool-geeky-techno things being done here are great, but you are the reason why R3Owners.Net is still here and moving up.
More To Come - Be Safe