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Originally Posted by new2subaru
Isn't that the point though? The Admin can upgrade to a newer version? I had a friend that had a forum and he was always upgrading, mostly to stay ahead of spam.
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I think we are using "Admin" loosely. Forum Admins aren't really site admins. The forum admins are really just super moderators.
Also, I've been down this path both personally through running forums and volunteering for my local SCCA region as well as professionally. When software starts falling behind too far it's almost impossible to get it updated without some major work. Nobody wants to lose data/history so instead of risking regular updates they just stop updating. That seems to be where we are now. Unfortunately, when you stop updating you also lose support. When you start having operational errors like we're currently experiencing then you're on your own because you aren't up to date.
Sadly, unless the actual site/hosting admins decide to do something, I think the forum is eventually just going to fail to a point where it will no longer be usable.