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mux213 Wrote:Okay, so we just openend for business. How do we go about bringing trueno.org into the world?

A question we need to answer is what is our target audience? Initial D fans? AE86 owners in Europa?

What things do we need to solve?
Obviously we need to speed up some things (new hardware, maybe alternative hosting at some point)
How about content? Any other forums we need? Any forums we dont need? Do we need to have more features on the http://www.trueno.org main page?

Bring out ideas people

First of all: new hardware would be a great option. The server is "just" an old K6-266 running on 64 megs of ram. I'm currently looking for "new" hardware, something between 500MHz and 1GHz with at least 256 megs of ram. I have a lot of spare parts available, but I'm still missing the essential parts (e.g. processor, mobo and case)

Alternative hosting is not yet something we have to look for since the up/downstream is sufficient enough. Networking troubles were fixed yesterday.

Frontpage definetly needs rework. It should be made complient with the phpBB users/sessions so we can show the last active topics and give the users opportunaty to react on news, add events, etc. That will take some time.

As for the audience, I'd recon that most people will be ae86 orientated, but I would not exclude Initial-D fans coming here as well.

BTW: are we going for trueno.org or hachi-roku.org? Both domains will end up here, but most of the textual fields are set to trueno.org. trueno.org is easier to remember, hachi-roku.org is for a wider audience. What about other domains?