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Please beware, to register at venomland you are requested to use your full name (first and family name) - nicknames are not allowed and will be not activated! thx
Dear Venomland Members and Friends, Venomland is a little more than 6 years old now and by far the biggest Hot Snake community on the Planet! We want to thank all of you who made Venomland the leading Board. We are also very thankful to our Moderators and Admins for years of hard work. Now, it is time to move on. I have been thinking how to proceed and what to do with our beloved board as we reach a size, that we need to make drastic changes to secure the future of our community. As of now, Venomland is hosted by a free (well mostly free) hosting service. That was good for the first years but now we need to find a new way to run our forum. I have spend hundreds of Dollars over the years to keep Venomland up and running, and i have done so with pleasure. Now, we need your help! We need to come up with several thousand dollars for our Venomland 2.0 project, which i frankly cant pay for any longer by myself. So Venomland is asking his Friends and Members for the first time for their financial Support. Please help to keep Venomland alive, and let us move on to a new, better Portal in the Future! Every Dollar is helping us a great deal. I know, its hard times for everyone, but please spare a few Dollar for our community. If you have only 10 Dollars to spare, we are grateful, if it is more, it would be awesome. We are planning to develop a very new Venomland, with real community functions, a forum like you are already loving it and a real (online) Hot Snake Magazin. Also, there will be download areas for scientific papers, Wallpapers and more. Again folks, we can only do that if you all help. Please send me a Private Message if you want to keep Venomland alive, i will provide you with the details on how to donate Money. For now, we can accept money from creditcards via skrill (please google it, its a free service - account-details will be forwarded to you) and paypal. All the best, and for a (hopefully) nice future of our Board. Mario
Number of posts : 203 Age : 52 Location : near Münster, NRW, Germany Points : 6106 Registration date : 2008-06-30
Subject: Back to the future?! Mon 22 Mar - 21:13
Folks, It is a matter of fact, that neither facebook, nor those lousy whatsapp groups, popping up nowadays, allow a seriously traceable kind of discussion. This is caused by a general cretinism, and by the confusing number of existing groups, as anyone can easily establish new ones every now and then. In addition, they both miss a really useful searching function to categories or topics, as well as a kind of moderation, as long as you don't post any boobs (fb). Furthermore - at least in Germany - almost any common platform you could post reptile classifieds at in the past, by now banned offers of "exotic animals", as long as they don't wear fur or feathers. Facebook, after all, is fair enough, to bann even those. Coming to a conclusion: We need to go somewhat back in time - even if it's just a decade or so. We will have to get back to the "old" reptile classifieds sites, as facebook and others won't allow open shown reptile classifieds anymore. And I desperately want Venomland back. Venomland forums - coming with a great lineup of roughly 2300 participants in the end - was a great platform to show off and discuss any topic concerning to natural history, field herping, taxonomic or scientific work in general, medical contents, literature, and - last but not least - the captive care and breeding of venomous snakes. After all, Facebook is a great thing for a flimsy chat, and showing off your recent meal. But if it comes to serious discussions, exchange of informations, sharing knowledge, there's better than this. And I wish we could go back there. PS: In the end, it was the costs, that killed Venomland. I’d think it would be worth some effort to get it running again. How about a membership fee?
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Peter Zürcher Admin
Number of posts : 1266 Age : 72 Location : Carinthia, Austria Points : 8109 Registration date : 2008-03-06
Subject: Re: Back to the future?! Thu 7 Oct - 0:24
Good post, you're absolutely right. I will check out the possibilities........ regards, Peter
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Mon 22 Mar - 21:13
