Evening folks

Interesting PF Facts:
We are just over 18mths old.

We have now exceeded 42million Hits per month

We have 1.3 MILLION topics.

We have 9841 Members.

You post 1599.89 post per day on average.

We gain 27 new members per day on average.

Our uncompressed database is over 1.2 gigabyte in size

Our peak online membership was 551 last tuesday night.

Our "average online" is over 300 now.


However..
This popularity is causing its own problems now, and as i see it, the main one is that General discussion is becoming TOO busy at times.

On Sunday night, general discussion shifted a full page of 40 topics in 16mins. This is a new Record!!

This means in sixteen minutes a new post has left teh top of page 1 and gone 51 topics down the page and onto page 2. This isnt good for newcomers asking questions as they often PM me wanting to know why their post was deleted, when in fact its just pages away. I want to find a solution to this, so as you may or may not have noticed, we now have 10 new moderators to help us look after the place

The reason we have done this is to give the general discussion moderators a well earned break from the other 43 rooms And to introduce a new focused webteam with only 4 rooms each to look after. This should mean that:

1) General Discussion is better moderated.
2) The other rooms are better moderated too.
3) Each room now has a personal touch with one or two mods being solely responsible for its upkeep.

As a direct result of these webteam changes, you will now notice that the posts in general discussion get moved to more suitable rooms far more frequently than they did before, so if a post dissapears, dont think to yourself:
"Im going to make a post and kick off"

Instead.. Think to yourself:
"What room should it really have been put in?"
And go and look there

Hopefully, this will make PassionFord a better place to use and will allow you to spend your time here more productively. If a topic is literally about Escort Cosworths, lets have it in the Escort Cosworth room eh?

As with everything, this is essentially a trial period, and if we find we dont like it, then hey, we will simply look at alternative ways to play teh game we all love

We need to be ready to tackle further traffic better and more efficiently, and this is the first step in my eyes, so i hope we have your support folks