What is going on here?

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Rebranding/renaming/merging: Merging with a sister forum is definitely an idea we may want to keep in consideration, particularly if we both end up having trouble covering our server costs. Pooling our resources and traffic may increase our collective odds of survival as social media continues to chip away at other websites' individual userbases. I'm not sure how a merger would physically work, though -- ie. how would we port over and merge one forum's worth of posts, users, etc. to the other. We wouldn't want to inadvertently erase the years' worth of knowledge (via posts) and user activity on the "donor" forum in the event of a merger. I'm also not sure how things would work if we wanted to change our domain name/URL. From what I understand, you can't just change your website's domain name after it's registered. We'd definitely need to do more research on this front if we'd like to go that far in any rebranding efforts.

Stickies/FAQ: The more I think about it, this is definitely a way we could make the forum an indispensable source of knowledge for the hobby. Anybody can come in and read our forum, and we can probably provide more quality (ie. reliable, accurate) information in a more organized manner than a similar effort on your average social media site/group. In short, we could be one of the better "you're new? Read this" resources for new hobbyists. If people are interested in pursuing this idea, I'd be more than happy to lend my skills as a writer, editor, and organizer and help lead the effort as best I can. I'd definitely need some more experienced keepers to help provide content, though -- I'm still a novice in this hobby, after all.

Podcasts: Took a look through my podcast list, and it looks like The Reptile Gumbo Podcast is actually the one I was alluding to earlier (lol, sorry Gumbo people!) They have a semi-regular "this week on the reptile internet" bit that they do based on input to their FB page, as well as their own "discussion group" that's meant to emulate a forum. Perhaps we could use the "reptile internet" bit to get our name out there? ie. One of us could make a post to that request to put it out there that a reptile forum is a) still here and b) bouncing around ideas to modernize, stay relevant, attract new users, and continue to serve the hobby. I'm pretty sure that would get the hosts' attention.