Who actually runs this forum?

[heeroyuy01195]

Originally Posted by David C

Thanks for bringing this up. I've only been here since 2016, but I truly enjoy the community and resources of this forum. Now that I've heard about the board of pirates getting scarce, I understand why I never got any tech support when I first tried registering and never received the activation link (apparently our local internet provider, Videotron, similar to Comcast, which also provides me with my email address, couldn't get through the activation email, I had to sign up using another email provider).

I don't know how the forum was or went through since its creation, but from everything I've seen so far, the members played a lot into keeping us afloat. I've always wondered who ran the forum, and now that ern mentioned it, Kimona is the only active moderator I've seen so far. Didn't the forums used to have sponsored areas and paid advertisement management ?

Either way, thanks to all of you who keep it nice and clean, thanks Kimona for keeping up to the responsibilities of moderator and if you could tell us more about who else sails the Yarrrris, that'd be cool.

Back in 06-09 when I was more active on here, this place was buzzing with activity. There were tons of people on here with a lot of projects going on. As you said, there were quite a few vendors on here as well and paid advertisements/sponsors on the site. I think the main downfall here is that the Yaris never caught on amongst the tuner crowd. Just not much you can do with the little 1.5 for reasonable money. Also weren't a lot of people willing to invest in R&D due to costs and such. The 2zr swap is still the best thing I've seen done on this car from a cost/reward standpoint. Still would like to attempt a 2az swap some day but I have my MR2 that's been a project since 04 to finish and my Yaris is my daily runt so that likely won't happen any time soon.

A lot of members kind of "upgraded" and left the forum slowly. I know a few guys jumped to the FRS when it came out. I myself debated it but I'm the kind of person that gets attached to my stuff so...my Yaris isn't going anywhere for a long time. Wish we knew who is paying the bill for this place so we could get a donation setup to contribute.