Should We Keep The Old AP Message Board Up?

Hi everyone, we would like you to tell us whether or not you think we should keep the old Afro-punk message board up!
We currently have them up as a read-only website, and we're wondering whether we should use the resources necessary
to keep it up for the production of new content instead.
Do you really use the archived message boards? Let us know!

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Comment by Trancypunkitty on November 22, 2010 at 3:44pm: I think it will be great to freeze it as an archive of AP history, but also bring back that format as the forum. That layout and the style is just so much more accessible to me. was it the white on black?? wonders....

Comment by Compound Egret on November 24, 2009 at 1:42pm: The old board clicks through to the new one.

If hosting and bandwidth is a huge money burden you could put it all on a USB drive and sell it. I'm guessing getting USB drives printed is cheaper than books of that size. It's been done before with mixed results...
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2007-10-17-usb-rockers_N.htm

These guys just had the price point wrong for an album. 15.00 to 19.99 is probably about right for the archive. Keep the threads and make it searchable but all within the USB. Call it the "Afropunk Archives", "Afropunk Apocrypha" or something like that...

"usb drives with logo" comes up with hundreds of google hits.

Comment by quehanrock on August 31, 2009 at 7:48am: Keep it!

Comment by Archer on August 31, 2009 at 12:56am: yea...it brought me back!!!! i miss yall!!

Comment by Compound Egret on August 29, 2009 at 3:49pm: Definitely.

Comment by BlkGothGrl on August 29, 2009 at 1:08pm: Agreed with all of the above! (Heck, I didn't even know you good people kept it as an archive)....

Comment by Ghettopunkrocker on August 29, 2009 at 12:50pm: Do you mean keep it up as an archive? If so, definitely keep it up. This is our history. This shows how we progressed as people. So yeah, totally keep it up.

Comment by Hardwired on August 29, 2009 at 10:21am: Definately keep. Oral history is good, but the written word is a powerful record of a people's history.