So what now? erBB's ?

[Autoprax]

Would it be possible to start your own message board, sell ads, and from the revenue buy Asian hookers and coke?

That seems like a good idea to me.

 

[mundus]

Would it be possible to start your own message board, sell ads, and from the revenue buy Asian hookers and coke?

That seems like a good idea to me.

Only rent the hookers.

 

[Subway]

for sure. i hadn't even checked it, until a buddy who literally lives 25 minutes from here texted me "did you surf this morning?" and i said "no, i argued with my wife for a little while then worked out and turned on my computer for our weekly zoom call. Why?" and then i saw it kind of firing and it kind of was! pretty crowded but not nearly to the same extent as the aforementioned tropical swells

 

[Autoprax]

Only rent the hookers.

No, I want to be a pimp.

 

[SurfFuerteventura]

Phugg... Been posting since pre registration before I left California in '99.
Invited any and all of you freaks to come visit, Gaspar, New Jersey exchange student learning Spanish in Madrid, made it out while I was in Madrid. He toured out to Portugal on a surfing road trip. Then once down here, who remembers Dane Hockey? The North Carolina skateboarder who came out to visit to learn to surf.

Invite still stands, though my 86 year old mom now occupies our guest apartment, so garden shack only. But we're still hanging on out here for as long as we can.

Peas,
9'4''

 

[Random Guy]

for sure. i hadn't even checked it, until a buddy who literally lives 25 minutes from here texted me "did you surf this morning?" and i said "no, i argued with my wife for a little while then worked out and turned on my computer for our weekly zoom call. Why?" and then i saw it kind of firing and it kind of was! pretty crowded but not nearly to the same extent as the aforementioned tropical swells

Dude, you live down the street
A perfect cool down take a breath step away time out distance to diffuse a fight
Check the surf
I didn’t
While you were getting barreled I was having a swab shoved up my nose for my very first covid test

 

[Joshua2415]

Time for a presidential (moderator) pardon for OT and the Pappies!

 

[Kento]

What about a last hoorah mass Zoom meeting with Erbb members?

it could be epic! Beers babes bongs
Stories sh!t talking political and design angles.
Stinking kids do it every day why not the Erbb?

It would be funny to see r32 start muting people at random.

 

[Subway]

Dude, you live down the street
A perfect cool down take a breath step away time out distance to diffuse a fight
Check the surf
I didn’t
While you were getting barreled I was having a swab shoved up my nose for my very first covid test

you can't even care for your goldfish and you want to offer marriage advice?? Next thing i know you'll want to be my latex salesman!!!

j/k, i'm sure the latex will be fine. But how was the covid test?

 

[Random Guy]

No marriage advice from me!
any excuse to walk down the street and check the surf is a good thing!
Covid test made my eyes water

 

[92122]

Justin Housman's send off....

Former staffer writes eulogy on death of SURFER: "The final bit of content? A photo of an air at a soulless wavepool posted to Instagram. About the saddest way this lumbering old lion could be put down."

I saw my first cover of SURFER magazine (October, 1991 issue) when I was twelve years old, standing in line at a grocery store in landlocked Visalia, California (Hi Chas’s wife!), my chubby hands each clutching a tube of chalky Necco wafers. The cover image was a long-haired dude in a wetsuit...

beachgrit.com

 

[Why_was_I_banned]

for sure. i hadn't even checked it, until a buddy who literally lives 25 minutes from here texted me "did you surf this morning?" and i said "no, i argued with my wife for a little while then worked out and turned on my computer for our weekly zoom call. Why?" and then i saw it kind of firing and it kind of was! pretty crowded but not nearly to the same extent as the aforementioned tropical swells

I thought hot yoga teachers never argued, got pms, or ever had a hair out if place

 

[afoaf]

See you all on the other side! If you're in Seattle area and wanna go for a boat ride... www.peistcharters.com. New boat coming this winter! Post-covid tours are going to be great!

 

[20W-50 and blood]

What about a last hoorah mass Zoom meeting with Erbb members?

it could be epic! Beers babes bongs
Stories sh!t talking political and design angles.
Stinking kids do it every day why not the Erbb?

luchador mask for me


but ill be real...itll end up an old questionably stained shirt mask

 

[keenfish]

luchador mask for me


but ill be real...itll end up an old questionably stained shirt mask

Don't forget to invite Tyrez to the farewell zoom party.

 

[tenover]

surfermag

erbb no affiliation with surfer magazine surfermag

erbb.forumotion.com

so far this one sucks but u can at least post pics, unlike reddit
i'll try to make it work, but if someone else wants to create a free forum, where we can post pics, theres a million links to do so on google
maybe bookmark this for emergency in case this one goes down

This will work for sure. Might take some time to work the kinks out, but it's good and will keep this "community" together if the actual SurferMag erBB DOES go down.....

Keep it simple.

 

[griffinsurfboard]

This will work for sure. Might take some time to work the kinks out, but it's good and will keep this "community" together if the actual SurferMag erBB DOES go down.....

Keep it simple.

Moderate the negative comments daily = 30 minutes top
Invite the Instagram Surboard Industry posters to share = 5- 10 Minutes of thier time
Creating the best content and it will grow Way beyond whats here today -

 

[LogHauler]

Surfer magazine lost my subscription WAY before the internet. I did not like paying to be fed advertising. Even the so-called articles and photos were ads. Pro surfers "posing" on waves to show off their logos. F that! The internet actually saved me from paying to view ads. I am happy to pay a small fee for ad-free streaming content.

 

[One-Off]

Easy to start.

Much harder to gain users/followers these days for a forum, than most people realize.

And you have to manage it. Domain and webhosting cost money.

And good luck to whoever moderates. You'll find out quickly how hard it is to maintain order. Good luck dealing with 1000's of spam bot registrations and posts, hacker attacks on your weak security, etc.

After about 6 months of grinding, you'll come to realize it's a huge waste of your time and that you're never going to make a dime on it, nor will you even achieve a 100 regular users. You'll be frustrated, you will stop maintaining it, the forum will die a quick death, and you will have realized you wasted a ton of your time when you could have been doing something more fun like surfing, reading, watching movies, or spending time with friends and family.

mmmm...no offense, but disorder is what makes this place interesting. You should try to just let the pace go a few weeks with no moderators and watch the fireworks.

 

[One-Off]

I'll miss the days of Drew Kampion and Craig Peterrson and Kevin Naughton....Jeff Divine photography...people who surf....