30 Years!
 

I have to note that 30 years ago today I registered the name winnipesaukee.com and began to build a crude site as I learned HTML and the workings of the WWW. I had just sold our house in Moultonboro (a big mistake) and thought working on a Lakes Region webpage would keep me connected to the area. It sure did. The first feature was a series of aerial pictures that are still available here. A few years later I figured out how to add a forum and other interactive features that are still available today. For 24 years the WeirsCAM provided live views from its perch on the Winnipesaukee Pier. Our Forumfests around the lake were great fun.

It has been a great hobby for 30 years and has created many ups and downs for me. Mostly ups. Unfortunately, for financial and technical reasons I have some decisions to make about its future.

A sincere thanks to everyone that participates and contributes to the site. Some of you have been regular visitors for 25 years or more!

Don

It must take a ton of time but I hope you keep it going. I would miss it. Thanks for all your hard work for all those years!!

Oh come on ........ you will have NO PROBLEM keep'n this forum going for another THIRTY YEARS ....... no problem ...... you can do it ...... ho-ho-ho!... :D

Thanks Don I have been on for over 21 years and got the pleasure of meeting you at Peppers

Thank you....I've been on this forum a very long time. It's a very helpful web site. Again, thank you!!!

I pray that the forum doesn’t go away. I totally get, Don, that you can’t do it forever but I hope there are good options to keep it going. Perhaps a current forum member would be interested in picking it up with training and transition under you??? Only when you are ready of course 20 or so years from now :liplick:

Such an enjoyable and helpful resource. I hope you can keep us updated on plans/options moving forward. Thank you.

Thank you
 

For everything you've done and continue to do for us. If circumstances dictate you need to stop this then so be it and best of luck going forward.

Thanks for all you do.
 

Webmaster, thanks for all you have done and continue to do for all of us.

I have 22.5 years and counting on this wonderful website.

Dave

If you could use some financial assistance to keep things running just let us know.Many would be happy to support this site

Finding this forum when we purchased at the lake was priceless—I've received so much great information!

Thanks for all you've done.

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Way to go Don! Thanks for the years of hard work moderating some hot topics!

Woodsy

Thank you
 

We bought our island property in 2010 and I became a member of the forum in 2011 and it has become a site that I visit almost daily. This site helps get us through the long New England winters where we can, for a minute, forget about the snow and cold outside and count the days to ice out and warmer weather. (Don't get me wrong, I like winter too).

So much great content on here for everyone

Sincere thanks to you for your vision

Good idea.

Don: I have used the top banner "Donate" button in the past that uses Pay Pal. Recently, however, I get a can not process message and the donation does not go through even though I get a thanks.

Alan

Hi Don,

Wow that was a great investment and learning experience back then. The .com craze and bubble investments.

Well now we are in a growing bubble and everyone is learning LLM
https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/tree/main

Life just keep getting more interesting and things evolve as history repeats itself.

To many more years of learning something new !!
:)

Lake Forum means so much to us all
 

Let us know what is needed to support this.

A lake visitor all my life, and all my parents' and my grandparents' and my great grandmother's life... I check the website everyday. I look for weather, for stories, for interesting wild life reports, for those glorious pictures. Even when I can't physically get to NH, I am planning for it! I want to be on top of lake and NH issues. I love everything Winnipesaukee.com represents.

Thank you for 30 years! I hope there can be more.:)

Donate not working
 

I get the same message. It thanks me for my donation, but Paypal gives an error message saying the donation cannot be processed.

Thank you…
 

…..for all you’ve done. I smile every time I see the old threads about the Forum Fests.

It’s been a large, happy part of my life for over 20 years.

Webmaster
 

Many thanks!!

I too found this place and have enjoyed tons of great interactions! I'd really hate to see it go, it is one of the few remaining true forums left that I visit regularly! I enjoy these so much better than the groups on the other social media platforms and it brings me back to memories of being on my various car forums over the years. I made friends from those that have now been in my life for over 20 years and our kids have become friends!

Hopefully we can come together and keep this alive for a while longer, let us know what we can do!!