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				'Official Luthiers Forum' defunct September 1?
				Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2025 4:20 pm
				by phavriluk
				Anybody known anything about this forum's going dark?  During the last week of August there was a great deal of discussion about supporting the forum in order to keep it going, and quite a related conversation about the seemingly-excessive cost of forum hosting, and Monday, it's gone.  
If any of the forum's major information contributors have decamped to elsewhere, I'd love to know where.  
Thanks!
			 
			
					
				Re: 'Official Luthiers Forum' defunct September 1?
				Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2025 6:53 am
				by tippie53
				Last I heard from Hesh it was closing up  sadly    a lot of good info lost
			 
			
					
				Re: 'Official Luthiers Forum' defunct September 1?
				Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2025 3:56 pm
				by phavriluk
				Thanks, John.  Did Hesh mention whether he was going to continue offering his advice in another venue?  The last I'd seen was a discussion about web hosting and it was going badly.  Then the dark.
			 
			
					
				Re: 'Official Luthiers Forum' defunct September 1?
				Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2025 5:27 pm
				by Daver7
				I might be wrong here but I think Lance K owned the sight. Hesh was a major content contributor
			 
			
					
				Re: 'Official Luthiers Forum' defunct September 1?
				Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2025 7:08 pm
				by tippie53
				Hesh is invited to come here
    I think he posted a lot there are he may have also been an admin   he is posting of face book
			 
			
					
				Re: 'Official Luthiers Forum' defunct September 1?
				Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2025 7:08 pm
				by tippie53
				Hesh is invited to come here
    I think he posted a lot there are he may have also been an admin   he is posting of face book
			 
			
					
				Re: 'Official Luthiers Forum' defunct September 1?
				Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2025 7:08 pm
				by tippie53
				Hesh is invited to come here
    I think he posted a lot there are he may have also been an admin   he is posting of face book
			 
			
					
				Re: 'Official Luthiers Forum' defunct September 1?
				Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2025 7:09 pm
				by tippie53
				Hesh is invited to come here
    I think he posted a lot there are he may have also been an admin   he is posting of face book
			 
			
					
				Re: 'Official Luthiers Forum' defunct September 1?
				Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2025 1:09 am
				by phavriluk
				I'd be overjoyed if Hesh joined us and perhaps other former OLF participants would follow.
			 
			
					
				Re: 'Official Luthiers Forum' defunct September 1?
				Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2025 1:11 am
				by phavriluk
				Daver7 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 07, 2025 5:27 pm
I might be wrong here but I think Lance K owned the sight. Hesh was a major content contributor
 
I think you've got it right on both counts.