The Forest Chat forum was conceived in July 2009, following the closure of the original NFED chat forums. Three months later, in October 2009, we moved the forum to a MyFreeForum site where we stayed for the next 8 years - not a bad innings! Following the rise in popularity of Facebook, the forum gradually tailed off and for the last couple of years of its life I just used it as a covenient place to post show results.
In late 2016 MyFreeForum sold out to Tapatalk. Subsequently Forest Chat was transferred over to Tapatalk without warning on 4th October 2017. The forum works on Tapatalk as a standard phpBB3 forum. Any customisation I put in has vanished, but it does still work and the members and posts are all still there. However, I could not point our forestchat.uk domain to the new Tapatalk group, due to unnecessary cost.
The forums weren't used at all by then, so there was no need to have a forum as such. I set up a new website for the M&M section of the forum (mmponies.uk) and forestchat.uk became a standalone website for New Forest Pony show results
In 2022 as an attempt to reduce the number of domain names I owned, the decision was made to amalgamate nfponies.info and forestchat.uk into a new website - nfponies.uk
Currently the old website nfponies.info has been completely moved to nfponies.uk and I am now starting to transfer the show results there.
The plan is to move everything over to nfponies.uk gradually. The home and index pages on both will have the same information (although looking different) and links clicked will go to either website to start with. From now on, all new and updated pages will be on nfponies.uk and the older results will be moved across in due course. The transfer will be completed by June 2023 if not before, after which the forestchat.uk website will be deleted.
18/09/2022