Ya I know, I am out of it🤷‍♂️

[rockndan]

Back in the day of cascade climbers there was a "trip report" tab/page or whatever you call it where all the trip reports funneled into "one" tab/page or whatever you call it. I miss that. Now it's under each category like freshies , north Cascades, central , international and so on. Is there a way I can see trip reports in one page like it used to be? 

Please flip me shit for my ignorance in this matter it brings me much joy. 

 

Cheers

[olyclimber]

Yeah shits been like that for a while my man.  Sorry.  Right now focused on keeping the site around, many sites have died, good ones.  We are still going.  I was working on getting a better TR system in place and made progress.  But then that fell apart as the developer kind of went his own direction.  

You can still find stuff. And yes it could be better.  I'm the only one running the site from the technical side. @JasonG and a few other mods keep things clean. 

Honestly I'd like to eventually hand the site over to a new guard of younger folks who will not commercialize the site and keep the community aspect alive...but also can make it better. 

Life has been taking me personally in a lot of different directions, but I still love this site and am committed to keeping it going.  Also invite new energy and drive, but it has to be selfless, and directed towards keeping this going like a non-profit entity.   Thankfully we have a great sponsor in the American Alpine Insitute, and we have had generous donations from the users of the site. 

There is a TON of great stories here, and they continue to grow.   We will find a way to keep that alive. 

[olyclimber]

To the non-profit end:  if anyone has experience (especially from the legal side) I'd like to explore what it would take to actually incorporate this enterprise as a non-profit from a legal and business standpoint.

[JasonG]

Maybe @Juan Sharp or @mattp still lurk around and could help?

[BrandonT]

Hi! I stumbled upon this site recently. It’s amazing! I mainly use it to view trip reports. I have no tech skills or experience, but I am interested in keeping this site alive and non-profit. Let me know if there is any way I can volunteer

[EternalBlue]

Also interested in lending a hand where I can. Always happy to throw some pennies towards the @olyclimber coffee/beer fund. I'll nudge some of the LTown posters that I know to get back to work on trip reports here.

Raising kids and being busy with life is temporary; shitposting on CC.com is forever. 

[olyclimber]

 Appreciate it guys!  We are still taking funds for the site, there is a button to donate.   AAI, our sponsor, pays our monthly server hosting bill, which is huge.  Without that, I would be continuously bugging you guys for money or be faced with turning things off.   Think a never-ending public radio fund drive.  That would suck.

But Cascadeclimbers.com also has its own fund that you all contribute to, and the money is used to pay for software licensing, domain name costs, things like that.   We also *could* use funds for paying a developer, but for now there just isn't enough to do that.   What would be awesome is if we could find a climber who is also a developer and good with PHP/MSQL who has the time and energy to help solve a few problems for the site.   But also understand that we need this developer(s) to have bought in to how we are running the site.  Myself and all the moderators who participate are doing this without pay.  We do it to keep the community/site going. Any developer working with use has to be ok with that and do it for the love of the site and community.

Regarding the site, there are a few things I would like to at least consider changing, and obviously recreating the search function would be nice.  We also have image issues that may be fixed in bulk with code. 

We may also want to consider moving from Invision forums at some point as I'm not super enamored with the support and direction the software is going, but given the current landscape of the products in this space it may be the best option.