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Thanks very much for your enthusiastic support folks. As Henk says, Rome wasn't built in a day and it will take time to get established but so far so good. We would obviously like as many people to join us as possible and any help you can give in promoting the site would be much appreciated.

Mr Modifier and/or Woodcote, flyers at the Festival would be most helpful, the more the better and I can bankroll it up to a point if you want to get something done professionally. Send me a PM if you need some financial assistance.

This site was born out of our frustration with the incompetent commercial owners of SFI, we have no gripe with the actual members and there is room for both of us. Jason would have preferred to do all his new stuff over there but its combination of outdated software and a complete absence of help from VerticalScope made it impossible.

Forums are certainly in decline all over t'internet but there is still sufficient interest to keep them going for a while yet. Don't be fooled by the seemingly large membership of other forums though, SFI has over 22,00 but, this is a false figure because it is virtually impossible to terminate your membership even if you die. 90% of their members haven't logged in for many years. Last time I trawled through their membership list I found just 240 people who had actually made a post in the previous 6 months.

The main USA forum SCI is also in terminal decline, they produce more statistics than SFI  and currently show an active membership of just 336 from 27,470! Our total of 178 so far doesn't look too bad compared to that but we need to keep pushing.

Facebook has a lot to answer for but we can't turn the clock back so it will remain the go to site for ephemeral information for the foreseeable future. Hopefully our aim of publishing more permanent content will appeal to sufficient numbers of people to make SlotRacer a long term success.