Plans for the future of Gamingforce

First as a CH-regular, I must admit CH has brought about enormous benefits to me as a music student, whether through the vast amount of recordings or your not-so-regular sheet music or even books on piano pedagogy(which I treasure dearly).

Yes, CH has been instrumental in developing me, in some way or another.
Sure, I'd definitely miss CH if its down, and I think I would (as would all other CH-ers) miss the potential it possesses.

CH is a channel for (classical) music lovers to explore and delve into new realms very conveniently, as compared to if you would to gather all the various data(scores, recordings..) yourself.

I agree, CH is pretty desolate, but I think there at at least ten to maybe twenty regulars who share stuff and post and discuss music occasionally. And believe me, as a music student, this opens up another dimension for me, as opposed to sticking to one way direct input from my various teachers. The various recordings uploaded and traded between us helps a lot, because they are pretty expensive you think about buying lots of them.

I wouldn't think all CH-ers have bad attitude. I think most of them(like me) are just a little more intrested in fiddling around with music and are pretty busy with work so its just bookmark in, check for new stuff, or upload new album bought, check for discussion threads on music, close IE/FireFox, chill out.

Personally, as a musician, I dare say I'd do anything to give a hoot about the world's current happenings and just seek refinement after refinement, and maybe one day perfection in art. But alas my current studies(non-musical) does not permit me to. So you see, I think music-inclined people could possibly be a little eccentric like this. Thus the non-venturing out of CH.

Regarding the space issue I think we would be all OK for deleting of attachments. And possibly banning attachments function or enforcing a rule to stop that. I think most of the stuffs are actually uploaded on filesharing websites like megaupload/rapidshare etc. now. Its only a few files here and there, but of course it snowballs. So deleting the attachments could work. Perhaps would this be a possible solution to the space problem? If not, why not?

I wouldn't like to see CH go down. Taken down now, or in future by some law firm. Its been part of me for quite some time already. I've been here since before the crash of the first forum. And I strongly believe it has many benefits to young upstart-musicians.

Jam it back in, in the dark.