We've had one of those for 3 years.
People just don't bother to use it.

Ian, this is feedback, not criticism - nor am I trying to be a smart ass...

I never clicked on it because it was labled "Links". If it would have been labeled "Club Directory", I would have probably clicked on it. That's just me...

Same problem I have with the yellow pages - I'm sure that to the guy that set that up it made perfect sense - trouble is we don't all think alike (thank god! )

I also know I'm probably boardering on annoying pointing out the Miata club but I've had more experience with them. Gary (who runs miata.net and miataforum.com) just broke the whole club thing into Regions. In fact, he didn't even lable it clubs in the forum side of things:

http://www.miataforum.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

That would probably be a good compromise, and it would probably foster more discussion between clubs that are geographically close to each other.

Just thinking out loud....

Hmm, I just noticed something new - at the very bottom he has some read only forums with popular or particularly good threads saved - that's cool!

We (AZXC) had our own for awhile but it soon went by the wayside, everyone still used our forum here. It just isn't as much fun when it's just us communicating and others from around the country can't join in the coversation, we like having the interaction from the rest of the XOC community. We do our own internal club communication via email lists.

I understand trying to cut back on the unused forums and we can adjust to whatever you come up with Ian. Me personally, I hope you leave us with our own forum, we're probably one of only a few that actually use it for what it was intended.

Ok, I'll leave it the way it is.
Less work for me