Can we try to get new member Θωμᾶς approved?

[Markos]

He says he has posted several times for several months and is still not approved. Can a moderator look into this? He is not (as I think the vast majority of attempted new members are?) a spammer.

thanks. I will delete this message one he is approved.

[a reader of Homer]

I've tried making several posts, and applied for approval, with no response at all. I wonder if someone thought I was a spammer, or if no one is paying attention to this site at all. Too bad, either way. Nice site, but can't participate.

- a reader of Homer.

[jdhadwin]

Yes please, I am having the exact same problem as your friend myself. It won't even let me post this reply probably!

UPDATE: Posted August 8th, Approved October 14th, lol

~John

[Markos]

Can we try to get new member Θῶμας approved?

Βύηληρ? Βύηληρ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS6f1MKpLGM

[bedwere]

Hi Mark,

Have you tried to notify Jeff? His email is jeff AT pre23 DOT com. I think that the forum would benefit from the presence of a few more moderators.

[Scribo]

Yeah, trying to work on it. Can't get hold of anyone.

[daivid]

Hi Mark,

Have you tried to notify Jeff? His email is jeff AT pre23 DOT com. I think that the forum would benefit from the presence of a few more moderators.

It will probably be most effective if one or two of us contact Jeff directly rather than everyone though it would be helpful if afterwards they post here so we know it's covered.

Does anyone know Jeff in the real world? If Jeff were sick would we know?

[daivid]

Hi Mark,

Have you tried to notify Jeff? His email is jeff AT pre23 DOT com. I think that the forum would benefit from the presence of a few more moderators.

I tried sending Jeff an email to the above address but gmail refused to recognize it. It may be that Jeff has simply changed his email but should we be more worried?

[Paul Derouda]

Apparently nobody has been able to contact Jeff. I sent him a personal message a few weeks ago, but it hasn't been read yet.

[Carolus Raeticus]

Hello,

Jeff's last post dates from June 27, 2014, as far as I can see. But his Twitter-account @TireyTv has a last tweet on April 28, 2015. Has anyone heard from him since then? Perhaps he is just extremely busy in the real world. At least I hope that nothing worse has happened. Does anyone follow his Facebook-account?

Carolus Raeticus

[anphph]

I don't want to sound an empty alarm, but if he really is that absent (and assuming it's just an innocent absence and nothing more serious than that), then it could pose problems well beyond members not getting approved. The forum could actually go offline if no one pays for the textkit.com address and it expires. That probably wouldn't lead to all the posts being lost (that would happen if the account at the host server also expires...) but it would be a dangerous step in that direction.

[jeidsath]

I was thinking the same thing, and started archiving the posts this weekend. If this keeps up into the new year, I'm going to start posting at http://discourse.greek.io/ and encouraging others to do the same.

[daivid]

I don't want to sound an empty alarm, but if he really is that absent (and assuming it's just an innocent absence and nothing more serious than that), then it could pose problems well beyond members not getting approved. The forum could actually go offline if no one pays for the textkit.com address and it expires. That probably wouldn't lead to all the posts being lost (that would happen if the account at the host server also expires...) but it would be a dangerous step in that direction.

If it starts to get that bad, is there no way we could ask to take it over?

He has a linkedin account. He started a new job a bit over a year ago. It doesn't seem to have changed since then but I with the free membership that I have I wasn't able to send him a personal message.

[jeidsath]

That would be far preferable, if we can make it happen. I started the other board for 1) new members, and 2) in case the lights go out tomorrow (I feel that is a possibility). If we manage to get a hold of Jeff and fix things, I will be overjoyed to take it down.

But without new members, discussion had been getting very stale. If we can't find a solution by the new year, I'm going to do whatever I can to get the community that's left to move somewhere else.

Another great solution -- better than the Discourse board that I set up -- might be a stack exchange community (especially if we can pool finances and ownership so it's not just one person running it).

[daivid]

On the blog Jeff mentioned that Textkit is hosted on a Rackspace’s Cloud Files product (with a link). We could agree on someone to contact Rackspace directly to ask if we can take it over. If they turn round and and tell us no way because Jeff has just paid the annual subscription that would at least be reassuring.

[Pros]

I played detective today and tracked down Jeff Tirey at work. He is alive! After mentioning to him the concerns I have been reading about concerning the running of Textkit, he said he would log on and address some of the issues today with a post.

Pros

[Paul Derouda]

τετέλεσται.

I think I just approved new member Θῶμας!

[Pros]

ἓν μὲν μικρὸν ἴχνος ὑπὲρ Θωμᾶ, ἓν δὲ πολὺ πήδημα ὑπὲρ <Textkit>!

[Markos]

τετέλεσται.

I think I just approved new member Θῶμας!

χάριν οὖν σοι δίδωμεν. φαίνεται γὰρ οὖτος ὧδε.

http://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-foru ... 42#p176442

ἓν μὲν μικρὸν ἴχνος ὑπὲρ Θωμᾶ, ἓν δὲ πολὺ πήδημα ὑπὲρ <Textkit>!

πάνυ γε!

[Θωμᾶς]

ἰδοὺ ἐγώ.

εὐχαριστῶ τῷ Μάρκῳ καὶ πᾶσιν ὑμῖν. οὐκ ἔγνων ἵνα ὁ παραλαμβάνοντες τῆς συγγνώμης με γράψαι ᾖ οὕτω σκληρός. νῦν δεῖ με ἀθλεῖν τὸν γράφειν καλόν μετὰ ταῦτα τὰ ἔργα ὑμῶν.