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.
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.
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?
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.