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Thinking about closing this site

I'm going to keep the place running for now. Don't have time at the moment to give careful consideration to closing the site, and I don't want to do anything like that in haste, as I and others have put so much work into the place that it would be a shame to let it go. If you can spare some change, it would be great if you could help me meet the operating expenses for this year (which are less than last year, thanks to no carry-over): https://openartsforum.com/forum/donations/site-support-for-2024.7/campaign

Thank you.
 
heidi selig said:
Oh, yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks Jay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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My pleasure. As I just told Ray in a private message, I'm likely going to be retiring soon, end of April, and I should have more time then to think about how to make this place work. Could be a good retirement project. Knowing me, though, I doubt I'll have a lot of time in retirement, either. We'll see. :)

Really the thing that has long been on the back burner is publishing books under the Open Arts Press moniker. I enjoy publishing but haven't had time to look into how it's done these days, with on-demand and Amazon books and all that.
 
silent lotus said:
Jay originally created Poetry Circle
which i joined on Dec 13, 2007
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It's been quite a ride, Silent, hasn't it? I actually created PC in 2005 after searching the Internet for some decent poetry and finding only horrible greeting card stuff. I stupidly gave PC away after getting burned out w/ some of the drama on the site (that's one I regret), and this place was born out of the ashes of that debacle. Oh, well. Live and learn. But that makes this whole literature/arts internet forum thing a 20-year adventure next year. In internet terms, that's a long time, and goodness knows I've aged since then (a ripe old 45 I must have been when I started PC).
 
Jordan Trethewey said:
Sorry about my absenteeism.
If it helps, I am planning to start devoting more time again to the writers and Ray.
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No worries! This place is a volunteer effort, and I appreciate any time that anyone has put into it, as I'm sure others do. One of the nice things about this model is that people can put in whatever time they have to spare.
 
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Jay Dougherty said:
I'm going to keep the place running for now. Don't have time at the moment to give careful consideration to closing the site, and I don't want to do anything like that in haste, as I and others have put so much work into the place that it would be a shame to let it go. If you can spare some change, it would be great if you could help me meet the operating expenses for this year (which are less than last year, thanks to no carry-over): https://openartsforum.com/forum/donations/site-support-for-2024.7/campaign

Thank you.
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Everybody can come down from the edge of the bridge now. :)
 
Raymond Huffman said:
Everybody can come down from the edge of the bridge now.
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just sharing a thought....now that the floodgates of worry have been healed

might we also speak of the flood of p0ems that are being posted

perhaps limiting submissions of new p0ems to maybe no more than 3 a week
would help keep poems from being overlooked

members can easily first pile up their p0ems in Journals
and from there later enter them as submissions in the POETRY section


silent lotus

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Even just reading the words hurt. Still medicated somewhat s/p surgery so will have to save this page or whatever page is done to see how to save my work. Will need good directions. Old broad, piss-ant skills with the computer. If someone writes them out, I need to see them as a list, e.g. 1,2,3, etc. A creative, a dreamer, not a realist over here. Thank you.
 
silent lotus said:
just sharing a thought....now that the floodgates of worry have been healed

might we also speak of the flood of p0ems that are being posted

perhaps limiting submissions of new p0ems to maybe no more than 3 a week
would help keep poems from being overlooked

members can easily first pile up their p0ems in Journals
and from there later enter them as submissions in the POETRY section


silent lotus

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Thank you Silent. Good thought, graceful suggestion.
 
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