richardmurray Posted January 18 Report Posted January 18 Thinking of Tiktok I realized something. Has @Troy figured out or implemented a plan for aalbc members to carry their data over to another website when [if] aalbc close its doors? I am not trying to be morbig, and I wish troy many healthy happy years but I have been part of a number of esocial media closings and not all closings had tools to carry content over. I am just wondering... Open Pulpit 1
ProfD Posted January 18 Report Posted January 18 I don't believe AALBC active membership will grow. It's a boutique site that serves a particular niche. Nothing wrong with it. AALBC will continue as long as there is activity and/or until brotha @Troy decides to move on to something else. IMO, while it would be great to migrate AALBC data into repository in the event of closure, I plan to continue enjoying my easy chair here. If the proverbial lights are turned out, I'll have fond memories of this place. Hard to believe it's already been several years that I've been a fixture. 1
Pioneer1 Posted January 19 Report Posted January 19 richardmurray I don't like the way you worded that one bro....lol. Maybe you should say "if" AALBC has to shut down...instead of "when". To answer your question..... Considering that we currently have less than a dozen ACTIVE members on this site who actually participate in discussion and post things on the regular, we ABSOLUTELY could double our active membership by 2026. We'd just have to do more promoting of the site. It's sad, but if this was a White dominated site...this wouldn't be an issue because you'd have so many active participants engaged in dozens of separate different discussions. However many our people are so much more emotional than logical.....they aren't built to hold meaningful and respectful discussions and dialogs over the internet. They like the "tik tok" and "twitter" type formats where they can whip up quick emotional rants and responses and launch 20 second attacks at eachother back and forth. If you try to recruit more Black intellectuals....many of them tend to be arrogant and egotistical. Like our friend "Stefan".....on steroids.....lol. Every other post would be about them bragging about their credentials and accomplishments. ....and that's IF you can get them; because most of those kind of Negroes tend to like hanging around White sites so they can show out and try to gain the respect of the White colleagues. 1
richardmurray Posted January 19 Author Report Posted January 19 yeah @Pioneer1 good point and as I have traveled the internet waters, having a non english speaking community is the best blocker to support a community outside the major websites that are all majority english speaking. But black folks , our ancestors, chose to disregard gullah/geechee /creole and other dialects that could had helped
Pioneer1 Posted January 19 Report Posted January 19 On 1/18/2025 at 11:19 AM, ProfD said: I plan to continue enjoying my easy chair here. I.....uhhh.....I'm a little curious. I just HAVE to ask you..... Uh....is that a LITERAL "easy chair" you be chilling in over there? Lol, or are you just being poetic and metaphorical? 1
ProfD Posted January 20 Report Posted January 20 4 hours ago, Pioneer1 said: Uh....is that a LITERAL "easy chair" you be chilling in over there? Lol, or are you just being poetic and metaphorical? My AALBC easy chair is metaphorical. I envision the forum like a coffeeshop where a few folks roll through to chop it up. The regulars sit in their same spot when they show up in the joint i.e. easy chair. 1
nels Posted January 20 Report Posted January 20 17 hours ago, Pioneer1 said: our people are so much more emotional than logical AALBC and Black America as a whole can become exponentially relevant and impactful if they move away from race and drop the race card. 1
Pioneer1 Posted January 20 Report Posted January 20 10 hours ago, nels said: AALBC and Black America as a whole can become exponentially relevant and impactful if they move away from race and drop the race card. And Black America can and will do that on the very same day that Racism no longer exists! People tend to play the cards they're dealt in life. You want Black people to stop playing the "race card"....stop dealing it to them. 3
nels Posted January 20 Report Posted January 20 5 hours ago, Pioneer1 said: You want Black people to stop playing the "race card"....stop dealing it to them. Sorry, but that sounds like circular nonsense. Race is a relic of a crutch that cripples Black America.
Pioneer1 Posted January 20 Report Posted January 20 1 hour ago, nels said: Sorry, but that sounds like circular nonsense. Race is a relic of a crutch that cripples Black America. Talk about "circular nonsense"....lol. Crutches don't CRIPPLE people any more than toilets cause diarrhea...lol. If you claim that Black America is crippled, didn't the Jesus you believe in HEAL the crippled instead of judging and chastising them? 1
Troy Posted January 22 Report Posted January 22 The number of active participants here can be doubled. It would take time and effort to do it, but it can certainly be done. All good things come to an end, but I will run AALBC as long as I can and beyond my life as well. Over the years, I’ve used 3 or 4 different platforms to host discussion forms. We’ve been on this version for 14 years. I have the files for the previous forum, but I no longer have the software to display it. The files for the form before that may actually be lost. I made every attempt to preserve those forums, but hardware and technology and software Are difficult to maintain over the years. The idea of migrating data from one platform to another is a great idea but rarely is it possible. There was some great discussions on the previous forums unfortunately, they may be lost… @richardmurray I’m not sure there’s a way for you to migrate your blog or even export the data in a manner that can be used somewhere else. I’m sure it’s technically possible. I just don’t know how to do it. By the way, I published the review you recently wrote the author sent it to me the other day you can find it linked from the homepage speaking of migration, I’m trying to migrate the AALBC website to another platform as we speak. The project has been installed for more than two years. I basically don’t have the money to do it. I’m thinking about doing a GoFundMe campaign. As far as race is concerned, it’s a stupid notion that does not respect culture geography, language, class, nationality, or any of the things that truly distinguish people from one another. Racism is even stupider as it is found in our race… Unfortunately @nels it is hard to move past race when it’s constantly being shoved down your throat and used against you. But eventually will look back at this period in our history and try to wrap our heads around how we could be so fixated on this notion of race. 1
richardmurray Posted January 22 Author Report Posted January 22 @Troy Yeah a website can be a financial challenge keeping up with tech. to the book review, thank you:) I will share cool, why not make a gofundme, public funding tends to be the way for many projects, if whoopie goldberg can for moms mabley...
Troy Posted January 23 Report Posted January 23 12 hours ago, richardmurray said: whoopie goldberg can for moms mabley... i’m sure a GoFundMe campaign would go much better if Whoopi would initiate it 1
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