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Originally Posted by Maru
Solandia, you're doing the right thing. Don't question that. If you sell the project, you'd be disowning your kids (and their very personal and private data). It's better to let an era end on the right note, then hand to some stranger who will then try to perform some kind of necromancy on it... you're basically the parent and you have to do what's right for the kids.
Personally, I think it's better if people moved on and were instead pushed to take up the torch and find other ways to grow this community. We can't be dependent forever on you (or anyone) to push on. There's much good that can come from this in my eyes.
Also, you've done this for 17 years. You deserve the break. I really appreciate you keeping this forum around for so long. I have been in one community after another and this is the only one that I have ever really "stuck" with. I was never a major poster, but I used this site for years (through Google site: primarily) when I was doing my own thing. You nurtured and raised this baby to be what it is and that allowed a lot of us a familiar (and safe) place to come to when we needed it.
Your work had an amazing impact and you can close this chapter with a smile knowing that... now it's time for other people to step in to fill the gap. Maybe create something different... whether it's in the form of one forum (or 20), youtube community, blogs, new apps, new-fangled whatsits... Your impact on this community will not be forgotten and I think will be felt, if not rippling, for a very long time.
You got us off to a great start by providing us this beautiful place to learn and grow. Now it's up to the community to take it from here.
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Maru, I can't help but think that you have a personal motivation shaping your thoughts -as a person who has previous experience with forums and wants to start a new venture herself maybe-, just as I do have a personal motivation in considering the idea that Aeclectic must be kept up and alive before it's exactly dead, to the contrary to what you say, i.e. already dead.
Our personal motivations also differ in that mine reflects the attitude and common sentiment of a community.
I am not questioning Solandia's decision, I am sure she has her right reasons, me and other people suggested different solutions to the problem which does not mean that we don't trust her judgement, but that we are upset as a community and there sure are people who are technically proficient to take the baton.
Just as this is very emotional for Solandia herself, I can understand she doesn't want to hand the forum over to somebody else, but that doesn't mean I support your encouragement of her for (doing) quite the opposite.
Technically speaking, this site and "we" are a valuable, precious commodity. Not only Solandia's children but a good community of adults as well.
It just felt strange to me you were not at all emotionally involved here...
Otherwise, yes I believe everything happens for the best, especially for a few members here, I do personally want them to actually leave Tarot aside to get what they truly want in life: a proper job, getting married and having a family. It is the seek for these goals that leads them to Tarot, and I may well not be an exception.
However, there is a much more serious occult side to Tarot, which involves much more than questioning rather "mundane" things that are naturally important to us, and but that which is unlike questioning the meaning of the universe and our real true place and role in it...
Aeclectic is the number one Tarot site on earth, and
nothing will quite replace it. I know this and that's why I have been upset.
Otherwise, I certainly encourage peoples' growth in taking new ventures, and I respect Solandia's decision.
I however, along with some other members, felt the need to certainly state that there is and could be another solution if the personal hardships Solandia is going through outweigh, there are people who can help, and they are not "random strangers" but concerned and interested members of this community.
I hope I have made my points clear.
No matter what happens, I really want the best for everybody and so it is.
