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Re: Well, that was fun too!

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2023-12-06 21:42

SecondTry wrote:

> With this said, and perhaps it is me, I'm finding the board's
> search facility to be unresponsive--which is so unlike its
> normal lightning fast search time (IMO one of the board's best
> features.)

It's broken - it was running on the db server that was replaced. It'll be down for a bit longer. I have the software - the trick is to integrate it again.

>
> Without question, this board is your creation: your baby. If I
> am to understand the history correctly, your then young son's
> passion for clarinet, and your desire to find commonality with
> him and his interests, many moons ago, when the internet was
> younger, in fact when we all were younger, found you leveraging
> technical skills you possess towards creating this endeavor.
> Since then it has quite literally become, without even close
> comparison, the world's largest resource for clarinet based
> information. And I think it is something that needs to be
> preserved beyond the lifespan of any one person.

... agreed ...

... it is anything but a cash cow for
> you. Member's dues, sponsorship dollars: I can't imagine the
> latter, given the relatively small marketplace that is clarinet
> players, much breaking the bank for you.

Those annoying Google ads and occasional donations from the Woodwind Fingering Guide pay for the hardware rental costs. Mostly.

> Have you ever considered (I'm not a member, I have no horse in
> this race) selling this board to say, the ICA, or some other
> institution that, as institutions go, can survive the lifespan
> of any single member?

We've talked a few times in the distant past. Nothing really came of it. The few people who actually talked to me seriously over time gave up when they saw the size of all the pieces and the amount of time it takes when things go wrong. When everything is running along hunky-dory it's just reading posts every day (Karl & I do that) to make sure things don't get too out of whack. When things go awry I can put in a few 40 hour weeks straitening things out.

> I fully realizing that this discussion not only raises the
> sensitivity of people's mortality, but the loss of certain
> things with age. I'm sure you've thought about this and owe
> none of us an answer here.

Hell, I'm almost 70 now, and I think I started this when I was in my early 40s. It was just a simple posting site and running the Klarinet mailing list for fun. The Klarinet mailing lists emails have been preserved here (I miss Dan Leeson) and then the actual BBoard started as a replacement - the age of email based BBoards had passed. Now there's plenty of "competitors" like a few on Facebook, but there's a lot of information - and inertia - here.

> May your recent health concerns prove nothing but mere
> transient occurrences we can joke about later.
Thank you. They are but glitches in the human Matrix.

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