[Dmom3005]

Have to say I'm not planning on going anywhere soon.

And glad the porch light is staying on. I don't like the
dark, I fall to much.

Donna

[snoozie]

Don't you guys know I always carry one of those flashlights that you shake and don't need batteries? I can shake shake shake...shake shake shake...shake my booty...Am I showing my age just a little Sue

[jccgf]

I can shake shake shake...shake shake shake...shake my booty...Am I showing my age just a little

On that...you are in good company . Who doesn't remember that?

Cara

[diamondheart]

Originally Posted by DocJohn

In 11 years, I've never had a community be down for more than a day (including running the world's largest online mental health community for 4 years) and I've never charged for any community.

John

Doc John, You'd da man!

Thanks, Claire

[just laurie]

Originally Posted by DocJohn

In 11 years...I've never charged for any community.

John

Would you mind elaborating on how you pull that off? I have friends who have a web site similar to this only with triple the members and several more features. Their band width, tech support, and all costs them money. Are there just major behind the scenes sponsors here, do you eat the costs, or do you have some great tricks for making it cheap which I can pass on to them?

Laurie

[mister]

I have been here little more than 24 hours and I love this site and the people who I have come to know in that short time.

This site is truly special in so many ways. The fact that you have been so successful in maintaining a website and keeping it running with so few problems is a true credit to you and your staff.

Color me impressed
Mister

[Rocking4Epilepsy]

Originally Posted by mister

I have been here little more than 24 hours and I love this site and the people who I have come to know in that short time.

This site is truly special in so many ways. The fact that you have been so successful in maintaining a website and keeping it running with so few problems is a true credit to you and your staff.

Color me impressed
Mister

Having a great web site we must have great members like we have...
Doc is 100 % owner but where would he be without all our wonderful members.

Keep posting,sharing and supporting each other

[Cate]

I agree with you Mister, this is a great site ! I had been lurking around OBT for ages, rather than posting- i just never felt "welcome" or at ease there, but its a very different atmosphere on this site.
Thanks to Doc John and the mods here...great job...and very much appreciated.
Cate

[LizaJane]

for the enlightening message. I was certainly one of the people who speculated that this would one day be a for profit site, but mainly because I did not understand how little it takes, financially, to run it.

A geek friend of mine who is familiar with vBulletin did not understand why JL was not getting things back up, and found the story "fishy". He, too, wrote JL offering support.

I gave generously to OBT when its servers crashed two years ago, and John said he raised $10,000 at that point. Does it make any sense to you that running OBT could have cost that? Or that with those resources it should have been down for that long? Or am I just putting you on the spot?

Sorry if I am. But I do feel that I gave generously to a nonprofit which might have used its funds to "buy land" in Second Life, not exactly what I'd expected.

I'm feeling quite at home here, and am glad I can expect this community to continue and thrive.

LizaJane

www.lizajane.org

[loisba]

Oh, how I do love this site!! It's like a breath of fresh air.