JPF Home Page Forums General Messages General Message Forum The Mysterious Disappearance of Kay-Lynn

I am trying daily to get someone to fix what is broken here. Unfortunately, it is a slog and I have been out of town dealing with family stuff the past several months. One of the cancers here is now gone. Once the log in and new account features are fixed, people will be able to log in directly for the first time in nearly 3 years. This board has roots to 1998!!! And saving the old content has become difficult. But it is a history few other places value or secure. I am trying to do that. This history is unique in all of music history. The DIY era came and went during JPF's active years. I started JPF via old BBS systems pre internet. Then we launched this in 1998 and it was cutting edge and busy for decades. But I am not a tech guy and when money dried up with the collapse of everything during Covid, I could no longer spend thousands a year fixing stuff when donations were rarely close to enough. I could have added spammy ads here decades ago and made a LOT of money. We still get 100s of thousands of unique visits a day, not modern social media size, but pretty good for a slow board. Once fixed, we may bring in some activity. People are sick of social media. Now it is all AI slop. I am not anti AI if creators are making stuff with it verses crass money making schemes. If I write a full songs, music and lyrics and want to produce it via AI because I do not have thousands to pay a producer who will use high end (and often automated tools) via DAWs and plugins, then SUNO in my mind is a valid tool. But social media is just using auto generated posts meant to enrage and click bait traffic because people are sick of it all. So there is a chance for small communities of folks to reconnect. This is still here because it shows real people who worked together and learned. It would be nice if some veterans came around and helped be part of the solution rather than still fighting old grudges. I finally found a way to nuke one cancer here. I have no dislike for people who disagree with me or my views. That has always existed everywhere. Just when good people bail, the trouble makers then reign. JAPOV is gone. I am fine with the others if they can just talk about stuff and not look for fights.

I aksed Kay-Lynn to come back. She did but then I saw people who had never been a problem here lose their mind. Elvis? Why? I am used to being attacked nad don't care. But Kay-Lynn inspired some vicious comments I have never seen from the worst of the worst. I have never had an issue with Dom even though I can't stand Springsteen. I can accept people having different views and have never censored them, And he has never said the crap I saw come from Elvis once and Japov repeatedly. She wanted to get more involved so I challenged her to do so. Instead she is doing her own thing and inviting the regulars there. Unfortunate but whatever. It won't be the first time. Other sites have done the same. I have now banned 2 people in 27 years. She has banned 2 in her first 60 members. I just think Free Speech is the only thing America has that keeps us out of civil war. But the USA has lost free speech recently and as it continues to be whittled away, all will be lost.

So I appreciate your years here and have always liked you personally whether we agreed on stupid politics. There are ZERO worthy leaders currently from either party I would ever lose a friend over. I hope others wake up to that reality.

Brian