Post by roaddog on Sept 3, 2013 22:26:59 GMT
Hi All,
Evan, thanks so much for getting this together. There is some question to your intent but any start is a good one. We just need to trust the process and go with it. I was really hoping that my posts on Digihitch would attract the attention of folks who were interested in the time and skill it would take to get a new site going. So, here we are and I hope some more folks will join us.
I have absolutely no web design skills- except on those 'create your own' places like wix.com. When John (Lightfoot) approached me to try and help contact Morgans family to take over the site and get it running again, my intent was to let my friend, a web builder, take a look and get it restored. Once restored, I was going to reinstate all the moderators and basically let them handle running the site.
Digihitch was a community based site and Morgan felt very strongly about keeping it that way.
My strongest support will be that I'm really good at marketing. I can promote the hell out of the new site and help get it going again by spreading the word all over the place that digihitch has returned- or whatever the new name will be. I have a lot of projects going on right now that take precedence, but I can donate some finances.
Morgan was also a very peaceful person and any chest thumping, dick measuring, ganging up on people, troll behavior or any other kind of negative crap should definitely NOT be tolerated, either here or on the new site. Morgan wanted a safe place for those of us who love hitchhiking to get together and share stories, ideas and tips. He did not want to support drug, criminal or other kinds of illegal or suspect behavior.
In the 1990's, I hitchhiked all over the U.S., Mexico, to the Bahamas and around Venezuela on a journey that took me almost five years to complete. I discovered Digihitch about five years after my last hitchhiking jaunt in Venezuela. Digihitch was a place where I could share my stories and eventually, someone approached me through Digihitch to help write my book. That is why I would like to see something like this take off and do well. When I left off for hitchhiking, I had only met one person who did it and learned a lot on my own- I hadn't even read Kerouac's On the Road. I think something like a new forum can help people and spread awareness about hitchhiking. Morgan always wanted to bring hitchhiking out of the shadows of counterculture and into mainstream. I don't know if that is ever possible, but who knows?
Evan, thanks so much for getting this together. There is some question to your intent but any start is a good one. We just need to trust the process and go with it. I was really hoping that my posts on Digihitch would attract the attention of folks who were interested in the time and skill it would take to get a new site going. So, here we are and I hope some more folks will join us.
I have absolutely no web design skills- except on those 'create your own' places like wix.com. When John (Lightfoot) approached me to try and help contact Morgans family to take over the site and get it running again, my intent was to let my friend, a web builder, take a look and get it restored. Once restored, I was going to reinstate all the moderators and basically let them handle running the site.
Digihitch was a community based site and Morgan felt very strongly about keeping it that way.
My strongest support will be that I'm really good at marketing. I can promote the hell out of the new site and help get it going again by spreading the word all over the place that digihitch has returned- or whatever the new name will be. I have a lot of projects going on right now that take precedence, but I can donate some finances.
Morgan was also a very peaceful person and any chest thumping, dick measuring, ganging up on people, troll behavior or any other kind of negative crap should definitely NOT be tolerated, either here or on the new site. Morgan wanted a safe place for those of us who love hitchhiking to get together and share stories, ideas and tips. He did not want to support drug, criminal or other kinds of illegal or suspect behavior.
In the 1990's, I hitchhiked all over the U.S., Mexico, to the Bahamas and around Venezuela on a journey that took me almost five years to complete. I discovered Digihitch about five years after my last hitchhiking jaunt in Venezuela. Digihitch was a place where I could share my stories and eventually, someone approached me through Digihitch to help write my book. That is why I would like to see something like this take off and do well. When I left off for hitchhiking, I had only met one person who did it and learned a lot on my own- I hadn't even read Kerouac's On the Road. I think something like a new forum can help people and spread awareness about hitchhiking. Morgan always wanted to bring hitchhiking out of the shadows of counterculture and into mainstream. I don't know if that is ever possible, but who knows?
