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Can we have an update on the state of the ISF?

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It’s been 6 months since some of us donated to the upkeep, upgrade, and development of International Skeptics.

Just wondering how it’s all going.

The forum is noticeably faster and I haven’t had any Bad Gateway errors for a long time.

But a few concerns have been raised in this thread in Community that maybe bots are getting in again:

https://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=14334851&postcount=69

Hopefully we can have an update, please icerat?
 
Here is an update. Icerat has taken our money and is in hiding. He cannot upgrade this forum and does not want to admit that fact. The best he could do is start again. He has not posted since April.

NB: That is my opinion and nothing more.
 
rjh01 said:
Here is an update. Icerat has taken our money and is in hiding. He cannot upgrade this forum and does not want to admit that fact. The best he could do is start again. He has not posted since April.

NB: That is my opinion and nothing more.
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I completely agree. I asked for a reckoning of what the money raised had been put to and got bumpkiss. He's, shamelessly, away with it and it's up to him alone to prove me wrong.
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bluesjnr said:
I completely agree. I asked for a reckoning of what the money raised had been put to and got bumpkiss. He's, shamelessly, away with it and it's up to him alone to prove me wrong.

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This has got nothing to do with the mods. Their job is to ensure we keep to the rules, not to speak for the owners of the forum or anyone else. So we are safe from the mods actions.
 
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rjh01 said:
This has got nothing to do with the mods. Their job is to ensure we keep to the rules, not to speak for the owners of the forum or anyone else.
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I'm totally aware of the fact that the mods are not here to speak for the owner of the forum. That fact doesn't bar me from insisting that they shouldn't deign to.

I'd like to hear from icerat. I'd like a breakdown of what costs have been incurred in the improvements thus far and how much of the, very generous, donations were used as well as what, if anything, remains.

So we are safe from the mods actions.
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?
 
rjh01 said:
Here is an update. Icerat has taken our money and is in hiding. He cannot upgrade this forum and does not want to admit that fact. The best he could do is start again. He has not posted since April.

NB: That is my opinion and nothing more.
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That whistling you can hear is me over in the corner seat between sips of my Glenfiddich.
 
Darat said:
Anyone like a pony as well?
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Those of us who donated are certainly entitled to get an update on progress. When someone who promised to improve the forum goes radio silent and people simply ask for a check-in, that certainly doesn't equate to asking for a pony.
 
I understand technical difficulties. I understand things not going according to plan. I understand cost overruns. And I understand "real life" taking priority.

But I don't understand the disappearing act. It would only take a couple of minutes to post an update.
 
The disappearance is a nail in the coffin, because nobody will want to donate to the cause after this sorry performance.
 
Looking less like a, "go fund me" and more like a, "go **** you".
 
varwoche said:
I understand technical difficulties. I understand things not going according to plan. I understand cost overruns. And I understand "real life" taking priority.

But I don't understand the disappearing act. It would only take a couple of minutes to post an update.
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Maybe now is the time to get the original group together and say to Icerat - there are no more donations, but we'll take it off your hands for $2000, take it or leave it.

I'll leave someone else to explore that.
 
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