Okay so I've gone so far as to set up a site on Wordpress. I created a quick three sample posts. Now we need a couple of volunteers to have a look and see what you think.
If this site doesn't meet the mark, we can discuss what else might work. But I have no experience with any other blogging / social media type creation tools, so someone else might have to step in in that case.
 My hope is that a couple of like minded individuals will be able to share the administration of the site, create new posts, and have a new home with exciting new posts on antivaxxers and related topics.
So whoever is interested in checking it out, particularly those who might share admin / posting responsibility, let me know and I'll tell you the URL
Keep in mind that I'm also just volunteering to do this to try to kick something off and secure a future for the SAV community. I'm trying to have this be a democratic process, with comments and feedback.
I've emailed Stop the Madness to let him know I'm working a different tack that allows us to have full access to wordpress themes and plugins. Anyone who wants to try it out can give it a go here:
https://fafochronicles.com/
It's a work in progress, of course, but has some interesting features.
This forum isn't that great for discussions. We need something more like reddit.
This morning I've done the following:
I deleted any mention of 'sorryAntivaxxer' to SAV. So it now only mentions the SAV community. The domain itself is still sorryantivaxxer.wordpress. This can also be changed but requires re-setting up the site.
I tried out a new template, which changes the look of the site, and includes the date, though now the posts are showing up as 'uncategorised'.
I sent an inivte to JGorn as an admin since he's volunteered to try out new templates and plugin. We could add another admin, but that might result in a bit of chaos (or @Chaos ?) if several people are trying to redesign the site at the same time.
Note that there are three separate categories of users: member, editor and admin.
Editors can do new posts, so this would be good for anyone who wants to add new profiles. If we do decide to go with this site, then we can have a couple of editors, trusted members of the site who can research new profiles or just import them from HCA.
I still consider the workpress site experimental, and it's going to come down to whether we can get all or most of the features we want.
Possibly we might want to go with a different hosting approach altogether, as 'New Member' (ie. Chaos?) was suggesting. But I know nothing at all about 'Reclaim Hosting'.
If anyone wants to contact me offline, my admin address for the wp site is sorryantivax@gmail.com. (hmmm... maybe I should change that name as well?)
Another question is when we have a new site, can we get people to move to it? I'm well aware that you need some 'critical mass' for it to be successful.
Hey you guys, I'm back at least for now.
If someone would like to experiment with the wordpress site I can make you an admin. It seems like we'd need a plug in in order to do PM's and another plugin in order to be able to upload images within a reply. So that's something we could look into.
And regarding alternative hosting ideas we can discuss that too. The only reason I chose wordpress is that I had some familiarity with it.
I know that some of you have provided an email address, but if I email people individually then I'm only speaking with one person, rather than several of you.
 I'm finding that it'll be hard for me to devote much time to this effort, except for sharing admin duties and consulting on the best option. I'm attempting to become gainfully employed again and that's taking up a lot of my time.
https://support.reclaimhosting.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407588242455-Free-Subdomains But $15 for a top level one is "cheep as chips". fafo.reclaimhosting.com is there available but remember it is all lowercase so not impressive. I would set up at reclaim hosting and a subdomain for now. Experiment beyond Wordpress with this Jcow https://installatron.com/jcow?s=f76ef961bc18f4d971566d1292760595, and then if not happy uninstall and reinstall another in the subdomain, then later get a top level domain to add to what happy with, which for $30 is a good starter deal
I already run several WP sites and have experience. Wordpress dot com sites are theme and plugin restricted and it has WP adverts. I suggest you go to reclaim hosting https://www.reclaimhosting.com/shared-hosting/ at $30 a year and a bit around $15 -20 for a 12 month domain. My email addy is starting with sometime_summerXXXX@xxxxxxxx.com and here is a reclaim hosting site I created from scratch using the cheapest option. censored. I think I can set up nicely but it can be hard to add many commenters and editors with posting access since internet is a risky place. Installatron offers several types of CMS but sticking to Wordpress and c Panel is fine as Joomla, Drupal and others are more tricky. Look at Community building and CMS here https://installatron.com/apps?s=f76ef961bc18f4d971566d1292760595
Thanks for setting it up. The layout looks fairly basic at this stage. I think it'd be helpful to have dates next to each headling on the main page. This is a nice promising start!
Hi folks, I just wanted to say I've been a bit busy to get back to anyone today as I've been off visiting my 82 yr old mother in law (actually a very sweet person and not the stereo typical 'bad' kind), and doing some other personal things.
I have seen the few replies posted on the 'experimental' site. it looks like I have to approve them at the moment. Hopefully I can set it to auto approve. Regarding memes, I am not sure yet. I'm going to have to have a look at that. Cleary, the ability to add memes is a feature that we'd want to retain.
I should be back tomorrow evening (*UK time) to have a look at any comments and engage in some more discussion. In the meantime, carry on, and 'see you' soon.
Thanks so much to you kind folks who have volunteered either to check out the so-called new site and double or triple thanks to those who have volunteered to be a mod or admin.
So I've created a new 'free' wordpress site at:
sorryantivaxxer dot wordpress.com
First of all note that.
I chose to use the sorryantivaxxer name in the url so show that it's still the same community. If people don't agree with this, that could be changed.
Another idea for a site name: 'SAVCommunity', This seems not bad as it reflects our shared interest in remaining a friendly community of more-or-less like-minded people. Incidentally I tried 'FAFO' but that was taken. (although it might be available for some other domain.)
This is a 'free' site on wordpress. A free site includes the 'wordpress.com' in the URL. We could get our own URL for a relatively small fee, which could be kind of cool. Once we more or less agree on the new site, I'd be happy to pay it for the first year.
The 'look and feel' of the site is not set in stone. There are dozens of different 'themes' you can switch to. For now I chose a basic 'news' theme.
There are no private messages or forums available yet. I see that there are 'plug ins' available for this, so it seems we could be able to get those features eventually.
The site is still experimental so don't everybody move over just yet until a few people have had the chance to comment.
site admins volunteers: I'm still trying to figure out if I can name a member as an admin, or if I have to share them the actual original admin account. Hopefully it is the former as sharing passwords doesn't seem like a great idea.
It would be nice to do this all with vaxman's assent and 'blessing' but as he has been MIA for quite a while, and we are stuck in an endless 'loomer loop', that's how we arrived at this point.
Thanks for setting up an offshoot for the future of SAV experiment! Like others, I have no prior experience but am wanting to help & be part of this working group. Â
Please add me to the roster: hos-sav@outlook.com
This sounds like a great idea and I am all for helping out with whatever I can. I don't have any experience either as far as admin/posting, but I'd be will to help. Let me know.
Definitely interested in checking it out. I don't have any experience for admin or being a mod, but I'm all for getting a new site that works better than this one.
I'm willing to help with this. I've done a few of these over the years. My restriction is that I am currently consumed with daycare for my young twin grandbabies, so I'm exhausted a lot and not at home most of the week. So, I can't promise specific availability.
That said, I can tinker looking for a usable theme for the site, and add some useful plugins for functionality.
I have created a special purpose email address called savwg@pub.thenetmail.com, which can be used to communicate with me. If I start getting spammed by trolls, I can just delete the address. Sad, but that's the world we live in.
Thanks for doing this! I too am not very experienced but willing to lend a hand. If you would like to post that URL I'll be happy to have a look when I get home. Thanks again!
By the way, the new wordpress alternative site is just that, an experiment. It'll be interesting to hear what people think.
At the moment there is still no way to private message other members, though I've heard there is a plug in available that can do this. I'd have to look into that further.