Lightstalkers Update

It’s been a great run, Shinji, thanks for everything. Looking forward to v2.0

Shinji, thanks.

I’ve been a member since 06 and although my postings have been but a few, I’ve gain lots of information, entertainment, and great food-for-thought from your hands-on support and enabling of this great site. Much appreciation to you & thumps-up!

Thanks for all you gave to this. Really.

Thanks Shinji…
for your support,but still we…….

Thanks ………….have a good one

Thank you Shinji for all your attention to LS over the years, it has been sincerely appreciated. Wishing you the best.

So brother Shinji, first of all i want to wish all the best in your future endeavors and thanks for the support/programing and blood-giving you’ve done for LS and November Eleven…

I will also wish to express, would Teru want it any other way, my disappointment and regret for what has happened. I take my own blame for not storing/copying much of the data and posts and information and writing that I’ve housed here in the last 6 1/2 years. Since no one has called me, I now assume that my original page/contacts/writing/posts/data/addresses/PM’s are all gone….

I can’t say that I am profoundly disappointed and upset, particularly because it was an editor who’d contacted me this summer to tell me my page was gone. As both a vocal, emotional and financial supporter of Lighstalkers, i am really saddened by this.

I rarely (in public or private) express disapppointment or get upset but after all the emotion and time and $$ donated i am very disappointed….

i’d never thought i’d have every thought i’d regretted investment or time spent…

i wish you all the best

i am now finished with LS

sincerely
Bob
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by the way, my frustration is not with Shinji per se, i take full responsibility for not backing up my writing or my data, but just that after all the support (time/emotional and financial), i’d hoped for a better communication stream…..for a long time, Shinji has been a powerlifter of 1, the man behind the curtain that supported so many of us, pros and amateurs alike….

anyway, the harshness tembre of my note above is probably a reflection of the time and investment and work done supporting ls and our community and members….

so the life of the web: not real, not real, not real

thanks and i’ll try to figure some way to recover some of the writing from the Web cache: if anyone knows how i can do this, please feel free to email me after september 6…now, i’m off to NC…..

Bob, I noted that, if I did a Google search in my name and added Lightstalkers, I could recover all the information in my former profile by clicking on the “cached” heading. But it does not easily allow you to recover all the things you wrote (though I did find some of those things).

I made two friends from foreign countries and had a lot of interesting interchange of thoughts. So, many thanks for let us share and discuss in this place. Very curious about what will happen with Lightstalkers 2.0. Saludos

In the same spirit of @Hernan, I also made a friend but then she tried to rip me off my rights…:-)
Thanks Shinji.
LS much like photojournalism isn’t dead.

I recall someone in an earlier post about the value of Lightstalkers who was profoundly grateful to LS because it was directly responsible for him getting laid.

No kidding!

Thanks, Shinji. I feared things would come to this. How could any person be the whole kahuna for years and years without losing interest/burning out. Please stick with the program until things can be transitioned. I am going to try to find some entity that would be willing to take on the management of the site. Don’t know whether I will be successful, but I will try.

Thanks, and good luck to the team moving forward.

All the best to you…thanks!

Thanks, Shinji! I will miss those days when my e-mails to you were answered by you. All the best!

Thanks Shinji. All the best.

Thank you, Shinji.

Hi all – I hadn’t been on the site recently, but I see yes, it’s having problems (i can’t see the stylesheets). I Shinji’s message above (thank you!) – but what happens next? How do we fix this?

Dave

An-Mhait Shinji! Thank you for everything and being so hard-working, great support to the site. I wish you all the best in your future and career. Keep in touch!

Thanks Shinji, you did great job while keeping all colleagues together here from many countries! All the best.

Thanks Shinji, and best of luck to the new team

Thanks Shinji

Thank you Shinji for all your tireless efforts on behalf of this site. I hope you know that those efforts are much appreciated by all of us. Good luck on your future endeavors.

Thanks Shinji! For all the fine, pioneering work you did. Best wishes and good luck!

Thanks Shinji, for all the great work you have done in the past for Lightstalkers.

Hey y’all…

this will be quick…as i’m about to head out for a late afternoon boogie board surf (does the soul good) in Folly Bch….anyway, just to clarify:

SHINJI: man, you’ve done youre more than required powersquatting keeping this site alive and going under duress and financial responsibility and for dealing generally with the rowdy and underappreciative behavior of many, and i salute you and don’t blame you for anything…sorry if my first rant (just frustrated) came off as pissy….my own fault for now backing up….any 1st platoon sgt would have royally kicked my white behind for failure of basic operational orders…so, again, thannks for all you did for all of us these last, what 8 years? :))))

for teru, sara and all the rest who’ve written, thanks so much for the words and links…i’ll mine the hell out of the caches and get all that stuff….my fault, and will find it all and make a note, for sure, in the book’s acknowledgments….

Teru: above all brother, y’all rock….keep that young skywalker Teja in charge :)))

gotta run
cheers
bob

Bob,
glad to read your last post. Your first post did seem out of character. It almost called for a bout of exorcism. ;-)
Best, J-F

J-F ;)

not saying an exorcism still isn’t called for ;))…but a bit of re-birth after a week at the sea with wife and son and just wind, palms, cicadas, surf…words, books, silence….and also, not perfect, but 1st post reflected more the pressure i was under for completing the book (still under that pressure) and trying to get something for a magazine that will be publishing another long series of pics upcoming….i was just frustrated by the lack of response last week after trying to get information for weeks….and that’s about as ‘upset’ as i usually get, unless its someone attacking the family…..

lesson learned: rely on self and backup material i write or post on the www …..typically i’ve been among the first to go over the wall for LS and will do anything for Teru et co…..just stress from lack of response, but anger for me last about as long as it takes to uncork of bottle of wine or mix a Dark & Stormy….

who knows with the web, maybe i need that bit of bitter spit to get the tast of carolina red rice :)))…

onward and outward…

cheers
bob

Is the cascading delete issue unresolved?
My profile disappeared yesterday—this is a new one.

A sincere thank you Shinji, I haven’t been here for long but truly love the job you guys have done here.
May the spirit of this forum keep the same.

All the best to you.

Shinji: thanks for all of your time and efforts with LS, well done.

shame, you did well. I like and have benefited from LS. good luck to the your sucessor and to you !

Shinji — Thanks for all the hard work and time you invested in this community. Hope your legacy lives on.

Shinji, wish you all the best. Only God can pay all of your effort to make this remarkable website alive and active.

Thanx Shinji for this unique platform!

Thanx Shinji for this unique platform!

Thanx Shinji for this unique platform!

Thank you very much bro Shinji!!! stay supercool man:-)

Thanks for your work

Thanks for your work

And the gratitude keeps rolling in!
Thank you Shinji!