A few days ago, I received an e-mail from my host telling me that my
website, janet-talk.com, was too resource intensive for their
servers. They added the following:
"Due to the sheer amount of resources your site uses each day we
regretfully have to ask you to seek your hosting elsewhere. We can
give you until January 17, 2003 to have your site moved to the new
host."
I therefore had to make a quick decision and I decided to close
JANET Talk permanently. You are probably wondering why I didn't
choose to look for another host instead. The reason is that for the
past few months, I had been thinking about closing the board. I
didn't know exactly when I would take that decision but I knew it
would happen someday, soon. And lately, I felt this moment was
getting closer and closer. Even without my host's request, JANET
Talk would have probably closed in the next few weeks or months. I
think you now understand why it would be useless for me to seek for
another host if the board is meant to close soon anyway.
This was a very difficult decision to make. I created JANET Talk in
late 1999, right after I saw Janet's Velvet Rope concert at the MSG
on TV. Her performance totally blew me away and although I had
always liked Janet before, it is after seeing that show that I truly
became a fan. When I went looking for message boards about Janet at
the time, there were very few of them and they weren't very active.
So I decided to create my own. Never would I have hought that the
tiny message board I had created would someday become as big as it
is today. My goal was to create a community where Janet fans would
gather and, obviously, talk about Janet. But I also wanted this to
be a big family, I wanted people to really feel comfortable and at
home. I hope that this goal has been somewhat reached. JANET Talk
and the people who post there sometimes several times a day, have
become a big part of my life. JANET Talk has been a big lesson of
life for me and I feel I have grown a lot as a person thanks to it.
I've had the chance to talk to people from all over the world and
I've learnt a lot about tolerance and respect of others, two words
that were already very important to me but who took their true
meaning for me through JTalk.
It has been an amazing human experience for me, and I hope for some
of you too. Some of you have become very close friends of mine and
we've shared very personal things. There have been great times (most
of the time) with a lot of fun, and also some not so great moments,
which were made of tensions and verbal fights - normal things that
are to be expected on a public forum. I don't think I could have
continued running JTalk for so long if the support and family
feeling hadn't been so strong. You guys kept me going. Even when I
was fed up and wanted to give up, you were always there, supportive
and defending JTalk as if it was your own. And in fact, it is yours
as well. For this and much more, I will always be grateful to all of
you and especially to the people I'm closest to on the board.
Now why am I closing the board. Well, there are various reasons.
After more than 3 years running JANET Talk, I realize that
moderating a forum is not something I wanna continue doing. Although
I've always accepted the fact that tensions and conflicts are
inevitable on a message board, it is becoming harder and harder for
me to try and settle such conflicts and I do not want to go under
the stress that comes with this anymore, nor do I want the friends
who help me moderate JTalk to be put under stress either. No one on
this board is to be blamed for this, you guys have nothing to do
with this and nothing to feel guilty about, I simply don't feel
comfortable being a moderator anymore and I feel I need to move on.
I could very well keep JANET Talk, but because of what I've said
earlier, this would mean I would only be half-motivated and I
wouldn't be able to run things the way they should be. And because I
have a lot of respect for this board and the people on it, I'd
rather close JTalk than not being able to fully and properly take
care of it. I hope you understand my choice, this is far from being
an easy one for me. It was a very painful decision to take, but one
that I knew I would have to take eventually. JTalk means a lot to
me, I put a lot of myself into it and I'm proud of what it has
become, thanks to the help of so many people. But maybe JTalk has
simply become too big for us (me, Syree and Nick) to be able to
handle it and moderate it properly, although we always tried to do
the best as we could. Personnally, my studies are also preventing me
from spending as much time as I would like to on the board.
I hope that despite the closing of JTalk, the family that I think
was created there, will remain and I know we'll always find a way to
keep in touch with each other. I, for myself, am not disappearing
from the internet world, I'm still gonna be there, I still love
Janet as much as before, but from now on you will see me as a member
on message boards, and not as a moderator anymore ;) I'll be hanging
on P!nk Chat
and Velvet
World.
Before ending this message, I have a huge thank you to make to some
very special people:
Syree and
Nick, co-admins at JTalk, but who are
most of all true friends I feel so blessed for knowing. You guys are
amazing, I'm such a lucky bitch for knowing you guys, seriously. I
know I can always count on you, you've always been SO supportive for
everything and running JTalk with you was simply great. I know I
could have never done it without you. Thanks for all the time and
dedication you put in this whole project, you were very involved in
it and this whole experience made us even closer to each other cause
we've been through the same things. It was not easy everyday but we
never gave up. I hope we'll always stay close, I love you so much,
thank you for being the wonderful human beings you are.
Also special thanks to Bayhia, who helped me run JTalk at the very
beginning. You're also a true friend for me and I'm really glad I
met you and got to know you. Love ya girl. Thanks also to Joe, who
was also a moderator at JTalk at the beginning.
There are so many other people I would like to thank but because I'm
afraid I would forget some people, I'm gonna make a collective thank
you instead. But I think you know who you are anyway, as I've always
told you in the past how I felt about you ;) Thanks to all of you
who made this board what it is today and who were not afraid of
sharing very personal moments and who put a lot of themselves on
this board. This is not a goodbye. JTalk closes but the friendship
and bounds that were created will not go away.
IMPORTANT: For those of you who wish to contact me, please do not e-mail me at
the [email protected] address, as it will not work
anymore in a few days. Instead, e-mail me at
[email protected] .
Same goes for Syree and Nick's e-mail addresses. To contact Syree (Janetboo),
send your e-mails to
[email protected] and for Nick, to
[email protected] .
Once again I hope you can understand my decision, it makes me feel
very sad but I have to do it.
One last
thing, here is a
beautiful thread that was started a while back on JTalk and that
I thought you might like to read again.
Thank
you all so much for everything, take care.
Much love to all of you,
- Eva aka Evita :: January 15, 2003
Note:
The JANET Talk Chatroom will be still be available despite the board
closing. You can now access it at this new URL:
http://jtalkchat.cjb.net
PS: I've
opened a guestbook here, so feel free to leave a message if you want
to.
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A partir
du 17 janvier, JANET Talk fermera définitivement ses portes.
Il y a
de cela quelques jours, j'ai reçu un e-mail de mon hébergeur me
disant que mon site allait être fermé le 17 janvier 2003 car il
utilise trop de ressources sur leurs serveurs. Vous devez vous
demander pourquoi je ne cherche pas un autre hébergeur. A vrai-dire,
cela fait maintenant quelque temps que je pense fermer
définitivement JTalk. Même sans l'intervention de mon hébergeur,
JTalk aurait donc certainement fermé dans les semaines ou mois à
venir. J'ai donc décidé de fermer définitivement le site.
Cette décision fut très difficile à prendre. J'ai longtemps reporté
à plus tard ce qui pourtant m'apparaissait comme étant de plus en
plus inéluctable. Et aujourd'hui, je n'ai plus le choix.
JANET Talk existe depuis fin 1999 et je me rappelle encore l'époque
où le nombre de visites quotidiennes ne s'élevait souvent qu'à une
pesonne (moi lol). Jamais je n'aurais imaginé que JTalk deviendrait
un jour ce qu'il est aujourd'hui. Durant ces 3 années, il y a eu de
super moments (la majorité d'entre eux) et des moments un peu plus
difficiles, notamment liés à des conflits entre certains membres.
Aujourd'hui je me rends compte que je n'ai plus ni la motivation ni
le temps ncessaire pour continuer à m'occuper d'un forum. Cela n'a
rien à voir avec vous ni avec Janet (que j'aime toujours autant),
mais j'ai de plus en plus de mal à supporter les conflits et à
tenter de les résoudre (je ne parle pas de la partie francophone,
car en général tout se passe bien là-bas ;) et je n'ai plus envie de
ce stress là, et je ne souhaite pas non plus que les autres
modérateurs de JTalk aient à le supporter. JTalk est peut-être tout
simplement devenu trop "grand" pour que moi et les autres
modérateurs puissions y consacrer tout le temps nécessaire et nous
en occuper convenablement. S'il n'y avait que la partie francophone
à gérer ce serait bien sûr différent. Je préfère donc fermer le site
plutôt que de ne m'y consacrer qu'à moitié et de ne plus pouvoir
m'en occuper convenablement.
C'est une décision très douloureuse pour moi et je ne le fais pas de
gaieté de coeur. La communauté francophone de JTalk n'a jamais été
très nombreuse mais il y avait une réelle ambiance chaleureuse et
des gens formidables. Une vraie petite famille :)
Vous allez tous beaucoup me manquer mais j'espère que nous resterons
en contact, d'une manière ou d'une autre. A travers ce forum, j'ai
rencontré des tas de gens d'horizons différents et j'ai appris
beaucoup sur la tolérance et le respect, et également sur moi-même.
J'espère que JANET Talk vous aura aussi apporté quelqyue chose de
positif.
J'espère que vous comprendrez ma décision, ce n'est pas un adieu, on
se recroisera sûrement (et je l'espère) sur d'autres forums et pour
certains par e-mail. D'ailleurs, pour ceux qui souhaitent me
contacter voici ma nouvelle adresse e-mail (l'adresse jtalk ne
fonctionnera bientôt plus): [email protected]
Vous me trouverez également sur les forums
P!nk Chat et
Velvet World. J'espère
qu'on aura l'occasion de se voir là-bas :)
Merci à tous pour tous ces moments qu'on a partagé ensemble et que
je ne suis pas prête d'oublier. Et un merci tout particulier à
Muriel qui m'a aidé à m'occuper de la section francophone de JANET
Talk.
Prenez bien de soin de vous et je l'espère à bientôt ;)
- Eva alias Evita :: 15 janvier 2003
Remarque: Bien que le forum ferme, la JTalk Chatroom continuera
de fonctionner, à une autre adresse. Pour y accéder, allez sur:
http://jtalkchat.cjb.net
PS: J'ai
ouvert un guestbook, vous pouvez y laisser un message si vous le
souhaitez en
cliquant ici.
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