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People at Project Lithium, as well as others, really want to do everything possible to ensure this website doesn't die. But despite years and years of reaching out to Danny he's never replied.

We really need a group of people to approach him in a way he can't ignore. And according to Linked in, Danny Cooper is Senior Solutions Architect and Founder at Palmetto IT...

Does anyone know about this business? Maybe if his main client mentioned our situation to him we would no longer be ignored? It seems entirely unconscionable that a website that gets a million views a month could be abandoned and ignored like this?

Something must be done and none of us are doing anything that's going to make a difference. We need a better way!!!

 

Please call or write Danny's IT company: Contact and try to save this website before its too late. Maybe if enough people reply we find a way to solve this!

 

That particular idea sounds to me almost kinda sorta like blackmail.

If I were in the position of nursing along a free service in my spare time that a bunch of people use but complain about, I'm not sure whether that tactic would contribute to my motivation, or use up the last of it.

 

If it's any consolation there was greater attention when the Prius hit its highest numbers. Now? Not so much.
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We mean no ill-will, quite the opposite... We're trying to save this website before its gone for good. If Danny's moderator was reassuring us that he's in touch with him and he'll get around to it we'd for sure back off and be patient. But when even his own moderator can't get replies it's deeply concerning. These may well be the last posts we ever make on this site.

 

maybe a visit from joe pesci...

 

A video worth contemplating during the PriusChat end times:

 

Has anyone offered to re-host the site? I've got many decades of experience (I registered domain #43 in history )... Hosting a site is easy for me. I'd be happy to do that.

A *lot* easier if the proprietor and/or moderator would be willing to provide a copy of a site backup (code and database.)

 

Ha ha

 

Yes... There's multiple people who are interested in doing that. It'd be great if a group of us could work on a formal proposal. Main thing is making sure the domain name stays the same, which is entirely something Danny is in charge of and if someone was able to have a conversation with him about what his ideal scenario going forward would be, we could do that for him. But without the ability to communicate, it's not easy.

 

I haven't read all of this thread, but spotted some anxiety among the crowd. As well there should be, for this site and many others.

The archive of old Gen1 threads here is really about all there is online for reference info. There's not much new traffic, but the old threads are invaluable. Except, they aren't, or not much value anyway, it seems. And that's crazy sad.

But it's the same with my Ford diesel forums. The older models are dying out and the new buyers only care about software features and exhaust sound.

Of course, if they haven't already, the AI bots will have scooped all this up long ago. So, I guess it won't be lost. Rather than searching for the answer, you'll be told the answer now.

 

Funny. That is how the US auto industry killed itself at Japan's feet. Gavin Newsom all but invited ChinesesEV's in, but realistically hybrids, and standard cars and trucks are where the money is. UAW ought to be worried about our leaders trying to by off China with trade. Our American industries are not making what people are buying. They are subsidy farming.

 

Well, I bought a bolt while the strike was on, but luckily, everything worked out

 

There's nothing like the cost and convenience of jumping in my Prius and driving across the country at 50mpg. Can't afford to jump in my truck or RV, and can't imagine the PITA trying that in an EV would be.

But, that doesn't matter to most people because they don't jump in their cars and drive across the country. I do though. Maybe that's the part the government doesn't like - us just going anywhere, anytime we want.

 

well, i suppose that is on the list of possible climate change causality.

but i doubt 'government' sees a workable alternative

 

I guess it must be in the Constitution then. It seems you are connecting unrelated dots and making a story not in reality. We have our right to do that. Make up stuff and travel across country as we like. Eventually we lose our drivers license then we have to take a bus across country. Singing our stories all the way.

 

Dang, Vandy, trolling doesn't have to be such a stretch. You would have sounded less unhinged to just say I was a cheapa$$ whiner for not paying for my RV or for not following bread crumbs to the next EV charger.

I'm not sure what you're actually saying, much less your point, in this Constitutional rabbit hole you're burrowing into. What are these "dots" I'm connecting, and what is the unreal story I've made? You say "we have a right to do that." To do what? Re-reading my post, I can only assume you refer to my words "us just going anywhere, anytime we like." Yet, it's pretty f-ing obvious that we don't have the right to go anywhere, anytime we want - that the government, among others, prevents us from doing so countless times in countless places.

You made no sense to that point, which explains the last two sentences because they patently make no sense. You're just a senseless guy. However, being accustomed to your type, I've tried to make sense of your muttering...

Even though you quoted my entire post, you only had a problem with the last sentence, right? I said the government maybe doesn't want us to go anywhere/anytime, and you...I guess, disagree? I have to ask because mine was a hypothetical statement (note the use of "maybe") and not a declaration with which one can agree or disagree. Yet, you seem to try.

I'm not sure about the "dots" or the "story" you refer to, that might be your other personality interrupting. The part that I can surmise meaning from suggests that you believe we have a Constitutional right to go anywhere/anytime, and as such, my hypothetical is moot, the answer being obvious. That would kinda makes sense (I'm ignoring those last two sentences as well. They're for better minds or better psychotropics than mine to decipher), if it were true.

So, that's it, right? Your troll of the day is to imagine a non-existent Constitutional right for Americans to go anywhere/anytime, and then use that, like a horse stall mucker uses a shovel, to toss crap around, thinking it's hitting me. Have you ever seen what those muckers look like coming out of the barn?

 

Try to make sense of what you said instead of looking at/attacking me. Going from ev traveling to:
“Maybe that's the part the government doesn't like - us just going anywhere, anytime we want.”
The trolling started with you. Or maybe best to ignore. It’s sort of like responding to “The war on Christmas ” posts. Let them go, they aren’t going to listen anyway.

 

it's amazing how this thread went sideways by post #4

 

Going sideways upside down and backwards is how things tend to function when the person responsible for the site has put the entire existence of the crash & burn slow death of PriusChat out of his mind.

 

I'm assuming the person "responsible for the site" = "owner." If so, I figure he can do whatever the heck he wants, and I assume he's doing what is in his best interests, which is, I expect, the thing he feels more "responsible" for. I don't feel any anger or frustration towards him.