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Sure. No worries

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i didn't want to put something out there and then be seen as walking it back

And happy for anyone to take charge, and I think if anyone is good for it it’s — REDACTED —

Yeah! Definitely want the platform to grow!!

oh

Me? I was told to fuck off lol I’m taking a full back seat. Just tryna be useful.

i know i said take the reigns, but it was always with the intention of the platform growing

if that's okay with you

so..

Yeah! She seems like the perfect person to take it on

She’s definitely good with this stuff

and she was like omg why didnt i know this existed.

Right

one of the people i spoke to was — REDACTED —

Lmao

Well that sounds a whole lot like something that ain’t my problem

Ok

Lmao

and im sure she'll think of a new one.

i know.

Hahaha but she just wants the name of the site

on her own platform.

and she absolutely can.

Right

and i get that she thinks a black bermudian should lead the charge

My bad

I see

Ahhhhh

i dont know — REDACTED —.

so i know you, and i know ashley.

I gave her admin status since she said she wanted to lead

What’s wrong

Or I thought

..

I think she just wants us off

I mean she has admin status on this website now

Understood.

So what did you say

Lol

Yeah that has been made clear

"i believe that a black owned bermuda initiative should be led by black bermudians"

she responded with

Lmao of course you did

She didn’t like that answer?

i asked what name she was originally planning on, nd also to see her portfolio

i did.

Can you tell — REDACTED — that

Ah interesting

the only way you should give it over is if you see the place where it's going.

and each and every one of them said that the the domain is the platform. and it exists because of the platform. so the platform needs to exist.

Hahaha

and i called them all back up and i was like here's the situation. remember that thing i spoke to you about three years ago..

ii) the domain was purchased with the input from way too many people.

theres nothing invested in it. it was just ..convenient?

Right

ok. so thats point one. so it's not like oh no this thing that i want to do isnt available.

Haha okay good

no no. not at all.

Because I’m so tired now lol

Am I in trouble

but mainly.. she didn't try to purchase the domain at any point prior.

maybe three.

two things.

What happened

Lol what

SO!

ok.

kk

just communicate with — REDACTED —

Yea I don't know man

shouldn't the domain to go the person who has been running the initiative from the very start, then (Tanya?)?

build the directory from scratch?

They're going to do it

>:|

..so what becomes of the work.

I know

i know. but then the purpose still isn't addressed

Yeah, I do think we have to be as far back as possible though

which is understandable, but mildly irritating given the amount of time spent to build to address the thing it was meant to address.

Yeah that's what i thought

ok. so the person is just after the name, not the website.

right.

I think it might be best not to though.

giving it a shot.

fair

lmao yeah

was being facetious.

not here

doubt it

lmao

maybe my white privilege will get me further.

my friend Ashley messaged her directly. She didn't take that well and it came from a black person.

I mean, I don't know what more white noise would really do.

in as civil a manner as possible?

do you mind if i message the person who posted that?

haha yeah

late to the party, but you still showed up.

i know.

Just out here tryna help

yeah

the fact that it doesn't exist means that the people who want to make it either don't have the resources or the experience or time to do so, and the ones that do probably want to be paid for it (otherwise it would already exist)

it's confusing.

don't worry about it.

lol

i'd respond but i don't want to um..

oh

thats at the bottom of your thingy. penultimate response.

okay

oh damn

Tanaya J D Tucker has already started building a list based on feedback and I believe that is still going. I suggest you start there. Because this whole thing is ICKY af. This is not a fad for any of us. Not a costume. And this building a list of black businesses to assuage white guilt because somehow you all decided not to hashtag #allrestaurantsmatter and #allbusinessesmatter FOR A WEEK OUT OF YOUR LIVES is NOT okay. We appreciate ALL dollars. We appreciate ALL business. But let's be real. White folk having an awakening and all of a sudden wanting to create black empowerment spaces where they already exist because they're finally hashtagging that #blacklivesmatter while we've been doing it since Trayvon was still alive is infuriating to anyone paying attention.

who is that?

then let tanaya jd tucker do it.

OH

i don't see it

in the comments

wheres this?

Also looks like I'm taking some heat for this so you ain't alone

She's super quick to respond normally.

k

She's offline now so let's wait a bit

yes fair enough

i just want to make sure she knows what she's doing. or she's doing what she thinks shes doing.

which is fine.

hahahahah

kinda like her hosting her birthday at my house.

but trasferring the domain to keep the code in the same place is..

*about transferring everything

so if its above trasferring everything, i'm happy to pack it into a zip to be unloaded somewhere else.

but yeah. basically the domain just points to a place. all the code is on a system i run

ok

ah. let her know to check her other messages.

seems that way

is she online now?

kk

I told her she could take the reigns on all this from me, and that i'd help how i can

i think the domain ownership is hidden anyway

kk.

She just seems to know her stuff

maybe?

she's in web development?

Her name is — REDACTED — on FB

who is it?

kk.

Okay, I've told her you'll message her directly since I'm a terrible liaison

i'll look into it.

And it seems she does?

oh.

This is someone else asking though

ok.

nope

..does ashley know her way around all this stuff?

address points to a nameserver which then locates an account on that server.

ok. so you have domains, nameservers, and servers

What’s that mean

it's also on my server.

Hmm

And she’s asking about transferring the domain name

it's tied to my account - have never transfered any.

Like I have a black person I’m working with who I’m trying to let take the reigns on this

oh. it just renews every year.

Is there any way to transfer the domain to someone else

or

conceptually?

So how did you get that domain name

Thank you!!!!

yay htaccess ~*

..did it anyway.

do you want me to make it so it auotmatically redirects to https?

so one was already installed that i purchased at the start.

haha no worries

..when I’m at a comp.

Will get that sorted.

I guess if we bulk up on SEO it'll get google certified and we'll be cool. That's the extent of my knowledge

yeah that's true but the weaker the site the less secure I believe which leads to many issues

That’s odd. Lots of the web exists off of https

I will, just wondering

oh, do I gotta pay for dat

so that if people have blockers in they can still get in there

By getting a certificate

https://

Secure how

because that's a prob

okay also, how do we make this site secure

haha weird

I used the admin login and it was like ‘admin email address is:’

Oh. No you didn’t. Weird.

did i? lmao I suck at this

😒

You thieved my admin!

I think I got it

Hold plz

i can't figure out how to create new admins

lol

Because I can’t help you there.

rpetty

Or are you screwing up at the rpetty level

lmao I did

😒

Change the password.

I just keep fucking up this login

yeah for sure

So huge benefit if people adopt the platform

And not geographically.. aware (google maps and such)

there's so much out there. Yeah also that

But obv disorganized because FB

Ok

I saw that.

right!

On FB

So yeah. There is a black owned businesses in Bermuda group

well that's nice. I should hope not. I try to be a nice lady

Ah.

— OFF TOPIC —

*ill

— OFF TOPIC —

haha not at all

— OFF TOPIC —

though people can hate me all they want, nothing new

We shall see

lmao!

Hopefully people hate you less 💁‍♂️

Was just the wrong person to do it.

Yeah it's brilliant

All the businesses under the respective filters show up on the map.

So can at least tidy things up before they go out. And! I think there’s proper integration with google maps in case you actually want directions to get there

But I think (from what I remember) it’s user submitted admin approved

Etc etc

Yeaah for sure

People not formatting things correctly

hahahah

If it ever became something, I’d probably get anxiety from it

It's cool as hell!

yesssss yes. Makes sense

Based on the screen cap I sent over re: ‘why doesn’t this thing exist’

Oh. Yeah.

haha but it was your initiative?

From the ground up? No.

Did you build the site?

ok cool yeah found it in spam

Or I can do it

And then just find your account and reset the password

Should also get you in

Will reset if not. It was super secure and had brackets and shit in it :/

Maybe in spam?

lemme check

ohhhhh

The one you gave me.

Oh. Should have come to your email

but never received a PW

Hey, what is the password for this site? I've gotten to the wordpress page you sent

Just asked a tech person and they said to disable your antivirus software to see if it will connect.

whoops

PHISHING?! Wtf.

Screen cap?

Webpage keeps saying blocked

People can submit their own stuff via the front end.

thedomain.com/wp/wp-admin

I think the password was sent to you. Obv change it if/as you need to.

Maybe things have changed

But OBA was in at the time.

Ahhhhh

I also learned that, whilst it may be the case, some businesses don’t want to be seen that way

Wow weird

Yeah sure, sounds good.

That’s so awesome

Perfect!!!!

Everyone they reached out to was on board. Everyone my white friend asked.. gave it a hard pass.

Can forward all the correspondence and people that initially expressed interest

About the name and everything

And I spoke with them at length

So that was 2017

any comments/criticism welcome

Trying to keep myself at the back end of this

I'm working with a black friend/eventually going to the newspapers here to start a buy black week, sort of like the buy bermuda movement. But maybe make it into a week-long initiative. Still in the process of sorting it out

I’ll see if the domain is still up.

!*

interesting±

Which was really confusing to me.

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It was a platform specifically for that purpose

thanks Alex!

Kk.

@gmail.com

yas

Address?