I am no longer interested in running Typedrawers. If someone else wants to take over please speak up. If nobody else takes over I will shut the site down by the end of the year.
Would you want whoever takes over to keep it running as an independent effort, or would you be open to handing over the keys to a commercial entity, eg. FontLab or Monotype, that has an interest in seeing a continued spam-free dialog between typeface designers?
Please keep TD a site for the debate and exchange of independent type designers. If this place becomes a forum sponsored by corporations, I think I will leave as well.
TypeDrawers has become an interesting and valuable resource for many, and thanks go to James for starting it in the first place. I don't know his reasons for letting go of it, but many thanks to Stephen Coles for taking on the job of continuing it and for stepping up so promptly.
James, thanks for creating something that has given me a ton of pleasure, insight and information since its inception. I'm relieved and excited that it will continue under Stephen's stewardship (stewf-ardship?).
It’s not a big deal, and there are multiple reasons. But at times I find Typedrawers tiresome. I started Typedrawers because the mods of another forum had clearly become tired of running it and wouldn’t let go. I purposely set up Typedrawers on Vanilla so that I could give it away when the time came. I’m sure this will happen a few times in the future, and that will keep the place vibrant, which is good for everybody.
However this reminds me of Jason Scott's talk of last Friday at Brooklyn Beta. He spoke about how we are relying on things in the cloud to be there and how they can easily disappear (think Geocities). There's some threads here that really deserve at least a wiki entry somewhere. Just a thought.
Thanks to James for entrusting me with his virtual baby. I’ll do my best.
For now, there will be no major changes to the official rules. I’ll let you know if I need to make adjustments, but I intend to preserve TypeDrawers’ core mission, which is to provide a well-moderated forum for typographic professionals and enthusiasts.
Glad Stewf was willing to do it. Also, I'm glad that you took the initiative to start it James. I'm not as active as many, but I do like to pop in and see what's up. So thanks for all your work. Stephen
Thanks you for all the effort you've put into Typedrawers, James, and to Stephen, who I know will do a fine job carrying on. We need an active venue for thoughtful discussion.
Thanks to James for providing a great alternative (replacement) for Typophile, and to Stephen for putting yet another iron in the fire to keep TD up and running.
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Thanks, Stewf.
James — Thanks for starting TypeDrawers and for your ongoing stewardship.
However this reminds me of Jason Scott's talk of last Friday at Brooklyn Beta. He spoke about how we are relying on things in the cloud to be there and how they can easily disappear (think Geocities). There's some threads here that really deserve at least a wiki entry somewhere. Just a thought.
TypeDrawers has been a huge help. Every discussion has been a sort of lesson to me.
For now, there will be no major changes to the official rules. I’ll let you know if I need to make adjustments, but I intend to preserve TypeDrawers’ core mission, which is to provide a well-moderated forum for typographic professionals and enthusiasts.
Carry on.
And we're going to owe you a debt of thanks, Stephen.
Stephen