Have had a bumpy learning experience in terms of using it. Not major. Just a comment.

Though, I'm doing Sanders campaign stuff, so I'm maxed out until after PA's primary.

JPR is a great place. Everyone to love is there, heh-heh.

A site for Bernie supporters. Lots of current and former DUers there.

http://jackpineradicals.org/content.php

Unless I was missing something, when i checked it out i wasn't so impressed.

people also should avoid sites like facebook, reddit for reasons which should be obvious to intelligent people.

signing up there.

there were no posts. Well there were a couple, but no responses.

Where is the discussion, the back and forth?

Vs the 150k + here at DU.

The more people sign up and participate the faster the dialogue will flow.

Come be a part of it! There are forums that get the same level of convo as here. ..

to go vent about the election and couldn't find any discussion.

I saw a couple of threads with no comments.

Good luck!

That forum will be as good or dead as we make it

If you go to the blue square in the upper right hand corner, click it and then click whats new. Thats where I join in discussion threads. Im too confused by all the other forums and stuff and I cant find anything usually except in the Whats New Thread.

Just my two cents.....as a confused JPR newbie.

I was on for about 36 hours once and it was a nightmare, so I closed it down never to return. I would have had to block or de-friend half of my family and in-laws to make it palatable. Of course by doing that, it would have set off a firestorm, so....

Anyone else not on FB, or am I the only one?

Can't we just hang out at JRP or find another venue?

OTOH, I won't get pissed off if that's what y'all want to do.

I had an acct for a while. I had no idea what to do with it, so I didn't go there often.

Then people were leaving messages on my page (family, customers), and I was afraid they'd be offended that I didn't reply.

Then people started sending me goats from the Facebook Farm or something, and I felt beholden to send them something back. Would a chicken do... or did it need to be something at least as large as a goat? I didn't know the goat protocol!

So I cancelled the acct

Those farm yard animals can be so tricky.

Now I'm playing Tasty Tales after not playing FB games for awhile.

It's a foodie version of Candy Crush.

I thought I was the only one that tried facebook and backed away from it almost immediately because I didn't want everyone in my life (students, family, political activists) getting all involved with each other, and didn't want to have to deny friend requests ... the whole thing just seemed like a mess.

Maybe Bernie people really ARE my soul mates!

I too was on Facebook but cancelled. I didn't like the way they tracked their users.

And the other I use just for politics to sign onto Huffington Post and other places.
I have NO friends on that account - on purpose.

Plus this group would be private, people could not read what we write.

That's how we got Bernie on TYT. We even posted in chat the questions to be asked. We didn't get them all, but most. That's where the Democracy Spring live feed was going. There's a movement, but it ain't on this forum.

navigate. I'm already on FB so that would be no prob..

then there's yet another place to post and check.

Plus I don't like facebook – it's structured for the benefit of those who want to spy on us, not for us (e.g., no decent search function).

dilutes the impact of the group. I think we should all do everything possible to help the sites already out there like jpr.

posts hidden lately.

Just want a place to go and let my hair down and not worry that some Hillary supporter is going to alert on my posts.

I've been thinking about building something like that to support progressives. I'd like to put together a few good ideas; news posts(DU), diaries(DKOS), listener supported(KPFA), comment disemvowelling(XKCD) and/or fading(Hacker News).

Could start real simple and build up as we go.

What do you think?

DKOS purged members already have a fairly brisk counter site operating. We do as well with JPR.

We need to keep the focus tight.

Can you help the JPR folks make it more user friendly?

FWIW, after a couple days, it's format is 110% okay for this techno challenged oldster...

but I will not do facebook.

My daughter and grandchildren, however are members of a couple Bernie FB pages. They shut down trolls quickly.

Never going back there.

Right now I check Bernie 2016 TV and TYT everyday.

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Must include input from many other progressive forums, to create a structure at least loosely based on a platform. There has to be some form of democratic (user input) moderation of how that platform is worded, how it is specific, how it is less specific. Again, can't be Sanders-centric, or DU-centric.

Cannot be privately owned.
Profits cannot accrue to individuals, or private interests (else it'll be bought out the moment it is viable).

There has to be a gathering outside the DU "box".

eta: JPR a good model that might grow into it. But: it is Sanders-centric and 2016-primary-oriented and DU-oriented from the outset, so is self limiting.