Sad Day for Raleighing

back to the News & Disturber for raleigh info. argh.

Thanks for the encouraging words, Ernest. I always enjoy your contributions to the conversations here.
But, let me clarify something for everyone. While I won’t go into speaking for Dana and his reasons behind deciding to leave Raleighing, I will say that the negative commenter(s) are not his primary reason. As far as I know, they aren’t even a reason at all.
Thanks again for the kind words,
Chris

Wwwwaaa!! Go cry somewhere else. Get over it and move on!

Very Sad – but very understandable
I hope you can keep it going even if it is scaled down.

Dana, thank you so much for all the leads in Raleigh life that my girlfriend and I wouldn’t have known without you and this site. I know Chris will do a great job in your absence.
Thanks for always emailing me to Dana, on responses to questions that I had about our area.
I hope this decision does not lead to the fall of Raleighing, because honestly it is one of the few things Raleigh has going for it. A great online community.

sorry to see you go, dana. i truly enjoyed your posts. going to raliehging.com every morning–between the weather and news cites–was something i looked forward to.

sorry to see you go, dana. i truly enjoyed your posts. going to raliehging.com every morning–between the weather and news cites–was something i looked forward to.

Dana you will definitely be missed on this site. It was a pleasure reading this site for the last year or so. Hopefully, this will not be the end of the Raleighing site. The leads you have provided on this site have been a great resource for me.
Good luck in your future endeavors!

best of everything, dana…let all know what’s up if you’re into a new venture. will miss raleighing!!

Is anyone writing these comments willing to help with these boards? I bet you can find some willing participants

This is a sad, sad day… I’m really sorry to hear the news. Its become a ritual of mine to check in with Raleighing at least once a day. I too appreciate the fact that y’all responded to our emails. I can’t even imagine the amount of time that y’all have put into this . Thank you for taking it on. Speaking for a whole lot of folks, we’re sad to see you go! Somehow, someway, Raleighing must continue. Sign me up!

Sad times… Dana, thank you so much for all that you put into this site. It has been a great ride so far. Chris, I’m confident you can pick up the pieces and make this site better than ever. I’m anxious to see how Raleighing takes adversity and runs with it.
-JD

Thanks for the clarification, Chris. I am sorry for pre-assuming the reasons behind Dana’s departure from Raleighing. Nevertheless, this site will have to go on and continue to be a great source of information, as it has been for a very long time. I have faith in you, Chris

Thanks so much for all of the kind thoughts. My year and a half with this website have been a blast and I look forward to even better days ahead for Raleighing.
Chris and his wife are some of our closest friends and I never want that to change. Chris and I have slightly different approaches to making a great site. In order for a venture between close friends to work, however, both parties need to be completely comfortable with the collaborative approach. I didn’t feel quite comfortable enough and didn’t want to jeopardize our friendship in any way.
A second (and probably more important) factor is that I wasn’t having enough fun to justify the time given the current challenges I am facing professionally and personally. I haven’t been silent from here out of anger, just incredibly busy.
I will be a 100% fan of what Chris decides to do here and will continue to proudly wear my Raleighing t-shirt (if you don’t have one, you definitely need one – it’s a great conversation piece). Replacing me here won’t be all THAT hard. Let’s face it, a chimp could have posted the better part of what I’ve posted.
In fact, maybe some of you will start your own Raleigh-based sites. I’ve always said that we’d be a better place to live if we had 95 Raleighings. RSS thread monitoring is so efficient that it is easy to follow tons and tons of blogs. The real competition is that which distracts people from making Raleigh better. We all need to stay focused and continue the unprecedented momentum Raleigh currently enjoys.
In the meantime, y’all go floss each day and quit putting so much acid and sugar in your mouths!!

Well, I am sad to see Dana’s contributions to Raleighing come to an end, but I hope the site does not go away entirely. (hint, hint, Chris) I actually have to credit Ernest Pecounis’ wonderful web site at raleighmsa.com for leading me here where I discovered Raleighing on his links page. I think the real value of this site is that is makes for wonderful water-cooler type of topics and discussion – what’s hot, what’s happening, what’s newsworthy, and so forth. I might have missed out on the Monet exhibit at the art museum and a few cool restaurants to check out had it not been for postings I’ve read on here. My hat’s off to a job well done, and in hopes of seeing the stream of interesting (and sometimes overlooked) topics continue here somehow!

I really thought that Dana did a great job on the site. I’m sorry that the collaboration didn’t work out, but I hope that Raleighing will keep going. Good luck to both of you.

So sad to see Dana go. Please keep this site going.

I am sad to see such a change. How can the readers of this site help to keep it as infomative in the future?

too bad, dana was great.