Yes, exactly. On September 9, 2017 I wished him good luck and he replied to me. I don't know where he fled to after that. So it must have been Irma. This was my last contact.

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pyragony54 wrote on Jun 27^th, 2022 at 2:54pm:


Not that I really meant for this to be so drawn out, but it seems the last we heard from Jon was around 5 years ago. And as he was preparing to evacuate from the hurricane, I will guess that it is possible he lives in Florida, but not necessarily Miami. Hurricane Irma made two landfalls in Florida on September 10, one in the Keys and another one on the west coast of Florida near Marco Island. Irma then ran up the west coast of Florida and into Georgia where it weakened into a tropical storm.



Pieszyce, I'm assuming that you have already attempted to contact Jon via email, No response?

Quick Edit: Jon lives in Sarasota, Florida. The last entry in his FaceBook page was in 2018.

No, the hurricane was in September 2017. That's when I had my last contact with him.

Red Barchetta wrote on Jun 26^th, 2022 at 6:37pm:


Unfortunately I don't have any more data. All I know is how a hurricane hit Florida a few years ago and someone had to get to safety. I think it was JohnB but I'm not 100% sure.

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pyragony54 wrote on Jun 26^th, 2022 at 9:14am:


If he does, someone PM me more info about him and I will see if I can find him.

pyragony54 wrote on Jun 25^th, 2022 at 12:26pm:


You want 2.7 to be ready soon, but other than Dandello, who is working on it to make this happen? Dandello has even told us that she has a full time job, and its not YaBB. As for Bug Free, YaBB has never been bug free. Expensive mission critical programs are not bug free. But those people have paid programmers who's job it is to program, or they do not get paid. YaBB does not have that, it has all been donated time, donated skill. And those donations have ended. Someone has to pay for the Yabb hosting, the domain names, etc. Yet we are not charged to cover the cost. Even if it is self hosted, there is still cost to keep the equipment going, the added resources, and yes, the time that has to be given.

YaBB was a free community supported project. But that community has all but gone. If I had 10-20 volunteer workers to build free homes for the homeless, and all but 2 quit and never show up again, yet the homeless insisted that I continue to keep building them perfect free homes, how do I do it? That is YaBB right now.

Maybe I am missing something, but I do not know what "truth" you are looking for. Dandello has said she has tried to contact Jon about yabbforum.com, but there has been no response. I am guessing she did not set up the domain, the host for yabbforum.com, and does not have the passwords to give it support. Or maybe the bill has come due for the hosting?

I am sure I could be wrong with any of this, but without the support like we used to have, it is going to be extremely hard for YaBB to develop beyond where it is now.

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Hi Dandello,

When someone installs 2.7, is there any help when bugs appear or does support stop as well?

Now my forum is still fairly stable, but how long will that take and if there is no help how can we proceed? Stop everything?

Sorry if I'm a nuisance, but 18 years of work is in danger of breaking. 

Puppy is doing fine but is a handful (Shetland Sheepdogs are NOT low energy dogs and Georgette has discovered that the yard includes the neighbors cats who don't really want to play dog games with her.)

Jon B has not gotten back.

2.7 will be the last unless someone steps up to help with coding and updating to new Perl versions.