Catch-all/Megathread discussion

[jaclaz]

15 minutes ago, N1K said:

I find that hard to believe as long as it brings you income and I believe it still generates decent earnings 

You can easily sell this site for a nice amount rather than shut it down, so I don't see the point of your statement.

Worth of web:  Estimated Worth: $ 47,281
http://www.worthofweb.com/website-value/msfn.org/

Webuka: Website worth 0 USD
http://www.webuka.com/

Siteworthtraffic: We estimate the website value of msfn.org is currently at $ 51,789 USD 
http://www.siteworthtraffic.com/report/msfn.org

Sitevalue: www.msfn.org website value: $3
http://www.sitevalue.net/www.msfn.org

jaclaz
 

[dencorso]

@all: I really think everybody has already made each POV very clear.
So, at this point, I'll ask you all a favor: let's pause this thread here.
Or, at the very least, give it a voluntary 24h respite. Thanks!

[JorgeA]

Since more than 24 hours have now passed , may I make a couple of observations.

First, thank you for crediting me for the creation of this thread , I didn't know that I had!

But second and more seriously, one of the issues involved in breaking up threads is highlighted by the fact that I didn't know that the new thread existed. You see, my principal form of entering MSFN is via e-mail notifications: that's how I know that there is something new in a thread that I'm participating in. Had my post remained in its original thread, I would have received notice that all the subsequent replies above had been posted. As it is, I was unaware that @Trip had responded three days ago already. I happened to click on Notifications (the globe icon) at the top of the page and by sheer chance saw that notice.

Time constraints do not allow for leisurely browsing through all the subforums on a regular basis to see what's new. I come in because of a notification and, if time permits, then I look around. If megathreads come to an end and discussions get broken up into a zillion little separate threads, as a practical matter I will seldom get to them (and participate) before that particular discussion peters out or the thread gets split into yet another branch that I won't know about.

No doubt there are some who would welcome this prospect  , but the point is that different people have different ways of approaching their Forum participation and trying to channel them into certain preferred ways can only tend to diminish such participation.

Life makes a lot of demands on one's attention, and notifications are a highly useful tickler that there's a new development in a discussion one is interested in.

--JorgeA

[jaclaz]

10 hours ago, JorgeA said:

Time constraints do not allow for leisurely browsing through all the subforums on a regular basis to see what's new. I come in because of a notification and, if time permits, then I look around. If megathreads come to an end and discussions get broken up into a zillion little separate threads, as a practical matter I will seldom get to them (and participate) before that particular discussion peters out or the thread gets split into yet another branch that I won't know about.

Oww, come on, just get to MSFN periodically (let's say once a day or every other day) and click on "Unread content" (top right) then personalize your stream or just use the standard one, or even better use (top left for UI consistence) a "level up", "Activity".

Threads have tags, which are vital to quickly. at a glance, understand how cool  a thread is, it is about time you enter the new millennium ...
... about this latter, it seems like right now max 3 tags can be given, comma separated, each between 3 and 10 characters:

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Type tags separated by commas.
Each tag should be between 3 and 10 characters long.

and of which ONLY TWO actually show without an additional click to unhide the third.

I already had issue with using the tag "1D" (that I had to write as "1-D" and that was translated in small letters to "1-d"):
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/175435-linesquid-a-whole-new-laas/

and the adjective "preposterous" that stops at "prepostero" and that I had to translate to "cool"
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/175429-windows-10-runs-on-270-million-devices/

which anyway is more understandable to the general public, being a short, simple word (though behind the green glass door).

And - while I am at it - I would like to recommend to everyone the use of:

http://splasho.com/upgoer5/

which will definitely allow for a larger audience:

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... which anyway is more understandable to the general public, being a short, simple word (though behind the green glass door).

UH OH! YOU HAVE USED NON-PERMITTED WORDS (UNDERSTANDABLE, GENERAL, PUBLIC)

... which will definitely allow for a larger audience:

UH OH! YOU HAVE USED NON-PERMITTED WORDS (AUDIENCE)

... which anyway is more lay to the wide world, being a short, simple word (though behind the green glass door).

... which will definitely allow for a larger house:

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE USED ONLY THE TEN HUNDRED MOST COMMON WORDS.

jaclaz

[bphlpt]

1 hour ago, jaclaz said:

... which anyway is more lay to the wide world, being a short, simple word (though behind the green glass door).

... which will definitely allow for a larger house:

this also works:

... which anyway more people will "get", being a short, simple word (though behind the green glass door).

... which will definitely allow for a larger group to see and use it:

which actually makes sense. 

(Don't worry, I got the joke. ) 

Cheers and Regards

[jaclaz]

26 minutes ago, bphlpt said:

(Don't worry, I got the joke. ) 

Sure , no offence whatever intended, but it was not that easy to miss it , but you seemingly missed (or didn't like/reply to ) my last "status update", BTW one of the nice features of the board software (replying to the question "What's on your mind?", surprisingly not much used by the audience , and that could potentially give birth to countless witty one or two liners).

UH OH! YOU HAVE USED NON-PERMITTED WORDS (OFFENCE, INTENDED, SEEMINGLY, STATUS, UPDATE, BTW, FEATURES, BOARD, SOFTWARE, SURPRISINGLY, AUDIENCE, POTENTIALLY, BIRTH, COUNTLESS,WITTY, LINERS)

d@mn! 

jaclaz

Edited April 2, 2016 by jaclaz