How many of the cool posts are cross-posted between the two sites? Not a clue, this is a feeling rather than a scientific assessment and is biased heavily by my own uses/interpretations/etc.
It would come down to how one defines COOL, but I know cool when I see it, and even though I ceased all public posting at the MLA starting in July 2021 and while I don't sneak around in the forum over there either, when I become aware of a significant post about a new product announcement by a creator over there, I always check here and when I don't find it here, I am rather flabbergasted. To rectify that, I always send a PM to the thread starter (who is almost always the product creator), and I encourage them to cross post it here. In almost every case, they do just that, for which I am grateful. Would they had I not sent them a PM? Probably not. And that's why I must encourage all of you to please be proactive about these things. I don't care about cross posting of threads which have little significance. I am talking about new products that are ground-breaking. Consider the color LCD kit from ZZJ. Monumental stuff like that needs to be talked about everywhere, and that includes Discord too, and yes, the various FaceBook groups out there too.
And no, I am not saying that EBAY finds or personal mods are not important — they are important and need to be cross-posted too.
How many more cool forum posts could we get if the dross was skimmed off the chat and remainder cast into forum posts?
If you mean how many more cool forum posts could we get here on TD if more people would post in the forum first and on Discord last, I assure you, it would be many, many more posts. I don't mean to piss off those who like Discord, but I've never hidden my dislike of it. And that NAME! What thinker out there can honestly say that name is best for a harmonious place to gather? Trust me, I've been on other Discord servers because I was forced to in order to contact someone, and I ended up getting a lot of flack (long story).
And for the record, I was never on the MLA IRC either.
To borrow from In Living Color...
HOMEY DON'T PLAY DAT!
Should I have made a forum post when recently I did the completely uneventful re-cap of recently purchased LC II and LC 475 w/ PSU recap and BlueSCSI assembly and everything went fine?
Yes, because it's not boring. Posting what you had for breakfast in the Lounge (on the MLA) or the Soap Box (here) is a waste of time, in my view. People do it. But even back when I was on the MLA, I almost never visited the Lounge. I don't often post in the Soap Box here UNLESS there is an important thread like this one.
But there's a second reason why you should post such topics here... More posts breed even more posts. It's true. The more content we have, the better we are perceived. And because the posts I am talking about are FORUM POSTS, not Discord posts, they will be picked up by Google. That's huge! Discord chats are buried in that black hole.
It's hard to go off-topic in the Soap Box because it's basically off topic in general relative to vintage computing topics. And yet, what we are talking about here pertains to the vintage community, so it's truly an atypical Soap Box kind of thread, and again, that's why I am active in it.
...I still need to sit down with a 'real computer' to get things done.
Oh yes! Absolutely positively yes!
I was had an iPad. Bought it in 2012. Haven't had one since.
I have iPhones, but my Macs are where I get real work done.
We can all wish iOS was better, but it's out of our control. macOS is where it's at. Can you even conceive of posting a monolithic thread on an iPhone filled with dozens of links and photos and maybe 10 paragraphs of well thought out text? I can't. Yet, I like such posts. I create such posts.
Lastly, I appreciated all your words and did not consider them rambling at all. It's productive conversation in my book. So THANK YOU!
