68kmla MIA

[Trash80toG4]

The reason I effectively abandoned this forum is that the members of TD by and large seem to gravitate towards the discord channel and leave the forum to stagnate. Discord IMO is a very transient platform, and unless you are an active participant in a conversation that conversation is effectively lost to the sands of time as soon as the focus shifts. It's a great social platform, but a very poor information platform.

Bingo! Discord appears to be almost or even more ephemeral than texting:

- First: mail correspondence was the thing, with letters from folks like the letters of correspondence here in the U.S. available for centuries alongside letters from the Renaissance and back to the "letters" to the Ephesians and before. Oral tradition -> print there.

- Email has relegated such communication to folks of note who think to gift such to posterity. Very rarely heard of.

- Texting has all but eliminated email but for official business and longer "conversations."

- Don't wanna think about what social media has done.

- There's no Internet Archive for the likes of Discord from what I've heard?

So get the heck off Discord! Maybe use it as texting and the like. Post information on forums swept by the Archive or all is lost, no?

IMO of course.

 

[ClassicHasClass]

Sadly, it's now defunct. Laurie Duncan (aka MacSamurai Consulting) gave it life and ran it. That is, until the day she decided to suddenly end it.

Nekochan ended the same way. Big loss.

 

[Concorde1993]

Yeah sorry for the manual approval, we had too many spam bots signing up en-masse. Wanted to make sure joiners were real people!

Np

 

[Kai Robinson]

I know that one barrier for a lot of people has been that there were too many subcategories and it was potentially confusing where to post. Lately, i've been tidying and consolidating the options - hopefully it'll be simpler to people now!

 

[Paralel]

It will be back. It always does.

Reminds me of fungus... (IRL my field is Medicine)

 

[JDW]

I signed up to TD I think quite early and posted here a bit at the time, but I gradually returned to 68mla and rarely visit this forum anymore. The reason I effectively abandoned this forum is that the members of TD by and large seem to gravitate towards the discord channel and leave the forum to stagnate.

I’m terribly sorry to hear that. And you can know I feel that from the heart based upon what I wrote earlier in this thread.

I’m going be repeating myself yet again, but I don’t want my previous words to be overlooked…

Our board is comprised of people “elected“ from the community, who also need to be active on this forum for the past six months, and in good standing, simply so we don’t get trolls elected to the board or people who otherwise hate this forum. But the barrier entry is not high.

Past board members decided to create the Discord. That doesn’t mean a future board would decide to keep it, especially if that future Board is comprised to people who dislike it because it detracts from the main forum.

Realistically, it’s unlikely the Discord would be done away with for the following two reasons:

1) Discord is shockingly popular among people younger than myself.

2) Future Board members will be comprised of our younger people, not older people.

But at the same time, the facts that I presented in my earlier post in this thread or true:

1) Posts on Discord aren’t picked up by Google and therefore your posts there are basically sent to into a black hole.

2) Discord takes activity away from the main forum, and the main forum is indexed by Google.

In other words, it’s not simply a matter of me, being 55 years old and therefore an old guy I guess, disliking Discord. There’s more to it than just that. I want the main forum to thrive. That’s why I do my darndest to reply people whenever I have the opportunityand I also manually approve people at times when it comes to new registrations.

Unlike other forums run by a perpetual king, this forum elects its Board and therefore has the potential to change.

You also have the right to contact Admins or mods or board members to express your opinion, and you will not be punished or harassed for expressing that opinion.

I would encourage people to consider being elected to the board and expressing their opinions, rather than write our form off as a lost cause. You really do have the power to change things. And without change, things stagnate.

Yeah, it’s gonna be an uphill battle to fight against something as popular as Discord, but Mac clones were popular back in the day too, even though they weren’t best for Apple.

 

[PPC_505]

There's like two annoying people there and the rest are some of the best and most knowledgeable people I've met. I wish they'd just deal with the couple pretentious sarcastic people so we'd all have less trouble. I've reported the one worst offender's posts probably half a dozen times over the past two years but nothing ever happens.

As for the site being down again, they've posted about it on their Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/68kmla.bsky.social

Heh. I love that I know exactly who you're referring to.