Q & A Time!

[Kai Robinson]

In anticipation of our go-live date of October 31st, all of us on the Admin team would like to reach out to you all and invite you to field some questions for us to answer!

Our plan is to collate these questions and answer them on a Youtube livestream, on our go-live date.

Add your questions below and be as in-depth as you like!

 

[Drake]

1. What were your goals in creating this website?
2. Any plans to foster active community engagement with contests or events?
3. Where did all these Macintosh computers come from?

 

[PotatoFi]

1. Who are the Administrators and Moderators?
2. What kind of hosting are you using?
3. How is it funded?
4. Who's idea was this, anyway?!

 

[DeChief]

1. Who is Kai Robinson?
2. What is Kai Robinson?
3. Will he ever return to his home planet?

 

[The House of Moth]

First of all, awesome this site even exists! Many have come and gone over the years so:
1. What will be done to ensure survival of this forum and it’s contents (backups etc.)?
2. Are images and other attachments hosted on this server or hotlinked from wherever (broken image links 10 years from now)?
3. Will cookies be served on launch day?

 

[CodeProfessor]

Is this website be intended to be only a forum for discussion or is it intended to be a forum for discussion as well as a wiki / repository for archiving information / documentation / knowledge / guides?

I am doing a lot of AppleTalk research and as I do that, I would like share what I find, to save the next person time. If there is / could be a wiki style section, many of us could maintain a variety of topics - I would be all over that.

In the way that the Macintosh garden is a repository for software, can this website be a repository for knowledge as well as a discussion forum?

If the answer is yes, how would this be envisioned?

For example, I am thinking of the CapNet document in which the creator pleads for people to repost it so it does not get lost over time... I have found so many dead links to what could be useful documents.

I don't want to condone plagerism, but perhaps a policy of ethically conducted backups of text and documwntation with proper citation.

To Dogcow's point, perhaps a future discussion could be had about how the community can maintain a distributed backup of the knowledge contained within this website.

If I am describing a different website I don't know about yet feel, free to let me know .

Awesome job on the site!

 

[Androda]

My questions are primarily around site management.

Is there an information page showing who all the admins / staff / site officials are?
Is there an upper limit planned on the number of site officials?
Is there a process for 'demoting' site officials for misbehavior or other issues?
How were the current site officials chosen?
What's the difference between staff, administrator, moderator, etc?
What's the funding model?
How is the site being messaged / announced?

In the event of a wide ranging catastrophe, can we depend on Kai to send out Jaffa Cakes as emotional support?

 

[MacAttack]

When will you let Mac Yak announce the site. LOL

 

[PotatoFi]

1. Who is Kai Robinson?
2. What is Kai Robinson?
3. Will he ever return to his home planet?

I'll do you one better! Why is Kai Robinson!?

 

[Mr. Fahrenheit]

I'll do you one better! Why is Kai Robinson!?

Kai doesn't fit in a who, a what, or a how. Kai is more of a 'where and when'. As in, 'When is Kai Robinson?', and 'Where is Kai Robinson?'. The answer to both is... yes.

 

[fehervaria]

Kai doesn't fit in a who, a what, or a how. Kai is more of a 'where and when'. As in, 'When is Kai Robinson?', and 'Where is Kai Robinson?'. The answer to both is... yes.

It seems to be, we have THE answer, now we need to find the correct questions.

 

[fehervaria]

We have on the front page many categories, but where is the limit to discuss about "old computers", fixing experiences, or new developments for the vintage computers? Only vintage computers? What is "vintage"?
Will TinkerDifferent "accept" IBM or PC topics?
Will TinkerDifferent "accept" actual topics, like Windows 11 or macOS 12 discussions?

 

[Ron's Computer Videos]

Will there be a patron announced to help support the site financially?

 

[torbar]

I have a question for @PotatoFi (well, two)

1- what is the best potato
2- what is the best wifi?

 

[PotatoFi]

I have a question for @PotatoFi (well, two)

1- what is the best potato
2- what is the best wifi?

1. The best potato is the one you have.
2. I'll tell you someday, but you have to learn the secret 4-way handshake first.

 

[torbar]

1. The best potato is the one you have.
2. I'll tell you someday, but you have to learn the secret 4-way handshake first.

I'd tell you a UDP joke but you might not get it

 

[Branchus]

Tune in on Saturday night (or Sunday morning, depending on your timezone) for the Tinker Different Q&A livestream!

 

[fehervaria]

Tune in on Saturday night (or Sunday morning, depending on your timezone) for the Tinker Different Q&A livestream!

Could you please give us an exact time with timezone? Based on the given timezone, we can "calculate" when it will be in our time. (My timezone is GMT+1, Summertime yet)

 

[Ron's Computer Videos]

Watching the site trailer, I had no idea that this was the Halloween jump-scare I had been waiting for my whole retrocomputing life.

 

[Ron's Computer Videos]

Could you please give us an exact time with timezone? Based on the given timezone, we can "calculate" when it will be in our time. (My timezone is GMT+1, Summertime yet)

If you set a reminder for the stream on YouTube, it should automatically convert the time of the stream to your local time.