Bye Bye Forums

I see no Rime thread!

Thank you everyone for posting to my blogrum thread. If it raises awareness by even the slightest amount it is better than nothing.

I was initially kind of disappointed that it devolved into a 'mine is better than yours' to and fro regarding the forums vs the blogs but Raudf made a great observation that the tussle served to keep the topic in the "Popular questions" sidebar and the topic has now been viewed over 1,000 times which does make it stand out from the pack.

It was noted that "Second Life Answers" is a resident section and Linden involvement is unlikely but I can't believe it will be totally ignored. Maybe I'm just naive, but I live in hope.

Rime

No Rime nor reason?

I won't be found in their blogs or answers sections.

I do occasionally use the dash board to see who is online when I am being iffy about deciding to log in or not.

... oh, I won't be bothering with third party forums either.

'Scuse me for a bit. I have to go stick a finger in UnkleBob's eye . . .

You conned me into going into a discussion on Second Life Answers!

SL Answers is cack!

*whips off her pants and........Oh wait.

YAY!!!!

It was in the service of a good cause, Ciaran. You won't regret it . . . (I hope).

He might not regret it, but if he's been hitting the Stella again, you might.

The suspense is killing me! Wait I need sleep, don't move, I'll be back tomorrow evening!

She's safe, that's only an issue on Fridays, Saturdays and some holy days of obligation!

It was a lovely post. I even quoted it in my most recent contribution there.

I posted. For some reason Unkabob seemed to take the comments personally, as though he had to defend LL. I also think he doesn't participate in other public discussions very much. If the blogs are all he knows, then of course he thinks it's fine. But for anyone who uses many different forums and communication venues, there are certain expectations about how things should be laid out and how they should work. The blogs don't have those things. But Unka doesn't know that.

There used to be a user operated forum very much like this one at slhomepage.com. It's closed now.

It used vBulletin and had the same forum structure and forum names as this forum has.

I started one of those free forums, through LeFora, I think it is, and I can't even get a pity post.

We could always start a WEB meta-JIRA issue to bundle up all of the individual JIRAs that address problems or lack of functionality of the blog vs the actual forums.

At the very least there would be a vote number associated to show the "everyone likes the blog, they're perfect!" Lindens that are some signficant shortcomings.

So it would be entitled "The LL blog Sucks?" I can get behind that.

Have to give him the benefit of the doubt, because he said that he'd tried 'over here' and hated it. *shrug*. To each his own. How things 'should' be laid out may be a matter of preference? He seems to need to respond to every post over there, but he 'has' said, as wordy as he is, that he does feel that both venues are valuable to those who like each one, and should both be kept. He seems harmless, just chatty, lol.

Fire it up! I'm there.

I suppose the timing is somewhat good for me. I went back to work full time at the beginning of the year and so my forum time has drastically cut. Therefore, my forum time is already down to less than a half hour on work days. I've signed up at a few of the other places, but I'm having a hard time getting my heart into things there. To me, this is home.

He has, by far, the most 'points' over there but I'm not sure I get where he's coming from.

/me asked a couple questions over there yesterday. One basically asking how to a Find Posts on the things M has said - surprisingly frustrating to make myself understood and get a straight answer. The other was on how to report bad posts over there - the answer, which I find a little hard to believe but appears to be true, is to contact Lexie Linden directly..

https://blogs.secondlife.com/thread/7822
https://blogs.secondlife.com/thread/7828

They claim SLA is self-moderated but I'm not sure I buy that.

The problem with any and all of the alternative forums is that 'our family' here will be split amongst them all. Part of what makes this forum is 'all of us'. No matter what alternative I chose, I would only have 'some of us' for company there.

I'm going to try to take a positive outlook on it. Most of the times when I go on my "I hate SL " binges and don't log in for sometimes weeks, it usually is because of something in the forum I see,and idiotic move by either LL or the various thieves , griefers and miscreants.

Since once this place closes, I won't see any of that I may get my SL enjoyment back up to a respectable level. Once we are done here, and I've sat Shiva for awhile, I will probably look in at SLU periodically to see if anything is happening, but I doubt I will participate in any appreciable level. I'm forum'ed out.

That is part of the problem. We found common ground here because it was the "offical" forum. This forum really has no distict personality of it's own, although some might disagree with that. But all the 3rd party forums do, and people will be drawn to whichever one suits their tastes.