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Registered Member #230
Joined: Tue Feb 21 2006, 08:01PM
Location: Gracefield lower Hutt
Posts: 284
I see from a day to day point of view that the board is nowhere as popular as once it was is this because of the latest security upgrade?? difficulty in posting images?? The new login that needs multiple tries to make it work???
Registered Member #27
Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 02:20AM
Location: Hyperborea
Posts: 2058
The technical problems and the lack of progress in fixing them has had a significantly negative effect on the forum. This has been a problem for many years and it has gradually become worse as the software has been aging/evolving.
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Joined: Sun Jun 06 2010, 02:20AM
Location: Dresden, Germany
Posts: 727
Society is changing too. Coilguns for example, are just not interesting any more. It is not only this forum, i dont find coilguns anywhere else on the internet. The login and broken state of the forum is no help for sure. Kids these days do not have the stamina to get through this. Additionally i kind of feel that laziness and creationism have won over engineering - doing real work is simply not cool anymore. Especially in the more exotic fields of our electronics hobby, there are not many good and (for modern standards) appealing sources out there. There are also too many people who have polished their hobby work so much that it is just intimidating to any newcomer. The standards are increasing. For the Facebook kiddies these days, if you cant share that you are the absolute best, you are a failure.
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Joined: Sun Nov 14 2010, 05:05PM
Location: UK
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There's plenty I want to post, I've finally got around to doing some interesting practical circuit work this past year or so, winding chokes, etc...
I'm just waiting until we can post pictures again, in the meantime, I'm experimenting, and using FaceBook groups, but I miss the expert advice here, but it's generally at least a minimum requirement to be able to post a schematic when asking a question, for example.....
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Joined: Wed Apr 29 2009, 12:22AM
Location: Los Altos, California
Posts: 1716
I make sure the capcha is obvious before ever bothering to type username and password.
Am beginning to think that we'll never again get easy picture posting with this software.
1 vote up for John's suggestion about getting 4hv set up to use phpBB.
No need to automatically link old threads. Anyone continuing an old thread can include a link. Not much would be lost. Existing posts less than 6 months old are text only, or have pictures included the hard way. Pictures in posts from before the great extinction are, as far as we know today, already lost.
When I have an extra half-hour to spare, to recover my imgur access (or flickr, etc), will post pictures of horizontal sundial progress. Just got the shortest and most challenging 2 1/2 months of stripe painted in one easy session, using a Mylar stencil laser-cut from my dxf file. Same stencil sheet includes the whole month of August, in two sections, to finish the 12:00 hour line.
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