How do you know what's interesting before you see it? On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 4:56 PM Garak via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > It's no secret that I'm one of the main drivers of the forum, funnily in > part for reasons some name as biggest disadvantages - namely the (almost > self-)organizing of topics belonging together and grouping them, > actually making it easier in my opinion to skip what's not interesting > to me and on the other hand to follow a single topic for a longer time - > some mailing software tries to do this, but this Forum/list topic > already has split in two display groups for me on my Thunderbird. In a > forum I'd simply merge them - and move messages someone had sent to the > public by accident - like a certain president of ours may have done - > discreetly out of public view. > > I'm aware that some refuse to use the forum, and of those who use it, > only few take full advantage of things like text formatting or our own > additions like the [species] [/species] code creating dynamic links and > image popups to the wiki even staying valid if a species has not yet > been added. Fits the point Mary Sue made about wiki editing and people > being easily scared away by a little markup - I might be prone to > underestimating that hurdle due to my technical training. Not that it > was easy to keep volunteers in position in any organization. > > As a little sidenote I'd like to point out that if this discussion looks > like preferring the List side it is actually a little bit loopsided as > the forum as of yet has no notice of this discussion - splitting in two > communities was one of our worst fears, but in the end we took the risk, > somewhat sure that a good part of the community would see the benefits > of what I still believe to be a step forward. > > -- > Martin (pronoun: he) > ---------------------------------------------- > Southern Germany > Likely zone 7a > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…