Forum update - comments here please

[munruben]

I don't know if its just me but I feel that the blogs has taken something away from the forum. I think some of the things being discussed in the blogs used to be the type of thing that was thrown open for general discussion in here and everyone could learn from these ideas and ideals and comment accordingly. I feel the blogs has separated members to some extent.

There are topics being discussed in the blogs that would be beneficial to all members in the open forum rather than having them discussed elsewhere. Basically, we all have at least one common interest in the forum and that is woodworking in one form or another. Surely, if we have to have the blogs, they should be confined to discussing topics other than woodworking. Shouldn't woodworking topics be reserved for discussion here, like the were before?

Gentlemen! please, if you have woodworking in mind then lets have it tabled in here where we can all share in the experience. I must admit I have only been to the blogs a few times since they started and have found some interesting topics but why should I need to search elsewhere for topics that I feel should be here in the first place.
Let's not lose that "family feel" this site had where all of us took part, or could take part if we wished, in all topics.

I am sure there will be many member who will not go to the trouble to chase up topics in blogs but would comment on some of these topics if they were aired here.
Like I said, maybe its just me but seems like we are missing a bit of that family feeling here at the moment by separating the members.
By all means, have the blogs but let them be reserved for topics other than woodworking and associated topics of the forum.

[pawnhead]

Just browsing through the WoodWiki (TTiTs intraspecific antagonism) and clicked on the image link - which seems to be broken, BTW, but the page is incomplete anyway so that's irrelevant.

It's not his article. It came from Wikipedia, just like every other 'random article' I've looked at through the WoodiesWiki. And when you click on 'Discussion', it automatically posts a thread that makes it look like you're the one who 'lifted' the article to the WoodiesWiki without crediting Wikipedia.
If you look at Article Discussions, then you'll notice a few other threads that were unintentionally started by members here.

By all means, have the blogs but let them be reserved for topics other than woodworking and associated topics of the forum.

That's what I've been doing, but there's not a lot of traffic there so I don't know if I'll bother anymore.
I think it's alright for a WIP, so long as it's a reproduction of what's in the forums already, or it's linked to in the forums. Some people may like to catalogue all their work in one place, and link to it in a thread.
It may generate interest in some of their other projects as well if people take a closer look at their blogs.

[Stuart]

I don't see the blogs as being a problem needing solving.

In a month, there have only been 84 entries in the 29 blogs. How many minutes on the main forum does it take to have 84 posts? Or perhaps you could count it as threads started - how many hours before 84 new threads are created?

As to keeping woodworking out of the blogs - this is a woodworking forum - why wouldn't you want to use the best tool available to get across the information you want to share? Sometimes that will be a thread in a forum, sometimes a blog entry (such as a WIP). As the blog area grows, some will become invaluable in their own right, and you'll make a point of checking them in the same way as you check your favourite forums. Others will prove to hold no interest for you, and you won't look.

If you are the type that reads every single post in every single forum, then sure, here's a few more that you now have to check. (Of course, if you are that sort, let us know - the world needs more mods!)

I have a number of forums that I check as a matter of course all in one bookmark dropdown on my toolbar. When I want to check them, I just go to that dropdown and say "open all in tabs" It takes a few seconds to then click on each tab, see if there is new content (including the blogs), and close the tab if there is not.

Sorry, but I don't see a problem here.

[munruben]

Sorry, but I don't see a problem here.

I agree if blogs are showing WIP or linking to a thread then that is acceptable and probably needed. I should have been more thoughtful when I suggested woodworking should be left out of the blogs. I just think that more members would have responded to some of the topics mentioned in the blogs if they had been posted in threads in the main forums but I've been wrong before.
Maybe it just takes time for people like me to adapt to changes.

[wheelinround]

Are there changes being made very few new posts this morning.
A joke i put in yesterday has been sent to the Orange room no idea why unles the mention of catholics is the problem. yet it is showing or was showing in the Ispy & new posts

[RETIRED]

Are there changes being made very few new posts this morning.
A joke i put in yesterday has been sent to the Orange room no idea why unles the mention of catholics is the problem. yet it is showing or was showing in the Ispy & new posts

Not catholics but the last bit. Some here take offence.

[wheelinround]

Not catholics but the last bit. Some here take offence.

fair enough no offense meant

[Waldo]

G'day,

Something wird going on here. Using a mac with Safari 2.0.4 this is what I get as of 11:30 tonight.

[DJ’s Timber]

G'day,

Something wird going on here. Using a mac with Safari 2.0.4 this is what I get as of 11:30 tonight.

Yeah, it's you mac users (watching out for the brick now)

[Pusser]

I agree if blogs are showing WIP or linking to a thread then that is acceptable and probably needed. I should have been more thoughtful when I suggested woodworking should be left out of the blogs. I just think that more members would have responded to some of the topics mentioned in the blogs if they had been posted in threads in the main forums but I've been wrong before.
Maybe it just takes time for people like me to adapt to changes.

Munrubin - you may have been wrong before but not this time
Pusser

[Waldo]

Yeah, it's you mac users (watching out for the brick now)

Just as soon as I can find it Dj.





(I knew someone would have a go when I typed "Mac")

[reybec]

G'day,

Something wird going on here. Using a mac with Safari 2.0.4 this is what I get as of 11:30 tonight.

i'm getting the same thing using windows

[Wood Butcher]

We are trying out some new ideas for the forum display based on comments from the Melbourne WWW Show. If you haven't already please read Neils's announcement "Changes to (Rearranging) the Forums Front Page", it explains whats going on.

[wheelinround]

We are trying out some new ideas for the forum display based on comments from the Melbourne WWW Show. If you haven't already please read Neils's announcement "Changes to (Rearranging) the Forums Front Page", it explains whats going on.

WB trying not using the chainsaw that might help

or were you just pruning and taking the branches off got over exuberant.

Same as Waldo's page shot on PC using Firefox

[Waldo]

G'day,

Can I put my hand up and say the collapsed version of the home page is fugly without being offensive to anyone. I can't see any recent posts in it, it was grat before but now

Sorry