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by **Marye** » Wed May 17, 2006 3:34 pm

Are there fewer people on the boards since the new design was released, do you think?

by **Shapley** » Wed May 17, 2006 4:30 pm

It has been pretty quiet lately, hasn't it? I just figured everyone was busy, what with the booming economy and all the illegals refusing to work.

V/R
Shapley

by **OperaTenor** » Wed May 17, 2006 4:56 pm

Hi Mary,

Sure seems that way to me. I speculated as much elsewhere.

I have a feeling that for people who log on from work, the auotmatic log off every time you turn around has got to be a huge deterrent to posting.

by **BigJon@Work** » Wed May 17, 2006 5:54 pm

Automatic log-off has been fixed for me for over a week.

Like I said in another post, It seems more threads are being posted to, but less overall posts.

Perhaps you remember how quiet this BB was when OT and Piq last went on vacation. A Post Whore and/or pot stirrer can keep a board lively. Not that Piq is necessarily either. I think OT and Piq's post rates have both been way down recently.

by **OperaTenor** » Thu May 18, 2006 3:24 am

Automatic log off seems to be working too well for me - I get logged off many times a day.

My Post Whoring and pot stirring has been down because this hasn't been a fun place to be for me since the BBB software change. Having a lot of things I put some effort into to share get flushed with no warning, for no apparent reason, deflates my enthusiasm quite a bit.

As for speculating about our post rates and the number of threads being posted to, I don't suppose you have any numbers to back up that speculation?

by **Serenity** » Thu May 18, 2006 7:51 am

Hey, it's my 3 year anniversary on the boards! Yipee!

by **Shapley** » Thu May 18, 2006 8:56 am

Happy Anniversary!

by **Marye** » Thu May 18, 2006 8:57 am

It seems rather quiet to me since the new design. I don't get a chance to contribute as often as I would like but I do jump on to read posts while I eat my lunch or at the end of my working day (anywhere between 6 and 9 p.m.) and there isn't much to read... or I can't seem to find it readily enough. Maybe I am just not so used to it.

Change of subject:
Found an interesting website from the UK it seems (I just love the UK).

http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/

What do you make of it?

by **Schmeelkie** » Thu May 18, 2006 11:54 am

Those maps are cool. Think I saw some similar ones recently - maybe in Scientific American. Love how Europe gets a bit bigger, then shrinks considerably - the whole thing reminds me of balloons...

by **piqaboo** » Thu May 18, 2006 12:31 pm

Fun link, Marye! Thank you.
Have you settled your travel plans yet?

by **OperaTenor** » Thu May 18, 2006 4:30 pm

I found it interesting how Antarctica remained constant throughout the entire series.

by **BigJon@Work** » Thu May 18, 2006 4:30 pm

OperaTenor wrote: As for speculating about our post rates and the number of threads being posted to, I don't suppose you have any numbers to back up that speculation?

Just observations. Before the switch I used to open between 5 and 10 threads with new content each morning. Now I am normally opening 10 to 15. But before there would be many new posts in each thread, now there are usually only one or two new posts.

by **piqaboo** » Thu May 18, 2006 5:20 pm

I'm finding 2-5 active threads each am, where before TAT used to list a page full, sometimes two. The page roll-over was ~ 15 topics,
so Im thinking fewer threads are active.

by **Serenity** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:16 am

Wow! This Sunday morning is the busiest I've seen all week with seven people on the board at the same time.

by **OperaTenor** » Sun May 21, 2006 11:26 pm

I'm the lone logon right now....

by **Serenity** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:08 pm

I raced home to mow the lawn before the storms struck. Six inches are forecast over the weekend. Quarter-sized hail was supposed to fall. I shut off the computer and electronics, unplugged the important devices, postponed the laundry.....it got dark within the timeframe forecast on TV....but

Half-an-hour later, there was only a light drizzle.

4 hours later there is still only a light drizzle. I feel suckered-in.....

by **BenODen** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:23 pm

LOL, talk about yer hijack bumps!

I'm thinking that you'll get your due eventually if they're talking 6 inches of moisture. That's pretty hard to do in little isolated pockets! On the other hand, maybe you're behind a front that refuses to go away, in which case you're golden, and you get to play all weekend because you already did your work!

by **tan** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:54 am

..seems there are more readers than writers since the new format...
whenever i log on to kamuchea, i am scared by the number of hit- aka reads i do get!!! (..silent majority... whatever i guess)... :oops:

by **BigJon@Work** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:48 am

Serenity wrote:I raced home to mow the lawn before the storms struck. Six inches are forecast over the weekend. Quarter-sized hail was supposed to fall. I shut off the computer and electronics, unplugged the important devices, postponed the laundry.....it got dark within the timeframe forecast on TV....but

Half-an-hour later, there was only a light drizzle.

4 hours later there is still only a light drizzle. I feel suckered-in.....

Do you live where the TV newscasters lose their heads over every threatening storm? It's hilarious how the Philly TV weather reporters go over the top with each approaching storm. Death! Destruction! Dogs sleeping with Cats!

The knobs at one station tried to start a trend of naming the winter storms to imitate the hurricanes. Fell flat on their pompous asses. As in all things, my philosophy is; "Don't watch TV news."

by **barfle** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:07 am

DC had two months worth of rain over the weekend, and another month's worth yesterday. :shock:

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