The Daily Rave

[iris lilies]

I’m steaming mad about a forum I’ve been on since about 2003. it’s the St. Louis Post Dispatch forums. Some idiot tech bro wiped out my account along with many other accounts. It erased all my posts from the last year or so, since they only keep about a year’ worth of posts. But now there’s no history at all, including the year I joined.

There are so many tech problems plaguing the St. Louis Post dispatch online system. I’m not a subscriber now, the tech problems drove me away and it bugs me because I want access to local news and it’s hard to find it.

that makes me think about this website here which, when the day comes we shut it down, all of the posts which is kind of my personal diary will disappear. But I’m fine with that, I’ll live with it.

[Tradd]

IL, people on another forum have been talking about the slow death of forums. Most people have migrated to FB or other social media. A millennial told me a couple of years ago that he couldn’t navigate a big scuba forum. Yet he could figure out FB? Face palm!

[catherine]

IL, people on another forum have been talking about the slow death of forums. Most people have migrated to FB or other social media. A millennial told me a couple of years ago that he couldn’t navigate a big scuba forum. Yet he could figure out FB? Face palm!

I've had a similar experience with groups that I've been a part of. Also, when I do interviews with patients and they tell me about the information and support they get online, it is ALWAYS FB groups. The thing I like about FB groups is you can set them up to be private--you can even set them up so that no one even knows they exist! It's WAY easier to upload good photos and add other images.

I think the downside would be that once you are in the group I don't know if you can give yourself another name other than your FB account name. I guess you would have to set up a different FB account for that. So our anonymity WITHIN the group would be broken down unless you joined with a different name from a different account.

I don't think FB is hard to figure out.

[Tradd]

Forums are good for find out out specific info. Like dive gear reviews and discussions, diving techniques, etc. There are discussions that go on for hundreds of pages. They’re what comes up in searches for that topic. Not FB.

[ToomuchStuff]

Also with the forum, you can be more anonymous and Alan can get your IP and figure out the area you live, but your not giving a corporation all your info to sell to advertisers, etc.
I don't have or want a Facebook page, but may have to set one up to run the company one. (which I think is a crock)

[early morning]

thanks, nswef - appreciate the info - I may get brave enough to try it yet! RE: forums vs facebook - not on FB, see no reason to be there, very happy with the forum concept. I appreciate that it's mostly a user-ran entity, and that it's not a corporate shill. I appreciate the relative anonymity of these forums. AND I appreciate Alan, and all he does to keep us connected!! I many not agree with him often, but I do appreciate him, and everyone's input in discussions here. THIS is my happy place, lol. Or at least my on-line one

[catherine]

I agree that I wouldn't want to rock this boat and migrate to FB but I do see advantages for other purposes. I belong to a few private groups (a watercolor group, a neighborhood group, a finance group). I am posting less and less personal stuff on my FB page. But when I'm in my private groups, I feel much more comfortable about posting.

[iris lilies]

I think Facebook is hard to figure out, it’s not intuitive. And then they change it all the time. And then the response time is so bad so I never know gosh have they changed something So that no longer works? Or is it timed our! Or? I still haven’t figured out tagging. Yet I run a couple of Facebook plant pages and my last post got 900 likes.

Anymore I like Reddit. Reddit is simple. The functionality for me runs like a forum. Technically I suppose it has different properties from forum software, but I like it. It did take me a while to figure out because I joined at a time when there was old Reddit and new Reddit and I switched back-and-forth, and then I switched back-and-forth between the website and the app. But now I’m 100% new Reddit on the app.

I have checked out the simple living sub Reddit, and it’s not very interesting to me. Lots of post of of nature scapes, posts about going back to the land to live, etc. Besides, we can’t move to Reddit because some of us of a particular political stripe will be muzzled. There are only certain points of view allowed on Reddit. Why just yesterday I learned that only Republicans wear bras.

[catherine]

I still haven’t figured out tagging. Yet I run a couple of Facebook plant pages and my last post got 900 likes.

...Why just yesterday I learned that only Republicans wear bras.

Re tagging: I know. Some people don't get tagging and it drives me crazy. Someone will take a picture when I'm sloppily sucking down a wine, and they'll tag me, so I've learned to tell people in advance: DO NOT TAG ME WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!! I would never tag ANYONE without their permission.

Then my cousin "tags" people thinking she's creating a "group" but she's not so all of a sudden her random posts about our family are floating around to my friends list, which includes clients and other people who don't care a whit.'

Regarding the bra issue... really? How do you know that? I just came back from my 50th college reunion and I felt weird putting stockings on because supposedly. no one wears stockings anymore, but this liberal bleeding heart Democratic Socialist certainly had a lot of undergarments on, including a bra. Stockings and bras help keep me warm. I'm thinking back to our "pencil test" discussion and I STILL believe that if you can't pass the pencil test, you should wear a bra. About 10 years ago I could have passed it, but not these days.

[pinkytoe]

I have always liked Reddit too but notice changes since they went public. Many more ads and posts that look legit but are just more ads.