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Scott5114

Quote from: Rothman on October 20, 2024, 09:11:08 AMYou can already see participation by expert roadgeeks on here waning over the last few years, while a few of us still endure.  It's hard for me to not see the solution as having a more rigid barrier between the real stuff and fictional/off-topic material.  That's unfortunately a symptom of the forum's design, where you have to sift through the good and the bad in the unread post list without an ability to filter out boards (e.g., Fictional).  When the complaint is that you have to plow through the chaff, then making that process easier is the solution.

Why not just look at the boards you are interested in directly rather than using the unread post list? This is what I do—I start at "General Highway Talk" and go down the list skipping the ones that I don't need to look at. Any threads that have unread posts will be labeled as such.
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Scott5114

Quote from: JayhawkCO on October 22, 2024, 01:34:37 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on October 22, 2024, 12:16:58 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on October 22, 2024, 12:01:48 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on October 22, 2024, 11:59:54 AM.... For example, when is the last time sometime has heard from kphoger?

He was last active on October 1, but I seem to recall that it's not unusual for him to have extended absences.

Yes, I think this is the longest one also.  And who knows what the actual reason is?  He'd probably say if someone asked him (he has in the past).

I should clarify, all the above I feel like the forum has moved past.  It is way harder for spammy posters to even register which I think is acting as a filter.  Even if they got on and starting causing havoc, I think the mod staff likely will act quickly.

I talk to him offline. He's just been busy and doesn't like the new format.

At this point the continued existence of the "new format" is entirely my fault, and I'm sorry it is taking so long. When I get back to Nevada (I am currently in Oklahoma) I will try and force myself to get back to work on fixing that.
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vdeane

I think it's interesting that people would be put off enough from the color scheme to not browse the forum.  Like, I liked the old colors too, but it's really about the information.
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LilianaUwU

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Rothman

Quote from: Scott5114 on October 22, 2024, 08:02:22 PM
Quote from: Rothman on October 20, 2024, 09:11:08 AMYou can already see participation by expert roadgeeks on here waning over the last few years, while a few of us still endure.  It's hard for me to not see the solution as having a more rigid barrier between the real stuff and fictional/off-topic material.  That's unfortunately a symptom of the forum's design, where you have to sift through the good and the bad in the unread post list without an ability to filter out boards (e.g., Fictional).  When the complaint is that you have to plow through the chaff, then making that process easier is the solution.

Why not just look at the boards you are interested in directly rather than using the unread post list? This is what I do—I start at "General Highway Talk" and go down the list skipping the ones that I don't need to look at. Any threads that have unread posts will be labeled as such.

Because that's even more time consuming than utilizing the unread post list.  Clicking back and forth through threads and then hunting and pecking for those "new" logos is even more work.

And, it's not just a matter of threads that I'm interested in, but the crud that bleeds into them.  Really stuck with me when another roadgeek said something like, "Reading AARoads is such a chore."  It absolutely is, but the good stuff is good...
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US 89

Quote from: vdeane on October 22, 2024, 08:40:12 PMI think it's interesting that people would be put off enough from the color scheme to not browse the forum.  Like, I liked the old colors too, but it's really about the information.

Nah, I get it. I apparently went 5-6 months this year without ever posting on here because life got very busy and I barely had any free time. When you've been away that long, a new color scheme and layout really can be just enough to remove a lot of the sense of familiarity you might have with the forum.

Scott5114

Quote from: LilianaUwU on October 22, 2024, 09:45:35 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 22, 2024, 08:07:51 PM(I am currently in Oklahoma)
why

My mother got me tickets to a Small Town Murder live show in Oklahoma City before she knew we would be living elsewhere by the date of the show. (It was a very good show—I laughed so hard I got a nosebleed—and we got to briefly hang out with one of the comedians afterward, so I consider the trip to be worth it...though I hope next time we see them it's in Salt Lake or Phoenix.)
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vdeane

Quote from: Rothman on October 22, 2024, 11:42:25 PMBecause that's even more time consuming than utilizing the unread post list.  Clicking back and forth through threads and then hunting and pecking for those "new" logos is even more work.

And, it's not just a matter of threads that I'm interested in, but the crud that bleeds into them.  Really stuck with me when another roadgeek said something like, "Reading AARoads is such a chore."  It absolutely is, but the good stuff is good...
My method on my main forum checks is to queue up the boards and threads in separate tabs, so I don't have to keep moving around (that, and there was a time when the forum software couldn't be trusted not to do anything weird with what boards were marked read/unread when doing so).  Of course, that does mean that I currently have 18 forum tabs open at once until I read more threads and close them.

And stuff cropping up on the main threads is definitely an issue.  I'd rather read three threads on urinal cake flavors (apple juice or lemonade?) than a multi-page argument about the control cities used in New Jersey (which seems to happen on an annual basis - at least).

Quote from: US 89 on October 23, 2024, 01:07:33 AM
Quote from: vdeane on October 22, 2024, 08:40:12 PMI think it's interesting that people would be put off enough from the color scheme to not browse the forum.  Like, I liked the old colors too, but it's really about the information.

Nah, I get it. I apparently went 5-6 months this year without ever posting on here because life got very busy and I barely had any free time. When you've been away that long, a new color scheme and layout really can be just enough to remove a lot of the sense of familiarity you might have with the forum.
Ah.  Since I check it at least once a day (usually twice), for me it was just slipping right back in, everything being a lot more white and a lot less green aside.  And at least the new features were neat.
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Rothman

Quote from: vdeane on October 23, 2024, 12:47:58 PM
Quote from: Rothman on October 22, 2024, 11:42:25 PMBecause that's even more time consuming than utilizing the unread post list.  Clicking back and forth through threads and then hunting and pecking for those "new" logos is even more work.

And, it's not just a matter of threads that I'm interested in, but the crud that bleeds into them.  Really stuck with me when another roadgeek said something like, "Reading AARoads is such a chore."  It absolutely is, but the good stuff is good...
My method on my main forum checks is to queue up the boards and threads in separate tabs, so I don't have to keep moving around (that, and there was a time when the forum software couldn't be trusted not to do anything weird with what boards were marked read/unread when doing so).  Of course, that does mean that I currently have 18 forum tabs open at once until I read more threads and close them.

And stuff cropping up on the main threads is definitely an issue.  I'd rather read three threads on urinal cake flavors (apple juice or lemonade?) than a multi-page argument about the control cities used in New Jersey (which seems to happen on an annual basis - at least).


I usually read the forum on my phone. :D
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Max Rockatansky

95% of the time I just use the vanilla browser on the phone.  I briefly tried TapTalk but it didn't do much for me.

Rothman

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on October 23, 2024, 01:12:41 PM95% of the time I just use the vanilla browser on the phone.  I briefly tried TapTalk but it didn't do much for me.

I use Chrome on my phone.  Tapatalk totally broke for me.
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1995hoo

Tapatalk stopped working for me as well. I used to use it primarily when I wanted to post a photo. Once Photobucket went rogue, I was too lazy to sign up for some other hosting service because Tapatalk would host a photo as part of a forum post. That worked for a while and now the app seems not to work properly on either my iPhone or my iPad.
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Molandfreak

Browsing from my phone is primarily why I want a dark mode if we're stuck with this theme.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on December 05, 2023, 08:24:57 PMAASHTO attributes 28.5% of highway inventory shrink to bad road fan social media posts.

Scott5114

Quote from: Molandfreak on October 23, 2024, 03:36:16 PMif we're stuck with this theme.

We aren't. I just haven't made the time to work on it.
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IowaTraveler

If I had a nickel for every Midwest state whose second-largest city has the word 'Rapid' in its name, I'd have three nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened thrice.

ZLoth

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From The Register:

Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Don't hold your breath Putin

QuoteA Russian court has ruled that Google owes Russian media stations around $20 decillion in fines for blocking their content, and the fines could get bigger.

To put that into perspective, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is peanuts compared to the prospective fine. Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow - but on Tuesday fell a little short of that mark when it posted $88 billion quarterly revenue.
FULL ARTICLE HERE

From Daily Mail:

Russia 'fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000' - more than all the money in the world
QuoteGoogle has been fined a staggering 20 decillion dollars by a Russian court - more than all the money in the world, according to reports.

The tech giant is facing claims from 17 Russian TV channels after banning their accounts on YouTube, which it owns, as a result of international sanctions.
FULL ARTICLE HERE

Isn't that a type of number that only a young kid playing with their toys could come up with? Or some certain small nations whose runaway inflation rate exceeds a thousand percent?
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GaryV

Maybe they meant rubles, and it's really worth about $100.00

hotdogPi

Quote from: GaryV on October 30, 2024, 09:17:38 AMMaybe they meant rubles, and it's really worth about $100.00


Rubles aren't that worthless. However, I have a 50 para (i.e. 1/2 dinar) coin from Yugoslavia from 1953. That one is 2.6×10^31 of those coins to the US dollar.
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Rothman

Quote from: hotdogPi on October 30, 2024, 09:26:25 AM
Quote from: GaryV on October 30, 2024, 09:17:38 AMMaybe they meant rubles, and it's really worth about $100.00


Rubles aren't that worthless. However, I have a 50 para (i.e. 1/2 dinar) coin from Yugoslavia from 1953. That one is 2.6×10^31 of those coins to the US dollar.

I've got USSR rubles and *gasp* kopecks.  When I was in Russia in the mid-'90s, you'd find an old kopeck every now and then.  They were worthless (rubles were 2500 to 5000 to a dollar when I lived there).
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GaryV

We need a sarcasm icon or emoji.

Rothman

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Big John

Quote from: GaryV on October 30, 2024, 11:11:52 AMWe need a sarcasm icon or emoji.
Put /s at the end of the post.

ZLoth

Quote from: GaryV on October 30, 2024, 09:17:38 AMMaybe they meant rubles, and it's really worth about $100.00

Per this article:
QuoteThe number in rubles is even more absurd: ₽2 undecillion, or two followed by 36 zeroes.
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mgk920

Quote from: GaryV on October 30, 2024, 09:17:38 AMMaybe they meant rubles, and it's really worth about $100.00


They could pay in Zimbabwe dollars, too.

 :nod:

Mike

Big John

Quote from: mgk920 on October 30, 2024, 11:32:51 AM
Quote from: GaryV on October 30, 2024, 09:17:38 AMMaybe they meant rubles, and it's really worth about $100.00


They could pay in Zimbabwe dollars, too.

 :nod:

Mike




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