The Browns Board Lives: New Owner, New System, Same Data
-
Early observations of the format.
It’s not as user friendly on my mobile phone. That’s likely a “me” problem with my diminishing eyesight, but it’s tougher to scroll at the pace l’m used to.
Following the flow of the convo is tougher too. Again, likely a me problem. Who is quoting who is tougher to pick up.
Can l post a photo?
-
-
Early observations of the format.
It’s not as user friendly on my mobile phone. That’s likely a “me” problem with my diminishing eyesight, but it’s tougher to scroll at the pace l’m used to.
Following the flow of the convo is tougher too. Again, likely a me problem. Who is quoting who is tougher to pick up.
Can l post a photo?
@Ibleedbrown said:
Early observations of the format.
It’s not as user friendly on my mobile phone. That’s likely a “me” problem with my diminishing eyesight, but it’s tougher to scroll at the pace l’m used to.
Following the flow of the convo is tougher too. Again, likely a me problem. Who is quoting who is tougher to pick up.
Can l post a photo?
I can do anything, know that invision is actually a good modern product - it just costs a boat load and they hold your data hostage on their cloud platform. So my goal was to get out of it. But I can do anything and have already changed the NodeBB format a whole lot.
Though I am aware of some issues like mobile not being great and things - like I said I realized it was a TNF game against Pittsburgh and I didnt wanna keep the site offline for it. Desktop format is good but different, in that its a consistently scrolling page not explicitly paginated.@Zombo-Dawg said:
@Ibleedbrown I am Zombo!
Z
Look at your email and change the password for the proper account, if you didnt get it let me know. -
@Ibleedbrown said:
i don’t think that’s fair. The poliboard predates Stan’s passing and Steve’s taking over, and its purpose all along was to keep the politics off the main board.
By and large it accomplished that. I don’t know if anyone could have predicted how gross and weird it would turn in to, but clearly there’s an outlet for it. It was statistically the second most popular forum here. I bear my part of the shame in that.
But it was also a place we could discuss politics on the internet with entities we were reasonably certain were actual people, and l think that’s a diminishing thing on the internet these days.
Open to bringing it back, but this board kinda died over the last few years and that board especially felt completely unmoderated and unregulated.
Not that we should censor opinions or suppress opposing views (I don't believe in that, of course) - but we also cant be linking facebook as a source of information or having name and shame for people's personal social media accounts.
Generally political boards are tough...and for the re-launch I felt it best not to try to solve the age old problem that nobody else has been able to solve. (I mean if you look at 4chan, twitter, facebook, bluesky) - every political board turns into an echo chamber.
I wish the world wasn't like that and people could be reasonable and discuss things rationally, but alas that is especially not the case with politics for whateverreasons.@bbedward said:
Open to bringing it back, but this board kinda died over the last few years and that board especially felt completely unmoderated and unregulated.
Not that we should censor opinions or suppress opposing views (I don't believe in that, of course) - but we also cant be linking facebook as a source of information or having name and shame for people's personal social media accounts.
Generally political boards are tough...and for the re-launch I felt it best not to try to solve the age old problem that nobody else has been able to solve. (I mean if you look at 4chan, twitter, facebook, bluesky) - every political board turns into an echo chamber.
I wish the world wasn't like that and people could be reasonable and discuss things rationally, but alas that is especially not the case with politics for whateverreasons.
I don’t think you can moderate it any better than it has been moderated given the current state of political news coverage these days. Steve and Woody kept the bots and the spam and the porn out, but the end result is what it is.
it’s real people with tinfoil hats.
I could moderate it. Woody has shown he can too. Axe is a good candidate if he’s willing to do it. But l don’t think any of us will do anything more that keep the bots and the spam and the porn out, so you’ll be stuck with the same bullshit. -
The amount of emoticons l can use for reactions is overwhelming. If l use an inappropriate emoticon, please know that l’m just trying to use them all at least once.
-
@Ibleedbrown I am Zombo!
Z@Zombo-Dawg said:
@Ibleedbrown I am Zombo!
Z
I don’t believe you -
Thank you for keeping the board alive
-
How do I go back to see prior posts on this thread (or any thread)?
-
Never mind-I see the little movable rectangle just to the right of last post can take me back in the thread.
Hello! It looks like you're interested in this conversation, but you don't have an account yet.
Getting fed up of having to scroll through the same posts each visit? When you register for an account, you'll always come back to exactly where you were before, and choose to be notified of new replies (either via email, or push notification). You'll also be able to save bookmarks and upvote posts to show your appreciation to other community members.
With your input, this post could be even better 💗
Register Login