Anyone think it’s worth keeping this forum up? I was hoping it would become a place for general nerdery, but it’s been silent for weeks now. The one benefit is it provides me with a self-contained system for blog comments, but even those have become few and far between (mostly because I’ve primarily been posting giveaways lately, of course).
It’s costing me about $30/mo to run this, and if there’s not a lot of interest from the community, I could put some of that money toward another commenting system, I guess. I really like having the forum, it’s just sad to see it so quiet.
It did get pretty quiet. I come everyday to see if there is anything new. Maybe a tech support forum for your tools and general nerdery could be mixed together to make it more informative.
Getting nvUltra out might also help with the traffic.
Yeah, tech support forum was partially what this was supposed to be. I’d actually like to move Marked support to here instead of Tender eventually. I was kind of hoping that people with questions on other tools would post here, but I think I failed to start directing people here. I should work on that. I get emails for support every day, I could easily request that they post the question on the forum and let everyone see the answers and even pitch in. Failure to do that is on me.
Thanks for the feedback, Jim. I’m realizing if I want this thing to take off, I need to put a lot more effort into it :). I was hoping that the community would have more questions that would spark conversations, but that may be up to me for a while.
I’m sorry I don’t participate. I’m not a programmer, and I am currently a full time care-giver for my mom.
That said, as a former madminanager of a very large decades-old forum, the summer means a drop in activity, as does for reasons I don’t really know, the month of February.
@Lisa oh please don’t take this thread as me scolding anyone for a lack of participation. I need to figure out how to give people something to participate in.
I would like to see the forum continue. Even if I’m quiet, I learn a lot here about tools I would otherwise never encounter, and you all make automating things on the Mac look easy and almost logical. (I always seem to be one or two generations behind the One True Way as promoted by Apple.)
Yesterday you posted about Howzit on your blog. That likely would have been of interest to the folks on this forum has well. Perhpasps having a forum post linking back to the blog post would generate discussion?
@MevetS but every post gets a post in the Blog category with the full text of the post and links back to the original. Any comment left on the post becomes a forum post, and forum responses to that post show up on the blog as comments. I don’t think I can make it any more integrated than that… the fact is that people have stopped commenting on my blog posts as well. Interaction has just dried up.
Oh, I think I might have set those to hidden so the initial influx of all previous blog posts didn’t overwhelm everybody, and then failed to update the preference. Will check into that. I think right now they might only show up if there’s actually comments left on them from the blog side.
Update: Fixed this, new posts on the blog that create a forum post should be visible now.
Well that’s weird. I don’t see the “social” section at all in your screenshot, but I know of no reason that should be disabled. This is what I get below that post:
Do you have any plugins running that would block that kind of thing? Anyone else not able to see the share buttons/comments link? This could explain the lack of interaction…
I’ll have to see what 1Blocker is using to detect social media widgets. All of my buttons are homebrew and don’t use any tracking stuff at all, just links to create new posts. So I wouldn’t feel bad circumventing 1Blocker as there are zero privacy concerns. And it definitely sucks that it’s blocking the comment section…
I don’t see any comments on the blog (Safari, Orion, Librewolf). I didn’t even know they existed.
I use 1Blocker, Pi-hole, my Synology router filters and a block list in Little Snitch. Something may have been lost.
I don’t block the comments sections with 1Blocker.
Yeah, that’s problematic. I wonder if it’s as simple as changing the div class, or if it’s looking for more than that. Do you generally not see share buttons on any site? I could take the comments out of the social div and see what happens.
