Good postMy tupenny's worth, as a previous frequentish and criminally underrated poster who now almost never posts anything, is very much as HappyToast said - I've changed job and I've got damn all time free at the minute at all, which is exacerbated by working in an open-plan office where photoshopping (well, gimping) things wouldn't go down at all well even if I can't do anything while compiling anyway. Back in the past I was in an office shared with one or two people, a wall to my back, and no-one who'd care checking what I was doing while things were compiling or running.
I totally agree I wouldn't spend time trying to appeal to the lurkers. Those like me are lurkers for a reason - grown too fat, too old and too tired - and that's unlikely to change; and others are unlikely to swap from lurking regardless. Any that do, I'd suggest would have been likely to at some point anyway.
We could do with changing the colour scheme, having a board that's more searchable (search is a perennial issue on B3ta), having a board of variable length that we can set ourselves, and having collapsible threads. Since no-one seems to be maintaining the codebase though, that's unlikely to happen. (If the keys could be opened, I'm sure some on here are good enough at whatever the hell the backend is written in - PHP would be my guess - that they could get something better hacked together. But the keys won't be opened not least because, for whatever reason, Rob doesn't give a flying fuck about B3ta anymore and robtoo hasn't been spotted in a long while too. I've no idea if anyone else would ever have had access.)
(I totally agree I wouldn't spend time trying to appeal to the lurkers. Those like me are lurkers for a reason - grown too fat, too old and too tired - and that's unlikely to change; and others are unlikely to swap from lurking regardless. Any that do, I'd suggest would have been likely to at some point anyway.
We could do with changing the colour scheme, having a board that's more searchable (search is a perennial issue on B3ta), having a board of variable length that we can set ourselves, and having collapsible threads. Since no-one seems to be maintaining the codebase though, that's unlikely to happen. (If the keys could be opened, I'm sure some on here are good enough at whatever the hell the backend is written in - PHP would be my guess - that they could get something better hacked together. But the keys won't be opened not least because, for whatever reason, Rob doesn't give a flying fuck about B3ta anymore and robtoo hasn't been spotted in a long while too. I've no idea if anyone else would ever have had access.)
boris the spider,
Sun 7 Dec 2014, 13:32,
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