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Put an announcement in the New Communities community as a starting point. You can post links about it in other places where potential members are. Telling people to leave where they are and go to your site is inherently rude, so you have to be careful and polite. Check the rules for wherever you post and get a feel for the place before you put up a link.
In the long run people will find you, but it can feel like a very long run. Particularly since you need content to attract people and you need people to generate content. There is a tipping point where it will suddenly take off. Just try to be patient until you get there.
This is probably the best possible time to start new communities. All of us fledditors are creating new accounts and looking for communities to join.
bquinlan Now • 100%
The same data you use to say that programmers are overpaid could be seen as an indication that professional-level software development is more difficult than you think and warrants the higher salaries. Programming is one of those things that almost anyone can do, but relatively few can do well.
Either way, if there were people who could do it better or cheaper they would be.
Edit: In the interest of full disclosure, my view may be slanted because I am a developer. On the other hand, that means I've seen the subject from the inside.
bquinlan Now • 100%
I like your suggestion that devices of that sort should be called dependent instead of smart.
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Ouch. I understand exactly how things like that happen, but it is unfortunate. Hope it's resolved quickly.
There is a tremendous amount of pressure on everyone in the development/admin chain right now because of the insane influx of new users. (I'm one of them.) It amazes me how well everyone has been handling it. And I am grateful to all of you!
bquinlan Now • 100%
I should have remembered about "drag from Start". My memory is not what it was. :-}
The explorer: shell:AppsFolder is not one I knew about, but it will certainly be useful.
Thanks to both of you for the hep!
I just installed the new beta DuckDuckGo browser on my Windows machine. I want to create a desktop shortcut icon for it, but I can't find where the executable is stored. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or give me another way to accomplish this?
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This is much appreciated.
bquinlan Now • 83%
MRNA vaccines. Not only have they saved millions of lives from COVID, they look like they are going to revolutionize other areas as well. For example, there is a wide-range cancer vaccine under development.
bquinlan Now • 100%
I'm pretty happy with Jerboa. I am primarily a browser/desktop user, so having a somewhat limited mobile client hasn't been bothering me. And it seems to be moving toward a fuller experience.
bquinlan Now • 100%
Can someone tell me what the kbin microblog does? I'm still feeling my way around the features...
bquinlan Now • 100%
I was using the search box above the "List of Communities" and getting no results. When I switched to clicking on the magnifying glass icon at the top of the regular page it worked. I don't know why.
bquinlan Now • 100%
This was not working for me and I finally figured out why. I was using the search under "Communities" and not the general search in the upper right. It is counter-intuitive that the communities search won't find unfederated communities while the general search will, but that is how it works.
That you all for this post. It did ultimately get me where I needed to be.
bquinlan Now • 100%
The marketing will be particularly ironic since nearly all of the current companies made phones with removable batteries as recently as five years ago.
bquinlan Now • 100%
Deer used to drop off their young in our back yard to hang out with our old dog. Ash was a large and impressive shepherd mix with the most zen attitude I've ever seen in a dog. They all trusted him completely. And he did, in fact, take care of them and made sure no animals or humans bothered them.
bquinlan Now • 100%
I'm not sure what you mean by the resistor Tones. All the Emisar lights have RGB auxiliaries. All multicolor LEDs use separate RGB emitters grouped close together. It is more obvious with the small ones, like the ones used for auxiliaries, but it's true of all of them.
bquinlan Now • 100%
Yes, I think that would help. Ideally there would be a check box option to enable or disable that feature.
bquinlan Now • 96%
I looked in on one of the subreddits I used to frequent. The moderator had posted a good explanation of what was going on, why they considered it unacceptable, and what they were going to do about it. That generated a long thread of people saying, "No one cares. You don't matter. Get over yourself. Go away." Those people have no idea about the amount of effort that volunteers make to manage things so they can live in happy ignorance.
I wish them well, but I don't want to hang out with them anymore. There are better options.
bquinlan Now • 100%
Nice knife! I'm surprised we don't hear more about this. It's a great design on all fronts. The grip ergonomics are excellent and the blade is very practical. It's a great carry option, particularly at that price point.
My wife carries that purple version with a damascus balde as her EDC. She's all about subtlety. :-)
bquinlan Now • 100%
Thanks for doing this! Things are likely to be strange for a while, but eventually we can get back to talking about cool sharp pointy objects.
bquinlan Now • 100%
Definitely, although it's exciting to see new communities popping up.
I'm in a short-term crunch right now and don't have time to start something, but in a week or so I will probably create at least one if no one beats me to it.
bquinlan Now • 100%
And now it is fully recursive. Thanks! 🙃