Journal sillypixie's Journal: Wow you guys really have moved... 24
I'm not sure I can handle Multiply's roundish poofiness. But I'll be damned if that isn't where all the content & conversation has gone.
I prefer slashdot's sparse & compact setup. But I mostly just prefer to see what y'all are doing and thinking. As a result, I think I'll do my posting here to a reduced audience, and my conversing in both places. We'll see.
It freaks me out to see people's pictures. And correlating
But I'm sure I'll get the hang of it. I've even almost got the itch to post an actual picture...
yea (Score:2)
You can read the conversations in threaded mode witch is a big help, but multiply has somewhat stupid options when it comes to comment notification which is annoying (no I really don't want my fucking email account flooded with a bunch of bs, just give me the same damn info on a web page)
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Ya, Multiply's e-mail notification seems to be a bit borked lately. I ended up relying on their "My Multiply" thing instead, which is a bit annoying.
The RSS also doesn't work too well, because it doesn't show full content for all messages if a message is restricted -- apparently there is no way to send login information via RSS AFAICS. That's kinda stoopid.
Overall I rather like the features over there, though, especially the ability to post stuff inline. Gives it all a bit more personality.
I also actu
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Overall I rather like the features over there, though, especially the ability to post stuff inline. Gives it all a bit more personality.
Hell there are a million and one sites with similar features. Almost any scoop site would have given us 90% of what we wanted (including inlining) with a much more slashdot like interface. Hell LiveJournal has most of what people seem to care about for that matter.
That said I will say Multiply is a better implementation than MySpace, but that really isn't hard. After MySpace is just a bunch of poorly written ColdFusion running on windows and IIS of all things.
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Overall, Multiply isn't really my cup of tea, but I don't hate it, and I am willing to use it to keep up with the group (even if I am mostly just lurking).
don't fear the poofy (Score:2)
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hmph (Score:2)
I don't post stuff much publicly there and i don't post stuff from my own life on public mode. Email me if you want to see my few contentless posts and i'll tell you where they are.
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I am still working out how to lessen the amount of stuff that shows up from people who are not in the group and that I do not have time to read.
I haven't been posting in either place much at all.
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From here, you can limit "your network" to people you have a direct connection to. Or, if really picky, to a named list of individuals.
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I would love to see whatever you write, I shall drop you an email right away.
Pix
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I haven't moved, exactly (Score:2)
I do have a multiply account and I do occasionally participate over there, but I haven't felt compelled to leave here. I still post my stuff here when I have time, which has not been much lately because of the job search.
While finding a new landing pad was not necessarily a bad idea, I don't think muliply itself was the best place to go. I think had there been a little more time put into finding a better community, we all could have done much better.
So THAT'S where everyone went (Score:2)
Of course, people like Pix who don't answer their mail don't help!
I'm still here, mostly (Score:2)
I do see that the Slashdot lameness filter, and the "Slow down cowboy" ideas are inherently designed to tell the us users to piss off - so I understand why some people left. But I like the people here, and the interface, so I'm staying here more than Multiply.
alternative (Score:2)
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I still hit up the dot every day, I just don't post much to the journals. I was getting squat for comments any way so I obviously wasn't drawing many readers (or all my readers didn't feel the need to comment).
So for me th
"Roundish poofiness" (Score:2)
I actually prefer the Slashdot Journal System as well, but multiply isn't bad, so I have added it to my 11 (count em) tabs I open every day on firefox. On multiply I find i post more, but here I find I engage more in the conversation.
What finally did me in on multiply (Score:2)
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If you look on your "My Multiply" page, in the upper right corner in the Message Summary box there will be a line with something like "Responses to your posts" or something like that (with a number), which is a link to a page with a list of responses to your posts
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A simple problem (Score:2)
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At least when I surf the dot, I kinda can pretend to myself that I'm staying in touch with workish things...