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Competition
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:50 pm
by quantus
Anyone remember Jayen?
http://cdlei.dyndns.org:90/bboard/index.php
Check out his weblog forum if you do... He's in India right now though.
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:28 am
by VLSmooth
Yep. I still talk with him every once in a while. Unfortunately, I can't access his forums from work, so that pretty much killed any chance of me reading it on a regular basis.
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:21 am
by Jonathan
Actually, his dns didn't resolve for me at work, either.
Demand a higher quality bboard!
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:37 am
by quantus
When I actually get around to signing up, I may.
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:12 pm
by Jonathan
Dammit, the higher quality bboard is Mohtalim!
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:19 pm
by VLSmooth
For what it's worth, despite not being to access it right now (
currently having issues with rdesktop), Mohtalim seems to have more traffic.
That's not taking context into consideration either, since most of our posts are pretty audience agnostic, as opposed to Poughkeepsie only. Of course, that makes sense since we're not geographically centralized.
However, their forum does trump us soundly in anime references. I could make more posts, but there seems to be a distinct lack of responses!
Btw,
Otakon is this weekend and I'm debating on making a crazy 1-day Saturday trip. If anyone else is going, that may help influence my decision. Looking at the schedule (
pdf ),
5 Centimeters per Second in the 35mm theater and the panels are the main events I'd be interested in.
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:46 pm
by Vyrosama
are you dressing up?
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:01 pm
by VLSmooth
Vyrosama wrote:are you dressing up?
Regardless of going or not, I will be dressed!
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:14 pm
by quantus
VLSmooth wrote:Vyrosama wrote:are you dressing up?
Regardless of going or not, I will be dressed!
... as Rei, blue hair and all!
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:37 pm
by VLSmooth
Speaking of Neon Genesis Evangelion...
(
random: 50+ story Rei's sinking in red pools of blood/water, being split in half scare me)
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:48 pm
by VLSmooth
Btw, how would Jayen get an account? Seems Mohtalim doesn't allow new users? (On IM with him now)
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:16 pm
by Peijen
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:23 pm
by Jonathan
Tell him to try it now.
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:30 am
by VLSmooth
He just registered, "waiting on administrator" now.
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:47 am
by Jonathan
Waiting no more.
Re: Competition
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:34 am
by Jayen
I prefer
http://weblog.jayenashar.org/ for the weblog,
http://bboard.jayenashar.org/ for the board. I redirect those links as the board moves around. (Since I'm no longer in NY, I xferred the board just recently.)
Do you guys have an rss feed?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:53 pm
by Jonathan
Funny you should ask. We did, actually. As far as I knew, I was the only one who ever tried it, and I eventually gave up on it altogether.
Real men use F5.
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:13 pm
by Jayen
Real men, maybe, but not real engineers. We're supposed to be lazy. We should be notified without checking. Besides, if it ain't broke, it ain't got enough features.
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:53 pm
by Jonathan
The real issue I had with the RSS feed is that there'd be nothing, and then there'd be ten pages full of making fun of Vinny. Plus, it broke the threading.
I implemented and discontinued the View new posts link for the same reasons. For heavy or low traffic boards, these things can serve some function, but I get the impression that even the most casual Mohtalim readers (Bob, Martin) pretty much read all the posts, even if it is less than once per month.
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:23 am
by Jayen
The nothing then ten pages of replies is probably because you are reporting "topic replies" in the details of the rss entry and your reader sees them as new entries when the count goes up. It's the combo of the two that caused problems for me, so I removed reporting the topic replies.