It makes it so much easier to find threads. That's the reason why threads that get to page four tend to die, nobody goes digging through past pages.
Without sections, you can only have one first page, and the only active threads are the ones on the first page. Your number of active threads is limited by the number if threads per page.
Making the sections available to the public makes it way easier to find, say, live logs or media discussoni. And it is still just as easy to find general threads.
In short, we can have a greater number of active threads while still keeping the most-used threads easy to find.
The lack of sections is actually my favorite thing about the Vanilla forum software.
Sections are the things that make every large website balkanize, and for a small website like this one, it means that if a thread lies in a certain section, it'll end up unused despite being at the top because most people don't pay attention to that section.
Furthermore, sections make it harder to see the full activity of what's going on in this small forum, which is nice.
Besides, if you still want to see categories, they should be to your right.
i agree with Lilly. i like how the community here feels less divided than on other forums i've been on. i think the forum would slow down considerably if the category page were the front page, and we'd see a lot of threads being ignored altogether since the community here just isn't that big.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
My intended aim of that wouldn't be to divide the community, but to get people to use the proper categories.
Why do you feel tense?
i'm not really sure.
i think to begin with it was that i hadn't done any writing today (yesterday), but now i think it's also just that i'm awake and it'll be hard to wake up once i do get to sleep, if i do. But i need to be up tomorrow morning to feed my Grandpa, so probably what will happen is i'll get up for that, be too sleepy to write anything in the morning, fall asleep during the afternoon and get no work done tomorrow either.
Also i keep thinking about other bothersome things that have nothing to do with my writing or anything.
While I agree with them, I also think that the fact that we have categories while still linking to a continuum of all conversations is actually really a nice combined approach. So don't feel sorry.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
DISTRIBUTED BY DOLLAR DEPOT STORES INC. 1900 PENNYWISE PARKWAY BUTTERCUP BAY, CENTRALIA
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
What do Penn Jillette and Teller think of the Centralian monarchy?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Should "personal threads" get a dedicated category, since they're practically an official Heap thing now?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know
Were it up to me, thing like the settings icon, the inbox icon, etc. would just be part of a TrueType font hosted on the server
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
This isn't a request for Lee, this is just me pondering.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I'm letting my delusions of Hollywood glory get the best of me again
Imagining being hoisted high in parades the day after the Oscars and being told "Congratulations, Anonus Utilis! Hail Warner Bros. (or Lions Gate)!" Executives from rival studios sending me letters of congratulation when Batman 48 strikes box office gold. And sells lots of toys.
I know Myr's gonna tell me the Oscars are meaningless but the Hollywood circlejerk man
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
"It's almost like every student has his own staff person, you know, like a personal butler." That was what Richard Vedder, an economist and director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity [...], said about the number of individuals Ohio State employs.
Oh boy, THAT sure doesn't sound like a thinly-veiled "I </3 taxes" organization at all!
"It's almost like every student has his own staff person, you know, like a personal butler." That was what Richard Vedder, an economist and director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity [...], said about the number of individuals Ohio State employs.
Oh boy, THAT sure doesn't sound like a thinly-veiled "I </3 taxes" organization at all!
there are a lot of useless employees on any college campus
99% of those are high-level administrators, who we have to pay shitloads of cash or they'll leave for another university, oh noez
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
incidentally i also prefer anisong over a-pop in part because it speaks a musical language i understand
it speaks roughly the same musical language that religious hymns and modern church songs and centuries of common-practice western classical music speak
(i specifically said anisong rather than j-pop because i feel i am not as knowledgeable of j-pop as a whole)
(i specifically said anisong rather than j-pop because i feel i am not as knowledgeable of j-pop as a whole)
here
here is an example of "i have to watch what i say closely, lest other people feel that i am being inconsiderate or painting things with overly broad strokes or speaking out of my rear end about things that i don't know etc."
i do this in the course of normal conversation, but the reason i enjoy shitposting is that i feel less pressure to do this self-conscious checking
when i say something, i have a responsibility to worry about how other people react to it. if i offend them, is that something they deserve? usually, the answer is no, so i should change the way i phrase it.
incidentally i also prefer anisong over a-pop in part because it speaks a musical language i understand
it speaks roughly the same musical language that religious hymns and modern church songs and centuries of common-practice western classical music speak
incidentally i also prefer anisong over a-pop in part because it speaks a musical language i understand
it speaks roughly the same musical language that religious hymns and modern church songs and centuries of common-practice western classical music speak
Interesting. Care to elaborate?
generally speaking, use of dominants to precede tonics, in the harmony. V-to-I harmonic motion and cadences, or half-cadences ending on V, etc. -- rather than IV-to-I or VI-to-I harmonic motion and cadences and half-cadences ending on IV, etc.. There are some variants, such as bVII to i (subtonic to minor tonic) in minor keys (which does give a very slight bit of a more modal, folk-like sound). But overall that trend holds.
contrast that to the "four chords of pop" -- I V vi IV, repeating. The IV goes to I. Song ends on IV, or ends on IV going to I. to me, this feels relatively "stagnant". on the other hand, contrast some western pop and rock songs that DO have V to I motion and half-cadences on V and stuff like that -- e.g. Weezer's "Island in the Sun". i feel that they have more motion, more dynamism.
also -- and probably due to linguistic differences -- anisong tends to have more, well, melodic melodies. as in, more varied notes, more tuneful, something like that.
sure, these things can get cheesy and overdone. In fact, the best songs don't overdo them, by meaningfully placing, alternating, and relating "stagnating"/"stable" and "dynamic"/"momentum" elements. but the fact is, the best songs DO have elements of dynamism and motion, and they DO have progressions that i find meaningful.
(by "the best", i pretty clearly mean "my favorite", so don't chew me out on this, k?)
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well, basically, another way of saying this is that the music inherently means something to me. it gives me signals of musical direction and musical meaning, through its harmonic and melodic phrasing. as opposed to having to listen to its lyrics. i rarely care much about lyrics in a song. they're kinda like nonsense syllables to sing to -- doubly so if it's a foreign language I don't understand.
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Without sections, you can only have one first page, and the only active threads are the ones on the first page. Your number of active threads is limited by the number if threads per page.
Making the sections available to the public makes it way easier to find, say, live logs or media discussoni. And it is still just as easy to find general threads.
In short, we can have a greater number of active threads while still keeping the most-used threads easy to find.
i'm not really sure.
i think to begin with it was that i hadn't done any writing today (yesterday), but now i think it's also just that i'm awake and it'll be hard to wake up once i do get to sleep, if i do. But i need to be up tomorrow morning to feed my Grandpa, so probably what will happen is i'll get up for that, be too sleepy to write anything in the morning, fall asleep during the afternoon and get no work done tomorrow either.
Also i keep thinking about other bothersome things that have nothing to do with my writing or anything.
1900 PENNYWISE PARKWAY
BUTTERCUP BAY, CENTRALIA
A division of Dollar Depot Stores
there are no links, there are no images, there are no videos
and some combination of characters or something in there is making the sentence vanish from my post
Were it up to me, thing like the settings icon, the inbox icon, etc. would just be part of a TrueType font hosted on the server
That way they could scale to any size
But I guess static raster images works too
It's good to be Queen. :P
of course the oscars are circlejerks
they are oscar weiners after all
i watch it because it's an easily accessible medium where i think i can find stories that i can hold near and dear to my heart
i WANT to take the stories seriously
so yeah, laugh all you want at the yuri subtext jokes and the slapstick hammerspace comedy
at the end of the day, i'll be waiting to sit through the touching moments, and those will be what defines the experience of the story
i expect to be angry at them, sympathize with their victims, and figure out how to get even
it speaks roughly the same musical language that religious hymns and modern church songs and centuries of common-practice western classical music speak
(i specifically said anisong rather than j-pop because i feel i am not as knowledgeable of j-pop as a whole)
here is an example of "i have to watch what i say closely, lest other people feel that i am being inconsiderate or painting things with overly broad strokes or speaking out of my rear end about things that i don't know etc."
i do this in the course of normal conversation, but the reason i enjoy shitposting is that i feel less pressure to do this self-conscious checking
contrast that to the "four chords of pop" -- I V vi IV, repeating. The IV goes to I. Song ends on IV, or ends on IV going to I. to me, this feels relatively "stagnant". on the other hand, contrast some western pop and rock songs that DO have V to I motion and half-cadences on V and stuff like that -- e.g. Weezer's "Island in the Sun". i feel that they have more motion, more dynamism.
also -- and probably due to linguistic differences -- anisong tends to have more, well, melodic melodies. as in, more varied notes, more tuneful, something like that.
sure, these things can get cheesy and overdone. In fact, the best songs don't overdo them, by meaningfully placing, alternating, and relating "stagnating"/"stable" and "dynamic"/"momentum" elements. but the fact is, the best songs DO have elements of dynamism and motion, and they DO have progressions that i find meaningful.
(by "the best", i pretty clearly mean "my favorite", so don't chew me out on this, k?)
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well, basically, another way of saying this is that the music inherently means something to me. it gives me signals of musical direction and musical meaning, through its harmonic and melodic phrasing. as opposed to having to listen to its lyrics. i rarely care much about lyrics in a song. they're kinda like nonsense syllables to sing to -- doubly so if it's a foreign language I don't understand.