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.

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.

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!

I'm not going to comment, just upvote. Wait...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And now it is fully recursive. Thanks! 🙃

I like your suggestion that devices of that sort should be called dependent instead of smart.

The marketing will be particularly ironic since nearly all of the current companies made phones with removable batteries as recently as five years ago.

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.

Can someone tell me what the kbin microblog does? I'm still feeling my way around the features...

I ran into a helpful post about that recently. It seems that sometimes it can take a while for the a subscription to be processed. If you end up with the yellow "pending" it often stays that way. If you click on pending to cancel it, and try subscribing again it is more likely to go through. Annoying, but true.

Also, it may be superstition on my part, but if I click subscribe and just let that tab sit for a while I a more likely to eventually get a "joined" response while if I refresh it and get "pending" I'm stuck with that.

Sadly, no. Trains in the US are generally not a viable form of transportation except for local travel in a few large cities.

A few years ago I made a three hour trip by train. The arrangements were inconvenient, the travel was slow, the facilities were in poor condition, and it was relatively expensive. I would not do that again unless most of those things change.

I like the way you think.

Wait? You take breaks? :-)

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!

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.