I’ve been blogging (and tweeting) quite a bit lately. This is partly because there’s been a lot to talk about.
Some of the existing threads have continued to develop long after I posted up new topics. Don’t forget to go back and revisit them.
June 23rd, 2009
In fact, I might take a couple of days off, just to encourage you to go back and get caught up.
That’s the problem with the blog format–it’s relatively ephemeral by its nature. I think that’s why a lot of folks would like to see a forum set-up here. Maybe some sort of hybrid format, more tightly controlled than most forums, but more open and less linear than this.
thanks John= if you periodically put up a reminder like this, i think it’ll go a long
way toward solving the problem. other than
this, i think our present format is just
fine^+^
Thanks Harvey for the vote of confidence.
Mr TH, I think that there are already too many forums out there at the moment. Let’s see how the other ones play out.
To paraphrase Mr Berra, if people don’t want to do it, how you gonna stop ‘em? No problem, as you wish, John, but I do find this format a little frustrating–once a topic drops down a bit, it’s out-of-sight, out-of-mind, and it’s very easy to miss replies to things. I also find the window-within-window difficult to use once the thread gets over a few posts long. But none of that will stop me from checking in here–the content is too good. Will stand on one foot and hold a hand over one eye if required.
Thanks MrTH. I understand your frustration. Maybe this blog will evolve into something bigger in the future. For now, we can make the best of what we have.
^steady-as-you-go^=^+ hoohoo & watchyahead^
I go back periodically and check earlier interesting posts – and yes, traffic tends to fall off. Is there any easy way to set up a flag indicating most recent posts on the topics list and/or a recent posts list? Or do these things define a forum?
@ MrTH – I always view the blog out of the frame at this url:
http://blog.maltadvocate.com
I think you can get a Wordpress plugin that gives you a list of the ‘most commented’ posts. Possibly a way of keeping busy discussions visible?