Thompson wrote: ↑December 10th, 2022, 3:25 pm
Testing one two three adding a new post to this topic so it comes up when you log in. This is the thread. Navigation is killing me. It’s much more complicated than the one that shut down.
No fear, it will get easier. I felt that way too but I am warming up to it. Every post gets a front and center. There is something good in that. The first look in the morning gives you the most recent posts. It's like reading the morning paper, you don't know what you'll get. If you are not into breaking news, you can always descend to a favorite thread below. There are some folks who are participating in in the Trivia and Games that I don't remember seeing before (as I frequented some of them over there). The are posting because they have been introduced to them by the "morning newspaper." Knowing your post will get at least a front page exposure is good, even though it may go unliked, unthanked, UnFunnied, and Unquoted. At least it had a moment in the sun, though perhaps for not long. In Sight means In Mind. All this which presupposes there is value in Community.
I'm not missing the TCM Board, which is almost shocking to me. On that Board, individual threads are insular, they get a "local" appearance but remain unknown to the general crowd, i.e. no inclusion. Which may not be a good thing, I am thinking just now that if all the Political posts on TCM had been funneled through a Recent Topics thread, i.e. the front page potentially viewed by all) like we have here, the political threads would not have lasted long, the general outcry may have been to strong. Favorite threads that may or not may turn into "cliques" (made of members who go to one thread or maybe a few and nowhere else.) Hell rages in the political threads which drives folks away from the good threads in Off-Topic TCM. And there have two or three already who have told me that they never knew of my Classical Music Thread because they did not know it was even there.. The genre threads were a series of ghost towns. There were some who used it but I would opine not that many. I didn't post down there because I was under the impression that there was a lack of traffic. Now if all those posts had been housed in a forum where each post was front page fodder, then