I'm rather jolly
~ 42y old
from
Australia
Kristoffer
What other social networks do you enjoy these days?
Peter Clarkson
My Facebook is actually pretty decent. I am quite rigorous in blocking ads, groups and users I don't appreciate so I've ended up with a reasonable user experience. It's mainly my real-life friends commenting, and me writing silly and funny statuses. I use Reddit a lot, and do not enjoy it at all, I don't know why I do it to myself.
Yo Dude
First week impressions : still not entirely convinced by its "left pane".. like the reply structure and finding people is always difficult .. I don't understand the trending page , same for left side navigation buttons on mobile
Peter Clarkson
Exactly my impression too. 12 buttons is a bit much for me (although a few of them, to be fair, are highly intuitive like search or settings). I still don't quite understand how I can find things that I am interested in, or whether there is any way to group conversations into a particular "topic" (maybe hashtags like #boardgames will take off) - it feels like a free-for-all.
😀 Tom
I never thought I'd buy a Mac, but I saw a 2006 iMac at a thrift store, so I decided why not. 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, 24 inch screen 1920x1200, 250 GB of spinning rust. I'll look online to see what I can upgrade. A preliminary search shows that the Intel chipset will only recognize up to 3 GB of RAM. I'll see if I can replace the the HDD with an SSD, and maybe even the CPU.
Peter Clarkson
It is really interesting to me that a 14-year-old computer is totally fine for web browsing, streaming, Office suite etc, which covers what 90% of users actually do. But if you went back to 1999 and tried to use a 1985 computer, it would be like a museum piece.
Miso
Do you play any games?
Peter Clarkson
I've been playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup a lot this year. It's a very well-designed roguelike that you can play in the browser. It has a huge amount of replayability due to the various combinations of race and religion you can choose, and plenty of strategy. Almost always, when you die, you can retrospectively work out what you did wrong; it is almost never sheer bad luck.
Peter Clarkson
Has anyone been playing any decent #boardgames recently? I have just introduced my 6-year-old to No Stress Chess and my 4-year-old to Kingdomino.
Aaron Brown
Not for such little ones. I enjoyed Flash Point: Fire Rescue for it's cooperative nature.
🌊 Zero Two
I been having fun with go
Chetan Vashisht
Domination is great, but not for kids
Cole Hudson
Settlers of Catan is loads of fun
😏 Yt L.
You could try "sushi go" it's a card game with cute pictures and even if you play without lots of strategy or care you can pretty much play and be a part of the game.
☔ Johannes
The latest game I bought was Odin's Ravens. It's pretty fun, and quick to play to boot.
🎲 James York
For me, Oink Games' Deep Sea Adventure is a go to.
🗿 Ali
Atomic chess.
💻 Kernel
Been playing a lot of Carcassonne lately, simple rules, advanced tactics.
Ganesh Khade
Do you think, it's helpful to add small one-time payment to keep community, spam free?
Peter Clarkson
Well it's certainly worked for hubski, but I think a small fledgling community would never get off the ground nowadays if you did. I would certainly pay a small joining fee for a decent online community, or even a small subscription. Moderation is work, and it needs to be paid for somehow.
🧔 Justin
Right. It would be interesting to know what exactly causes an eternal September type situation. Is it purely numbers? Maybe the lack of popularity pushes out those might low the quality?
Peter Clarkson
As far as I can tell, very active moderation is pretty much the only reliable way to achieve community quality - r/askhistorians is a good example. Or there's another site called hubski.com that has a small community, but it has a $5 one-off joining fee which seems to just add that little barrier to entry that makes people feel invested in the community. I absolutely love the aesthetic of this site by the way.