Today is Opening Day, whatever that means. feel free to leave the URL with friends and neighbors. A few housekeeping notes, based on suggestions from you all:
There are new Navigation instructions in the About box to the left, and other How To links. For those feeling a little disoriented (and especially those used to Bulletin board interfaces), try one of these entrances/views to the site:
Main entrance
News Reports view
Diaries view
Index view
Keep in mind there are lots of helpful community members willing and and able to help. Drop a comment here by clicking “Post a comment”, or go to the Old Forum link at right and someone will help!
As a Current Events user reminded me, the Agonist went through this transition some years ago as did Daily Kos. There’s an adjustment reaction, but the result is well worth the effort.
Yellow Forum Links:
There’s more on navigating here. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LEARN HTML, but if you want to do colors and table, AnnieB has something for you here.
Welcome, and despite the old cliche, we really ARE here to help! You’ll find AnnieB, MaMa, Bronco Bill and some familiar names, there, so welcome and come on over.
Except for today.
It’s down.
Not a good future indication.
Especially if its housed in a data center.
:-(
I came back here because Old Yeller is running faster…….
LOL, What can ya say?
Halo Commonground-
(waves hands in air)
Have a great day!!!!!
this is more than ironic.. ;-)
However, note that this network survived nicely the American election at the beginning of the month under heavy usage.
Whatever, we’re in for the long haul. ;-)
I’m so glad you guys are picking up on my humor :-)
Commonground – at 12:34
Just wait until gs drops by.
“Doomed, I tell ya,and I knew it would fail.” ;-)
Well, we can always go crank our radios, and keep organizing those pantries, chop some kindling; work off those American thanksgiving pumpkin pies…
(I’m listening to NPR discussing “Second Life” - do they have any fluwikians in the Second Life virtual world?
;-) A whole new group of people we can get looked askance by for trying to warn about pandemic influenza… (Yuk! I’d rather go clean my garage…)
Dem, you don’t have the gsdiction down right yet. ;-)
So the experiment was a success… suck you all in, slow down the new place, and make Old Yeller look fast!!!
Clever, huh?
Still, it speaks to the wisdom of redundancy. Or did I already say that?
Hmmmm… apparently we’re baaaack!!!
That didn’t take long.
Dem @ 12:41 - the ol reverse psychology huh? We’re back? O.K.
Sorry for the hiccups. Guess we’re not doomed, after all. ;-P
We
are
not
dooo-plop
lugon looks down at self from near the operating theater’s lamplight
;-) Uh-oh; I not only see dead people walking around in town, I see people having near-death experiences talking to themselves, in italics on “the internets”…
Will someone please start a Canadian Maritime Provinces preppers thread on the new forum (and don’t tell ‘em I sent you)?
Sure!
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