What Are You Doing Right Now
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@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
While it is annoying, it's the biggest indicator that they recognize ML as the bigger player and are very scared of people stumbling on the site, so they hide it (and it's solutions) from their users.
Well, now I know where some of my disappearing posts got to.
No, they notify you when they do it. It's not secret (from the poster.) Or I assume that it always is.
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What's more awesome is that in the old days, if an ML thread got linked from SW we'd see this huge spice in traffic related to it. Now, we had four links or so today and... zero rise in traffic. Whether because ML is so much busier or SW is no longer a traffic driver we don't know, but the message is really clear. SW is no longer able to alter the traffic patterns, we aren't the little site any longer.
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@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
While it is annoying, it's the biggest indicator that they recognize ML as the bigger player and are very scared of people stumbling on the site, so they hide it (and it's solutions) from their users.
Well, now I know where some of my disappearing posts got to.
There has been a rash of posts disappearing... not just on SW.
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@RojoLoco said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
While it is annoying, it's the biggest indicator that they recognize ML as the bigger player and are very scared of people stumbling on the site, so they hide it (and it's solutions) from their users.
Well, now I know where some of my disappearing posts got to.
There has been a rash of posts disappearing... not just on SW.
Now I'm confused.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@RojoLoco said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
While it is annoying, it's the biggest indicator that they recognize ML as the bigger player and are very scared of people stumbling on the site, so they hide it (and it's solutions) from their users.
Well, now I know where some of my disappearing posts got to.
There has been a rash of posts disappearing... not just on SW.
Now I'm confused.
I've had some localized internet latency issues that made me think things were disappearing the past day or two. Dunno what's up with @RojoLoco tho, offend too many people lately?
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@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@RojoLoco said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
While it is annoying, it's the biggest indicator that they recognize ML as the bigger player and are very scared of people stumbling on the site, so they hide it (and it's solutions) from their users.
Well, now I know where some of my disappearing posts got to.
There has been a rash of posts disappearing... not just on SW.
Now I'm confused.
I've had some localized internet latency issues that made me think things were disappearing the past day or two. Dunno what's up with @RojoLoco tho, offend too many people lately?
On here you mean?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@RojoLoco said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
While it is annoying, it's the biggest indicator that they recognize ML as the bigger player and are very scared of people stumbling on the site, so they hide it (and it's solutions) from their users.
Well, now I know where some of my disappearing posts got to.
There has been a rash of posts disappearing... not just on SW.
Now I'm confused.
I've had some localized internet latency issues that made me think things were disappearing the past day or two. Dunno what's up with @RojoLoco tho, offend too many people lately?
On here you mean?
Everywhere, not just on mangolassi. I notice it more here because it's what's always up while waiting for processes to complete now. Not sure where the actual issue was.
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Oh okay, I gotcha.
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Getting the kids to bed here.
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Noon
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Moving my website from Wordpress on Dreamhost to Ghost on DigitalOcean...
Te-di-ous.
I do however really like the nice clean look and lack of bloat in comparison to Wordpress.
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@RamblingBiped said:
Moving my website from Wordpress on Dreamhost to Ghost on DigitalOcean...
Te-di-ous.
I do however really like the nice clean look and lack of bloat in comparison to Wordpress.
I'll be interested in some feedback on Ghost after you've had some time on it.
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Okay Mangophiles, I'm calling it a night.
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I don't think I can go on SW any more. I don't want to be a jerk, but it's like people over there are getting a prize for being completely ignorant to how things should work.
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@johnhooks said:
I don't think I can go on SW any more. I don't want to be a jerk, but it's like people over there are getting a prize for being completely ignorant to how things should work.
Yeah. The problem is the sheer number of people that are entry level IT folks...or in marketing (no offense meant to honest marketers anywhere) I saw somewhere on here (ML) today that somebody thought it was 80% newbies and 20% IT pros... and I think that's about right.
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@johnhooks said:
I don't think I can go on SW any more. I don't want to be a jerk, but it's like people over there are getting a prize for being completely ignorant to how things should work.
Nearly every newbie is completely unaware of other conversations going on currently, too. So many of the posts that I see are completely opposite of any best practices and when you mention that they act shocked as if they had never heard of such a thing... when ten other threads and thousands of previous ones are talking about what a dumb idea that would be right at the same time. Everyone seems to just throw their opinion over the wall and run away, no back and forth, no learning.
The issue is that the community isn't getting collectively smarter over time, but less informed. The more threads, the more references, the more examples that we get... the more incredibly solidified the best practices the less anyone seems to be aware of them. Years and years of "Why SAN doesn't make sense in the SMB" or "Why RAID 5 Died in 2009" (that was first published in 2007, that's a decade of knowledge at this point and as Robin pointed out in the article, it was old knowledge that he was presenting and nothing that storage people weren't all already aware of at that point) and people don't just make the mistakes then ask about it, but people who have been in the community for a while will post those things as reckless recommendations and then act as if they've never heard any reason why they don't make sense.
Every thread about SAN someone says this exact line "How do you do HA without a SAN" yet have no idea how they were going to do one with a SAN. Every. Damn. Time. Happened just twelve hours ago, like clockwork.
The community is failing to improve. A few people do, of course, but most of those improve and then come here. The percentage of people providing good feedback is decreasing while the number of "I didn't bother to do any research first including just paying attention or looking at threads that are related to me needs as they happen."
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@dafyre said:
@johnhooks said:
I don't think I can go on SW any more. I don't want to be a jerk, but it's like people over there are getting a prize for being completely ignorant to how things should work.
Yeah. The problem is the sheer number of people that are entry level IT folks...or in marketing (no offense meant to honest marketers anywhere) I saw somewhere on here (ML) today that somebody thought it was 80% newbies and 20% IT pros... and I think that's about right.
If you look on SW, the percentage of threads that are advertising threads is crazy, and mostly created by SW staff rather than by the vendors themselves.
In any given night looking at threads to respond to, like half can be ignored immediately because they are either Chinese spammers (they have been spamming the community like mad for a year or more now and no one has figured out how to stop it) or in house marketing blitz. Not stuff from technical people.
