On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 12:30:07AM +0000, Steve Cottrell wrote:

Not from me.  I don't (and won't) do facebook - I just find far too annoying.

But there again I'm not doing a lot of Pentax stuff nowadays, either.
Probably the most interesting thing I'll do here is post a 'for sale'
list - I'm working up to selling my A* and FA* lenses (A* 300/2.8,
FA* 80-200/2.8 & 250-600/5.6) once I've worked out just how much
(or how little) they should go for.

I'm holding on to the DA* zooms for a while (16-50, 50-135, 60-250),
and the K-5 still works just fine, but quite honestly I'll probably
rarely if ever use them again.

Nor me.  I like the fact that there is very little white noise here, even though thread drift is almost a requisite.  Without accepting that I am a victim of confirmation bias, it's no coincidence that the only other online forum that I frequent is a private, invitation only one.

Am 07.01.23 um 01:30 schrieb Steve Cottrell:

No.

Ralf

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Am 07.01.23 um 06:50 schrieb John Francis:

Same here. Never have, never will.

I've seen a number of interesting discussion groups on audio-related
topics go that way and I still miss them.

Ralf

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Ralf R. Radermacher  -  Köln/Cologne, Germany
Blog  : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com
Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf
Fotos : https://www.fotocommunity.de/user_photos/770012

There's also forumotion.com

Forums are not email based and there is usually a free image server associated with each one, or you can link to your own hosting or a proprietary image hoster.

Hi Cotty,

groups.io is email based … the groups.io server simply maintains the list of people to distribute the emails to and transmits the emails you send to the list, plus whatever attachments etc, you want to put in your emails. An administrator simply manages the list (which is also able to have user controls for adding and removing an address and all that), the rest of it is pretty automated and driven by the users' individual email hosts and apps.

When I login to my groups.io account, I can see all the groups I'm subscribed to, review posts to any of the groups, look for current topics in all the groups, see my activity across all the groups, etc. I normally don't login to the server very often at all: posts to any of my groups are sent to me as email and I respond to them as email replies, attaching whatever photos or links I want to distribute to the group.

It's simple and easy. I helped move my "workshop reunion" group communications to it several years ago when the Yahoo groups went away… (that's the group of photographers who participated in the exhibition and photo book classes that i attended and participated in a decade ago). There have been zero complaints.

I'll have to look at that one, mike. Forums pose a different kind of conversation than email lists, and a different cost/complexity structure in setup and management; it might also be useful and appropriate for various of my groups. Thanks!

Personally, I haven't maintained a personal, "portfolio" website or web server in a decade or so. I have found sufficient utility in using Flickr.com as master image hosting web server and have found my small participation in a couple of groups there has been 100% positive. If I did want to maintain my own portfolio website again, I'd probably go with Square Space rather than writing my site by hand the way I did last time. The technology has progressed since then… ;)

G