Overgrow.com: Let's Talk About the Future

Why is it that LJ’s thread cant progress as intended without the disruption of senseless off topic bullshit banter?

Its the same with any thread where opinions vary and discussion gets buried in this same bs.

Have some respect for the site admin and keep discussion on topic.

Keep it within y’all personal threads please… not all of us think your witty and humerous… stfu already.

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I’m getting smooth scrolling on iOS, MacOS (with trackpad) and PC (with mouse). It is really fluid on the new iPhone. One of the best websites to navigate that I’ve found.

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@GCBudz don’t be grumpy ^^

It’s punctuating the looping “let’s talk about only the same thing : an hidden membership that doesn’t look like one”. Just saying, straight, the big picture i’m seeing from here.

I mean, even for just the sake of the curiosity, we can maybe explore more than one single option ?

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ICMag did that and it ruined em.

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A bunch of others satellite places too. Privatizing something that don’t belong to anyone but the users is stopping the quality production radically ^^

OG in bonus is a singularity in its actual state, it make me think more to a kind of Facebook of canna than really an early 2000’s board. Behind the “follow member” function presented not so a long time ago, i guess that i’m not far from the “vision” of the crew for the future of the platform.

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True, that’s one reason. Another is that they could have at least invest a bit in the hosting to have a decent fast website now that it’s behind a paywall. :laughing: It’s soooo slooooow.

Sure lets explore all options that are relevant…

What could be considered relevant, or even helpful with the off topic banter that has no bearing on the subject LJ is trying to discuss?

Not grumpy, just tired of seeing topics derailed. This is not a chat thread…

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I miss being able to read the flagged comments, can we bring that back? :wink:

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Me to but Joe mentioned above that the ability to read flagged posts was never supposed to be a thing. When things went off topic I used to just post a reminder to try to steer things back on topic. Others have a different style and prefer to just run through and flag anything they feel is off topic. Personally I find when I see a thread carpet bombed with flags it makes me less likely to want to have a conversation and not more likely but that’s a personal thing. I think an interesting addition could be to to show the person who flagged each post even though the content of the post is hidden. I wouldn’t mind that being something added for the future.

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Probably best not to. As much as I would like the feature, it would likely lead to negativity. You would end up with people unhappy, feeling that they were being censored, and then they would have a place to send that negativity. It would also likely keep folks from using the flag system which is not good either as it does have a purpose. I will withdraw my request for that feature, upon thinking about it, it would not be a positive addition. :v:

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Is there any plan to turn the spoilers plug in on?

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No need to speculate. Let’s try to keep this conversation going the right direction. What’s the spoilers plug in?

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It allows you to hide a section of your text, and only exposes it when another user clicks on it.

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Hmm, what would one use such a feature for?

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I’ve seen it used when discussing sports events, movie, current topics, books, things like that. So as not to spoil it for people who don’t want it spoiled.

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That sounds interesting. Discuss a movie or a game without spoiling it for someone that has not seen it yet. Hmm, that sounds kind of cool.

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Then what’s the point of seperating by thread (subject) and subforum? Why not just use the new lounge, aka chat feature to discuss everything in one huge post?

Probably save alot of bandwidth, but would suck for those trying to follow a topic no?

For the record i didnt flag anything…

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Yea it’s a nice feature, we all smoke weed and get chatty about current events, movies stuff like that. Some people may want to experience whatever it is first hand before discussing it.

I see the plug in is there along with a few other interesting ones.

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I didn’t think you did bud.

I personally find the chat feature a pain on mobile.