Everything posted by Bryn
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Recruiting Community Staff member for mindsConnected
Okay, position closed.
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Do you think Google search will ever be knocked off the top spot?
Definitely not, because it is king, to put it simply. Even though people use DuckDuckGo to avoid being tracked while they're searching for something on it...
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Are you a fan of bookmarks?
I have few bookmarks, but I tend to access my favourite sites via the address bar.
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Recruiting Community Staff member for mindsConnected
This is still open, and once again I stress, it is an unpaid role. However, I will be closing this on 31st March if nobody comes forward...
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If you're against AI, do you think you'll miss out in the end?
While AI can be good to improve on things such as for medical and scientific research, it cannot, and must never, replace human capability and talent. Allowing Meta to write Instagram posts for you is a big no-no, for one thing. If companies like Google are going to go down the route of doing stupid things like that, and take away what we learnt to do ourselves for all our lives, then I'm quite happy to miss out all that and just spend the rest of my life without internet. No point going on it only to see that everything's automated without human input, which more or less makes the internet of what it is today, and thirty-odd years ago.
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What browser do you like to use?
Firefox all the way... been a user of it for almost twenty years :)
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Terms of Service: How strict is too strict?
If one's forum is run like a dictatorship, expect the worst...
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🎨 1 Free Design Order Giveaway! 🎨
Might want a new avatar... yeah, I'm actually serious about it.
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What’s a popular movie that you secretly think is overrated?
I suppose everything that is popular becomes overrated soon after...
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Welcome back! Administrata v2.0
Holy sweet Jesus... the theme is beautiful, and somehow gives that ZetaBoards kind of edge :P
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Members with disabilities
No, but I do try and make some adjustments to benefit those with visual impairments, such as having more than one dark theme and larger text where possible.
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Who is your favorite leader?
Nobody from that poll, because they're all wankers. But my personal choice would be Tony Blair, before he took British troops to invade Iraq for no good reason...
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Are free forum hosts a waste of time?
That isn't free as far as I'm aware... Most people can with NameCheap, just to say.
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What decade were you born in?
I was born near the end of the 80s... 1989 if anybody likes to be nosy :P
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What's the biggest online community that you've ever built from the ground up?
RX Community was my biggest, until its untimely demise in 2012.
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Preferred Host?
Jcink for me. I used Forumotion and even ProBoards on the past but they don't really agree with me...
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Human Spammers
Never seen it myself, but I'll keep an eye out...
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Do you block AI crawlers from indexing your website?
I think it's worth mentioning that ClaudeAI shouldn't be allowed to index sites and forums, according to this > That's one of the reasons it is blocked by Jcink by default, and rightly so...
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UK Online Safety Act - Forums & Chatrooms
For all you know, it could be repealed. Even this guy thinks it'll fall flat as well...
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UK Online Safety Act - Forums & Chatrooms
Few others have overreacted as well, according to this list. They just can't be bothered doing a risk assessment which would only take them a few minutes of their time...
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New User Profile Picture
Actually, to be fair, I always think that all accounts without an avatar are all [mention=1]Cedric[/mention] (as he had this as his avatar one time) 🤣 Anyway, I see some other forums make use of Gravatar so that they have a unique avatar generated for them (like the one on my forum for instance). Wonder if this place can benefit from that too?
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Do you block AI crawlers from indexing your website?
They're blocked by default according to the universal robots.txt that all Jcink forums have.
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Favorite toppings on pizza?
Anything that isn't pineapple :P
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Google begins testing AI-only search results
I hope they make this optional but, if they're going to force it on everyone, I think it's time to jump ship to DuckDuckGo...
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Recruiting Community Staff member for mindsConnected
Yes, it is a voluntary position... and, I'm sorry to say this, but I'd rather keep my finances safe for personal reasons. Hope anyone here understands and won't put them off for ever wanting any staff position I ever offer here.