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  1. Arantor

    Facebook plans to roll out AI generated users

    Then who's going to view or click on all the ads?
  2. Arantor

    Facebook plans to roll out AI generated users

    I checked it out at launch, it was clearly already at 95% bots then.
  3. Arantor

    General Changing up the tools

    hate Microsoft Word, but y'all do not need that rant for the myriad reasons why. Just... while plenty of people tolerate Word for writing, we actually have a whole fleet of tools for writing. I know this because for reasons far too convoluted to get in right now, I have a bunch of different...
  4. Arantor

    Do you offer a dark and light mode?

    I'm also of the mindset that I'd decouple some authorial control from the posters in favour of doing more e-book style things with presentation. Offering different font types and presentations. For example, while the typical sans-serif font choices are fine (this one certainly is), I have...
  5. Arantor

    Personal goals for 2025

    I planned to make 2025 a year I wrote more. I've been writing more on - shock, horror - LinkedIn and I have a few other ideas I want to try.
  6. Arantor

    Facebook plans to roll out AI generated users

    So instead of 80% of Facebook's users being bots, we're going to get to 95% of them being bots? Awesome.
  7. Arantor

    Do you offer a dark and light mode?

    You know what's really interesting? How many websites out there don't offer light/dark modes. But it's also interesting how many of those websites aren't ones you're going to spend potentially hours engaging with. Also as a side topic, it might be interesting to talk about the next steps in...
  8. Arantor

    Leadership Do you share all your admin knowledge?

    I've not just shared my tips over the years, I've shared my tools too. It's also interesting that people think I'm afraid of being copied; I've literally never worried about this in the forum world. Copying me? Anyone can do that. Being me? Only I can do that, and I can do that many times...
  9. Arantor

    Strategy This ain't an airport, no need to announce your departure

    Consider that there may be a legitimate, relevant reason for the anger. It is not wise to unilaterally dismiss it without considering if you can learn something actionable from it.
  10. Arantor

    Engagement How to convert lurking members/guests to engage more?

    It's always been true that there are 90% lurkers in any given community. Not everyone wants to put their head above the parapet especially if they feel they have nothing to add (or worse, they have something to add but it's controversial) Be careful with trying to force engagement with them...
  11. Arantor

    Customization Platform pain points

    Ability to ignore topics from what's new type listings should be default in this day and age. Bonus points if there's some admin threshold of 'enough people ignore this topic' to flag it for special attention.
  12. Arantor

    Some old theme prints

    Classic design never goes out of style. Would be interesting to make some of these designs in pure CSS though. Images are so 2008.
  13. Arantor

    What DOES NOT belong on a pizza?

    Best pizza is 3am post-fight pizza.
  14. Arantor

    What are your thoughts on Australia banning kids under 16 from social media?

    It’ll just make it more desirable to be on it. Peer pressure and the forbidden-ness of it will do wonders for quiet adoption. Then we’ll see legislators do something dumb like mandate these services hook up to age-confirmation services, which just hands more data to people who shouldn’t have it.
  15. Arantor

    Advice What is the minimum investment need to start a forum?

    Jcink let’s you get a backup.
  16. Arantor

    Case Study Do your forum members use mobile?

    I’m habitually an iPad user. I find phones an inconveniently sized device to do much of anything on. But I’m very aware of the folks that are mobile users - even to the point of those who write 500+ word posts on mobile.
  17. Arantor

    Strategy This ain't an airport, no need to announce your departure

    Yup, the “I’m sorry I need to leave because things have happened” is fairly rare, my experience is that these people either PM folks, or disappear and then announce the return. The flouncing kind, though, that’s sadly common.
  18. Arantor

    Strategy This ain't an airport, no need to announce your departure

    On the other hand, you can get into a weird situation where such a member doesn’t announce their departure, they just go, and then you get posts of the form “whatever happened to…?” Which can be almost as bad.
  19. Arantor

    General Should forum owners be subject matter experts?

    The problem with a little knowledge is that a little knowledge correlates to a much higher estimated confidence level about that knowledge. Dunning and Kruger’s paper on the subject feels relevant.
  20. Arantor

    Advice What is the minimum investment need to start a forum?

    We will see what we can do. It might take us a bit longer than just 2025 to dethrone the existing folks, though!

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