Browse the forums have changed the order. Why??
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Perhaps the pattern of two new forums every 6 weeks to support the new release numbering system didn't excite some of us. And there had been a push to consolidate the obsolete versions for some time ... which will be strengthened with the release of L23 when all of us will be on the same software in theory. Yes, there will be some people on old software but it should be minimal.
Fair enough. I figured it was something like that.
thanks.
Well, now we have the answer to which forum gets used more: Desktop App is # 1 and the General forum is # 2. This question was asked in another thread.
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That was ONLY because 'General' was like a forlorn child at the mall ... who could find her? (Especially with all those empty stores.) But now she's 'home' again! I'm sure the dastardly Desktop can no longer smile his evil grin.
Actually, my impression (overwhelmingly unfounded) is that the forum, thru the years, has moved away from 'books', instead being fascinated by 'software' and 'sales'. In my early Logosian career, I was favored by much random advice on 'books' in building my library. Today, Amazon and Google do that job.
Interesting, 'General' threads tend to get more conversation, than 'Desktop' threads. Maybe last longer.
I remember those days DMB, good days indeed Were you around before the forum? I can't remember what that was called off hand. I was only there towards the end.
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I noticed a forum (new?) at Logos4. Libby was so well designed (a person in northern Washington disagrees) that a 'forum' was superfluous. Ha. The new forum was needed to assist with the deteriorated UI that continues 'yet, until this day'. Smiling.
Prior to that there was a thing I subscribe to, that was browsable by thread in my email. Usergroup maybe. Its been too long, but definitely predated the release of 4.
I believe those were just email notifications of the particular thread you were following. And those are still available, you just have to check the box that says, “Email me replies to this post” right above the “Post” button.
Nahhh this was something before the forums on the website. We’re talking ages and ages ago.
Before the web-based forums, Logos had a "newsgroup" that you would access through a program such as Outlook Express or another newsgroup viewer. They looked similar to the pictures below.
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Yes! Newsgroup. That was the name I had forgotten. Thanks! I was in the news group for maybe the last six months or so, and then the forums.
I think that we might be showing our ages! [:D]
Prior to that there was a thing I subscribe to, that was browsable by thread in my email.
You can do this in the forums, it's forum subscriptions. You get to it from the Home page of Forums, on the right side. It's very handy!
I think that we might be showing our ages!
Prior to that there was a thing I subscribe to, that was browsable by thread in my email. You can do this in the forums, it's forum subscriptions. You get to it from the Home page of Forums, on the right side. It's very handy!
Must be, ‘cause I started using Libronix in 2004 then frequenting the forums in 2008 👍
I object ... I may be aged but not by ages and ages ... and I also remember the boards.
And we had to dial in on the phone line before we could use the internet.
And we received countless AOL CD-ROMs with the dialup software on it through the mail.
(Millennials and Zoomers won't understand what I'm talking about.)
My brother was a research engineer for an electronics company - like myself he was a night owl who worked odd hours. When the dialup phone rang, he loved to answer it "wrong number" and hang up immediately. He knew the number was only for computer-to-computer communication and should never ring. But he loved to speculate on the puzzlement at the other end.
Security was also very tight [;)]. My husband sold computer time-share and was on an account at lunch time - account at the company for which my brother worked. He decided to take his brother-in-law to lunch and asked where to find him. He was told he didn't work there. Puzzled, he called me and I gave him the right extension number. Over lunch my brother explained that people working on "sensitive projects" were not on the employee list. You had to know their number for people to admit they worked there.
Well... One thing is certain... these times, they are a changing!
I think that we might be showing our ages! And we had to dial in on the phone line before we could use the internet. And we received countless AOL CD-ROMs with the dialup software on it through the mail. (Millennials and Zoomers won't understand what I'm talking about.)
Logos 2 was what? 96, or 97? 97 was 25 years ago. 92 when they were founded is 31 years ago. Certainly thats more than half of my life. From my perspective, that has been basically ages and ages .
The Sound of dial-up Internet - YouTube
I remember buying CD-ROMs with all the Logos resources on them for about $5 about once a year, so I didn't have to download everything through dialup.
And one time I had to pay a crazy amount of import duty....
I think that we might be showing our ages! And we had to dial in on the phone line before we could use the internet. And we received countless AOL CD-ROMs with the dialup software on it through the mail. (Millennials and Zoomers won't understand what I'm talking about.) Some people put millennials as old as 1980, and the early 80s kids should remember dial up internet, aol cd's and so forth. Certainly the Xenniels (80-83 ish) should remember those things, as they were still going strong into the 90s. War games (the movie) was released in '83 and had dial up modems (the kind that still required you to use your land line phone, set on top of the modem). hah. I remember having one of those, might have been 2400 baud? Shoot I remember adding a card with 128kb of ram to an 8086 computer, and what a "Wow" difference that made. Not a stick of ram like you see today, but a card that took up quite a bit of room inside the pc case - back to front. Seems like it was an ISA card, and i had to add a fan to the system in order to play "digger". I remember installing windows for the first time (prior to which I had written batch files to make it more usable for the rest of the family) on 5.25" floppys. Nahhh this was something before the forums on the website. We’re talking ages and ages ago. I object ... I may be aged but not by ages and ages ... and I also remember the boards.
I remember my first home computer - TRS80 with 16K memory.... I remember "pigging back" memory onto the motherboard to get 32K and I thought "WOW I'm flying!" And then I finally got rid of the "tape cassette reader" and got a dual 140K disk drive.... "Super Speed!" Wrote a program of "Label Maker" and actually made labels for 3 companies.... wore out a lot of Epson print heads - lol..... oh what a life!
I was born in 1992 and I remember when we switched from dial-up to DSL. 3% of Americans still used dial-up in 2013, and it wasn't until about 2004 that more people had broadband at home than dialup in the US, so there are lots of people younger than me who remember the AOL disks (which were mailed out until 2006).
My first Logos package was Diamond in January 2014 when I started my masters. So I am a baby user compared to most of you, but have been using Logos for almost 10 years.
