I'm setting a resolution to limit Hatracking to 1 hour a day. I'm not waiting til New Year's necessarily, and "they're not rules, they're more like guidelines". I've already been exercising, and my only dietary resolution is to eat more veggies.
The main reason I think this year will be different is because I'm starting a DVD burning business. That's right, I'm out to rid Salt Lake of unrighteous movies. Just Kidding. But "DVD Burning" does give an odd picture.
Posted by Koga (Member # 5646) on :
what happens if there are no new posts durring your entire hour of hatrack time, like if it were today?
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Hi, Koga, I don't believe we've met. If things are really "dead" I sometimes search for stuff and dredge it up. Or check the OSC discussions side. That side is always relatively dead. Is that what you mean?
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Sad. So you're just cutting back on Hatrack cuz you hates us, then?
J/K. Have a good time living your life. We'll see you for about an hour every day. ^_^
Posted by Koga (Member # 5646) on :
I meant the thing about the one hour limit, if it were really dead that might be the same as if you were only there five minutes because nothing new was added after what you read at first. Still the ideas there make sense for when the forum is dead, and I believe you correct that we haven't met.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I'm more worried that an hour limit will result in me really only being able to follow one or two threads. You know, when I really implement it. And when traffic is back to normal.
Posted by Koga (Member # 5646) on :
That seems very possible, but maybe following just one or two threads is a good thing. That way you could spend less time here and keep up well with a couple of topics, instead of makeing one or two comments in each of a half dozen threads and haveing people think you are ignoreing them when you feel have spent enough time here for one day.
[ December 27, 2003, 12:24 AM: Message edited by: Koga ]
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Hatrack used to be that way all the time. You would pull it up and post on everything of interest that day, then yours would be the last post in all the threads you cared about. You rarely ever had rapid back and forth exchanges. Usually the next day there would be responses. <laughs> There were a lot fewer people then, and also nobody much had any sort of broadband connection, so it definitely took a lot longer for the pages to load. But most of us checked it once a day, added our two cents, and left to read and write email and stuff. Wow, things were really different back then! It was only maybe 1996 or 1997 or something like that when I started. When did we change over to UBB? I forget.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Good luck, pooka!! You have far more personal will power than I do! Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
We changed to UBB on 5/14/99. TomD's (and Uncle Moose's, it so happens) registration date. Yeah, it used to be a lot slower. Part of that is undoubtedly the influx of people, but a decent part is probably the change in format, too. The old style was less read-the-entire-board friendly -- it was tough to keep up with everything, and not only because of the time required. Now it's simple except for the time required.
quote:"Time," said the Speaker, "time is such a fleeting, insubstantial thing. As Shakespeare said, 'I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.' "
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Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Okay, I've been thinking of a new Hatrack diet. That is, I shoot for my 2000 landmark on my anniversary. The only problem is, I think Jon Boy did that. And I don't want to be some Johnny Come Lately. Sorry, that was a quote from "Oh Brother Where are Thou" first and I just realized it might be a pun. And yeah, I know it's a well worn saying apart from the movie. But that would be less than four posts a day. Eh... I'm just going to bag the 2000 landmark (in terms of "doing" one) and do an anniversary post.
Posted by Richard Berg (Member # 133) on :
I once took a Hatrack diet. I worked, mostly, but completely ignored the fact that I engrossed myself into other far more time-consuming Internet activities
Now that I've seen the rise & fall of several message boards, I do have some nostalgia for the slower days. That said, I do think the current level of activity could use more participants; modulo your ability to read them all, more personalities from more diverse viewpoints is always a plus. The blogging scene is great in this regard; you can read frequent, focused updates from people in Iran and Nigeria and Indonesia. Nothing really beats a good forum, though, so I'm happy to see how Hatrack has grown even if I can't read every post.
Edit: looks like I missed the UBB opening by 2 days. That seems too low, actually -- I remember reading a post on the Lion entitled "Come on in, the water's warm!" and blindly ignoring it for some time before finally clicking and acquiescing to the new format.
[ January 10, 2004, 12:07 AM: Message edited by: Richard Berg ]
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Yes, there was something inviting us to try out the new forum software and see what we thought, so we all did that, and said it seemed okay though very different, (that's when I took out my 'ak' username) then we all kept on posting to the Lion for what seemed like a long time after that. Finally the announcement was made that we were switching over, and so I went and got the "aka" username because I couldn't remember my password for 'ak'. Then we actually switched, but the old forum remained postable for a long time afterwards. We were just about to decide to go back, some of us, for a jaunt at least, when it quit accepting new stuff. So there was not a single date that we suddenly switched over. The process took a while, as I recall.
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
You know, it's still like that (no new posts but your own) if you choose your time of day right. From around 2-3 am to maybe 5-6 am my time (Central) there is often nobody else posting but me, if I'm on. It's weird. Posted by Anthro (Member # 6087) on :
Well, in my old ID I was a real addict. This new one is sort of a way to stop that part of me. What I'm doing is limiting myself to one and one half hours pleasure computer time daily. And every other week I'll bring my computer to my room, where I have no internet hookup, and use it only for writing(or shirking and playing Civilizations--a marvelous game, by the way).
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Hmm. Switching usernames. I guess that inital burn in for a new ID is kind of taxing. Or giving yourself some kind of weird name where you have to think harder about what you're saying.
I'm kind of struggling with my attachment to hatrack in the wake of posting my possible summer roadtrip plan in Kama's thread. My husband basically sees it as a vice. This ties in very much to the need to cut back my usage. But here I am, monday morning and approaching 2.5 hours.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Sadly, the destruction of my computer has cut back on Hatrack for me, against my own wishes.
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J/K. Have a good time living your life. We'll see you for about an hour every day. ^_^
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Wow, things were really different back then! It was only maybe 1996 or 1997 or something like that when I started. When did we change over to UBB? I forget.
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