Shout Box archive

20 Apr 20:31

Hobitt

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havent been on facebook for more than half a year now not sure why i even made it in the first place

20 Apr 20:30

Amit Dutta

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more clicks, more scrolling means more ads, more revenue. We are their bitches

20 Apr 20:29

Hobitt

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yeah i guess social media is engineered that way that you are not encouraged to commit you just click like and move on

20 Apr 20:29

Amit Dutta

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Facebook sold us a crock of shit

20 Apr 20:29

Amit Dutta

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Community isn't clicking "like" on a post....it's getting involved in everyone's struggle :)

20 Apr 20:28

Hobitt

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yea its great

20 Apr 20:28

Amit Dutta

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I agree hobitt...and I was so happy to see how much everyone helped each other too!

20 Apr 20:27

Amit Dutta

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But yeah, unfortunately, social media has already won...and we are headed for this individualised, 5 seconds of interest in a post bullshit-community model

20 Apr 20:27

Hobitt

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yeah there is something very motivating when you see other people working on the same thing at the same time

20 Apr 20:26

Amit Dutta

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Totally man....that's why forums rock, and those other random challenges and facebook things don't...you don't get pushed by the people who run them, and the people who participate

20 Apr 20:26

Hobitt

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cant wait to be done with this one and spend a week studying to improve

20 Apr 20:25

Hobitt

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these challanges made me push myself

20 Apr 20:25

Amit Dutta

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yeah for now :P

20 Apr 20:25

Hobitt

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well the crucibles are around now

20 Apr 20:25

Amit Dutta

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so the sycophants left to follow

20 Apr 20:24

Amit Dutta

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Everyone got seduced by faceshit and twitcher

20 Apr 20:24

Amit Dutta

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The problem with forums dying is because leaders left them, not because they became irrelevant

20 Apr 20:23

Hobitt

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maybe forums will be cool agian lol

20 Apr 20:22

Amit Dutta

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@John: but it don't make that much of a difference....in the last year, taking into account timezone differences, we would be lucky to get 15-20 guests and 1 or 2 members....this is something else...someone shared something somewhere....seems Alex and Noah have been pushing CD in old interviews, maybe it's just off that

20 Apr 20:21

Hobitt

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massive painting so many details

20 Apr 20:21

Hobitt

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yeah still a lot of work to do on the crucible

20 Apr 20:20

John

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Just an example. To illustrate the difference in time zones!

20 Apr 20:20

John

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Crucible? Maddening!

20 Apr 20:20

Hobitt

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im not in the US

20 Apr 20:19

John

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When I post something, the timestamp that'll show up on your side would say, "1 day in the future", as opposed to, posted "Just now"

20 Apr 20:18

John

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Let's say you live one timezone (day) later than me. You're in the US. I'm in asia.

20 Apr 20:18

Hobitt

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how the crucible goin john

20 Apr 20:17

John

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No standard time zone. The time stamps posted are specific to the user's own time zone.

20 Apr 20:16

Hobitt

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go on

20 Apr 20:16

John

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Now I understand why we were getting a huge number of online users..

20 Apr 20:02

Hobitt

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http://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/upload...d-Abel.jpg

20 Apr 20:01

John

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Any way the wind blows? Doesn't really matter to me :)