ROBUST discussion

Y'all know I'm not the topic police, and I don't care shit if threads get mixed up like a Looseeanna stu. But people are getting so slack about selecting folders, a couple of slots under where you fill in the topic, that subjects for which we have very definite and specific folders are being put in "General" from pure carelessness.

That in turn will make this forum a pain to find anything useful in.

Sort your threads into the folders, please.

I wish there'd be a way to move inactive discussions off the front page.

Fast way to get dead threads off the front page is to reduce the number of threads showing to five. That's overkill though. Another good way under everyone's control, rather than mine, is simply to start new threads for new subjects, rather than simply stick it in an old thread, or even a new thread when it is already overlong.

Five threads per folder showing would be too few. You'd have to open the folders to see what was going on. I'd rather scroll down the front page than look at the folders one by one.

No one's posted here in YEARS! In other news, I have not much participated in this lively forum in years. It makes much sense to me that I should poke my head into some random doorway to see what's what. I wonder, will anyone notice I've been here?

The perfume of her passing lingers... I wonder if it was Sue who came and went like the wind...

Discussions of intelligent people have an ebb and flow; people get to know what everyone else thinks, and one needs new blood occasionally to revitalize a forum. Remind me again in September and I'll go on a recuiting drive; for now I'm spending the summer out riding with the pedalpals or painting with the paintingpals.

On my Mac there's a Status Bar across the top for holding commonly used bookmarks; I'm sure Windows computers have a similar facility. A long time ago I opened the main discussion page of ROBUST, clicked on "unread posts", and then made the resulting page a bookmark and put it in the Status Bar. Every time I want to know what's going on at ROBUST, I just click this link and a list of new posts is presented to me. Handy.

You can also get Goodreads housekeeping to send you an email listing new posts. Find your photo top right, click on the arrow next to it. Now go Edit Profile>Email>ROBUST (near bottom of page) and tell the housekeepers how often you want an email reminder.

I'm enjoying the summer too. Doing some riding myself. I receive notices about replies to any discussion I started, which is what brought me back to Robust. I wish I had more time to stay and play! I just want you all to know I have you in my thoughts.

Happy peddling and painting, Andre.

Sjm wrote: "Happy peddling and painting, Andre."

Most gracious of you, dear Sue.

Sjm wrote: "I wish I had more time to stay and play!..."

I know thy feelings on this one, Sjm. Many times I wished my time wasn't so compressed, so I could spend more time here. If it isn't my health, it's my writing goals. If it isn't my writing goals, it's my wife and daughter needing me to drive them back and forth to college (one car family), if it isn't the driving, it's insert any other real life situation that eats time like some starving 5 year old crunching down a handful of potato chips.

Have an enjoyable summer, Sjm. ^_^

Daniel wrote: "If it isn't my health, it's my writing goals. If it isn't my writing goals, it's my wife and daughter needing me to drive them back and forth to college (one car family), if it isn't the driving, it's insert any other real life situation that eats time like some starving 5 year old crunching down a handful of potato chips."

Thank-you Daniel. I so relate to this, having health and family concerns of my own. I also love and appreciate the image of the five-year-old as time-eater. Mine is just about to be seven. When he isn't occupying my time directly, he is in my thoughts and taking up most of the lines of my to-do list. The only way to find time to play is to steal it from time I should be using to do something else. I'm sure I'm not unique there. Of course, "shoulds" and "to dos" are just constructs, and it doesn't take much to replace them with "wants" and "to hell with its". Thus I am here today… but not for long. I have many other forms of procrastination that desperately need attending to.

Sjm wrote: "I have many other forms of procrastination that desperately need attending to."

Very likely the truest words ever spoken on ROBUST.

Andre Jute wrote: "Sjm wrote: "I have many other forms of procrastination that desperately need attending to."

Very likely the truest words ever spoken on ROBUST."

I'll buy that for a dollar!

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