I'd like to state something that I don't think has been stated before, but may put some of you guys worrying about the activity of this forum at ease...
This forum gets quiet around the same time every year... The end of the school year and the very beginning. Winter tends to have some more activity as people go on Winter Breaks from school, be it HS or College. Then, the summer is always the MOST active because, well... There really isn't much school at all.
So is this forum "dying"? No. Never was.
It's just taking a nap
Two cents from someone who's been here for 6 years now
Hmm... There may be some miscommunication. Re-reading my post, I am still confused where "stop creating content" came across, but allow me to elaborate
That message was merely to stop any worrying that the section is going down the tubes or is in danger of being shut down; It's not. We do this every year.
By NO MEANS did that, does that, will that ever mean "Don't create more content" or "stop finding new ways to bring in activity". As a member of this site's staff for 6 years, I think it'd be pretty silly for me to say such a thing; Never did, NEVER will. Please don't read things the wrong way.
I was, after all, just trying to be helpful
Please note; any sarcasm found in this post is completely meant in good fun. Despite the fact that I am, in all honesty, a jackass doesn't mean I was trying to be one here
Freaking midterm season here. Will need to wait before continuing any stories.
Calculus is the bane of my life.
Best if it died being impaled by a fork.
You want to inspire activity? Attack every piece of work that comes through this forum. If someone posts a poem or a story or even something about a book, make sure every single member of this group posts within 24 hours with something to say.
And not just one-word responses like "Neat!" or even "I like this" but make sure every single person says something, something meaningful. Don't let a single person ever post here and feel like their work is going unnoticed or unappreciated.
I bet if that starts happening on the norm that people will begin posting more often and eventually more people will come... Either through word of mouth or just constantly seeing new posts appearing in this forum.
Another issue I'm learning is that a lot of the air quality sensors don't work at very high ambient temperatures. I'm planning on heating this enclosure to like 60C or so, and that's the upper limit of their functionality
Although I don't know if I need to actually actively heat it or just let the plate and hotend bring the ambient temp to whatever it will, but even then I need to figure out an exfiltration for hot air. I think I kind of know what to do but it's still fucking confusing
I don't think I'm dealing with quite the same pressures though, at the very least its a significantly smaller system. For the time being I'm just going to put together a quick scrubby box though and hope it works good enough to not make my house toxic
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.