Discord invite

[Russell Marks]

I'm no fan of Discord (as I may possibly have hinted at by now), and I
know I'd hardly ever check it, and obviously I still intend to post to
"real" ugvm, but... it does seem a bit silly for me to keep avoiding
the ugvm discord thingy for however many years it's been now,
especially when I already have a Discord account which I just dusted
off after fighting my way past like twenty different update dialogues
and levels of "I'm a human, yes really, no seriously, yes, actually a
human, FFS just let me in already".

So, assuming the ugvm thing isn't public, any chance of an invite from
one of you fine gentlemen?

-Rus.

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On 9 Jan 2024 at 12:36:39 GMT, "Russell Marks"

Absolutely :)

Cheers - Jaimie
--
None of this will matter in 20 billion years.

[Russell Marks]

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@usually.sessile.org> wrote:

[Re: invite]
> Absolutely :)

Thanks. I think I can see the appeal in some ways, given the... how
can I put this delicately... slightly different tone being used to
that of the average post on here. :-) Plus, y'know, people actually
using it and stuff.

-Rus.

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On 9 Jan 2024 at 13:39:22 GMT, "Russell Marks"

Back in the dim distant past it was chatty here too. Siiiiigh.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++
makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away
your whole leg.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup

[Kendrick Kerwin Chua]

In article <l06568...@mid.individual.net>,

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
>On 9 Jan 2024 at 13:39:22 GMT, "Russell Marks"
><zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:
>> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
>>
>> [Re: invite]
>>> Absolutely :)
>>
>> Thanks. I think I can see the appeal in some ways, given the... how
>> can I put this delicately... slightly different tone being used to
>> that of the average post on here. :-) Plus, y'know, people actually
>> using it and stuff.
>

>Back in the dim distant past it was chatty here too. Siiiiigh.
>

I am stubborn about wanting to make use of Usenet, but I'm also being
realistic about its prospects and future viability. There will come a
day when people on the Internet will make hard choices about keeping all
this infrastructure running, and eventually even the binary groups will
no longer be in use, in the same way that Gopher and anonymous FTP sites
did. But if we stop using the services and the protocol altogether then
that only accelerates the decline.

It is useful to me as a method of record keeping and as a public record
of my adventures in this hobby. But if there were no PWB structure I'd
struggle to find a reason to post here, given that all the conversation
and camraderie does occur somewhere else now. It's a puzzle with no
solution, only an exit that leads to a gift shop and a car park.

-KKC, who has some new karaoke microphones to test out.

[Russell Marks]

Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

> In article <l06568...@mid.individual.net>,
> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
>>On 9 Jan 2024 at 13:39:22 GMT, "Russell Marks"
>><zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:

[...]

>>> Thanks. I think I can see the appeal in some ways, given the... how
>>> can I put this delicately... slightly different tone being used to
>>> that of the average post on here. :-) Plus, y'know, people actually
>>> using it and stuff.
>>
>>Back in the dim distant past it was chatty here too. Siiiiigh.

[...]

> It is useful to me as a method of record keeping and as a public record
> of my adventures in this hobby. But if there were no PWB structure I'd
> struggle to find a reason to post here, given that all the conversation
> and camraderie does occur somewhere else now.

The way that it seems to be 95% non-games on there was surprising to
me though, I have to admit. A bit like ye olde comp.sys.sinclair, but
with less crisp-flavour rants and more moaning about work.

-Rus.