I wouldn't think you could find enough content here yet to be on Mainchan all day. I feel like I've seen almost everything here already and can breeze through any new posts in a few minutes when I do the daily check in. If I'm going around posting I can get through that in under an hour easy. How are you on here all day?
I just wish they had saved at least a CSV record of what was in people's Google Music account when they deleted that service. I lost track of a massive music collection I had built up because Google loves killing off their products.
Disabling linking is a non starter. This site is aimed at being a viable Reddit alternative as Reddit slowly censors and authoritarians itself out of relevance. That means the site is a content aggregation platform. Disabling link posts disables the ability to aggregate content from around the web, killing the site's primary function.
In any event I think we see so many link posts because most of us that are trying to attract engagement and help the site grow have been posting links like crazy hoping that leads to discussion on them. Given how poorly that's working for me (I mod the s/StarTrek sub that is a wealth of links with almost zero comments under them) I've taken to carpet bombing the link posts I find interesting with comments in hopes of getting people talking more.
I've mentioned to Cicero that when users post external links here, clicking those links will take the users off of Mainchain because they load in the current tab. That kills engagement because people are far more likely not to hit the back button on their browser to return to the site and comment on the link post than to just close out the tab and forget they were ever here. The simple fix for this is making sure all links created by the comment editor include a target="_blank" attribute. That would ensure links open in a separate tab every time. Meaning when the user closes the tab of the linked article they'll still have Mainchan open to the post they were on. Would make it more likely these link posts get some comment traction. It seems like a super easy fix, dunno why it hasn't been implemented yet. Maybe the HTML this comment editor injects is harder to update than I'm guessing.
All these idiot cable channels/companies keep starting paid streamers doomed to flounder or fail. Meanwhile any one of them has the funds to ramp up a viable Youtube competitor where the content is free to them plus they can rake in more of the ad dollars that they already monetize their services with on tv. Freaking dinosaurs.
Ok after looking around for like an hour now it seems I've forgotten how ass most of these heavy bands with clean vocals are. I posted a Shadows Fall song that has understandable yelling in the verses and clean singing in some of the choruses. But yeah I really spoke too soon saying there were a "good number" of DM bands with clean vox. The bands with clean vocals tend toward either slower or less heavy songs or both. The power and thrash metal inspired stuff is faster but not brutally heavy and the vocals can tend toward cringe a bit much for my tastes. Sorry I got your hopes up mate.
Sigh, Klutzman already starting on the wrong foot with "a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself."
Just students going through Academy is more than enough awesome to base a show around. We're talking about cadets learning how to become interstellar astronauts, learning the sci-fi science that underpins the Trek universe, having a home base set in a near utopic future Earth combined with the politics of academia, The Federation and United Earth. But no Kurtzman needs to inject some arch villain to threaten the whole ass Federation for the millionth time under his tenure. This man truly does not learn from his fuck ups.
Can we just once get a god damned bright and optimistic, live-action Star Trek show without ridiculous world-ending stakes? The show hasn't even begun casting yet and I'm already pissed at how I know they're going to handle it.
Edit: I just remembered Discovery sent Tilly to teach at the Academy. Phuk!
Ah, I always look at this kind of Death Metal singing as vocal distortion to match the distortion and grinding tones of the guitars. There's a good number of DM bands that do clean singing as well. I'll look around for a bit and post a few later.
https://mainchan.com/s/announcements/2072/Mainchan-Minor-update-Reworking-vote-calculation
Could be related.
Had it all saved on a work PC but I didn't take it with me when I lost that job. Big mistake.
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I wouldn't think you could find enough content here yet to be on Mainchan all day. I feel like I've seen almost everything here already and can breeze through any new posts in a few minutes when I do the daily check in. If I'm going around posting I can get through that in under an hour easy. How are you on here all day?
I just wish they had saved at least a CSV record of what was in people's Google Music account when they deleted that service. I lost track of a massive music collection I had built up because Google loves killing off their products.
Disabling linking is a non starter. This site is aimed at being a viable Reddit alternative as Reddit slowly censors and authoritarians itself out of relevance. That means the site is a content aggregation platform. Disabling link posts disables the ability to aggregate content from around the web, killing the site's primary function.
In any event I think we see so many link posts because most of us that are trying to attract engagement and help the site grow have been posting links like crazy hoping that leads to discussion on them. Given how poorly that's working for me (I mod the s/StarTrek sub that is a wealth of links with almost zero comments under them) I've taken to carpet bombing the link posts I find interesting with comments in hopes of getting people talking more.
Voted over, but under if haz cat.
I've mentioned to Cicero that when users post external links here, clicking those links will take the users off of Mainchain because they load in the current tab. That kills engagement because people are far more likely not to hit the back button on their browser to return to the site and comment on the link post than to just close out the tab and forget they were ever here. The simple fix for this is making sure all links created by the comment editor include a target="_blank" attribute. That would ensure links open in a separate tab every time. Meaning when the user closes the tab of the linked article they'll still have Mainchan open to the post they were on. Would make it more likely these link posts get some comment traction. It seems like a super easy fix, dunno why it hasn't been implemented yet. Maybe the HTML this comment editor injects is harder to update than I'm guessing.
All these idiot cable channels/companies keep starting paid streamers doomed to flounder or fail. Meanwhile any one of them has the funds to ramp up a viable Youtube competitor where the content is free to them plus they can rake in more of the ad dollars that they already monetize their services with on tv. Freaking dinosaurs.
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HP makes the worst printers I've ever used in my entire life. And their ink carts run out so fast they're legitimarely a scam. Fuck 'em.
Nice. Imgur shot themselves in the dick foot by banning nsfw, no one should use them anymore.
Ok after looking around for like an hour now it seems I've forgotten how ass most of these heavy bands with clean vocals are. I posted a Shadows Fall song that has understandable yelling in the verses and clean singing in some of the choruses. But yeah I really spoke too soon saying there were a "good number" of DM bands with clean vox. The bands with clean vocals tend toward either slower or less heavy songs or both. The power and thrash metal inspired stuff is faster but not brutally heavy and the vocals can tend toward cringe a bit much for my tastes. Sorry I got your hopes up mate.
Sigh, Klutzman already starting on the wrong foot with "a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself."
Just students going through Academy is more than enough awesome to base a show around. We're talking about cadets learning how to become interstellar astronauts, learning the sci-fi science that underpins the Trek universe, having a home base set in a near utopic future Earth combined with the politics of academia, The Federation and United Earth. But no Kurtzman needs to inject some arch villain to threaten the whole ass Federation for the millionth time under his tenure. This man truly does not learn from his fuck ups.
Can we just once get a god damned bright and optimistic, live-action Star Trek show without ridiculous world-ending stakes? The show hasn't even begun casting yet and I'm already pissed at how I know they're going to handle it.
Edit: I just remembered Discovery sent Tilly to teach at the Academy. Phuk!
Ah, I always look at this kind of Death Metal singing as vocal distortion to match the distortion and grinding tones of the guitars. There's a good number of DM bands that do clean singing as well. I'll look around for a bit and post a few later.