primsong | Tempest in a teapot

As I suspected, there are a few who are having a bit of trouble with the announcement of the new boards - a couple who *cough* shall remain anonymous as usual in the center of it. Ah well. At least they are predictable. The rest are those who have low computer skills or are very young and are simply afraid of being left behind or shut out somehow, I think.

I've run around on the "test board" and it isn't too bad - a few annoying things that we can hope they'll fix, but my hopes aren't very high with Decipher involved, so we'll see...

I put in a request for a creative writing board and was told to hold that thought until after the intial ones are running, so it may happen someday after all.

Phew!

Busy researching the cgi-bin threaded mbs to see what's out there. I've already found a couple possible options for hosting an "old fashioned" mb on the Scrapbook - maybe just a "Prancing Pony" as the boxy format doesn't lend itself to casual chatter very well. I have no intention of splitting the community - more of an archiving thing, as that style of mb is our history. If folks enjoy it and want more, maybe we could add an old-fashioned Middle Earth too, we'll see. Depends how much bandwidth it pulls mostly. The administration of it looks pretty basic and we can keep the same mods then too.

On the housing front, we have the inspection of the house, and an arborist coming to look at the trees this week, and I get to go shopping for cabinets and paint and such - whoohoo! I'm not stressed about that part as I already did all that wrestling over color palettes when we redid the house we are in now, and I'm just going to carry my colors with me to the new place. Yay! Stopped by there to take some pictures to show folks but my camera battery was dead... phooey. It's in the charger now - try again tomorrow.

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I am so excited about your new house! I look forward to seeing the pictures, once you manage to persuade your camera to co-operate!

Oy! Such goings-on at ME! It must be a challenge to maintain your world-renown patience! I debated refraining from posting until the new boards, but I wanted to encourage folks to think that things were still going, you know, get their minds off of it for a bit. I hope it is working.

I find change stimulating to my creativity. It is sad, that some folks are made so rigid and afraid by this. I guess that I am a hopelessly optimist romantic... blame LOTR for that!

I think it's a great idea to post as usual; it really will help to make people settle. If some of show we're not afraid of the change, that will help to calm the ones who are worried. Sure wish the RW would cooperate so I could get another chapter up. It's not going to be the new boards that defeat me, I fear; it is the RW which is getting ready to engulf me for the next couple of weeks! ;-)

Great news on the house front, sounds like a lot of work ahead of you, but of the "fun" variety. It will be worth it. A nice answer to prayer!

Thanks for all you're doing with working through that kaffuffle over the new boards. I plan to support the new one and help show how it can work, in spite of being different; but if there is an old-fashioned wallah to go to for fun, I'll be there, too! Just have to make sure I don't spread myself too thin, hehe! Though I was never sure before about having a separate board for writing, in the new format, I think it will work; I will watch for that, and plan to contribute. Guess I don't mind how it's set up, as long as there is a place for my writing where people can find it, amongst those I know -- or will get to know!

I have to admit, I was a tiny bit worried (getting my name and all), but it'll all work out. It's too bad about the people who are being a pain in the patooty though.

I'm in the interesting position of my Fan Club/Decipher username/password 'not' working on the message board, and my old one doesn't work either now that I've updated the Fan Club/Decipher username/password to reflect Tuilelindowen.

I am assuming that once the changes take place I will be able to access the message board once again. I just checked again tonight and I have no problem logging into the Decipher Fan Club site and store. Just can't get onto the message board any more.

All of which makes me so glad I am now here at LJ so I can keep in touch with my lovely soulmates. Hugs.

I've only been reading all the turmoil on the boards today. Well, I am in the lucky position to be able to keep my handle (sometimes it's a good thing when you're too lazy to come up with a new user name on every login site) but even if I had to change it I wouldn't have minded. I know who I am. I will sure use the new board and it would be sad to loose a lot of members just because of that technical change. I think even the ones who are critizising the change now will eventually get accustomed to it. There's always hope ;-)

congrats on the house! and i love your layout...tis the first time i've entered your journal postings in 'your' journal view instead of my own. love the colors. btw...how did you get that little flower for the mood icons? its perfect.

I found them in the long list of possible mood sets that LJ offered when I was first setting it up - it seemed to fit.

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