I'm with Jacque on this one, i just don't have the bandwidth; neither mental or telecom.
On a news report last night they said that 50% of the world's population have never made or received a phone call. Personally I don't believe that but I can make up a statistic that confirms that most people on the Internet think that everyone else on the Internet has the same connection speed or better than they themselves have. I spend a lot of money paying for 'hi-speed' Internet in hotel rooms only to discover it doesn't even peak at the old 56K dial up speed. Even in 1st world countries, in big cities, I spend too much time with one leg in the shower, the other on the toilet seat, laptop raised over the head trying to coax the connection up from b/s to Kb/s;-( Very occasionally I wish I could post a photo (screenshot rather than Ketchup bottles) to this List, but the downside of this is bandwidth. I'll admit the LiverCode forum is very good in this regard, very few photos and I haven't seen anyone with animated GIFs for their photo, but still a Forum needs more bandwidth to run than an email client. One forum I visit with many photos (mainly of PCBs, circuit diagrams, machines, control panels, or photos of scribbles on napkins) I regularly just give up as they take too long. Yes, Gmail does slow when you're down to 5KB/s, but it's bearable. If I'm on the road I'll specifically defer my List reading to times when I know that I'll have slow Internet or no Internet; like sitting hours in a plane. I've just so many other things to do with my time. As for taxonomy, as with email Subject headings, they are other people's taxonomy, not mine; which is why I specifically registered this List with a Gmail account. I have about 20 Labels set up and filters that automatically attach one or more Labels to incoming emails. One such label is Arduino. Now I can search the LC Forum for Arduino and I note Hermann that you replied to a post "Arduino Project" which resided in "Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers", one post included a reference to another post about Arduino titled "Bluetooth" which resided in "Platform Specific" < "iOS Development". Who would have thought that Arduino posts would have been categorised under either of those. So yes, I can search Arduino, but if I were to search on all the topics I'm interested in it would take me forever to go through that list. In Gmail, any post with any subject, if it contains the word "Arduino" anywhere in the content it will end up with an Arduino Label and I'll immediately see that when I open Gmail and it will be the first post I read. All the other topics I'm interested in are instantaneously Labelled. I can count on one hand how many posts per day do not end up with a Label; which I'll read last and manually Label; typically OT. Thanks to all those who put [OT] in the subject so they are automatically Labeled and will be read second to last. I assume someone will tell me how to 'tag' forum posts. I like the way Gmail compress previously quoted text into a small ellipsis button; very little wasted screen space, maintains continuity of the thread very nicely and allows quick access if you need to refer. I assume there is some way for me in the forums to turn off all that stuff about when people joined, how many posts, where they live, etc, etc. If I worked in one office, and always had broadband I guess I'd be able to figure out how to set up the forum to meet my idiosyncratic ways, but with so little spare time, and too much thinband to deal with, and not being prepared to search on every topic I'm interested in, this List is the fastest option I've got. Hermann, welcome to the List and I hope you find an advantage in both. Long live the List _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
