[Tfug] Is TFUG dead?

[Timothy D. Lenz]

I am not big on "blogging". I don't have any "social media" accounts and 
find it annoying to have to go to some twitter page to get updates on a 
program they already have a forum to communicate with.

On 1/5/2015 9:27 AM, Zack Williams wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:16 PM, John Gruenenfelder
> <jetpackjohn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sure, the information is all there, but who really
>> wants to read through 86 pages of mostly inane chatter to get the info
>> you actually want.
>
> There's a general lack of good editing and curation systems.  You end
> up either going Wiki, which needs to be actively updated and cared for
> (most get set up, stuff is thrown up, then they molder into disuse and
> have security problems), or the Forum problems as described.
>
> I kinda wish people would blog more - that way they're actively
> curating their own content..   It's like the old plan/project files on
> oldschool unix where you could get info on what people were using
> (even on other systems!) with finger.
>
>> I miss the old ways (dagnabbit)...
>> And whatever happened to instant messaging?  That seems to have died a
>> rapid and quiet death.
>
> All the old timers are still on IRC... just sayin' :)
>
> - Zack
>
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