by Ice Cream Jonsey » Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:20 am
I admin another site called Caltrops. It is at
www.caltrops.com. The forum, where all the action is, is at
www.caltrops.com/pointy.php .
There are many people utterly repulsed by threaded forums. This is mostly good for the contributers on such, as it keeps the mass of boring zeros with no filter between their pea-sized brains and keyboard away. I'm going to try to update the Twitter feed at
http://twitter.com/caltrops once a day with links to posts (from Caltrops) that do that. This process may or may not work, I guess I'll find out in a couple months.
The way I envision it working is also strongly tied to how I personally use Twitter. There are a number of times in a day where I am waiting in line for something or otherwise momentarily bored out of my skull, so I'll click on the Twitter icon on my phone. Ideally, the people I'm following have written a few amusing things, I read them, and exit Twitter in less than a minute. So I'm gunning for the same sort of thing: a person who might otherwise not visit would see a new update, navigate to the linked post with their phone's browser, and enjoy the content. I'll stay away from updating the feed with anything relating to the drama of the forum itself, and anything with too many "in-jokes."
Possibly you will like it!
I admin another site called Caltrops. It is at www.caltrops.com. The forum, where all the action is, is at www.caltrops.com/pointy.php .
There are many people utterly repulsed by threaded forums. This is mostly good for the contributers on such, as it keeps the mass of boring zeros with no filter between their pea-sized brains and keyboard away. I'm going to try to update the Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/caltrops once a day with links to posts (from Caltrops) that do that. This process may or may not work, I guess I'll find out in a couple months.
The way I envision it working is also strongly tied to how I personally use Twitter. There are a number of times in a day where I am waiting in line for something or otherwise momentarily bored out of my skull, so I'll click on the Twitter icon on my phone. Ideally, the people I'm following have written a few amusing things, I read them, and exit Twitter in less than a minute. So I'm gunning for the same sort of thing: a person who might otherwise not visit would see a new update, navigate to the linked post with their phone's browser, and enjoy the content. I'll stay away from updating the feed with anything relating to the drama of the forum itself, and anything with too many "in-jokes."
Possibly you will like it!