One of life’s questions answered definitively.
That doesn’t happen every day, eh?
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It certainly is a reasonable question. In answer, there are more than a few BBS topics that have generated thousands of replies, with most of those topics created by the BBS community (none by me 
) and some perhaps by one or two new arrivals (please speak up if you’re here). As unreviewed and unvetted as it is, the chart below illustrates where numerous postings tended to lean.
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Damn it… I’ve already liked it once… can’t like it again…
Why does this feel like a failure on my part somehow?
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I was sometimes able to get around that problem by going to the main source. For example, I could never successfully get an MSN report to stick, but MSN does list the sources for their reports. I go straight to those sources to get a good link—and to gather info/comments not shown in MSN’s version.
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“… and everybody died.”
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The Bible!
Was I right?
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MMmmmmmmmmWeeeelllllllllNotExactlyyyyyyyyy.
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I can only speak for myself, but a lot of this week has felt like failure on my part…guilt over my gratitude from being offered the SuS subscription, general ickiness for commenting in SuS, fear of losing community, guilt over regaining it if anyone out there needs it as hard as I feel I do right now and isn’t getting it. I’m not great at parsing emotions on a good day, and this week hasn’t had what I’d call a good day.
But from where I’m sitting, it seems you’ve poured more into the BB BBS than anyone who isn’t getting paid to do it, and almost all of the people getting paid. I imagine that this week has sucked quite a lot for you, too (to put it mildly). But you are an absolute rock star in my book, and you shouldn’t failure for a damn thing. It’s just been a week.
Also, thank you for making me feel welcome from the get-go over there.
We now return to our regularly scheduled reminiscing.
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That’s all very kind of you to say… I think that lots of others have a greater contribution to that place than me… in general, it really sucks that they just sort of pulled the rug without any kind of warning… I think that they could have put the brakes on, and maybe announced it now, for the beginning of the year maybe… But at least some of TPTB had no interest in the BBS anyway…
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Everything else, 100% agree. It felt like it was all maximized for manipulating people into subscribing on SuS.
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I also engaged with the move to Substack because i didn’t know the community had already made a refuge here. In my mind everyone was lost in that storm and i was hoping that maybe i could engage enough to keep people around, but was losing hope and was thinking maybe i could make a Discord server and invite folks? Thankfully i had to do none of that so y’all are heroes for making this place and for being here.
Seriously, it’s been good for me and i feel better knowing this part of the internet lives on.
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Same here, i don’t think one should feel guilt for being grateful to the offer of a SuS subscription when the alternative seemed to be losing contact with so many amazing people. The loss we were feeling was palpable so it has been a balm for the soul to know this place was always here, it shows the strength of community that has been built and i don’t think the powers that be ever really understood that.
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There was about a 4 year period at one point where I really wasn’t active here at all. I didn’t even visit the site that often. Other than the community, what I think I’ll miss the most was already gone, for the most part, and that’s the daily postings of actually Mostly Wonderful things. Back when Cory and Xeni and the woman who used to write all the cool science posts whose name escapes me at the moment.
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Maggie Koerth!
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Yes! I met her once when she was on a book tour and she stopped at a local book store near where I lived, in Kansas City.
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I tried posting that Wiki link, but you beat me by seconds.
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