When I think about pronunciation I think nuck-m-l.
The handle came from Naperville Upscale Kitchen Equipment, Made Local, and I used those initials for my email. When I joined boingboing it didn’t seem to like underscore separators so it was all jammed together. A rather silly origin story, but when I joined BBS years ago I hardly was thinking about longevity.
If they reopen the BBS and we return to it, I would not mind to open just a new account and my usual “close to my name but not my name” handle, so I don’t mind being anonymized. I’m not someone who would cry over losing the badges of honor.
On the other hand… if they reopen the BBS… would you again put the hand on the mouth that bit you? Will they be assurances of this not happening in the future (ie: community governance, self-financing, in effect becoming part of BB but not BB?)
Great to see so many of you here, thanks to @MerelyGifted for extending an invitation to me.
I tried the substack version the last couple days and it is no substitute for the BBS. Unwieldy and unfriendly at best, combined with the nazi neighbours, I probably won’t be giving it the extended trial I had initially planned on.
Sad to see it go this way but happy to find this place. This feels more like BBS than BB’s new digs.
If I were to go back, I’d abandon the AnnaTheWeird name and go with what I use here. IF I were to go back. I’m not sure I want to put my eggs back in that basket anymore, they clearly don’t care for the commentariat there.
Here’s a useless nerdly fun-fact: make a bookmark link to this page and it includes some sense of where along the long and growing scroll it was marked (that is, somewhere in the middle); and this is stored in the final integer in the URL. So https…/4752/511 and you end up in the middle, https…/4752/1573 and you end up farther down; and https…/4752/9999999 and it (recalculates?) and places you at the current rapidly growing tail. (no no… no need to thank me [wink])
I’ve been anonymized since Tuesday morning. As soon as they announced it I knew the party was over, and having already established myself here (if mainly as an infrequent visitor) I just transitioned right over here full-time.
The only toe I’ve kept in the old BBS is to watch the announcement thread anonymously because everyone needs a little rubber-necking at a wreck every now and then.
Heh, me too. I’ve read that whole, sad thing! Interesting also to see some showing their true colors there (such as complaints that BB’s commentariat enforced an “echo chamber” – what a tell!)
Yeah, some of those guys are just pissed they met resistance to their toxic ideas and dismiss it as the community being an echo chamber instead even considering maybe their ideas aren’t worth that much.
But “weird” is so relative, though, no? At our house you might qualify as “unusual”.
(We like unusual, we’ll even cook to dietary requirements, which can get challenging when you have 2 or 3 sorts of unusual over at once… but I digress…)
And https://.../4752/print and you get a printer-friendly format of everything in the thread, which you can then save to a PDF. Unfortunately, you can do this only 5 times an hour, and I’ve contributed to 628 threads. It’s going to take a little while to archive this.
Also https://bbs.boingboing.net/raw/4752 gets you the thread text, but as plain markup, as it was typed in. I’ve not had seen a restriction on this one.