That’s too on the nose to be a coincidence.
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In the brief time I was there, it’s not like there were many comments on the articles to begin with.
Most of the comments must’ve turned into criticism of the shutdown.
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Was just coming here to post the same article.
All of which makes me almost grateful for the initial elsewhere incident. If we didn’t get that warning, we couldn’t have spun this place up in a week, and we would have been cut off.
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I may be or may be not. I do agree with all of the quote if only because I was banned from facebook for 30 days without recourse while in the midst of a RPG campaign that ran only via facebook just because I posted a photo of three tunas hanging upside down with the subtitle of “Bonito Mussolini” (bonito being a fish similar to tuna, basically a pun in spanish).
Or because I lost a full day of work because of the confluence of three facts: the fact I did not knew word doesn’t autosave anymore unless you’re working directly on onedrive; the fact that windows update will forcefully (and unsafely) terminate applications in order to reboot; and the fact that I did not understand that what I was being offered read-only was not the document I was working on, but the only copy of my data. So, being read only, I closed word, repoened the document and discovered I lost a day of work.
I won’t let companies dictate what is good for me, if I can avoid it.
Again, I won’t say if he’s talking about other kind of experiences, but I’m pretty sure Cory has experienced similar and worse things from big companies, and heard enough horror stories from others to draw these conclusions without dramatic tales of betrayal from smaller places 
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No offence intended, will pass.
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That does seem an awful lot of joy.
I rather like it.
And now I realise I sound like I’m wearing a smoking jacket.
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An Edwardian smoking jacket.
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I think you’ll find there’s no such thing as a Non-Edwardian Smoking Jacket.
So yes, obvs.
What else would one pet one’s penguin wearing?
I’m not some bloody heathen, y’know.
“Settle down, Tim”.
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This needs to go into the Penguins thread!
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And bear in mind I did say “pet” one’s penguin, as opposed to “irritate” one’s penguin.
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Shit, for a second I thought we were there.
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No, not really. They’re about the articles, mostly thoughtful or snarky like the before times. But there’s no riffing on comments, no discussions. Kinda sad and boring, really, not like here where it’s more like a big ol’ party with everyone flitting in and out of discussions.
My guess is that a certain cimments are closed to prevent the Nazi trolls from coming and shitting all over the place.
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Hard to prevent that when you move into a bad neighborhood.
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Sadly, there is. Hugh Hefner, the Playboy founder based in Chicago, made a big point of wearing smoking jackets (and robes) in public photos.
And that is how, once the elbows wore out on my dad’s red velvet smoking jacket from the 1960s, I was able to convince him to give it to me so that I could add elbow patches and use it as a base for my 4th Doctor costume!
ETA: OMG, I’m an idiot! I just realized…my dad’s name was Edward, so it WAS an Edwardian smoking jacket!
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I think keeping the bastards out would be hard no matter what the site, if it’s open to access.
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From 1895, Vincent’s practical guide, volume 9
I knowe, people are desperate to depose the reigning monarch and hand over the reins, but Edward diidn’t assume the role until 1901.
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Look, i get that it’s very easy to fall into conspiratorial thinking surrounding this when TPTB keep shtoom but… ooh boy, is that telling.
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Did @RobertMcKenna make it across?
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