I think a ton of people would benefit from understanding PMM or Lean project management. Both as a planner (ie DIY projects) and as consumer (dealing w builders/subcontactors).
The reality is that many services charge a fair bit for ‘project management’ without ever understanding the basics of scope, schedule, budget etc.
You can title it “So You Wanna Build A She-Shed?”
It’s attached to a badge. I am prone to fits of whimsy.
Here’s the thread:
You have sparked thoughts that might be best kept quiet, but I am a pediatrician, long-time veteran of the vaccine wars (newly rekindled in a much uglier guise) as well as adventurous fruit tree grower/weird garden vegetable afficionado and creative woodworker. I would give serious thought to contributing to some form of bloggy thing. Couldn’t promise high volume, I also have to keep the lights on, but it could be fun.
And mushroom buckets!
Prior to COVID, I did a weekly (usually) session at one of the local rock climbing gyms. (top rope, mostly, because I’m not good enough to do lead rope, and I’m too heavy for bouldering.)
At the moment, I don’t because the friends that, uh, roped me into it are not healthy enough to resume it. 
I could do that!
That saddens me because it’s such a fun activity and a great workout, are there any social club type groups you can join maybe? Sincerely hope you can get back into it.
I confess I immediately came to regard the title as a sacred trust which I endeavor to live up to every day!
I’m sure there’s room for experimentation. Could do photo essays, short stories, articles, long form article, etc. Whatever suits the topic and contributor. I myself am mulling over what kind of things I can contribute
I want to reinforce that anything resembling a blog would be entirely voluntary. I have the means to pay for the infrastructure that keeps this place running, but not the means to compensate anyone for their labor. Even if we started collecting revenue in the form of tips, donations, merch, or whatever, the likelihood that would amount to enough to fairly compensate anyone for their labor is extremely low. Also, there’s the notion that we would essentially be redistributing capital among a rather small group of people, which doesn’t seem like a worthwhile endeavor.
To that point, we have a #blog category that anyone can post in. It won’t post to any kind of front page or anything similar, but it will get indexed by search engines so it could provide some clear entry point for new users. Grated, that’s the case for any post that isn’t TL2 or above, but I think putting it in the blog category establishes intent.
To be clear, I’m not suggesting any compensation other than fun. I will have to give it some thought but maybe…
Yeah same. If I contributed anything it’d be mainly as a means of expression and personal growth
I like that idea.
I think you might be misunderestimating us. Although to be fair, if you went with D-movies or Z-movies that might get even more response.
Rock climbing seems intresting,
Healthcare technology that stuff has and will save my life.
@LockeCJ posted in the arrival thread about the data usage going up. I was going to reply there but this thread is more appropriate
Is there a way to automatically remove some of the more data-intensive picture sharing posts after a while? Perhaps a category where everyone knows those threads will be culled after a year?
The See Something Say Something, Odd Stuff, and memeversation threads at the old place were fun, but seem like they’d generate a lot of data that hardly anyone is every going to go back an read. Maybe limiting the retention of particularly high data threads that don’t have contents near and dear to members’ hearts could help.
Yeah, I’m feeling terribly guilty posting gifs. I think if were allowed to make a monthly or yearly contribution, it would to alleviate my guilt. 
FWIW, I’m in a private group using a different platform and that’s exactly what we do: we know that our old posts will drop off, the data-heavy ones most quickly, and we find the ephemeral aspect of that to be advantageous.
Not sure everyone will agree to that here, however, as there are many more people and most of us have most recently been used to a data-heavy site.
Probably the primary reason I never anonymized my BB account was my record there of the various Badass door games from nine or ten years ago. I’m kinda proud of my contributions to them and I also like remembering the other players.
But I’m especially glad to see all the derpy MSPaint images and halfassed GIFs with which we illustrated our adventures. Those are full of excellent memories, and I hope they never go away.
We didn’t get Badass off to much of a start here at The New Place (I hope maybe we do again! Those games were huge fun!), but anyway I can see both sides here: a need for disposable ephemeral posts, and maybe a more permanent record for some types of threads.
I sure hate to add to any admin workload, but maybe a regularly scheduled hand-curated housecleaning to wipe away the more obviously disposable stuff could be in order?
Is this just a matter of hard disk space, or something more? And I assume we’d want to stay off cloud storage?
