Wow, not yet another forum split ! I thought that was '90s era....
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I once used to uise Groups.io, for it hosts TekScopes.... but IIRC when I stopped using it 5 years ago it was mostly because the user interface and features were painful, espeically working with images. found it orders of magnitude more convenient on EEVBlog which is why I started posting my TE repairs there, especially once I realized many of the old beard helping me on TekScope... were also subscribed to EEVblog and were helping me there as well !
I don't fancy going back to Groups. io because of that... also, it will make it impossible for newcomers, fresh blood, to find us, or even know of our existence, and soon we will be going circles.
Also, the present thread has a tremendous value to me at least, because it archives allllll the work I did to restore my old junk. Tons of pics, tons of loud thinking and trouble-shooting...
One would need to be able to import all the past TEA messages and pics, into Groups.io.
Bitseeker did such a fantastic job or building a TEA "contents table" of POI on the first page, it's really extremely valuable. SO we would need to modify alll the links it contains, to point to groups.io messags links instead..... lot of work (I guess the IT wizards here could automate that maybe ?)
If it's really a matter of life or death, yes I would move to groups.io (I just subscribed there BTW).
HOWEVER, it would be SO MUCH MORE PRACTICAL if we stayed here instead !
SOLUTION : easy.... to me ? I do'nt know.... to me, seems that the problem is that our content has too much OT stuff. So, why not simply do click-click-click, and move the TEA thread into a " random chat /lounge " section of EEVBlog, hence we could post OT stuff to our hearts contents and never have anybody complain about it ?
Now I don't know if there is a "random chat" section on EEVBlog, but most forums do... if not, maybe it would be an opportunity to create one ?
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Then all the people who silently complain/report about OT stuff here, are free to start a new TEA thread of their own, in the proper section of the foruml (here then...), and that's it.... then we can watch their thread and as soon as we see anything OT we wuld report it !!!
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No just kidding....
I say just move this thread to a random chat section, or simply leave the thread here and edit it's titel / description to make it obvious that it's kinda a " TEA oriented chat room ", and create a "proper" TEA thread alongside it, labeled " TEA SERIOUS ", or something...
I am trying to be reasonable and find a middle ground here, please consider my idea !
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I would rather not have to give up on this thread and move to another IT infrastructure, to be honest.
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EDIT : Also, I am not sure Groups.io has enough formatting options to let AVG and Dragon use colourful text.....
And what about emoticons ?