Inspired to do a bit of weeding

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I’m a fan of the gardening show “Gardener’s world” and of gardening in general. And with any garden you need to do a bit of weeding and reorganizing.
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Looking good Susan, thank you for the weeding and organization. Speaking of weeding and gardening, I wonder how many AskWoody visitors are also interested in gardening? Maybe in the Outside the box area a Forum for Gardening? I see one for Travel and miscellaneous. There might not be enough interest to justify a new catagory of Gardening though. In case anyone is interested, the Garden Gate Magazine has a nice free newsletter if you are not swamped already with a multitude of newsletters, take a look if interested:
https://www.gardengatemagazine.com/newsletter/

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Recent discussions — BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine (gardenersworld.com) is another venue along with a great British podcast BBC Radio 4 – Gardeners’ Question Time – Downloads

(and yes this is REALLY offtopic but I started it with the gardening theme.  My poppies from the front yard are linked below)

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Nice!
I would love to have a real garden but for now must be satisfied (or not) with a couple of containers.

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Gardening is a wonderful thing to do. I am awful at it: plants in my hands die. In fact, I can see them recoiling very, very slowly, as plants will, in sheer terror when I reach for them.

When I was living in Holland, waking down any residential street and glancing in passing through the wide windows of the houses, I could see something that looked like a jungle inside each of them. My rented apartment came also with plenty of nice, vigorous, healthy plants. By the time I left the place, a year later, they were all dead.

In a previous visit I was living in the house of a friend of a friend of mine that had gone off to some far away place in Europe to study something. After a couple of months there, that friend of mine came visiting (I was a regular guest at his house). Nothing was said about the place, but the next day I had it invaded by a bunch of people I knew, sort of, that started cleaning, watering the plants, putting some in and taking some out of the house, etc., etc. A true vegetal rescue operation, if I ever saw one.

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Oscar sounds like you are a Serial Herbicide 😂

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I like what you are doing.  Very nice.  As far as the so called “old style” look, it’s works great for me.  Keep it simple without a lot of flashiness.

For a Linux subcategory maybe Linux Mint ?   Perhaps someone else will chime in here.

Susan, one thing that has always been confusing to me is the hierarchy of the forums.  Let me use Windows for example.

-First you have Windows where you can scroll through the categories and then post.

-Then there is Windows 10 when you can scroll through the categories and then post.

-Finally, you have Windows 10 21H2 where you can post.

So aren’t all the others redundant and too general in nature ?  Other than a hard search, it makes it difficult to figure out where to look in my opinion. Why have them at all ?

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That’s the problem, you aren’t supposed to have a generic “Windows” and post.  That’s supposed to be a category section/not a forum.

I’ll be working on that tomorrow.

Compare the Apple forum:  Forum: Apple @ AskWoody

to the Windows forum: Forum: Windows @ AskWoody

I will be moving all of that generic “windows” at the bottom of that page.

 

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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This is a nice improvement Susan.  It’s much easier to find what you want.  The Linux Mint and Apple forums are great.  Thank you!

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Thanks for what I know will be a lot of work, Susan! 👍

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Susan: I like the new arrangement, particularly in the way the old “Non-Windows Operating Systems” section and subsections for Linux, Macs, etc. are arranged now. I agree that it is best to have a section for a TYPE of OS, rather than to break it down in numerous subsections, one per version. Linux Mint is something of an exception, I see, but it is justified in so far as it is one of the most used by home users, although maybe not as much as Ubuntu. But I would hazard that Mint is the one distro used by most of us who dabble in Linux here. Just do not break the “Linux” section into more bits and pieces, leave other distros to be covered in the new generic sub-forum now there.

But I do wonder: would it not be possible to have a sub/forum for Macs hardware? They are quite different from other PCs and with a large enough number of users that employ them to do the usual PC stuff, to have a section all to themselves (unlike the Raspberry Pi, let’s say). Besides, Macs are Personal Computers (PCs), but they are quite different from the other PCs.

But I do have a question: Why has the “Suggestions for improving the Lounge” disappeared from the listed forums?

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OK, the “Suggestions” is now lumped with FAQ, etc., so it has not disappeared. Fine.

Now I have this other question:

Who is in charge of updating and adding to the Knowledge Base, and how is the updating with new topics made?

For example, changes to Macs’ hardware and the advantages and new problems they might bring, to give an idea of a concrete topic with considerable information disperse throughout Woody’s various forums and numerous threads. Going back five years in the KB forum, space, section, or whatever the proper name may be for it, I see no reference to Macs at all, besides the one on the ongoing updates to the various versions of macOS, started by Nathan Parker and PKCano, now with PK continuing to curate it. I might have missed one or two threads, but I doubt it.

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This re-organization has been leaving me REALLY confused. I’ve tried to find a metaphor for it to help me figure it out, because now I keep getting lost.

Here’s how I have come to perceive it. On the header, there is a Home tab (1st tab-the blog location), a Newsletters/Alerts tab ( 2nd tab), and a Forums tab (3rd tab). These are three distinct categories, in my mind – much like doors to rooms along a hallway.

But, under the Forums tab, there is a link for Newsletter and Homepage topics. Under this link are the same posts that are under the Home tab and under the Newsletter/Alerts tab (so this link under the 3rd tab is circling back to the posts under the 1st and 2nd tab).

Now we have not only doors to rooms along a hallway, but also doors within the rooms, connecting the rooms whose doors are also along the hallway.

This is going to take some getting used to.

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It used to be called AskWoody Blog.  When you post a comment to the stories in the newsletter, that’s where the comments land.

I just renamed it because many people don’t know what a blog is.  Just click on Forum and then on Askwoody support as that’s the key area I’ve reorganized.

 

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Susan: “I just renamed it because many people don’t know what a blog is”

Many people who come here, and I suppose that many of those many are AskWoody subscribers too, do not know what a blog is.

Isn’t that something?

I mean, maybe they have never heard of Buffon’s 12 tomes on “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, but also never heard about blogs?

What generation are those many? Generation Alpha? (After ” Gen Z” I imagine one has to start with the Greek letters, like the hurricane naming system when it runs out of names that start in “Z”.)

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See if it’s better now?  I moved it down in the order.

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WCHS wrote:

But, under the Forums tab, there is a link for Newsletter and Homepage topics. Under this link are the same posts that are under the Home tab and under the Newsletter/Alerts tab (so this link under the 3rd tab is circling back to the posts under the 1st and 2nd tab).

Now we have not only doors to rooms along a hallway, but also doors within the rooms, connecting the rooms whose doors are also along the hallway.

There’s no circling back (or inter-room doors). Nothing has changed about the separation of the Forums section where you can comment from the other tabs where you cannot.

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Susan, you can please some (even most) of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.  Keep that in mind.  You’re doing a great job IMHO.

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