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Are we not seeing enough beginners bows?
WhistlingBadger:
--- Quote from: Selfbowman on December 17, 2023, 03:06:15 pm ---I’m a beginner with hickory. Should I post my current build?🤠
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Heck yeah! Hickory is a great place to start and we'd love to see it. I hope to get some pics up of my current bow, as well. I haven't done any building for over a year, but I have four bows almost ready for backing.
willie:
--- Quote from: WhistlingBadger on December 17, 2023, 04:28:00 pm ---Yeah, you're right. I hope I didn't sound like I was just griping; it's just the way it is, and I hate to see it happen. That's all.
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WB. just following up on your perspective, nothing directed towards you or your comment.
It is possible that one day, if something goes wrong at the server, PA may simply be gone. This archive of advice, sharing and pics unaccessable and irretriveable.
I saw this happen at another long running forum when the owner passed. Lucklily, a few had noticed the owner had not been posting and some things were getting out of date. It being a computer oriented site, some members had the expertise to ressurect a replacement once the executor was able to release access. Time sensititve backups and online registrations had to be accessed. It almost didnt happen, as sorting out onlineline accounts and finding backups for an internet forum were probally not very high on the executors list of things to get done.
mmattockx:
--- Quote from: Aaron1726 on December 17, 2023, 08:09:50 am ---I'll admit it's a little work to post pictures here with the resizing and all
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--- Quote from: WhistlingBadger on December 17, 2023, 12:38:11 pm ---The security issues and the difficulty of posting pictures
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Why in 2023 do people still insist on posting pictures directly to a forum? Use a third party hosting site and simply link to the pictures there. No need to resize or anything else and you can share them easily anywhere you want across the interwebz. My biggest gripe with people that use the forum hosting is the pictures are so small as to be worthless. Again, in 2023 we have long since passed the point where a picture that is 200kb is worthwhile. It is simply a big thumbnail these days. My pictures are 5-6mb each, which allows for actual detail viewing and I wish everyone else would do the same. Some of the work posted here is absolutely exquisite and I would really like to be able to see it in large format.
I, too, have noticed the forum slowing down substantially. I think social media is probably the largest reason for that. Forums everywhere are slowly withering and dying as the younger generations move to instagram and others. The sad thing is that forums serve as a repository of technical information that is vastly superior to most of the newer formats.
For myself, I haven't posted a bow in a couple years because I've been busy with building a house, finishing a basement and now building a garage. I will get back to bows once I have all my infrastructure completed. Hopefully this forum is still here for that.
Mark
WhistlingBadger:
--- Quote from: mmattockx on December 18, 2023, 12:16:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: Aaron1726 on December 17, 2023, 08:09:50 am ---I'll admit it's a little work to post pictures here with the resizing and all
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--- Quote from: WhistlingBadger on December 17, 2023, 12:38:11 pm ---The security issues and the difficulty of posting pictures
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Why in 2023 do people still insist on posting pictures directly to a forum? Use a third party hosting site and simply link to the pictures there. No need to resize or anything else and you can share them easily anywhere you want across the interwebz. My biggest gripe with people that use the forum hosting is the pictures are so small as to be worthless. Again, in 2023 we have long since passed the point where a picture that is 200kb is worthwhile. It is simply a big thumbnail these days. My pictures are 5-6mb each, which allows for actual detail viewing and I wish everyone else would do the same. Some of the work posted here is absolutely exquisite and I would really like to be able to see it in large format.
I, too, have noticed the forum slowing down substantially. I think social media is probably the largest reason for that. Forums everywhere are slowly withering and dying as the younger generations move to instagram and others. The sad thing is that forums serve as a repository of technical information that is vastly superior to most of the newer formats.
For myself, I haven't posted a bow in a couple years because I've been busy with building a house, finishing a basement and now building a garage. I will get back to bows once I have all my infrastructure completed. Hopefully this forum is still here for that.
Mark
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Instagram et al are great for showing off one's finished work, but forums are so much better for learning the process. I help out at an aquarium forum, one of the few that is still really active, and the amount of knowledge exchanged is really pretty amazing. Same thing here.
I also agree that bigger pictures are better. The issue is that with more updated forums, one can simply post high-quality photos straight to the forum without going through a third party. It's quicker and easier. It would be nice to not have to go through the extra step. I suspect it's a server issue, and since this is a free service, we can't really complain. I sure hope we can keep it going for a good while yet.
Gordon:
--- Quote ---I suspect it's a server issue, and since this is a free service, we can't really complain.
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Yes, bandwidth and storage.
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