Is There a Plan for Future

[Tin Can]

I wonder this often

What if all Mods and our Patron disappear?

Most of us are old, I may not survive this year, but maybe...if you are lucky...

I just checked the Wayback Machine, it seems not up to the task

Perhaps we should plan ahead

LF will outlive us all

I am certain of that

That's why I restore

I am amazed at Wikipedia and it's vastly expanding data

I pay them monthly while I...

as Larry king just said on my TV...."so long"

[Michael R]

Is this some type of poetry?

In any case, I’m not sure I understand the concern (which has been expressed before directly or indirectly). Is it the “social” aspect? Or the idea there should be some sort of archive of “information” for future species?

[pjd]

I wonder this often

What if all Mods and our Patron disappear?

Most of us are old, I may not survive this year, but maybe...if you are lucky...

I just checked the Wayback Machine, it seems not up to the task

Perhaps we should plan ahead

LF will outlive us all

I am certain of that

That's why I restore

I am amazed at Wikipedia and it's vastly expanding data

I pay them monthly while I...

as Larry king just said on my TV...."so long"

If this site disappeared photographic knowledge would still exist in books, more concisely and exactly expressed with fewer errors. And people would still have other social media for their bickering, childishness, expression of opinion as fact and general puffing up of self-importance.

[calebarchie]

If this site disappeared photographic knowledge would still exist in books, more concisely and exactly expressed with fewer errors. And people would still have other social media for their bickering, childishness, expression of opinion as fact and general puffing up of self-importance.

Amen.

[Michael R]

If this site disappeared photographic knowledge would still exist in books, more concisely and exactly expressed with fewer errors. And people would still have other social media for their bickering, childishness, expression of opinion as fact and general puffing up of self-importance.

Yes indeed (although many books on photographic technique are also rife with bad information).

Anyone who enjoys the social interactions should just continue to enjoy it. Beyond that there really isn’t any content worth worrying about. Eventually it is doomed anyway. Thermodynamics takes care of that.

[Doremus Scudder]

Yes indeed (although many books on photographic technique are also rife with bad information).

Anyone who enjoys the social interactions should just continue to enjoy it. Beyond that there really isn’t any content worth worrying about. Eventually it is doomed anyway. Thermodynamics takes care of that.

Repeal the Second Law of General Thermodynamics!!

[BrianShaw]

Repeal the Second Law of General Thermodynamics!!

Please refrain from political commentary. Thank you. ��

[Oren Grad]

If this site disappeared photographic knowledge would still exist in books, more concisely and exactly expressed with fewer errors.

In between the schmoozing and the umpteenth repetition of discussions about common equipment and materials and basic photographic technique, there are threads here that contain information - particularly about less common cameras, lenses and other equipment - that is difficult or impossible to find elsewhere. Yes, it's very "noisy" and requires some existing knowledge to effectively sort the wheat from the chaff. But so long as anyone is seriously pursuing large format photography, the information will be of practical value.

So far as I know, archiving discussion board content in a format that is not dependent on forum-software-living-on-top-of-database-software to enable reading is not straightforward. But I am not remotely a database expert and could be wrong about that. I will try to learn more.

[Wayne]

In between the schmoozing and the umpteenth repetition of discussions about common equipment and materials and basic photographic technique, there are threads here that contain information - particularly about less common cameras, lenses and other equipment - that is difficult or impossible to find elsewhere. Yes, it's very "noisy" and requires some existing knowledge to effectively sort the wheat from the chaff. But so long as anyone is seriously pursuing large format photography, the information will be of practical value.

So far as I know, archiving discussion board content in a format that is not dependent on forum-software-living-on-top-of-database-software to enable reading is not straightforward. But I am not remotely a database expert and could be wrong about that. I will try to learn more.

The first thing is to find out if the site is backed up on a second server regularly. I've been part of forums where the host went belly up and nobody had made a backup. Decades of knowledge, gone forever.

Individuals can also make functional (read-only) website copies with various software, some free. I copied the original forum at Greenspun when that started going tits up. You don't need to own a copy of vbulletin. One such software is HTTrack

[LabRat]

Site is up and running, and people are talking, so just an abstract musing...

Chill out...

Steve K