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Gerry Fenge posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
Hello everyone, I’ve been more absent than present here so don’t feel I have the right to say much as yet – except, gosh, look how many people I (digitally) know, great to see the faces and aliases again.
I was wondering what people think to the new Jericho Townhouse. I’d hoped it would be like the old Word Cloud, but it lacks the same sort of timeline, so there’s less sense of keeping up with activity. I’ve had a couple of goes at posting blogs but am not convinced it’s going to be a bloggy sort of site.
There again, I never deciphered this site (i.e. Den) sufficiently to realise that blogs are alive and well on it – providing you know where to look, which I didn’t till today. I scanned down the list of blogs and saw none by AlanP – who used to be, in my view, king of the blogs, always had something worthwhile to say and in a tone both light and profound. Is he around? Anyone spotted him?
Anyway, nuff for now. Great, as I say, to see the faces and aliases again.
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I’m inclined to agree with you, Gerry. The Jericho layout doesn’t help, but also, to a large extent, we have necessarily become more wary of committing time and energy to sites which may disappear without warning.
Also, I suspect quite a lot of us are getting on with writing.
I’m finding it very difficult to use. Have joined a group and posted something but now can’t locate it or the original comment it was a response to. This isn’t a plea for help, just a statement. I’ll battle on for a while. Am keeping a word.docx copy of any critiques I give in case I have to post them again.
I can locate the group but not my post.
Hi Gerry! How are things?
Things are fab-groovy, super-duper, thank you. I hope and trust the fab-grooviness etc is equally well experienced by you and indeed all Denizens.
Definitely clunky, and the front page timeline doesn’t have the same feel. I received a notification that someone had written something on my timeline, but can I figure out where that timeline is!
It wasn’t me, Kate. I hadn’t even thought about timelines 🙂 🙂 Yesterday I thought I’d ‘liked’ myself by mistake, but heaven only knows …
Some of this is my own lack of skill.
I’m not sure liking yourself should be a mistake. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Lovely to see you Gerry. I’ve not joined Jericho, like @athelstone says, I’m leery of investing time in a platform that may or may not remain open to me. This Den has its own clunky foibles, but I think I’ll stick to mooching around in here as and when I am efficient enough to get online with time to spare!
Gerry, if being absent was a disqualification I’d be booted out by now. To my mind, the new Townhouse has the problem of overcoming the old Townhouse. There’s an attempt to push a “wow this is awsome” mood and this, combined with the staff being very evident, is a bit unwelcoming. Awsomeness(?) comes with the people who contribute and there are plenty of people who I can’t imagine would ever be comfortable there and I think a bit of diversity is essential. Also, it lacks a focus. I agree that the Cloud’s start page was a brilliant idea – a snapshot of what’s happening. We could do with it too. Also, the blog feature is a mess – all over the place. But it is new. I’ll give it a bit more time ( and post a bit more) before I make my mind up.
Great to hear from people – quite like the old days – how nice. Sandra’s comment ‘I suspect quite a lot of us are getting on with writing’ inspires me to consider writing a blog (on submerging and re-emerging – a sort of rhythm that I suspect a lot of us follow).
It’s been sad to lose the Cloud’s timeline – it was a real plus of SocialGo, and was duplicated on two spin-off sites, Wrathnar the Unreasonable’s Cthulhu-inspired site (a few years back) and Stovers’s more recent ‘Your Word Place’. ‘Placers’ were well aware of the impending SocialGo blank-out; perhaps ‘Cloudies’ less so.
I doubt if Raine and Sandra need fear a similar disappearance of Jericho Townhouse. Harry says it’s forever, and I don’t think it’s dependant on the whims of an organisation like SocialGo, but ‘once bitten..…’
(By the way, SocialGo was well named, wasn’t it? Inspired some deathless pieces of verse from me:
A Short Poem:
Social Go
Went
An Even Shorter Poem:
Social
Gone…
Shortest Poem:
So..?
I reckon Simon Armitage is lucky to make it to Poet Laureate with that sort of competition around.)
😀
Write the blog @gerryfenge.
This place exists because a bunch of us saw the Cloud thinning out and dispersing and decided we’d better have somewhere to drift off to.