Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Cutting budgets, adjusting consumation of content.

[blinky465 17208xp 1]

@holly – that’s sad to hear. I drift in and out of this site too, but mostly because the forum gets really quiet and some weeks the video is little more than watching a few guys go over a few websites – then when the WordPress side of things goes up the pole and posts go missing because they don’t get submitted (or the site runs *incredibly* slowly) I flick it off and it can be days before I even think to return and check in.

I really would like to use the projects thing as a personal blog for hobby progress but it’s practically unusable – the whole website side of things has just been left to slide since the boys sold up to Wayland; videos get pumped out regularly onto Youtube and there’s lots of activity on Discord, but the website here is pretty neglected. The cloudflare errors seem to have calmed down a bit, but the whole site still runs painfully slowly most days.

But without exchanges like this weekly weekender, I think the forums would be pretty much dead.
I, personally, owe @sundancer a lot, just for persevering and keeping this side of things going. Without him, I’d probably have given up on Ontabletop a long time ago. Not that I don’t appreciate the rest of you guys as well – just that he’s the one who turns up, week in, week out, and whips us all up into action (even if it does tend to peter out towards the end of each week).

As for YouTube embedding, @holly, just click share and then copy (and paste the link into the text when writing your post here):

@sundancer I think you hit the nail on the head with the whole steak/hamburger analogy.
One of the things that really struck me, on returning from Sicily, is how “industrialised” the food industry is, here in the UK. Many places now just buy in and sell on deep-fried frozen food (many of us in the UK are familiar with “Brake Brothers” frozen food suppliers to the catering industry). And after having wholesome, freshly prepared food in pretty much *every* place we went in Sicily, my wife and I made an active decision to buy less, but better quality, on our return.

I think the same thing applies to my hobby too – it’s not enough for me to “grab a bite” on-the-hoof any more (snatching the odd online article just to pass five minutes of the day). If I’m taking time out to read a magazine, I’m going to do it with at a table with a white tablecloth, using a knife and fork, a full set of condiments and a serviette tucked into my shirt front! (the food analogy thing still works, right?)