http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=71 I'll have to check it out. Welcome back. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:00:40 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=71 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=58 I suggest also looking into imgur.com good stuff there for hosting. I believe its religiously used by the reddit.com community. As far as elitism, fuck yeah! Bad_Panda@idkfa.com (Bad_Panda) idkfa Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:24:37 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=58 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=51 Not complicated at all. I prefer the Google Picasa Web Albums myself, for folks with accounts with Google. After uploading the pictures there (and marking them as public), you can use their "Link to" button to either link to the albums themselves, or you can embed pictures by copying their "Embed" HTML into the source (you can switch to source mode by clicking on "Source" in the comment box) and pasting it there. Put them wherever you're comfortable with, though. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:16:08 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=51 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=49 Considering that I don't even own a mac except for the omnipresent ipod I have to get that feeling from somewhere. Perhaps I don't really need to feel superior to anyone, but occasionally it is nice. Though in the interest of the origin of the thread, I will probably have the desire to link to a bunch of pictures I will be taking next weekend. Normally I would probably just throw that shit up on FB, but now I might not. Anyway is it complicated to set up something to show off my climbing pictures? MrFood@idkfa.com (MrFood) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:09:16 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=49 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=48 There we go. We only need to engender a feeling of superiority, akin to that of Apple customers towards their competitors, the feeling of relevancy and importance and distinction. I'd settle for that in exchange for status update feed noise. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:57:39 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=48 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=47 A noble concept, but what exactly makes this place flourish? I hope to got that it doesn't require constant and inane updates about how I feel about the weather, my job, my commute or any other random thought that comes accross my mind. I personally have both the live feed function of FB and I have never bothered to even look at twitter. I only assume twitter is just a more massive version of the live feed concept. Now that I have a job where I am at a desk for a decent portion of the time I might be spending more moments checking this to see if anyone else has nothing going on or something to say. idkfa is the easiest way to see what other people are actually thinking about or laughing at without much extra effort on my own. And for that matter there is simply the smug insider feeling most people get when they join a smaller community thats local or homegrown. Josh you just make us feel morally superior for being here. Without morals even being an issue. MrFood@idkfa.com (MrFood) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:08:40 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=47 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=45 It's a metaphor for life, really. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:21:34 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=45 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=43 What will draw audiences? Did you see that search function? Man, oh man... I don't have a good theme or keen widget manufacturing insight with which to benefit the Internet. Most themed forum sites I've tried participating in fail months after their creation (apparently, programming principals are as much of a buzz-kill on the Internet as they are at parties). They fall apart or languish because their community fails to stabilize, or because their single subject simply doesn't garner enough interest (or their user interface sucks). Though I'd love to see idkfa flourish again, I'm confident that it won't. I wanted to bring it back because a) I wanted to do it right, b) I wanted to prove I could do it right, and c) I wanted a better place on the Internet to call "home" than Facebook. And maybe I thought more people would be interested in c) than just myself. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:19:15 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=43 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=41 Oh, btw: Green Man@idkfa.com (Green Man) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:52:22 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=41 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=40 I guess the next step is seeing if this platform will cater to individuals not already attached to the group - whether their friends of friends, past acquaintances, or anons. What will draw an audience here that isn't purely a derivation of irl relationships? Is that a desire? I suppose with a large user base it's feasible dialog will flourish... I guess the trick is establishing that base (as I understand idkfa has had). But there is no theme or attachment to draw outside interest. Say if this was an existing site about Widget Manufacturing or a Gum Chewing Association, and google searches brought interested parties, they might notice the associated forum and start contributing. We've had this conversation before, and as I watch the cherished lollerdome.com dwindle into disuse, I'm curious what kind of investment I can make here while still being meaningful. And not just posting hilarious gifs. Green Man@idkfa.com (Green Man) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:51:55 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=40 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=38 Time will tell, I guess. We had almost 100,000 posts of precedence I just took offline, so we're at a blank slate. I can only hope the work I put into this will result in something more than the usual anonymous noise/depravity generator. Having personal investment in the creation of this, I would feel like my work was being defaced if I saw tubgirl come across my thread window. If I'd just slapped a phpBB instance together, I might care less. I guess we're mostly all adults, and yeah, sometimes the perverse or obscene is funny or appropriate, but if something like that needed a place, I'd set up a hidden discussion area, so when my family members (or employers, coworkers) came across idkfa, they wouldn't see a distended anus, projectile diarrhea, or whatever. I just don't want to explain that to my grandmother, or my cousins. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:25:41 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=38 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=37 I think you're missing the opportunity for dialog that such imagery presents. Why do the shock sites persevere? Not everyone finds them so repulsive that they must be scrubbed and purged from the tubular lining of the interwebs; indeed they exist and perpetuate out of pubescent hilarity. The sick gratification of imagining the unwary clicking on your carefully laid trap is akin to the playground turn of phrase; "show me yours and I'll show you mine." Online anonymity proves many humans long past anatomical self discovery are still children. Even the more asinine Rick Astley video can be translated to this juvenile pranking mechanism - the reaction is the same, though the moral sliding scale different. The question to suss out, is how will idkfa 3.0 operate? Is this a sounding board for friends to share information and start dialogs otherwise encountered in fireside chats? Maybe it's a refuge for friends scattered across the globe; the panacea for the facebook privacy plague. Is it a true internet forum of anonymous turds; sometimes reaching a meaningful accord, sometimes throwing virtual fecal matter? I suppose the tubgirl analogy (To be clear: there is irl accountability at stake. It's ridiculous to consider such a hypothesis as serious. I'll save that ambush for when I create a troll as well as manage to mask my IP) is more of a question to hone in on the use of idkfa. Especially for one unfamiliar with the previous two iterations. Green Man@idkfa.com (Green Man) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:59:24 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=37 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=36 If it's rickrolling, it'll be met with a sigh. If it's tubgirl, there will be repercussions. Rule of thumb: don't be an asshole. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:40:40 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=36 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=35 Now then, what about veiled external links? The so called 'tubgirl ambush'? Green Man@idkfa.com (Green Man) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:33:56 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=35 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=34 Yes. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:25:11 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=34 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=33 Question, does tubgirl breach the idkfa code of conduct? Green Man@idkfa.com (Green Man) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:23:19 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=33 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=32 Well, it would appear Picasaweb stuff works, but only if you link to the thumbnail of a picture in a public album. I don't have a Flickr account. Anybody have one and want to test external linking on it? kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:29:20 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=32 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=31 Er, let me maybe verify some of this... From 2010 Sparse Photographic Winter kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:25:57 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=31 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=30 That will probably work too, but for them to be visible to folks, they have to have a publicly accessible URL. For example, if you drag a photo from your computer to here (if it lets you in the first place), it will use something like "file:///home/username/mypicture.jpg" which will fail to be sourced correctly for pretty much anybody except for your computer. So: you can drag stuff from other web pages, and verify they have a URL associated with them by right clicking on the image within the comment box and clicking "Image Properties." There is no handling, however, for uploading an image to the idkfa server, aside from user avatars. Another reason I recommend Google or Flicker is because they tend to not care about people "hot linking" images from their sites, whereas others (including idkfa itself) return an error message when it detects that an image on their server is being used from somewhere outside of their site. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:18:57 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=30 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=29 Actually, looks like I can paste small photos into my comment box. Is this too much of a burden on IDKFA to keep doing? katidid@idkfa.com (katidid) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:08:11 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=29 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=27 It's less about attachment, more about linking to an external image somewhere. In the comment box, there's an icon of an "image", that you can click on, and input a URL. As for how to host pictures to be relatively permanent (and not disappear after a few months), I recommend services like Google's Picasa Web Albums, or Flickr. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:06:26 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=27 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=26 How is it that I can attach a photo to my post? katidid@idkfa.com (katidid) idkfa Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:51:08 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=26&msg_id=26