Topic: forums gone into the closet (Read 8245 times)

jhocking · « **on:** 24 Dec 2008, 17:10 »

Hey, anyone notice that there is no longer a forum link on the main page? Does that mean Jeph is phasing it out?

redglasscurls · « **Reply #1 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 17:11 »

There is still a link, but it's very small and on the right side

Vendetagainst · « **Reply #2 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 17:12 »

It's under extra credit.

Runs_With_Scissors · « **Reply #3 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 17:12 »

I noticed that too, it was kind of hard to find.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #4 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 17:17 »

Oh no, now we have to scroll down to find it

Runs_With_Scissors · « **Reply #5 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 17:23 »

But is it worse than those AOL news comments?

Vendetagainst · « **Reply #6 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 17:25 »

or yahoo! answers?

Lines · « **Reply #7 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 17:31 »

Am I one of the few who doesn't even bother visiting the comic to get to the forum, but has the forum as its own bookmark?

Runs_With_Scissors · « **Reply #8 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 17:38 »

I'm on my dads computer...I don't think he would be happy with me talking to strangers on the internet. Therefore, no bookmark.

Ladybug · « **Reply #9 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 17:40 »

I think my dad would worry more about what I did on the computer if I didn't talk to strangers at all, because that would mean I was even more of a recluse than I already am.

I don't ever visit the front page, I think. I've got the forum URL bookmarked/in my head, and the comic via RSS.

McTaggart · « **Reply #10 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 17:44 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 24 Dec 2008, 17:33

I bookmarked the forum years ago. Google Chrome tells me it is my second most visited site after Electrical Audio.

hi5 (though your most visited is way cooler)

Alex C · « **Reply #11 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 18:17 »

Oddly, I only use bookmarks for sites I don't visit very often. At my private elementary school, we started learning typing skills in 2nd grade (3 times a week for a half an hour), so the ol' alt+d and entering the url for sites I commonly visit feels quicker and far more natural to me, even though it probably isn't.

RedLion · « **Reply #12 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 19:19 »

Nah, I do the same. Sites that I visit frequently, I just type in, because I have them memorized. It's only sites that I enjoy but that I don't go to as often that I have bookmarked.

Christophe · « **Reply #13 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 19:27 »

Tommy, you narcissist.

Ok that is not exactly fair since I have a million pictures of myself in my Facebook profile picture section

Jeph mentioned in one of his Twitters that he considered giving himself a Christmas gift by shutting down the Comics discussion section.

redglasscurls · « **Reply #14 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 19:38 »

Oh man, then they'd all come here instead. Can I get a collective shudder?

imapiratearg · « **Reply #15 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 19:48 »

Quote from: Alex C on 24 Dec 2008, 18:17

Oddly, I only use bookmarks for sites I don't visit very often. At my private elementary school, we started learning typing skills in 2nd grade (3 times a week for a half an hour), so the ol' alt+d and entering the url for sites I commonly visit feels quicker and far more natural to me, even though it probably isn't.

I kind of do the same thing, since most of my browsing gets done at work, and I don't want to bookmark anything because it might show my boss that I spend roughly about as much time on the internets as I do working.

Johnny C · « **Reply #16 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 21:05 »

I don't think these forums have ever come out of the closet.

Merry Christmas.

Johnny C · « **Reply #17 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 21:05 »

But yeah the forums are tiny and the music blog has vanished.

IronOxide · « **Reply #18 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 21:53 »

Quote from: Vendetagainst on 24 Dec 2008, 17:25

or yahoo! answers?

Please, it was very helpful when I needed guidance of the formation of babby.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #19 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 22:08 »

Was it a vampire baby?

I don't think Jeph would shove the forums in a closet, he wouldn't trust the comic discussion and WCT sections where he couldn't see them, and I think the description of the I like HURRRRR section pretty much sums up why he wouldn't put it in a small dark place.

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #20 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 22:41 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 24 Dec 2008, 21:05

But yeah the forums are tiny and the music blog has vanished.

To be fair, none of us ever write anything.

Joseph · « **Reply #21 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 23:02 »

Quote from: Linds on 24 Dec 2008, 17:31

Am I one of the few who doesn't even bother visiting the comic to get to the forum, but has the forum as its own bookmark?

It's my homepage.

jhocking · « **Reply #22 on:** 24 Dec 2008, 23:32 »

Quote from: Linds on 24 Dec 2008, 17:31

Am I one of the few who doesn't even bother visiting the comic to get to the forum, but has the forum as its own bookmark?

I am visiting my mom so no bookmark on this machine.

Inlander · « **Reply #23 on:** 25 Dec 2008, 01:57 »

Quote from: Animal Ghosts on 24 Dec 2008, 22:41

Quote from: Johnny C on 24 Dec 2008, 21:05
But yeah the forums are tiny and the music blog has vanished.

To be fair, none of us ever write anything.

I've written the last two articles. As far as I'm concerned it's somebody else's turn.

0bsessions · « **Reply #24 on:** 25 Dec 2008, 07:18 »

Aside from having it bookmarked, I also have the url memorized. It's a habit I picked up from living in the days of having to memorize phone numbers instead of just saving them on a cell phone.

Christophe · « **Reply #25 on:** 25 Dec 2008, 09:01 »

Quote from: redglasscurls on 24 Dec 2008, 19:38

Oh man, then they'd all come here instead. Can I get a collective shudder?

That's why we'll set up a few machinegun nests and mines in the little gap between QC Discussion and Other Fun Things. Any comic obsessive who tries to run the other way is essentially walking into a kill zone.

I should stop playing violent videogames shouldn't I

Johnny C · « **Reply #26 on:** 25 Dec 2008, 13:27 »

Quote from: Inlander on 25 Dec 2008, 01:57

I've written the last two articles. As far as I'm concerned it's somebody else's turn.

I was drafting an article on how I kind of felt out of the loop this year and then I read Tiny Mix Tapes and someone else had written my article!

mberan42 · « **Reply #27 on:** 25 Dec 2008, 22:10 »

Quote from: imapiratearg on 24 Dec 2008, 19:48

most of my browsing gets done at work,

I do the majority of my web browsing at work. I have a ton of non-work-related stuff bookmarked, categorized into a few different subfolders: gmail (no subfolder, my default browser page), Pre-lunch links (which is just my LJ friends page and google news), Webcomics, Post-Lunch links, and Misc. All links. I could give you a run down, play-by-play detail of my internet browsing during work, but I won't.

Quote from: 0bsessions on 25 Dec 2008, 07:18

Aside from having it bookmarked, I also have the url memorized.

Really, though, is forums.questionablecontent.net that hard to memorize? Surprisingly, these forums are one of the regularly-visited sites I don't have bookmarked. I did for a long time, but after a lot of the INTERNET DRAMA happened in 2007, I removed it.

I think I had more productive things to say here, but I guess not.

Spluff · « **Reply #28 on:** 25 Dec 2008, 22:44 »

If you're at work, just Google QC Forums.

(okay, so I just want people to see my name).

tania · « **Reply #29 on:** 25 Dec 2008, 22:45 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 24 Dec 2008, 17:17

Have you ever read the comic forums?

this, i'm pretty sure, is the reason. most of the people who post in the other topics are frequent enough posters that they won't forget a pretty simple url if there's no longer a big link leading to it. when to comes to the comic forums on the other hand, there are literally thousands of members who join simply to post once or twice about how much they want to have sex with sven or touch faye on the bum only it's not so much "posting" as "keyboard mashing" and it's all just a terrible grammatical tragedy. maybe if they don't see the link right away or have to work a little bit to find it, some of them won't bother.

tragic_pizza · « **Reply #30 on:** 25 Dec 2008, 23:21 »

Quote from: redglasscurls on 24 Dec 2008, 19:38

Oh man, then they'd all come here instead. Can I get a collective shudder?

How about a "faint from fear?"

*thud*

pwhodges · « **Reply #31 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 01:34 »

Let's have some mass hysteria! I was reading yesterday about an incident in Beverly Minster a couple of decades ago when one of the choirboys fainted - and over the next twenty minutes all the rest did, one by one, until there were no choirboys left to carry on singing.

Jace · « **Reply #32 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 01:51 »

What did the priest put in their communion wine?

tragic_pizza · « **Reply #33 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 01:58 »

... date rape drugs?

jhocking · « **Reply #34 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 06:21 »

See now that was like the equivalent of people who take perfectly amusing pictures and turn them into pointless demotivators. His joke was perfectly effective left as a rhetorical question, but then you made it a touch corny by stating the clearly implied answer.

Also, as to the piddling arguments about how easy it is to memorize the forum URL (because lord knows I love piddling arguments) note that if I didn't remember the forum URL I would never have been able to start this thread in the first place. I just noticed the link was (apparently) gone because I'm one of the few regulars here who actually reads the comic.

Oli · « **Reply #35 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 07:39 »

Sometimes I forget that the forum is plural and put forum.questionablecontent.net, but then I remember and I add the s.

Alex C · « **Reply #36 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 09:09 »

I don't think they're piddling arguments so much as just a sharing of notes in order to ascertain whether we use bookmarks or just type in urls.

In other words, some of us were bored.

eddie · « **Reply #37 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 09:12 »

Truth is Jeph is ashamed of all of you

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #38 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 11:26 »

He's been making a terrible comic for like, 2 years now. You think we aren't ashamed of him?

RedLion · « **Reply #39 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 12:07 »

Why are you here again?

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #40 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 12:43 »

I'm here for the community, man.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #41 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 21:57 »

fuck youuuuuu

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #42 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 22:03 »

Well, I'm here for that too.

Tyler · « **Reply #43 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 22:04 »

Hi Kieffer

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #44 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 22:05 »

Y'know, the fucking

Tyler · « **Reply #45 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 22:06 »

I do know

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #46 on:** 26 Dec 2008, 22:07 »

What I'm saying, is if you've posted a picture in the photo thread, I've probably jerked off to it.

Lines · « **Reply #47 on:** 27 Dec 2008, 07:06 »

Sam, you know half of the forum is waiting for you to be 18.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #48 on:** 27 Dec 2008, 11:35 »

I'd like it on record that I'm not one of those people.

Just, you know, so that it isn't awkward if we end up sharing a room at EdithCon.

Liz, on the other hand...

Edith · « **Reply #49 on:** 27 Dec 2008, 11:55 »

Sam isn't attending Camp Edith, is he?

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