True, although I've never run into anyone like that.

Put an announcement in the New Communities community as a starting point. You can post links about it in other places where potential members are. Telling people to leave where they are and go to your site is inherently rude, so you have to be careful and polite. Check the rules for wherever you post and get a feel for the place before you put up a link.

In the long run people will find you, but it can feel like a very long run. Particularly since you need content to attract people and you need people to generate content. There is a tipping point where it will suddenly take off. Just try to be patient until you get there.

This is probably the best possible time to start new communities. All of us fledditors are creating new accounts and looking for communities to join.

I like the way you think.

Sadly, no. Trains in the US are generally not a viable form of transportation except for local travel in a few large cities.

A few years ago I made a three hour trip by train. The arrangements were inconvenient, the travel was slow, the facilities were in poor condition, and it was relatively expensive. I would not do that again unless most of those things change.

Neither my previous nor my current ISPs have had any problem with it. Kind of surprising since they are both huge corporations.

The same data you use to say that programmers are overpaid could be seen as an indication that professional-level software development is more difficult than you think and warrants the higher salaries. Programming is one of those things that almost anyone can do, but relatively few can do well.

Either way, if there were people who could do it better or cheaper they would be.

Edit: In the interest of full disclosure, my view may be slanted because I am a developer. On the other hand, that means I've seen the subject from the inside.

I like your suggestion that devices of that sort should be called dependent instead of smart.

Ouch. I understand exactly how things like that happen, but it is unfortunate. Hope it's resolved quickly.

There is a tremendous amount of pressure on everyone in the development/admin chain right now because of the insane influx of new users. (I'm one of them.) It amazes me how well everyone has been handling it. And I am grateful to all of you!

I'm right there with you. This wasn't about his family growing apart. This was about hurting the people who love him to get views. Only a sociopath could do that and still sleep at night.

I should have remembered about "drag from Start". My memory is not what it was. :-}

The explorer: shell:AppsFolder is not one I knew about, but it will certainly be useful.

Thanks to both of you for the hep!

Wait? You take breaks? :-)

This is much appreciated.

You're assuming that they are behaving rationally. I don't think that figures into the current decision making very much.

MRNA vaccines. Not only have they saved millions of lives from COVID, they look like they are going to revolutionize other areas as well. For example, there is a wide-range cancer vaccine under development.

I'm pretty happy with Jerboa. I am primarily a browser/desktop user, so having a somewhat limited mobile client hasn't been bothering me. And it seems to be moving toward a fuller experience.

Can someone tell me what the kbin microblog does? I'm still feeling my way around the features...

Yes, that does make the difference. Either search can find communities that are local or have already been requested. Only the main search seems able to find and request new communities from other servers.

I ran into a helpful post about that recently. It seems that sometimes it can take a while for the a subscription to be processed. If you end up with the yellow "pending" it often stays that way. If you click on pending to cancel it, and try subscribing again it is more likely to go through. Annoying, but true.

Also, it may be superstition on my part, but if I click subscribe and just let that tab sit for a while I a more likely to eventually get a "joined" response while if I refresh it and get "pending" I'm stuck with that.

I was using the search box above the "List of Communities" and getting no results. When I switched to clicking on the magnifying glass icon at the top of the regular page it worked. I don't know why.

This was not working for me and I finally figured out why. I was using the search under "Communities" and not the general search in the upper right. It is counter-intuitive that the communities search won't find unfederated communities while the general search will, but that is how it works.

That you all for this post. It did ultimately get me where I needed to be.