who may have been frustrated by this.
step one: join the site and…
step two: immediately send me a conversational e-mail introducing yourself, a more complicated form of ‘I am not a robot’ —you can say where you are, how you came in, etc.
step one: join the site and…
step two: immediately send me a conversational e-mail introducing yourself, a more complicated form of ‘I am not a robot’ —you can say where you are, how you came in, etc.
Howdy, I am NOT a robot (not yet, anyway…)
No problem logging in here. We’ll see how it works out.
CommentHad to change my password again; s’K!
You can always change it back to what you’d like it to be. We won’t fuss.
you need to erase the word “comment”, too.
Which is annoying. OTOH, I did get rid of the requirement to identify houses before commenting.
Looks like the knnn have been doing programming again. OTOH, it seems to be working!
This poor site had gotten so shaggy and unkept. My next step is going to be editing what’s obsolesced and maybe even putting up a few pictures. Now it sizes itself to be read on various sized screens and while it may take us all (and I get to learn new admin moves) a bit to learn to click on the thread title and so on, we won’t have the site as buggy as it’s been. Behind this change we have some professional help and we are not having to figure it out. But apparently it ate something indigestible some time back and finally hit max confusion and lost its ability to find the right tables. Or some such. Anyway, our tables are now neatly in order and it will know who you are. There’s a change in membership procedures which may look a little crazy and backwards, but this way a new member adds himself and then writes to me to introduce himself so I will push the ‘approve’ button, confident I am dealing with a nice person and not a bot from some nefarious den in wherever.
Great! From a reader’s perspective, the most important thing on the front page is the name of the most recent book, and when it came out (so I can make sure I didn’t miss buying one). Next most important is roughly when the next book is coming out.
No problem logging in – not a robot (excluding hearing aids, glasses etc)
I post from my cozy living room not my nefarious den.
Comment – is an annoyance, but not a problem.
“Recent Comments” with long thread titles doesn’t work well.
I would like to see the three column layout again so we don’t have to scroll down so far to get to the active threads. And this grey on gray has got to go!
Got logged in with no trouble at all 🙂
Well, I’m not a robot. I’m actually in the middle of a re-read of Tracker and Visitor to prepare for the new one. Doing the re-read primarily with the Audible versions, and finding new things that I’d missed the first time around.
Alrighty, logged in and commenting 🙂 Glad to see things are settling down. One thing I wish could be changed — despite the loveliness of the fish — one must scroll down “below the fold” before seeing any blog entries, which was considered a no-no when I managed webpage stuff. Once one is in a blog page, the picture disappears. Perhaps just a personal preference, and certainly not a priority. Also, no ability to preview comments. I get fumble fingers.
Oh, NOW I see the “click to edit” and “delete” thingies. Coolio.
Agreed!! — I like to glance at the top two topics to see if there are new comments, and the giant fish kind of preclude that. –Also, +1 (from another over-60 person) on having the text be black-on-white. Comment
no log in problems here, thankfully. 🙂
I’ll talk to the person helping us about the grey on grey; re the picture size, I have others, but since all the controls are new, I don’t want to go making changes that aren’t patently obvious how-to. We’re in mid-process, and the fish were because, well, I needed a picture to fill a space.
But it seems we all like the fishies!
If I may return to an older thread and discussion BCS started about exobiology and parallel evolution, there’s something new here: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170302133445.htm
The point of relevance is that although there may be as shown here, in some cases, alternative biochemistries that may allow the creation of different life forms, as is believed to have happened even here on Earth, life demonstrates that evolution drives it to use the most efficient biochemistry possible, as dictated by the laws of physics and chemistry. Life found everywhere will have mutable inheritance–physical conditions are never constant–adaptation is a necessity of life processes. Thus, just as happened on Earth, although cellular organization may begin using sulfate as a substitue for phosphate, phosphate is superior and evolution will/did find it, allowing more efficient life, better able to survive.
But that leads to question whether life cannot exist in some vastly different environment than on Earth? It depends on what kind of life you’re looking for. There are some forms of life found deep in the continental crust, down in solid rock. But even it is using water-based chemistry. Water is known to have superior physical and chemical properties for advanced biochemistry. Liquid ammonia is not an equivalent substitute. Neither nitrogen nor fluorine is a substitute for oxygen, silicon for carbon. Any environment where those substitutes are all that is available (not credible given how nucleogenesis works), will so severely cripple biochemistry as to make it imaginary.
What it boils down to is, if you want to go out into the galaxy and say “Howdy” to someone you meet out there, bet it’ll be someone who has red blood, i.e. breathes oxygen, like you do even if body plan differs.
I have made certain claims that are unprovable, but they are extrapolations from the scientific facts we do know, so are somewhat less than imaginary. Fiction, in particular SciFi, is based on “a suspension of disbelief”. Science never is.
I still have to backspace to remove that annoying “Comment”, but that’s minor. One thing I’ve noticed is that there is no longer a provision to go directly to an older or newer thread from this one. I have to go back to the “Home” page and then select the post I want. The template doesn’t show the latest posts on the left column as Atahualpa did, but okay, I can adapt…..
Some things we’ll have to live with because it’s just a different template and behaves differently. I may be able to find a widget to create that display but right now I’m making changes very gingerly.
I had no problem getting into WWAS. I didn’t even have to re-register or change my password. The server couldn’t be found overnight, but obviously that has been resolved.
The WOL is not a robot, having no problems logging in from NewsFox, nor reading, commenting or other activities from a non-nefarious second bedroom comfortably ensconced, rared back in my recliner with a snoring kitty between my knees and a pot of tea to hand. Greetings, oh best of salads.