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Site Experiment

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I have mentioned before that at a different site I maintain an odd WordPress plugin named State of the Discussion that provides a comment-centric view of a site. With lj’s blessing, I installed it here at ObWi. It was as much a test to see if the code was actually portable as much as being … Read more

The Return of the Boat Hook

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a guestpost by wonkie Since we’re coming up on Halloween, I thought maybe we could share stories of the weird, the creepy, the odd in our experiences. My weird experience is of being stalked by a boat hook. A boat hook, for those of you not in the know, is a long hollow aluminum pole … Read more

Opinions on settings

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by liberal japonicus (image from https://www.boredpanda.com/vintage-soviet-russian-control-panel-rooms/) A very short post with a few questions Needless to say, no money is required. If people are opposed to the idea because they want to limit their information in the wild, no problem, but if that isn’t a problem, it appears that some sort of limits can be … Read more

Excelsior 2.1

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by liberal japonicus I’ve just installed the wpDiscuz comment plugin, which provides some features I think are worthwhile, though I am agnostic on the comment ranking feature. Please check it out and post here what you like and dislike and (god forbid) any problems you are having with it. I’m not sure what features are … Read more

Typepad bites the dust

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by liberal japonicus I was going to title this ‘End of a error’, not because we are finishing or because ObWi was an error, I just like the pun. Other similar titles might raise some concerns. But I thought I should note that the old home of ObWi has gone to that Internet Valhalla to … Read more

Ad futurum

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by liberal japonicus Just an update and explainer about what’s happening with this site and the archive site. As you’ve probably noticed, the posting frequency is way up, because I want to try and have daily posts in case people wander back here. It is unfortunate that Typepad basically has gone off the air a … Read more

Don’t know much about [ObWi] history…

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by liberal japonicus Archive work continues apace, and questions arise. Specifically, one of the founders, along with Moe Lane and von, was a Katherine R, however, it seems that second Katherine later started blogging. Some internal information point to two different Katherines, but I’m not really positive. The first Katherine [R] spent a good bit … Read more