My Time On This Forum...

[suzyne]

My time here all started back in late June 2023 with a question about a streaming radio station stopping when an unrelated private window was closed, which prompted an oblique reply that maybe the way I used private windows was out of the ordinary, and several helpful suggestions. 

I am still here and continuing to love Pale Moon, even when I find the periodic commentary about fisher-price UI's, the evils of modern web design (it's all the fault of the touchscreen phones blah blah blah) and most computer users these days don't really know what they are missing or truly need, etc, etc and so on, all a bit tedious. 

But, today, I am celebrating my first birthday on these forums. Yay!

Random pic of a "pale moon".

[vannilla]

Though it is still bizarre that a support forum has a community going beyond helping people.
But hey, I don't mind.

[Pentium4User]

Though it is still bizarre that a support forum has a community going beyond helping people.
But hey, I don't mind.

The OT forum is one of the best parts here.

[moonbat]

Though it is still bizarre that a support forum has a community going beyond helping people.

Not very bizarre, back in the day most tech forums had the equivalent of our OT forum as well; if support was the only thing that mattered they would just use Bugzilla or similar. Of course the advent of big tech social media sites pushed these out mostly

[UCyborg]

My 5th year since registration here apparently. But following Pale Moon for way longer. I also figured I like off-topic sections on these sorts of forums.

[athenian200]

Yeah, honestly I wasn't expecting to get as involved as I was. At the time I started hanging out here, Pale Moon was just my backup browser to Microsoft Edge, which I was a lot more invested in at the time since I saw it as Microsoft's answer to Safari and the only thing that had a chance of being an alternative to Chromium.

All that talk about the old days being better does get a bit repetitive. For me it's like, yes, there were things about the old days I liked better, but I don't want to go back, I want to find ways to incorporate what I liked about the past into the future, to actually make a difference somehow. It's like, if you weren't there, it's hard to understand what was lost, but the problem is that if you WERE there, you also don't appreciate what was gained and how a younger person might feel trying to go back to the kind of stuff we liked, the reasons they might feel it's deficient.

Anyway, you are a good contributor to discussions and it is refreshing to see a different perspective aside from the standard we usually see around here. Congratulations on your birthday.

[UCyborg]

I tend to think every time period has a mix of good and bad in general, but people often seem biased towards one time period, towards one way of doing things etc. At least that's how I see it.

[mr tribute]

I tend to think every time period has a mix of good and bad in general, but people often seem biased towards one time period, towards one way of doing things etc. At least that's how I see it.

I think this is true. In many ways I think software has never been better. In fact, it's so good these days (despite all problems) that I fear it can only go downhill from here. I'm often pessimistic about evolution despite seeing myself as a rather optimistic individual.

[Tharthan]

Off-topic:

All that talk about the old days being better does get a bit repetitive. For me it's like, yes, there were things about the old days I liked better, but I don't want to go back, I want to find ways to incorporate what I liked about the past into the future, to actually make a difference somehow.

Don't you think that a lot of the people who you perceive as wanting to "go back" to the old days actually want this?

Most of the common complaints about the state of computers, software, the Internet, society, etc. boil down to objections to the direction that has been taken, not to the fact that the wheels of time are turning as they always have been.

Usually, what is desired is a course correction, or otherwise a change in direction, not a literal return to decades ago.

[moonbat]

I would like to undo the shift towards smartphones where formerly desktop UI/UX is concerned. Windows peaked with version 7 - they should've left it alone and offered slightly larger icons and spacing if a touchscreen was detected. Google & Microsoft's bad influence infected even the open source world - as seen with GNOME 3. And for Mozilla to not have turned Firefox into a Chrome wannabe.