cjk

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[–] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

How do you like this dress/these pants/this whatever” would be someone giving an opportunity to compliment them.

I am 42 years old, married for 15 years, together with my wife for >23 years. And this is the first time I realize that she doesn't really mean the clothing but is fishing for a compliment. It never occurred to me, and it seriously is blowing my mind.

Edit: rotfl, all the occasions she asked me this kind of question suddenly make sense. Damn, I think I have to apologize.

[–] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

She's fine with tighter shirts, but those hot-pants? Nah, she hates them and threatens to cut them into pieces when I talk about buying a pair, even though they look so comfortable.

[–] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

yeah, true. I didn't think about that. Unavoidable, I guess.

[–] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

In Germany there is no such thing.

[–] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 3 months ago (3 children)

His family name was Julius (because he was from the family of the Iulii). Caesar was a title and since Augustus became part of the name when the position was taken up.

[–] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago

I believe most of DACH learned writing web pages with SELFHTML. Those were the times :-)

[–] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

❤️

It's a pleasure!

[–] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 5 months ago (5 children)

It's a german language forum. I guessed that it is not very interesting to most people reading here because of the language barrier. But I'm happy to share the link: https://forum.selfhtml.org/

[–] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

yeah, I feel this. Currently it is mainly nostalgia and memorial why we keep it running.

[–] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 5 months ago

Yes, the uprise of social media was a big hit in traffic.

But I disagree with the smartphone part, quite the opposite. Suddenly the forum was flooded with questions about HTML/CSS/JS issues with smartphones. I suspect that smartphones delayed the drop in postings.

[–] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 108 points 5 months ago (14 children)

I am running a forum (about web technologies), and have been doing so for about 24 years (damn. I'm old). I had some spam problems, but was able to get rid of it.

It probably helps that I wrote the software myself (24 years ago there weren't many forum software projects).

But the traffic is declining. The peak was around 2003-2005, with >500 posts per day, and is slowly declining since then with a massive drop last year (about 19 posts per day). Young people only rarely use the forum anymore, despite massive modernization efforts, and the older people slowly disappear.

    1998 |   6686
    1999 |  40528
    2000 |  70379
    2001 |  41129
    2002 | 171294
    2003 | 203642
    2004 | 204685
    2005 | 173659
    2006 | 150000
    2007 | 135936
    2008 | 126283
    2009 |  94894
    2010 |  70333
    2011 |  48691
    2012 |  31197
    2013 |  30606
    2014 |  30227
    2015 |  29334
    2016 |  25472
    2017 |  27505
    2018 |  28551
    2019 |  22366
    2020 |  17250
    2021 |  12794
    2022 |  10135
    2023 |   7151

If the trend continues we will shut it down in a year or two.

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