getting set up

I just got these forums set up. They could use a lot of polish, but I figure it's better to get something crappy running now than something great running two months from now.

It's a fixer-upper!

Any suggestions on what to fix?

maybe the time settings?

looking into it ...

testing

Okay .... I set the system default to be GMT-7 hours, which I think is mountain time. For pacific time, try GMT-8 hours.

testing time

edit -- looks like MST or PDT

This is the first thread i could find on permies.  Thread number 3.

My friend Marilyn helped me set it up.

Before creating this forum, I was spending hours every day answering questions, one person at a time, via email.  Often it was the same question asked over and over.  This forum made things so much easier.  

I thought these forums would be used by just a handful of people.  From running other forums I knew I wanted to keep it pretty limited.  

Wow ....   17 years ...

Pretty slick fixer-upper.

Job well done!  Thank you for all your hard work, time, etc.

Paul Hatfield should be congratulated for the first post here ever. Think he's still lurking?

yes i am.

I don't remember why i ditched that account and created this one.

paul wheaton wrote:This is the first thread i could find on permies.  Thread number 3.

My friend Marilyn helped me set it up.

Before creating this forum, I was spending hours every day answering questions, one person at a time, via email.  Often it was the same question asked over and over.  This forum made things so much easier.  

I thought these forums would be used by just a handful of people.  From running other forums I knew I wanted to keep it pretty limited.  

Wow ....   17 years ...

It's the best forum I've encountered in a number of ways.

If you were doing it all from scratch now, anything you would do different?

In a couple of weeks, this thread will be 20 years old.

paul wheaton wrote:yes i am.

I don't remember why i ditched that account and created this one.

Traded the Hatfield pseudonym for the real McCoy?

In the earliest software, you could have a name that was just one word.  So I started with "paul".  Later, we switched to software that required a last name, so we wrote an algorithm that went to all accounts without a last name giving them "hatfield" or "mccoy".