On 20 Jan 2021 at 17:59, Peri Hartman via EV wrote: > I wonder if there's anything we can do to increase awareness of EVDL.
Well, I suppose that some of the folks here who do (anti-)social media could mention it there, maybe by quoting from our discussions. I wonder what kind of new members we might get from that. I'm generally disinclined to do much promotion. Hey, we have a website. What more do you want? :-) I don't really hold with the standard corporate "grow or die" principle. To be crunchy granola about it, services like this one grow and shrink organically with natural demand. There's more demand for EV info than there was 20 years ago, but there are also more other sources. We're the one that uses email. If you like email and/or don't like being tracked and spied on by big corporations, well, here we are. I kind of feel like Buddhists do about their religion - when you're ready for us, you'll find us. :-) I'm willing to listen to discussion about this, however. > bet there are others that are like me: want to know about leading edge > activity and technical issues even though they (I) don't plan on doing > any EV tinkering personally. Isn't that what the various EV news websites are supposed to do? I mean Green Car Reports, Inside EVs, Clean Technica, Electrek, Future Car, and so on. Or maybe they're too focused on "Ooh, it's been restyled to look just like every other car on the road, and look at those exciting 19 inch wheels!" Pah. > > Also, maybe a different basis for the forum. I like email but a lot of > people prefer other formats. I'm getting some deja vu here. :-) Back in the day, that was one of the EVDL topics that resurfaced often, along with AC vs DC drives, flooded vs AGM lead, and fast-short-range vs slow-long-range. It always generated lots of discussion. After 2008 when gasoline prices broke $4 a gallon in the US, we had a flurry of new memberships. A lot of them would post a couple of initial questions and then inevitably we got, "Hey, how come y'all don't make this into something modern, like a forum?" - presumbly not realizing that forums are a webification of dialup BBSes from the 1980s. :-) In fact we do have a forum gateway, as a feature of the archive. It's aimed at casual and occasional users, and those who for whatever reason don't like email. It's a bit clunky, but I'm working on that. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = It is well known (Potts, 2014; Catcher, 2014) that the internet is made of cats. The net is a series of tubes (Stevens, 2006) through which cats carry information in packets (Butterworth, 2011). The failure modes have been less well studied. Several exist, but to date the most researched are fracture, disjunc- tion, and joule-based disruption. FRACTURE causes complete regional internet failure. It occurs when construction or other human activity severs or collapses an underground tunnel through which the cats travel. The symptom of DISJUNCTION is high lat- ency; the usual cause is hooligans placing containers of tuna or cream at tunnel junctions. Data corruption results from JOULE- BASED DISRUPTION, caused by the static charge that accumulates as long-haired cats speed through the tunnels. This shocks the cats, who drop their packets. -- Lolapin (2020) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
