Request: Screenshot forum

Screenshots are irrelevant to the project. All topics not immediately relevant to the project must be strictly avoided.

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OK, we get it.
Itā€™s just dull.

Iā€™ll go read the forums rules :). Maybe also having fun here is also strictly forbidden because itā€™s not relevant to the project.

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Slippery slope right thereā€¦ what about users who arenā€™t donors? Maybe theyā€™re not needed either? Or people using hardware not from Manjaro sponsors? Maybe theyā€™re not needed either? :open_mouth:

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Who told you this? Did I miss that in the guidelines page?

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I cannot blame (I have no reason to do it) the decision of the maintainers; but in anyway there is Reddit:

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The ones on Reddit arenā€™t the same :confused:

Might as well use /r/unixporn if weā€™re going to share screenshots on Reddit

https://www.old.reddit.com/r/unixporn

The Manjaro team said they are trying to make the forum strictly a support forum.

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Well that really sucks. Iā€™ve met so many new people in the old forum, and I think this rule alone will make it even harder not just me but also everyone to get to know each other.

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Right - go ahead, create it then.

Sorry but Iā€™m not doing it because someone already tried this and failed, let alone breaking the rules (Iā€™m serious).

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Yes, I know.
There were many ā€˜off-topicā€™ threads - like ā€™

Plasma is Great

ā€™ where people just threw up ideas and screenshots. It was one of those threads which persuaded me to try Latte - I donā€™t get many ideas from help forums. Whilst Iā€™m not a fan of screenshot threads myself, though I did enjoy @SGS work - got a few ideas from him I donā€™t see the harm - I donā€™t see the need to exclude something simply because it doesnā€™t interest me.

I wasnā€™t interested in ā€˜Latte is greatā€™ until after Iā€™d seen a few posts (in the Rants and Raves section). Next up someone started a long thread about Music players in general which brought up a lot of things which I wouldnā€™t have looked at or encountered in a normal technical forum.

Obviously thereā€™s a very good reason the team donā€™t want this kind of frippery - threads like ā€˜Dolphin Sucksā€™ which lead to a great indepth fight over whether it was a pig or not and in the process threw up many educational comments and workarounds for minor issues which wouldnā€™t come up normally.

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This is how the Manjaro Team feels about such threads. Feel free to have a read thru :confused:
To sum it up, they donā€™t feel like chit chat should be on the forumā€¦

I created that thread :stuck_out_tongue:

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You should be proudā€¦ it only survived for two days before bogdan slammed the door on it! :laughing:

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Iā€™ve been given a ticking-off for posting the output of the command ā€œscreenfetchā€ on here, in a thread where I assumed that info would be conducive to the purpose of said thread.
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BTW not by a (current) Mod apparently, otherwise I wouldnā€™t have posted this; but take heed. Help to keep this valuable Forum alive for those who really need it.

Correction: ā€œScreenfetchā€ not ā€œScreenshotā€. It was late, sorry about that.

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ā€¦Or move to another one apparently Jonathan joined those guys over at endeavor os

Iā€™m surprised it DID last two days to be honest. I also got @nadb to shed some light on whatā€™s going on. He used to be well respected on the old forumā€¦

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Nah, moving is a pipe-dreamā€¦ better to struggle on, and make Manjaro great again! (never thought Iā€™d repeat TheDonaldā€™s slogan, but heh, the shoe fits!). Or is it donā€™t let the :face_with_symbols_over_mouth: see you bleed? I forget.

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Canā€™t belive the tableā€™ve turned.

Now Arch forums have Screenshot thread and Manjaro wont!!

Who would guess that ARCH linux community would be the more warm and chilling place than Manjaro forums :smiley:

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What draw me to Manjaro (by many things) was the community, it would be sad if community building is disallowed. I think by having off topic forums, screenshots threads etc. keeps people and community together. I hope the devs/admins/mods/etc. takes that into account.

regards,
Storm

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Community building is allowed but not that way, we can already see how much better it works and we can actually find things when using the search.