7/26    motd: I'm back. what did i miss?
        \_ Not much, how long were you gone?
           \_ over the last ~7 years I've gone from checking many times
              a day to checking once per year. where are the following
              people? tom, psb, danh, kchang, mconst, jon, alexf, dbushong,
              sky, kinney, ranga, paolo
              \_ Who is this? I know where some of these people are, some
                 even still use soda occasionally. -ausman
                 \_ soo, people don't use motd tracking scripts anymore
                    to identify post authors? dang
        \_ Hello. I'm the author of http://csua.com archiver. I haven't
           used motd as my primary form of Q-and-A for many years because
           I see social networking alternatives (e.g. Quora, Google Circle)
           as [more refined] superset of motd. They are missing threading
           and anon posting, but other than that, I don't see how motd
           can be sustainable given the sharp decline of shell users. In
           a way, motd is dead, but the spirit of motd lives on forever
           in the form of social networking.                    -kchang
           \_ but motd had value beyond and in a different way than, say,
              google+ or other "social networking". we have to bring it
              back from the dead. how?
              \_ we "have to"? we "must"? why?                  -kchang
                 \_ because motd is unique and valuable and awesome and
                    it shouldn't die
                 \_ because the motd is (was) awesome
              \_ How did it arise in the first place? If you can get users
                 to provide compelling content and then invite more people,
                 then you can get it going again. I find the motd to be a
                 useful diversion, the quality of the posts is pretty high
                 for a anonymous system and it is very easy to use from work.
                 So go invite some of the old users to come back again, do
                 you need help tracking them down?
                 \_ yes. bring them back. maybe we could try by insulting
                    tom or psb and bringing them back. although I
                    a problem i suspect is that the system seems pretty
                    slow and maybe not capable of handling many
                    simultaneous users or something?
                    \_ worksforme
        \_ who is deleting this thread and why?