Sean Meighan

General => The Water Cooler => Topic started by: Gilrock on April 09, 2018, 01:06:06 PM

Title: What am I doing?
Post by: Gilrock on April 09, 2018, 01:06:06 PM: Some of you may have noticed me missing from Facebook so no I didn't block you I deactivated my entire account. I didn't make any kind of announcement there because to be honest it was a hard decision and I kept wavering about doing it. I had been considering it for 2 weeks and finally just hit the button. I felt like it was affecting my job because I found myself checking it way too much at work and I don't want it getting me in trouble. You can tell folks there that I'll be glad to help here on the forum or with GitHub issues.

Also if you don't see many checkins from me in the upcoming releases it doesn't mean I'm not working on the code. I've got a fairly big update I'm working on and it may take several weeks and the idea may not even pan out.
Title: Re: What am I doing?
Post by: MrChristmas2000 on April 09, 2018, 02:35:05 PM: Sorry to hear of your departure but I can fully understand why. It is definitely a time sucker for sure and a big temptation to log in and cruise the forums. You definitely don't want to have it impact your primary job.
Title: Re: What am I doing?
Post by: arw01 on April 09, 2018, 02:55:34 PM: Hear that. Was on vacation last week and facebook was a major suck of my time while I was just relaxing, and quite frankly there was extremely little gained from all that time spent there.

Best of luck with your programming project Gil.
Title: Re: What am I doing?
Post by: jspiker77 on April 09, 2018, 05:47:38 PM: I fully understand Gil, as you know I myself have been radio silence for the most part on FB for the same reason.
Title: Re: What am I doing?
Post by: madsci1016 on April 09, 2018, 05:50:59 PM: Following.

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:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: What am I doing?
Post by: Gilrock on April 09, 2018, 05:57:32 PM: Look at that even drawing out some first time posters....lol.
Title: Re: What am I doing?
Post by: jspiker77 on April 09, 2018, 06:33:27 PM: Quote from: Gilrock on April 09, 2018, 05:57:32 PM
Look at that even drawing out some first time posters....lol.

Hey look I'm a Newbie, glad you called me out Gil. The once nice thing about the forum that is lost in the FB group is the information that is shared gets buried within a day or 2 where here it is searchable. Note taken and will do my best to support you and try and share within here so that it is retained and can actually be found.
Title: Re: What am I doing?
Post by: Gilrock on April 09, 2018, 07:12:55 PM: I was just shocked you two had never posted here before.
Title: Re: What am I doing?
Post by: madsci1016 on April 09, 2018, 08:15:31 PM: Quote from: Gilrock on April 09, 2018, 07:12:55 PM
I was just shocked you two had never posted here before.

Why post here when there's the facebook group to get lost in forever?

Also the Captcha here sucks. I can't read it and I'm the human! (5th try to post this)
Title: Re: What am I doing?
Post by: JonB256 on April 09, 2018, 08:28:51 PM: Quote from: madsci1016 on April 09, 2018, 08:15:31 PM
Also the Captcha here sucks. I can't read it and I'm the human! (5th try to post this)

Just survive Captcha a few more times and it goes away.
Title: Re: What am I doing?
Post by: Gilrock on April 09, 2018, 08:41:24 PM: Yeah I think Captcha is only first 5 posts. Its been so long I forget it even does that.
Title: Re: What am I doing?
Post by: QldKing on April 10, 2018, 12:33:18 AM: From a person not on Facebook, it would be great to see more issues posted on the forum first. I get the need for FB but it should be the exception and not the rule. At least my data is not shared on the forum. It just uses some processing power mining bitcoin 😉
All the best Gil.

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Title: Re: What am I doing?
Post by: Gilrock on April 10, 2018, 08:07:10 AM: I have to admit it feels good to feel like I'm helping stick it to Zuckerberg...lol. And my email inbox has been so quiet last few days it feels like I'm relaxing in a peaceful forest...
Title: Re: What am I doing?
Post by: Lights On Fifth on April 10, 2018, 08:41:02 AM: I hear ya Gil, I had to un-follow a lot of groups as my feed was constantly buzzing, I was wondering where you got to, this explains it.
Title: Re: What am I doing?
Post by: babybear on April 10, 2018, 04:04:53 PM: I will say I never had or will join Facebook. At one point it sounded Xlights was headed in that direction and this forum was fading away. I almost signed up for facebook just for Xlights but held out. Oh so glad I did not. I will say this is a great community of people here to help each other lighting up their homes.