Re: is mctools.org retired?
Simon Lord wrote: Funny, the mctools site was taken down for a variety of reasons. The first being that only two submissions in the year that it was up were ever made. It seemed that at the time no-one was interested in submitting articles, tips, tricks or stacks. In the last 3 days I have received a dozen or so requests about it's whereabouts, how to get stacks that were on it (only mine) or how to start it up again elsewhere. Where were all you people during the last year? As they say, Simon, this means that capitalism works ;-). IMHO, a new 'mc'tools site would not have a better fate then the last one, now that metacard as a tool(brand) is loosing most of its user base to Rev. Renaming the site to 'rev'tools would most likely bring in more people specially that that crowd seems to have a good balance of gurus and newcomers/hypercarders in the need of an endless dialog. IMHO, your site was designed too much for interactivity rather than a reference/depository site. That was at least the impression. I think a site with a more passive format, functioning more like a portal to information would be more successful (cf. Hypercard Heaven). This list is enough for interactive activities. A key to your site's usage/growth would be a direct link from MetaCard's site. Also, relying on user contributions is not enough. You would have to be more active in collecting materials. Equally if not more useful would be maintaining an organized collection of links to other sites (MC, Rev, but also HC and SC -- even MC's site has a couple links to HC sites), including sites distributing sample or util stacks or programs. Yes, I do realize that this would require quite an effort from you, but just providing technology base won't cut it. Robert ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: is mctools.org retired?
Funny, the mctools site was taken down for a variety of reasons. The first being that only two submissions in the year that it was up were ever made. It seemed that at the time no-one was interested in submitting articles, tips, tricks or stacks. In the last 3 days I have received a dozen or so requests about it's whereabouts, how to get stacks that were on it (only mine) or how to start it up again elsewhere. Where were all you people during the last year? I have been working with portal based systems for some time now, we host macosxhints.com and soon macslash.com and others. So we have tuned our servers to handle lots of traffic etc. If the list is ready for round two and try again, let me know. I'd be glad to turn it all back on and enroll some admins to help run it. ""It has become the amigo-3 now. A great place for posting scripts and tools developed on MC"" Well, like I said, I had all my stacks there and less than a fist full of others. So I'm surprised that it's passing is being noticed only now, or that the relatively few posted stacks were useful at all. So, if there is a demand for it, mctools can make a comeback. But it needs support, this would be the THIRD attempt at getting the MC community to submit hints, tips and stacks... On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 11:40 PM, LiangTyan Fui wrote: Is http://www.mctools.org retired? It has become the amigo-3 now. A great place for posting scripts and tools developed on MC Regards, LiangTyan Fui ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: is mctools.org retired?
Simon Lord wrote: Funny, the mctools site was taken down for a variety of reasons. The first being that only two submissions in the year that it was up were ever made. It seemed that at the time no-one was interested in submitting articles, tips, tricks or stacks. In the last 3 days I have received a dozen or so requests about it's whereabouts, how to get stacks that were on it (only mine) or how to start it up again elsewhere. Where were all you people during the last year? As they say, Simon, this means that capitalism works ;-). IMHO, a new 'mc'tools site would not have a better fate then the last one, now that metacard as a tool(brand) is loosing most of its user base to Rev. Renaming the site to 'rev'tools would most likely bring in more people specially that that crowd seems to have a good balance of gurus and newcomers/hypercarders in the need of an endless dialog. -- Regards, Andu Novac ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
