I can't believe nobody's mentioned UtterCunt or Hegel'sBagels.

Good to see you mcD

It's already in Books

will invite Kwalish Kid only if I have permission — Mayor of Simpleton

Sure.

Great to see you here @Thorongil

They're deploying a new release in November. Not sure if they'll squeeze any of our requests in on time. Sounds like they're pretty slow and careful.

Wow that was quick. Welcome aboard!

I've PMd photo and Thorongil

See here: http://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/32/how-will-this-site-attract-new-members

Dragon_Lance

White guy with a beard? Now that would be a cliché. But you're right, he wouldn't be so controversial. Everyone likes Socrates, despite how annoying he was.

Hover over the discussion title to see the category. But that's not great, I know, so it's already been added to the list of feature requests.

Glorious. Haven't the meanies put a stop to it yet?

I just knew the Kant favicon would be controversial.

I'll add it to the list in Feature requests.

Are you okay?

Has this been happening today as well?

Greg, you're making me dizzy

Nice work Tiff.

Not sure what you mean when you say you can't add a quote when you edit.

ad or mod delete one — Mayor of Simpleton

That's an edit

I guess we're going to have to be more careful about posting, which is no bad thing. As a workaround you could edit the post to leave just a single character or the word 'delete' or whatever, and PM me a link to the post (which you can get from the post's timestamp) and I can then delete it (or another mod).

But okay, I'll add it to the list. I suspect it's an opinionated software decision, meaning they'll say no. I respect that attitude as it happens.

New members, have a look at the useful hints and tips:
http://thephilosophyforum.com/page/useful-hints-and-tips

Welcome to the two and only @unenlightened and @StreetlightX. What took you so long? Welcome too to @Helvetica, @schopenhauer1, and anyone else I've missed.

Okay I'll try some different colours tomorrow

Calm your boner SUPERADMIN — The outlaw Josey Wales

I had to laugh at that one.

Yeah it won't work on mobile. Yet more reason to ask for the feature.

I think we should also try to think of different ways of doing things, organizing things, or whatever. As you'll have noticed, I unimaginatively set this site up mostly in accordance with PF.

Off the top...reading groups that we all participate in, say one philosophical paper a month or something (reading groups don't have to be full books). First suggestion, an easy read: "The Extended Mind" by Clark and Chalmers.

I'm also going to do an analysis of the site's SEO-friendliness and if there are big issues I'll add them as feature requests to send to the developers.

The site gets 65% on seositecheckup.com (or something like that--it was yesterday I did it). Many of the problems it flags up are not that serious.

Pass the popcorn.

Not sure about those Mol. I'll come back to them.

Oh and I added a quasi-shoutbox in The Lounge: http://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/28/the-shoutbox

When you hover over the discussion title the tooltip shows you the category. But I agree it would be nice to see it right next to the title without having to do that, so I've added it to the list.

Yeah, I was shocked to see that deleted. And I wasn't the only one...

It's a great idea Tiff. Note that it's The Philosophy Forum, singular. I always hated that plural nonsense.

It takes time for Google to like you. It comes down roughly to (a) site structure, load speed and other software issues, (b) how many other sites link to this site along with how much Google likes those sites, and (c) high quality changing content that's relevant to people's searches. There are many other aspects but I haven't been paying attention to SEO for the past couple of years.

PF is at the top because of its age, reliability, crawlability, and masses of high quality content. Its rise to the top of the search results is one of Paul's great successes. If we can get as much high quality philosophical discussion going as possible, as soon as possible, we'll have some chance of picking up people from Google. But the competition is immense and it won't happen any time soon.

The Google bot has visited the site, I think, but it didn't stay for long. It may be back in the next couple of weeks, and hopefully then it'll take a closer look and index more pages.

There may be some technical barriers here. It's possible that this forum software is not very SEO-friendly, and because I'm not in control of it I can't quickly make the necessary changes. However, technical issues, i.e., aspect (a), are the least important when it comes to pleasing Google; if there's relevant content here the bot will find it.

One thing I can do is set up a Google Analytics account and add the site to Google Webmaster Tools. They'll help me see how the site is performing month to month.

The last thing this fledgling forum should have to deal with right now is TGW, Kwalish Kid and John Sartoris all joining at about the same time. :o

or your money back?

Yep, there's a subscriber role set up. Just have to decide what to do with it, if anything.

Good man, thanks! As far as I know you can't show off your subscriber status. I would draw the line at purple names anyway. ;)

I've turned on the subscribe page, and it links through to my PayPal business account (CommissionCrowd) at the moment because I don't have one dedicated to this forum.

Moderators and admins don't see the link, which is in the top menu. Mods who want to see the link, just sign out.

I still have to write something to put there. And we still need to decide on what privileges subscribers get. We can hide certain categories from non-subscribers, disallow certain actions (like posting), show adverts, etc.

I intend there to be a social aspect to the forum, and I think most members are happy with that. But there's an easy solution for you: click on 'Categories' and uncheck the category called 'The Lounge', so all those social type discussions won't appear in your home page, ie. in your 'All discussions' screen.

Oh and be nice if it's at all possible. Your comment there was the first sour note since I set this up, and it's kind of disappointing.