Article Gets a Zero

Will explain to Joe.

You made a cardinal mistake.

Huh?

I'm lost!   Peter

Sorry mate ...

... a "1" is as low as you can vote ... a 'no vote' doesn't count ...

Monthly or Not

The monthly format is nice, but I think that a format similar to web magazines like WIRED could work as well. The monthly format is likely easier to sell to advertisers since you can say the PDF was downloaded X amount of times. While with a web magazine format (like WIRED) you can try and attract people to come back and browse your site daily as opposed to once a month by slowly rotating your new articles onto the front page. Ofcourse that means advertisements and their campaigns might have to be setup differently than with a PDF version. Advertisers could still have a monthly campaign or could campaign against older articles (something which is not possible now since the PDF is static once generated) but accounting for how many people see their ads would need a major overhaul. Articles likely would have to be setup for individual downloads instead for those who want to be able to read them offline as well.

This months MRH indicates: the forums are a great source of information in between MRH issues, but many seem to not even look at them. Trying to get people to get to the site daily versus monthly might have people browse around longer leading to more ads being shown.

Either way, MRH is a really great source of information and I'll keep reading it in whatever format it is published. Keep 'em coming!

What Art means

I think the article

did its job just fine. I like the mag being monthly, then I can come to the website for my daily fix! And there are lots of blogs on here, some are good, some are great, and some are a good attempt.

Steven

No worries, I hope

I had to go back and look to see if one of my blog entries was listed.  One was, but regardless of that the point is still the same.  You can only give so many examples, and I figured the selection was probably not intended to imply one blog post is somehow superior to another.

Perhaps a joke ...

... that somehow got off-track ...

Please go vote on this poll

We've started a poll to see how many feel MRH publishing such a list was a bad idea. Please go here and vote:

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Well, for the record...

stay monthly. People can do some clicking and get on the blogs and forums. Not that hard. But the mag should stay monthly. Alot less stress on the staff. I'm sure they get beat enough by Joe already and morale will not improve no matter what... 

Cardinal mistake......

I don't believe so, the general sampling of recent posts, no big deal.

Beauty Contest

Do not judge a beauty contest their can only be one winner and many losers. 

Don't agree

If you are comparing our blog list to a beauty contest, then I don't agree at all. Our list was not a competition and there were no judges, just Joe Fugate spending 30 minutes quickly pulling some sample blogs off pages 1-4 of recent posts so he could get on with producing the rest of the magazine.

Since the list was not a competition and there was no panel of judges, then those who did not make the list are not losers - they just didn't happen to have posted recently enough to be on page 1-4 of recent posts.

If you're upset over not posting recently enough to be on page 1-4, then we're sorry, but "them's the facts" as we say.

You should really have a look

Can you give some examples of

Can you give some examples of forums that you find easy to use?

Specific examples on here

Where are you seeing this option? We tried a module that had this function, but it only worked if you were the original poster, and the constant emails every time someone posted a response got really annoying so we turned it off. If this is still showing up somewhere, we need to know about it so we can remove it since it's been turned off.

It sounds like a good idea on the surface, but in practice if you're getting any amount of replies to your thread, the constant barrage of emails gets old really fast. It's not a feature that you want to use once you've tried it.

Well, not to be ...

... confrontational, but I like the way Drupal works. I have visited many forums and have found them somewhat cumbersome as compared to Drupal, This format works for me. Although I do not like HTTP in the way it functions with hypertext format, the hypertext functionality of Drupal is something I have valued. What I value here more than Drupal is the wealth and quality of idea exchange. "To each his own". I am sure Drupal cannot be every bodies "cup of tea", but it works for me.