Update on short and long term plans.

Actually it is - life expectancy calculator does (or at least is supposed to) account all deaths, independent of cause. It is simple statistics (unless it includes some vague extrapolation of average life length increase over coming years - I have no idea how linked calculator internally works).

Short formula - find average age of all people [of same sex and even better - in similar social group], older than you. Or use median, this way you get age, which you will reach with 50% probability (this is not same as average).

But all this goes wildly off-topic, I hope I get no responses to this side theme :)

That's what happens with forum posts. Sometimes they get more interesting too.

As for me, I've done my 3 score years and 10 - and I'm still here (so far)

😁

I haven't 'been sidelined'. I'm actively working on the things that Alan described. I'm not posting much, among other things, because I end up spending too much time making posts like this.
I appreciate your impatience, but we do have a choice, which is to keep on with reactive tinkering to this or that wish from this or that user or to make a positive decision as to where we want to go and do that. The real point is that we need to transition from a replacement for DPReview forums, which is not now needed, to something which provides photographers with facilities they have not had before. As to what those will be, you'll need to see it when it comes. Until then I don't want to talk about it too much, because it always seems to end in negative discussions.
With respect to your comments on threaded view, we certainly do have a clue on it, but the underlying software of the site is not really compatible with it. As Alan said, we have a fix that does what can be done with this software (according to the original creator, a bit more than can be done). As for 'proper', I think it will do everything that DPReview's threaded view does. The new software base will be designed to support threaded view from the start, and will also be designed to allow us to add new, non-forum facilities.

Welcome back, Bob! I hope you are fully recovered.

I think it is a good idea for you to keep your head down and get on with the changes that Alan described. The quicker these can be successfully implemented, the better. We all want to get on with expanding the active membership!

By all means report regularly, because I and others find that ecouraging; but dont get embroiled in discussions here...

All the best!

David

QC, thanks for the message. Some (maybe not all) answers.

Notifications is one of the things we hope to bring in for the short term updates. So, maybe that will help one of your points.

Latest updates of all threads? There are two pinned threads - this one and announcing portfolios. Neither is 9 months old.So, I am unclear as to where you see that. So, you shouldn't need to scroll down to see new messages. They start three messages down.

Can you suggest anything which would actively encourage people to participate (apart from notifications, which won't help new users)?

Alan

Hmm, you are accessing forum in a weird way :)

If you just click on "Threads" item in the top menu (marked green on attached image), you will be taken to address dprevived.com/threads/ and this does not show locally pinned threads at all.
If you navigate to All categories - All forums (marked red) then yes, you will see strange results.

I have never used the 'all forums' link - I always just click on 'Threads'.

I'll plough through the forums removing old pinned links. It may take a day or two.

Alan

OK - it's all done. The posts I have unpinned still show because I did something (unpinned them) but they wull gradually move down as other posts are made.

I hope that is OK for everyone.

Alan