I often have a few ideas that may or may not be worth making a thread over, often I will not make a thread on it -- I also know that a lot of members probably feel the same way, and maybe will not want to start a topic on how they personally think something could improve the site.

Making a General Site Matters Discussion Thread might be a wise idea to help get questions, ideas, and general things like that, which would generally be unmentioned. So I hope this thread can get more people to talk about the issues they are having,  and other matters involving the site.  This thread will be fairly similar to the Short Questions Thread, in the sense that there is no specific topic.

For starters....

I would like to get more activity in the pharmacology section -- what might I do to encourage that, and improve the section?



Also --as an FYI I am working on getting HTTPS and moving the site to better hosting that will allow more storage of files, etc. So... don't worry about HTTPS until we get it going.

I am working on making this site (after it gets moved) to hidden from google or other search engines, and especially the files on the FTP (which is down at the moment, but will be back up) and *hopefully* to be an accessible by members only sort of thing. This is due to (so far.. minor) issues involving copyright - I want to host as much information on our subjects as possible, but I do not want to jeopardize the site -- even if it means it is less useful.


Once the site gets HTTPS, the hosting will cost ~180 USD each year, and the only means of income I have is birthday and holiday money -- is there any chance we *might* be able to find a way to get donations for The Vespiary? Reguardless if can or cannot I will remain paying for it -- Its just painful to spend a decent amount of my money on it - and I know members here have offered to donate as well.
 I will consider selling shrink wrapped prints on mat board of semi-psychedelic art and The Vespiary (the front page image) that is ready to frame to raise money for The Vespiary -- Obviously some serious security issues exist with both donations and the print idea -- So if we can't come up with an easy solution..  Oh well, and I will continue to pay, but for me at least it is worth looking into...


Anyways to get this thread started, let me know what you think about my post and do others have any ideas, concerns, or problems with the site currently, or predict any in the future?

with the hosting plan I have in mind, not really much of a difference as far as I know.

Yes a 3rd Party site is a good idea.

I can also contribute  once safety is taken care of.

How about western union? seems to work for all the scammers so it must be anonymous enough but I have never used it?

I would consider myself strong enough on Pharmacology (not saying anyone else should consider me so) what do you think it is missing... I was going to suggest a simple Do/Don't thread with the counter-intuitive pitfalls of posology etc. (i.e 2 tablets does not mean double the effect of one tablet, breaking a tablet in half does not necessarily mean half the effect.) They are pretty basic but the number of people I know who mess it up would seem to justify it.

Made it so you need at least 10 posts to see/read/use the reference section on this forum. Also, I made it so the posts made in The Den of Iniquity doesn't count your posts -- this is due to boards no topic/off-topic and lightly moderated content.

That is something that has also bugged me, and I am in fact going to delete it and keep the posts in the vacuous post section - since, while they are some decent posts in there, it isn't really the chemistry we want to see around the board.

I will get to that when I have done other more important things.

It has been removed, most sent to the vacuous post section, some that I felt had value was put into other chemistry - some completely deleted.

I am pretty much for that but I will need to think it over -- we have had in the past stuff similar to that such as "Vesp's Random Experiment Thread" and I believe other members had some similar.

I am not sure what category it should be in - since a lot of projects are not just chemistry, but involve biology, etc.

I think an additional subforum would be appropriate - however, I wonder if it would be used all that often?
What do others think? and would others post in a "journal" type thread?

I think I've made it so it isn't possible for users in general to view members profiles. I figured there wasn't a need.. I could be wrong, but whats there to see on a profile?

Why do you want to view members profiles?

Oh the posts is a useful thing, I did not think of that..
Hmm well, it isn't like the email is revealed if default settings were not changed, and additionally the email can be changed to one that isn't even real - once you've activated your account.
IIRC

Good points, I will change so people may see profiles in a bit of time.