Blansky, Carnie, Jorge, Sandy King, and Denise Ross per the past few posts. I dunno, I haven't been here that long.
I'm always interested in a good photography site. This seems about the best I guess. (shrug).
Sorry I don't follow this post.
Michael R asked what "sages" I was referring to. I was talking about the names mentioned in the previous 5-6 posts as people who were "pushed away" from APUG or left completely for one reason or another.
I don't want anyone to leave, especially if they have some knowledge of film photography.
Message boards are not for the thin-skinned. You're going to get blasted by somebody if you ever say anything interesting.
Well they go make prints and forget about the wankers who bring them down here.
Blansky, Carnie, Jorge, Sandy King, and Denise Ross per the past few posts. I dunno, I haven't been here that long.
I'm always interested in a good photography site. This seems about the best I guess. (shrug).
.... Jorge quit photography and while I found most of his viewpoints quite compatible with my own (a rare thing for me) he was, quite frankly, a total prick who should have been kicked off the site .......
Apparently you have more in common than just viewpoints.
Blandsky is hardly a sage, just a verbose stream of self-justification who will hopefully go back to "Wine Country" and shoot digital.
The grace, dignity and beauty of human interaction never ceases to amaze me.
I believe there's something in the site rules about personal attacks isn't there?
Sean just contacted me and told me I'd used up my word allotment and was costing him too much money.
I hope I am misreading this post, People like Blansky and Bob Carnie even if they are "misguided"are necessary for this forum to thrive, without opposition and some injections of painful truths (for the analogue world) this forum would get seriously boring and wither away.
Meanwhile...
How about Bob's request that APUG welcome digital negatives into the fold? Perhaps we could rebrand? I like "hybrid" just fine, but maybe another name would offer a fresh start. "Integrated Printing" (?) That's not quite right, but something along those lines. Constrain the discussions to one sub-forum and anyone who wants to can ignore the subject.
Meanwhile...
How about Bob's request that APUG welcome digital negatives into the fold? Perhaps we could rebrand? I like "hybrid" just fine, but maybe another name would offer a fresh start. "Integrated Printing" (?) That's not quite right, but something along those lines. Constrain the discussions to one sub-forum and anyone who wants to can ignore the subject.
APUG.ORG is an international community of like minded individuals devoted to traditional (non-digital) photographic processes.
This has been discussed at length. In a nutshell we got rid of the hybrid area on APUG years ago because "constraining" discussions became next to impossible. Not only digital bleed over into analog areas but also a general attitude of 'not enough' leeway in the hybrid areas (calls for full digital on APUG came soon and loudly after hybrid was allowed, and the cycle of demand continued).. calls for more digital subforums, digital images allowed in the galleries, etc. We had hybrids dipping into analog threads prodding members to go digital or to try what they are doing in digital instead, adding further conflicts. It became a nightmare to manage, so I took a step back and say to myself, "I will never please everyone, so I can draw a line in the sand or continue this nightmare for myself and the mod team". I decided to upset the minority by aligning APUG strictly to it's original charter.
It wasn't a perfect solution but it is a no win situation, no matter what solution there will be many upset on both sides. There is a Hybrid Group on APUG here: (there was a url link here which no longer exists) It allows for basic discussion, even image sharing. It does lack a lot of functionality but for now it's that or DPUG. I am still trying to find a feasible way to share a single user account between APUG & DPUG so they are integrated but still their own entities.
OK. May I, then, make a suggestion/request? I wasn't aware of the hybrid group. It's far too well hidden. Could you create a permanent link to it from near the top of Alternative Processes pages? And/Or, a separate link on the homepage like the one you made to dpug? It might actually work out fine if people can find the discussions easily.
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