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hyperflare  ·  2959 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: First post on Hubski

Welcome! A jade dog sounds cute.

Jade reminds me of a fun literary myth about Goethe's Über allen Gipfeln

  

Above all summits

it is calm.

In all the tree-tops

you feel

scarcely a breath;

The birds in the forest are silent,

just wait, soon

you will rest as well.

Allegedly the poem was translated into Japanese, then French, then German again and had become something like this

  Silence reigns in the pavilion of jade

Crows fly mutely

to snow-dusted cherry trees in moonlight

I sit

and cry

For some reason I always have to think of that when I think about jade.

(also apologies to the german language for that butcher job)

    If I start a thread on a topic that I'm interested in but no one else joins in, can I bump it?

That's not really how hubski works - stuff you post is either seen by people that follow you, or by people who follow your post's tags. Time isn't as much a factor as, say, reddit. So people who care will see it, no need to bump. People also do revive old discussions again when something interesting can be said.

I do hope that when you said you read some drama you were referring to galen's upcoming theatre performance ;P





steve  ·  2958 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    That's not really how hubski works - stuff you post is either seen by people that follow you, or by people who follow your post's tags. Time isn't as much a factor as, say, reddit. So people who care will see it, no need to bump. People also do revive old discussions again when something interesting can be said.

Yes. YES. This. A thousand times this.

We are not Reddit. Reddit is great. This is not it. Posts come and posts go. Sometimes I have posted stuff that has been life changing for me and it doesn't get a single share. And do you know what? Who cares.

Also - just yesterday I was reading through posts that were 1000+ days old.

Great content is timeless.

OftenBen  ·  2958 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Great content is timeless.

New sticker?

user-inactivated  ·  2958 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think so. I'll shout out to insomniasexx, hopefully she'll see this quote and keep it in mind for the next round of sticker design.

jadedog  ·  2959 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I love that picture! Thanks!

Thank you for that poem also. It's very beautiful.

I don't think I explained myself well in regards to bumping threads. I meant adding comments to them without replying to anyone, sort of blog style. I'm following a couple TV shows that I really like but maybe no one else will. Could I add commentary to the season's thread after a show even if no one else is participating? There might be people who are interested in reading it even if they don't want to comment.