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On 11/21/18 11:07 AM, fleex@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The short answer is: all the new kids are on facebook, whatsapp, instagram etc.
The problem: those are closed networks which can not be found by search engines.
Mailing lists will also have problems attracting new users as its not intuitive, not easy to share media, connect in groups etc.
I wrote a small piece about these issues when I launched www.highvoltageforum.net to give a new alternative to older sites. You can read it here: https://highvoltageforum.net/index.php?topic=73.0
And here it is, preserved for eternity - I agree - I think Chip has the
entire TCML periodically engraved on stone tablets and preserved by the
long now foundation.
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I kindly ask you all, that you carefully consider and think about all
the websites you have used to learn about electronics, all the forums
you have trawled through for information and the vast amount of videos
on youtube that has helped you understand and solve a problem.
This information only exists because there are people wanting to let the
information live on, from user to user, open platforms like personal
websites and forums are indexed and made searchable by almost any search
engine on the internet. Imagine if all you ever found on google was
closed facebook profiles and no information.
This is a circle of information sharing that has been broken, the eco
system of knowledge sharing is dying with social media.
Only uploading pictures of your experiment with a short sentence or
"science!" is destroying the electronics hobby, if you value what you
have learned on the internet, then give it back to the internet, make
your own website or, less time consuming, write a good long thread on a
forum about the technical issues you had and how it was solved.
Do not worry about if you think that your english is not good enough, do
not fear that you make yourself look inexperienced, so would I in many
fields of science and there is no way that I master every aspect of
electronics. Ask, Learn and Help each other!
There is a generation gap right now, 20 years ago everyone shared their
knowledge on mailing lists or had a html website, next leap came with
the blogs where focus could be moved to creating content and not
maintaining code, but with social media, all control, history and
indexing is gone. There is no information left for the future
generations, because it is all posted on closed social media groups.
Content is mixed, unorganized and for the most lost for the user after a
couple of weeks, way down the stream.
Fight the loss of knowledge! Make a website or post on a forum! Only use
social media to link to your website/forum post. This is the only way
for the information to live on.
I hope you will share this call to arms with like minded electronics
interested people.
But it did not really change anything, there is still some amazing coil builders that just stays in the facebook groups and like to just post random pictures, videos and questions instead of having a long thread with all information in one place. All they ever wrote is lost forever for anyone not in that group.
Those facebook groups are much more active than here, but it is also a general trend of young engineers today are not nescasarily interested in electronics as a hobby, it has just become a work.
Kind regards
Mads Barnkob
Administrator of www.highvoltageforum.net
Author of www.kaizerpowerelectronics.dk
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