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Subject: Re: [motm] Re: Is MOTM/5U dead???

From: Paul Bower <paul@...>
Date: 2017-01-08

I don’t go near Facebook (long story), but I probably spend too much time at Muff’s (mainly the 5U forum)

As an add on to Adam’s comment, I talked to the guys at Thonk last year about supplying PCB only options for some of their DIY offerings (it seems silly to me to buy a kit or panel kit and throw half of it in the bin) - they said it wasn’t worth it, because 5U for them is around 1% of their market

There is however a lot of stuff out there that’s 5U compatible so long as panels aren’t an issue
I feel a list coming on, as I’ve put a lot of DIY modules together in the last 18 months

Cheers
Paul

(Sunny Sheffield)


On 7 Jan 2017, at 20:18, Aaron Day day.aaron@... [motm] <motm-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


On 07 Jan 2017, at 17:58, ivancu@... [motm] <motm-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Secondly, I think a lot of the MOTM discussion has gone to Facebook as well as Muffwiggler.


How has this worked out for everyone?

In its prime this list had perhaps 100 active members (I may be wrong but that is what it felt like). There was a ∗very∗ high s/n ratio in the communication. Folks like J. Larry Hendry and Scott Juskew (and JH and JLR etc.) all kicked some serious butt with their contributions. It felt cozy.

I have a FB account I’ve used to sell gear with and I use to talk to Kent Spong and Larry Church. Besides that, its been left fallow. I just don’t have the discipline to not look (to see what new PCB etc./thing I could buy) so, I don’t use it. I guess I am missing out. Then again, the overconnection that the FB walled-garden promotes feels like death by a million mouse-clicks.

My question to the group:

Has the trade off of a bigger market for buy and sell along with group-buys etc. on MW been an improvement on the smaller group? A(n) d/evolution? 

Greetings from snowy Berlin,

Aaron




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