Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I want to tell you guys about a project I've been working on.
Around a year or so ago I put together a small private chat server and got some people from this board on there. It had about 40 people active at one point but eventually activity died down so I had to shut it down. But I thought it had potential so I went back and overhauled the front end and decided to make a whole web based section that functions like a social media site.
Think of it like a niche community site, kinda like here, but the key difference is being user-oriented rather than content-oriented. Meaning user profiles, private messaging, and group functions. I find that here it can be difficult to have deep style discussions in the comments section just because we are constantly jumping from thread to thread. Great articles get buried sometimes because things happen so fast. All this makes it difficult to form focus groups that can actually get things done on a local level like we preach all the time.
I know there's already a ton of social media platforms, but this is not intended to compete with the major players by having millions of users just shitposting all day. I would prefer a smaller user base that is active and wants to actually assemble with like minded people to help each other and address local issues, share knowledge, teach classes, etc. For this reason I decided to have a membership paywall. That should keep out the trolls and shills and it also means it can be sustainable.
So it's almost ready to launch, but I need some help with things like bug testing, posting content, graphics, logo, marketing, and I'm also planning on doing a regular newsletter, affiliate program, and a whole bunch of other ideas and I need some help because it's a whole lot to manage and I've never really done this before. I want to get a gauge of interest here and feedback so if anyone wants to help out or just check it out here is a telegram group you can join where I can provide more details:
https://t.me/+_yNlIILR1TY4MDU5
Thanks, hope to see you there!
Who is Jesus Christ to you?
Jesus Christ is the Word Incarnate, the Son of God, the Savior of the world. NOBODY comes to the Father, except through Him.
Praise the Lord. Thank you Jesus. We love u
Hey, I remember you asked me this last time! My answer is still the same: Jesus is King.
I do need to work on our relationship. I haven't been around much lately, but there is no doubt in my heart that He died for all of us. I was atheist/agnostic most of my life until I saw the light several years ago.
When I see passion it's usually my first question to kinda guage where the person's passion and drive is coming from. Can't really work with those that aren't doing all this for Gods glory. I would love to help you and check out the app when u launch it. There is actually a lot I would wanna talk about, if you would ever be willing I would love to voice chat however your comfortable with. if not maybe we can take this private message so I can bounce some things off u. I really love what your doing. Keep It up
I would love to chat. I actually already have the private server set up with voice/video capability, just not the membership gateway. That's why I set up the telegram group as a quick and dirty meeting room but if you want to get on my server directly I can set it up.
Be warned: using the Telegram app is like unlocking your phone and then handing it to a CCP agent.
If people insist on using that honeypot then they should only access it through browser with VPN. Even then, don't be surprised if the CCP find a way to exploit.
We carry around tracking devices in our pockets all day long. Our TVs have cameras and microphones on them, in addition to our cell phones. They don’t need telegram to gather information from us. If this is the case with telegram, it may make it a little easier, but really seriously… We have no privacy. Zero! None!
Certain bad actors can surely exploit our phones to that extent, regardless of any precautions we take. But they would need to take special action and waste resources to do so.
Apps like Telegram make it effortless for the CCP / cabal to fully exploit our phones. If you knew burglars were in your neighborhood, would you leave all your doors and windows open? Sure, there is a small chance they would just break in even with them locked...but if you make if effortless for them then you can count on being targeted.
I'm not sure how accurate this is, but I get where you're coming from. I'm only using it here for setting up a temp "lobby" area because the main site isn't finished yet, but the whole point of this project is to have another communication medium that doesn't use compromised platforms.