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by Yuli Ban
Tue May 18, 2021 10:54 am
Forum: The History Forum
Topic: Historical Pictures/Videos/News
Replies: 196
Views: 221315

Historical Pictures/Videos/News

Relaunch of the old thread, starting with the picture that started it all: View from the Window at Le Gras (1826) , the oldest surviving photograph https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras_colorized_2020.png/1280px-View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras_colo...
by Yuli Ban
Tue May 18, 2021 10:51 am
Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
Topic: Scary, Strange, and Unusual Media
Replies: 518
Views: 407134

Scary, Strange, and Unusual Media

Relaunch of the old Post Creepy Pics thread!
by Yuli Ban
Tue May 18, 2021 10:49 am
Forum: Images, Podcasts & Videos
Topic: Charts, Graphs, and Statistics of the Future
Replies: 51
Views: 103600

Charts, Graphs, and Statistics of the Future

Relaunch of the old thread
Image

Look at that beautiful curve!
by Yuli Ban
Tue May 18, 2021 10:34 am
Forum: AI & Robotics
Topic: China's fully autonomous Yangshan Port
Replies: 0
Views: 10961

China's fully autonomous Yangshan Port

Kicking it very old school with a single-subject post, in a manner similar to the days of the very first FTL forum and the earliest days of the last one before we started consolidating posts into megathreads. Just to set the tone for how different things are currently. https://i.imgur.com/a2ZoM85.mp...
by Yuli Ban
Mon May 17, 2021 8:17 pm
Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
Topic: Old Forum Archive
Replies: 12
Views: 51811

Re: Old Forum Archive

Jakob wrote: Mon May 17, 2021 1:29 am The zipped archive is at https://gitlab.com/jcoles/ftl
I must have unzipped it wrong because only the front page is in html; all the other files just read as "file"
by Yuli Ban
Mon May 17, 2021 9:25 am
Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
Topic: Personal chat thread
Replies: 343
Views: 326761

Re: Personal chat thread

As someone who never even used the dark theme post-2015, the only issue with this forum I have is that there's no content... yet. And heck, if someone does become a hero and host the archive somewhere online, we could have a direct link to it on this forum. I do have a question as to if gifvs and mp...
by Yuli Ban
Mon May 17, 2021 8:12 am
Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
Topic: Old Forum Archive
Replies: 12
Views: 51811

Re: Old Forum Archive

erowind wrote: Mon May 17, 2021 6:19 am I'm planning on migrating threads overtime. I imagine others will do the same.
That's my plan from the start.
I suppose my main wish now is for someone to host the archive online.
by Yuli Ban
Mon May 17, 2021 2:23 am
Forum: Feedback & Suggestions
Topic: Forum style - light or dark?
Replies: 8
Views: 42864

Re: Forum style - light or dark?

I prefer the old forum's method of letting you choose. I forget exactly when, but I shifted from dark to light sometime in the middle of last decade and can't really jive with the dark background anymore. It's POSSIBLE that's only because it was more difficult to make out the difference between &quo...
by Yuli Ban
Mon May 17, 2021 1:20 am
Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
Topic: Old Forum Archive
Replies: 12
Views: 51811

Old Forum Archive

Here's the thread to share the archive of the previous forum. I don't currently have said archive, but I'll sticky it if someone shares it.

The idea behind keeping the archive easy to access is so that we can keep a consistency between the old and new forum
by Yuli Ban
Sun May 16, 2021 5:48 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hello there, I just discovered the Timeline!
Replies: 5
Views: 12340

Hello there, I just discovered the Timeline!

Yeah so I was browsing Google today and looked up "2050 technology" and this website was one of the results so I decided to check it out. Seems very interesting; I might stick around.