Wayne wrote:
I'm just pondering the bigger picture of how to best move forward to embrace the most people without angering the few zealot diehards in our midst.
"The good of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one".
Do what you need to do, to take care of you (you, being Amiga.org). Everything else (and everyone else), is secondary.
I'm probably going to get slammed here, but who gives a sh!t about the people who are *STILL* using their Amigas for the internet, on antiquated browsers? Fact of the matter is, the internet left the Amiga (sans MorphOS and OS4) behind in the dust and b!tching and whining about it isn't going to solve anything. What browsers are out there for 68K are too slow and undeveloped, so it's not their fault they don't have adequate, browsing software.
In reality, it is. They're using antiquated hardware that just isn't suited for daily web browsing anymore. Sure, there are sites that keep to the old formats, but this is *YOUR* site and *YOU* warrant and updating of it. Yes, the donations come in to support the site. Yes, there's lots of genuine and friendly people on here, but times are changing and the first sign of ignorance is refusal to change.
I can understand how people want to use their Amigas to browse and do daily activities. I wish I had a motherboard formerly known as an "Amiga One" or a Pegasos, but I don't. They're expensive. PCs, are not. The "Zealots", as you called them, can complain all they want about not being able to browse on their Amigas, but that's their own fault. They can't use the excuse of not being able to afford a PC, 'cos netbooks are dirt cheap. They don't want to get one, 'cos they don't want to use Windoze or Linux or MacOS, who are all seen as "the enemy" (one of the reasons I don't visit other Amiga sites). :roll: These people who are willing to shell out 300$ to buy some rare, archaic device for their equally archaic machine, but refuse to spend 200$ for a tiny netbook for the purpose of browsing shouldn't be a part of the equation, sorry to say.
Fact of the matter is, it's your site. You should do with it, as you please.
BTW, how about mobile.amiga.org? ;-) *snort*
