Discourse is official + return of internet
Added 2020-03-04 23:25:38 +0000 UTCDear Patrons,
I have updated the pledge tiers, page description and welcome message with details of the Discourse forum and some instructions around that.
Please note, it is Discourse (a message board), not Discord (chat). Please see the screenshot for reference.
The Teaching Tech Discourse forum can be found here: teachingtech.discourse.group
$1+ Supporters have access to the Show and Tell category only. (This is a very recent change to help replace the community tab and add value).
$5+ Members have access to everything else, including Technical Help. This is not paid technical support but we'll do our best to assist.
$10+ Partners will also see a category dedicated to organising video hangouts.
When you visit the forum you can click sign up with Patreon, and after authorisation it will prompt you to finalise your Discourse account. Please ensure the email address you use matches the one you use on Patreon, and that you haven't selected a 'custom pledge'. If you are still having problems with access, please message me on Patreon.
Feel free to message me directly to say hi, but please no technical support questions. You can probably imagine I get a lot of these between Patreon, email and YouTube comments, so posting in the appropriate section of Discourse forum will allow me and the community to assist you in an efficient way and still leave me enough time and energy to get on with creating the best content I can on YouTube.
I hope everyone can understand the need for me to restructure as everything continues to grow. Already the forum is so much easier for me to manage and there is a lot more interaction between members than before. In essence, it feels a lot more like a community.
In other news, it's been roughly three weeks since I had proper internet. The light is at the end of the tunnel! On Friday a technician should be coming to remake the severed line from our house to the street, and on Tuesday our NBN installation is booked. I'm hoping to go from a download speed of 3 Mbits on a good day to something over 40. I'm not going to know myself. This means I can do some live streams too which is pretty exciting. I have a couple of cool projects in mind for that.
Next video out is testing of the Wham Bam vs Creality pop up print enclosures.
Michael
Comments
You got me. Wishful reading on my part. It's only 6 months late, what's another two weeks?
Teaching Tech
2020-03-11 08:43:28 +0000 UTCSo they’ve given you the date of March 24. Are you sure about the year? 😂
David Rolling
2020-03-10 22:11:32 +0000 UTCAnd apparently the appointment is in two weeks time, not yesterday.
Teaching Tech
2020-03-10 20:28:24 +0000 UTCHi Brian, this is a perfect thing to go over on the technical help section of discourse.
Teaching Tech
2020-03-08 20:29:54 +0000 UTCregular internet was reconnected, NBN appointment is Tuesday. Current speeds are 3 Mbit down and 0.9 Mbit up. Hoping for a ten fold increase at least.
Teaching Tech
2020-03-08 20:28:47 +0000 UTCMichael - Friday has come and gone. We’ve been holding our breath. Success with NBN?
David Rolling
2020-03-07 22:42:49 +0000 UTCIsn't discourse a written conversation or discussion and discord a strong disagreement? So wouldn't discourse be written chat - even though every chat can turn into discord but is not so by itself. But then English is not my first language. Glad to be able to post and will aspire to prevent discourse turning to discord even though I am a strong believer in the process of thesis + antithesis resolves in synthesis but then this above statement might exceed the mission of a board of this kind.
Martin Pirringer Old Dude with a Pulse
2020-03-06 17:13:28 +0000 UTCI recently bought an Ender5 Plus it comes with a BL Touch and the touch stopped working when I put the new silent board can’t seem to get it working again . It worked fine until I put the board in , I was also wondering is there a way to remove the touch and add a Z stop switch. I would appreciate any help . Thanks and good job I have learned quite a bit from you unfortunately not the BL touch. Thanks Bo Partell.
Brian Partell
2020-03-06 01:51:09 +0000 UTCI feel for you, over here we have a connection of 500mbit. Hopefully your new connection will be stable and you very much enjoy it!
Toby @ 3D Geeks App
2020-03-05 07:15:32 +0000 UTCGotta say, the discourse server is super nice. Very much enjoying it!
Brandon Wolfe
2020-03-04 23:36:36 +0000 UTCI'll keep you in my prayers
Paul Douglas
2020-03-04 23:35:30 +0000 UTCYou're making me jealous but the relative improvement for me is going to be incredible. Currently takes 4-5 hours to upload each video overnight with fingers and toes crossed.
Teaching Tech
2020-03-04 23:33:37 +0000 UTCKeep up the good work Michael. Man when my internet is at 40Mb I get upset. Notmal speeds are for our Comcast Business hookup is 150Mb and top speeds 170Mb. I sure hope they hook you up!!!
Paul Douglas
2020-03-04 23:29:31 +0000 UTC
