On the former MFIF forums
The Lounge was reserved for
all non-troubleshooting topics and that is the general assumption with The Lounge here. That would include speculation about future software releases, venting about various hardware and/or software manufacturers and their policies, as well as more general topics of interest to persons in the Macintosh community. The MFIF forums had the MacFixit home page with its Late Breakers to deal with announcements and news items but that is labor intensive and FTM does not have the staff to sustain that kind of effort. So it is inevitable some non-troubleshooting hardware and software threads will end up here.
It is also inevitable some posts will end up in the wrong forum and the moderators of this forum will move an incorrect post from here to the correct forum as they are noted. If you see a post you believe belongs in a troubleshooting forum, click on the Notify link and let them know. We cannot be everywhere all the time. There will always be posts where the correct location is equivocal and then it boils down to a judgement call.
This is the place for thread such as the salute to Jon's anniversary or the long running
Ad astra: another passing as well as discussion of non-troubleshooting hardware and software topics such as "Those so and so's at Adobe" or "What happened to WD's quality control?". Personally I think I would have named this forum The Watercooler, The Pub, or maybe The Joint Across the Street. It is a place to talk about anything of interest to the community -- except work (
ie. troubleshooting problems) sex, religion, or politics. Those last three are too inflammatory and could create unnecessary distention and conflict within our community.
Notice too we have yet to arrive at a good description of
The Lounge.
