Official Welcome to the Dragon Thread VI

Welcome Cora-R, June, phdbioguy, oreganosandwich, Avengele, Arun_Aravind, CarolGafford, idratherbeinflux, DugsBooks, Voloscire, Equestrienne, JuanCastello, Mario_Cervantes, wadenels, AR_bookbird, TBCrattie, Larzus and Judith_Moffitt!

(And welcome back -pilgrim-!) :o)

Ooops. Double post!

>1 clamairy: Count me not a fan of the new position and size of the "Leave Group" button. I expect to be popping in and out of the pub repeatedly, as my finger hits it when scrolling...

>3 -pilgrim-: I suspect you won't be alone!

>4 clamairy: I can confirm that. I apparently am no longer a group member. When I read the above posts I went to the Group Page to see what the Leave Button looked like and I could only see "Join" and "Watch". Checked my profile and Green Dragon is not on my list of groups. Expect my application to join in the post.

E.T.A.
I appear to be back in from the cold.

>5 pgmcc: My first departure occurred when the new format was introduced. No action required - as I described at the time. Since MrsLee reported the same result, I suspect it happened to anyone who was in the pub (i.e. had a thread open) at the time of the changeover.

Or maybe Rosie was in a huff with us all?

Welcome, pgmcc!

>7 MrAndrew: Thank you! The Group members seem really friendly. It’s like meeting old friends all over again.

I can confirm my theory.

Yesterday we had the pleasure of the old Groups page, so I was active in catching up reading here. Then differently suddenly we switched back to the "improved version" (the one stripped of all useful information) - and I am booted out of the GD again.

It's not a miskey of mine. If you are in the group page when they reset their system, you get booted out of the group.

Oh, well.

Hello everybody, I Am Pilgrim.

>9 -pilgrim-: Hmmmz. I haven't had that, but what I have had repeatedly over the last few days is glacially slow service and frequent complaints that Firefox "can't find the \Librarything\ server".

It's in a secret bunker.

I get the old format when I first arrive to the group, but as soon as I post in a thread, it switches to the new one. If I could just keep my mouth closed...

I'm not seeing it on my phone, but I'm pretty sure I saw an option to view groups in the old style on my desktop yesterday.

It's the 'n' in the link that is causing the issues.

>13 clamairy: I only use a phone, so I cannot comment on effects on a PC.

Welcome OneOddity, kayakerjames, KrakenDux, Avogt221, Xandian97, Xengab, harperlola27 and Momgoth.

Welcome andrewhewertson, AbogadoMad28, SGTCat, SnowyJen, androidmilk and drudmann.

Hi! I am "back" somewhat. I'm not a daily reader of threads, and I do not read as much as I used to, but if you are interested look for maggie1944, and you could find it either here in Green Dragon or over at 75 Books.

Welcome Onilyn, FairmanAndSeago, Everythingemporium, MonikaRobinson, Heights_Woodhouse, Biblio-Beth and CatRd!

Welcome Abrar_Chowdhury, emitte.lucem.creare, EnochianFabler, JensingWren, FlyFree, TANUSHYAM and JG_Carse!

Welcome c12marin, amanda4242, Echinopsis, ironjaw, chicoryblue, Sensory, TuxedoCat and nonil!

Welcome omeedhishyar, Katka_P, francoisvigneault, TaylanEvrenler, plitzdom, sadya, Krinsekatze, BigBookReader, sohaibology, Bibliophibifemme, Ms.Pike, PedroLave, tilmar, papergoblin, Nommie, Abiquail, valeyardx91, L.Bloom and rcarpent! :o)

Welcome BookWormWillow, Scyni, msemmag, Aurorae and ManWithAnAgenda.

Welcome andre_mir, theoriginalmayo, Nataliasha, kneecoaleye, yvelone and ududjrh!

Welcome SF_fan_mae, JC_Stevens, danjsmall, jessica_michelle and LangeCursey!

>24 clamairy: I think it's great that you welcome everyone by name. I'd like to see more of these new GDers show up in our conversational threads.

>25 Meredy: BookWormWillow joined the Facebook group, at least! It's a start.

Welcome JohnOak, HibahShabkhez, , yaoi4evr, azmichelle, Melvin_Bernard, stephrenology, dulcetdesert, JohnGorman, SugarThief, saskia17, ejmw, MarleneJensen, stephencz, bekaroo, rocklands, 101ReasonsWhy, allan.nail and glassWizard60 and Ashardin!


And welcome back (again) Meredy and -pilgrim-...

>27 clamairy: Thanks. I didn't mean to leave. I tried that one button ("Joined") to see what would happen, and it ditched me out of the group without warning. Bad design change, if you ask me.

Could have been worse. You could have ended up a siamese twin. You could have had all your books fused together. You could have become a member of a cult.

Don't press the "eject" button, please.

>28 Meredy: I agree.
>29 MrAndrew: Must. Press. The. Button. I speak from experience, only I pressed the red button in my new car.

>29 MrAndrew: >30 MrsLee: Thanks.

>27 clamairy: What was wrong with "Leave group"? It seems like an imperative verb of intended action would communicate results much more effectively than a past participle (without a subject) that expresses an action already performed. If I did want to leave the group, why would I click "Joined"? I hope the interface designer will reconsider.

>31 Meredy: If you are already a member, the button says, "Joined". Hover your pointer over the button and it changes to, "Leave Group". I assume the button says, "Join Group", for anyone that is not yet a member...?

I agree setting it up this way was a terrible interface design decision.

>32 ScoLgo: Yes, it's terrible, but I'm sure it was set up 15 years ago before anyone was using smart phones or tablets to navigate LT.

>31 Meredy: Perhaps you could send a note to one of the site admins.

>33 clamairy: Sure. How do I find them?

Welcome PingJockey, fannera, jackalope1, vestigialtrumpet, koolkatsrule, paulgtr234, gracetest, jpschlumbohm, petricor, GeneseeLibrary, annarcg and Molrande!

Welcome DryInn and cj42!

Welcome kevn57, sharolinarose, AtlantisLostAndCold, CGHogan, Arka_paul, Miller_library, BDAS, Kat_books, MoonMeadow, cvt2, nblmqst, abriv94, Eglis, Malkin71, teafancier and JaNevertheless!

Welcome Camilli, tomffmot, d_graham, Tanya.Para2, krosero, SamQTrust, yuretzius and JasonHubbard!

Welcome Viks100, narvik, strangenews, MikeKn, jnwelch, Sirah_C, zoo55, ZetaRiemann, benChroma, klocke76 and nightnoise!

Welcome Paperwitchs, CheilaPB, scrubbjay, kakiphony, jadeeclipse, Catholic47, R-Me and SkyeDragon!

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Welcome randjhouck, ThadeusOfNazereth, Parul_Jambhulkar, KelleyPhelan, SpaceSpy44, snottlebocket, Enoch52 and dragongirl3!

Welcome Luna19, lancechj, grnium, Volt875 and Sethalak!

Welcome FrankyK1, ralfy, BGHilton, jonatas.abreu, mirryi, Gracie_Freeman, sbcoyle07, bmonson, SkiaEsh and Loki504!

Welcome Frank-Walters-Clark, redlocke, spicycam02, MF_Aidoudi, ArtemisLiCa, Abel_., Haara, litanorman, Halestormer78, mostly.sunny, dirtfarmer, oz_en_france, AKBWrites, LeFeverDan, Pumkinpie and bales1997!

Welcome nobrien33, skittles, robfrench, leoslittlebooklife, Metalwitch, alichan459, .R.Todd, rbee, ajungherr, Julie-A-Hartley, rww, VIllageLane, ookla_the_mok, Dylan_Rawles, Jasmine.Rinaldi, isjenn, Dante53212, markBla, Ddwdue2, Noel_G, r.l.buck, Bige13, beleton, BESIP_Ceiba, reedsreads, Ralle, TheNinny, WriterNancy, cachafaz, WvamntnsH, Ishtar42, Parsing, librarianlion, Vicusnigri, yamblaza, monibookishnerd, markg436, liz4444, Lexicon15, leontines, probabilistic, Murphy621 and MGBookman!

Lots of new arrivals! Welcome!

>48 Sakerfalcon: I guess I hadn't done this for a stretch. It's a lot harder to collect the names when you wait.

You could just make them up.

Welcome filloxie18, sturmanddrang, rebbibop, john123456, nodoze_1963, umslopogaas, libraryschmibray, toomanycats, uberschench, bleurgh, radicalprion, nearly_comatose, adolphlungren, skeggs, dunerats, mercimercy, bookabun !

>50 MrAndrew: There’s a couple in there that I might use if I ever need to create another account.

>51 haydninvienna: I'm waiting for ookla_the_mok to post!

>50 MrAndrew: Might be interesting to see if any of us noticed something fishy.

>49 clamairy: As an admin now of a much, much smaller and quieter group, I feel your pain. I find it depressing to keep welcoming folks who never seen to exist in the talk threads. Hello? Is anyone really there? :)

>54 MrsLee: I believe a very small percentage lurk, but the majority join and then never come back. It's very sad.

I prefer to think that it's an exclusive club. Or that i'm scaring people away. It's important to have a belief system that reinforces your sense of worth.

>56 MrAndrew: You might be onto something... (The exclusivity, not the scary part.)

There's probably a way for Tim & Co to see which GD members are on line but not posting. Maybe still wouldn't know which of the groups they were looking at though. I remember that a while ago I worked out that basically the whole of the posting activity in the GD was from about 30 people. I think pretty well all of them except Bookmarque and majkia have appeared in this thread.

>58 haydninvienna: We do have a few that come and go... and then come back again. I'm hoping a few more drift back in when they retire.

I plan on posting a lot more after i pass away.

>58 haydninvienna: i read that as "I think pretty well of all of them except Bookmarque and majkia ", which seemed quite out of character.

>60 MrAndrew: Hey! I'm happy with both reading

ETA SORRY ALL I MUST HAVE BEEN HALF ASLEEP WHEN I POSTED THIS. I REALLY DIDN'T, DIDN'T, DIDN'T INTEND TO DISS BOOKMARQUE AND MAJKIA.

I agree with >60 MrAndrew: : his alternative reading would indeed have been out of character.

>60 MrAndrew: Zombie posts. That would be new... I think.

>61 haydninvienna: Just to make it abundantly clear: I think the world of all Dragoneers, specifically including Bookmarque and Majkia. Once again, apologies for my carelessness in posting a smart-arse reply when I should have taken a few more seconds to think.

Welcome MonkMan, efrischhertz, thegreggarrison, CurrerBell, vwinsloe, KDW1993, Steerpike07, ludmillalotaria, karspeak, Tambien, kaida46, RandyMorgan, Keyang, and afairman75!

(If I have screwed up and welcomed you twice, forgive me.)

Twice welcome!

>65 MrAndrew: It's kind of like second breakfast.

Welcome Liesl., Jason--Gray, sisyphus_happy, TabithaLynch, Thenorthneverforgets, buckyball, gbh2 and Retrogamer1982!

Welcome LuaraJKeys, VivianDennis, tlclaw06, alluse, SueHerbine, and Shalini_Soni.

Welcome Nervkill22, NateMKinsey, Karizza, Black-cat5, luduslykos and ChrisG1.

>69 pgmcc: I think it's 'luduslykos.'

The Green Dragon welcomes new members:
InANookWithABook and thelorelei.

Also puddinpubby, shercker and K_Dymaxion.

The Green Dragon welcomes new group members:
danketterman_books, laurellox and carasea.

The Green Dragon welcomes, risansaz and DDtheV.

>55 clamairy: I'll drop a line here every now and then.

This group name intrigued me.

I kicked off writing the plot outline of a fantasy dragon novella collaboratively, and we exchanged a lot of ideas how to do it remotely.

But it never gained traction during the good writing months of covid, and now we've gone back to semi-normal lives after lockdown ended together with Work-from-home, so it's just the germ of a dormant idea.

i'm going to assume that's a novella written by a fantasy dragon.

The Green Dragon welcomed logicalwillow.

The Green Dragon welcomes KelsiFinnan.

Welcome Nick-Myra, Onceaweekgogreek, MissBrangwen, sheldonnylander and FrinoBaggins.

Thank you :-)

Hi, I am dipping in again as I have more time to think about books. Good to see The Green Dragon lives!

>81 maggie1944:
Great to see you back. I hope all is well with you and that we will see plenty of posts from you about what you are reading…and any other newsworthy events.

>81 maggie1944: Welcome back... again!

Welcome ruby_x1 and bb910.

>81 maggie1944: It's great to see you again!

Welcome toria86, Paul_AK, celticsouthern, Echinopsis and deniselange!

Welcome CatherineMilos, LyonsPen, @CarilleBooks and laylahz!

Welcome NevaBask, Daniel.Merchant, PlatinumWarlock, EdwardMcKeown, and ohnomomo!

>87 clamairy: Thank you! Happy to be here!

Welcome Devyrie, MDGentleReader, lcl999, Magus_Manders, osunale, amaliesofie and edwardky2!

As clamairy says, do come in and make yourselves at home. Most everyone here is friendly and willing to chat. (Any ill-mannered trolls have been turned to stone...)

She turned me into a newt!

>91 MrAndrew: A very cute newt though! I don't notice it slowed down your sas much. ;)

>91 MrAndrew: A newt?

>93 Karlstar: Back in the day, when trolls would sneak into the pub and cause havoc (which I don't remember MrAndrew actually doing), we would respond only with pictures of newts until they tired of us and moved on.

Welcome HilaryJS, Avida_Lectrix, kathrynsmall, kungpow9960 and kdegruyl!

>94 MrsLee: It was surprisingly effective! And we did have a troll problem for a while. I'd like to say people have matured, but I think they just found more fertile ground on sites like Twitter and Reddit.

Welcome lsnow11, Lighttower and n0nextant.

>97 pgmcc: Thank you! Happy to be here! ^_^
I began reading again, and started with Dragons of Autumn Twilight. I am reading it for the third time, this time in German. I don't remember anything, I haven't read the series for a very-very long time, it has been fun so far.

>98 Lighttower:
It is great to have you on board.

I love re-reading something I haven't read for a long time. It feels like I am reading it for the first time and I get so much more from the book on the second reading. I also love finding parts of the book that I do remember and on re-read I realise I have totally mis-remembered the scene. :-)

I'm teasing my way back into L.T. and hope to be more regular. Life is taken up by all sorts of useless behavior, like watching too much TV. But I did add a book here today, and I recommend it to any who like to read well written, well researched, history books. Title is: The Nazi Conspiracy and the authors are Brad Meltzer, and Josh Mensch.

>100 maggie1944: Good to see you. Hope you stick around.

Welcome alexmsalazar1, mikeh123, Anavera02, drmamm, and Al-G!

And welcome back BookstoogeLT and maggie1944.

Welcome Sheiladane0217, hajie, TheSundayNews, franbassi, JacksonFoley and MandAlib!

Welcome DeadTrees91, morgoth58 and remikit!

Welcome PMcGaffin, Edward_G_Reeves, Ingrid_Guthrie and stuartperegrine!

Welcome SaraHammemi, adeleon93, TasDave, elabo504, radiatedskull, GianninaRua, elevensesandbooks and GeekzTour!

Welcome nnlsoccer, ADumbNut and therambosisters.

Welcome aramilf, BenJoseph79, JanPospisilCZ, dunfern, @crustick, Evtisam, helianthus373 and DoubleJey!

Welcome KellShaw, Snapped_Fingers9, florenceslibrary and Brubow!

Newcomers, welcome all!

>94 MrsLee: What a great response! I guess that was before my time (2011). Why newts?

>110 Meredy: I believe it was the whim of one of our early members, possibly littlegeek, but it could have been Morphy or another. I think they liked newt photos? I know everyone else did. Then we had a very nice member join whose name was DrNewt, or was it MrNewt? Anyway, the practice fell by the wayside even though he liked it. Mostly due to the better troll protections that LT came up with.

Welcome lunar_melons, red_guy, kyle555, ClaRein and Alexandra_book_life!!!

Welcome pojothepanda, cheree_blossoms, SaintCeadda, John_Thorne and Ahsoka221!

Welcome russ, libbysjournal, auleliam, PapaPoncho, entmoot11, rv1988 and gavosb!

>113 clamairy: and 114 Welcome all. Plunge in and share with us your current reading, about your weekend plans, and the day-to-day things you wrestle with!

Welcome MrAppendixN, charlenemartel, Gabi_Oliveira, jsin01, Bandicooty and D.Harrigon!

Oooh, some time in the last month or so we passed the 4,250 member milestone!

>117 clamairy:
Yay!

>117 clamairy: Woohoo!

Welcome everyone!

Welcome ZephyrusBlue, leamos, lozisimmortal and trebling9!

Welcome GSSex-noob, Euuxecalii, TorMented, Hammy_JLK, -Bones, John_the_Other_One and DungeonBibliophile.

Welcome ker0, Dommy2, tjm568, snydeen, just_jeepin, livbaerga and maryellencg!

Welcome deborahee, Kwitty.G0re, CrazyGayUncle, SkyKatchr and Williamshm!

Welcome biblioknitter, reader98919958, cfa413, VerixSilvercrow, JebSmith, aadyer, TwoBridgesPub. and AnabarRaven!

Welcome sophiesapphire, GirlBlogZone, The_James, DylanTB, Kawelton and tokyoshmo!

And welcome back MrsLee, who's leaving was hopefully caused by a misplaced thumb!

>125 clamairy: I get so frustrated when I misplace one of my thumbs.

>126 ScoLgo:
…as opposed to?

>127 pgmcc: One of my fingers, of course! ;)

>126 ScoLgo: and >127 pgmcc: That's why Mom always told you to make sure that they were properly fastened on before you left the house! Were you not paying attention?

>126 ScoLgo: LOL 😂

>125 clamairy: I wondered if I would get caught! Dumb thumb.

>126 ScoLgo: - >129 jillmwo: Sillies. My hands are so shaky these days I'm afraid I'm going to cut my thumb off chopping vegetables. Let's just say I don't try to chop fast anymore.

I do wish it were just a leeeeetle harder to unjoin a group though. Almost didn't realize that is what had happened, and what would I do without you all?