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Roy Schestowitz

TUX Machines has become an integral part of our life right here in this humble home. It's a rewarding experience but also a demanding experience. I personally write my articles in the lounge (which is no 'press room') and it requires many hours of digging and researching news. In Tux Machines, unlike in Techrights for example, it's mostly about finding news of high relevance and importance, and finding them fast! Timing counts. We don't want readers to waste their time wading/going through irrelevant, unimportant and out-of-date reports.

24/7 coverage of news is easy for us. Rianne works mostly at daytime, whereas I usually work at nights (customers are mostly government/public sector and they require 24/7 coverage). When Rianne is working I take over the responsibilities at Tux Machines and vice versa. We swap responsibilities like this when it comes to housework as well; we work out together when we are out of the house (also separately in terms of gym sections, e.g. cardiovascular/weights). This week we go to yoga classes as much as 5 times, but we usually just to Town for other facilities like pool, table tennis, sauna (men and women separately), gym, etc. This is our main escape from Tux Machines; given Wi-Fi (scarce coverage but definitely existent in Manchester City Centre), we sometimes update Tux Machines while out of the house as well.

The site forums are now open for participation and every registered member can add blog posts and push them to the front page (now that we've got the spam epidemic under control). Please do consider participating. This week, as in previous weeks, we are seeing a ~10% growth in traffic (week-to-week), perhaps owing to the slight redesign, loading speeds (Varnish cache), and very frequent updates. We check for news once in a few hours in order to keep abreast of breaking events.

Running Tux Machines will hopefully become more of a community effort over time. Anyone who is logged in can now submit stories. Unless this gets abused by spammers, we will keep it that way.

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The Share/Save button

I wish you would considering moving that Share/Save button from under the Read More Links. Dang thing keeps popping up when I move my cursor over to Read More.

The button

Someone else reported a similar issue, whereupon we made the button much smaller. Let's see if we can move it into just pertinent nodes.

Done

The buttons were removed from the front page.

Dr. Roy Running Tux Machines Now?

Where the h3ll have I been lately that I missed this important transformation at one of my favorite sites?

I hope all is well with Susan L. I've been a fan of Tux Machines a lot longer than I've been registered here. I finally got around to registering a few years ago so I could reply to comments others had made to my Nocturnal Slacker v1.0 articles that Susan had linked to here.

Having followed your own site (Techrights), Dr. Roy, for quite some time, I'm confident that you'll do us all proud here at Tux Machines.

Very COOL! Smile

Regards,

V. T. Eric Layton (AKA Nocturnal Slacker, vtel57... and other names Wink )
Tampa, Florida, USA
http://vtel57.com

Thanks

Thanks for the kind words. I had linked to Nocturnal Slacker dozens of times in the past. I usually picked up the links from Susan.

Indeed, and Thanks!

I always received tons of traffic whenever you or Susan linked to one of my posts. One of these days, I will kick start my article writing back into motion on Nocturnal Slacker v1.0.

Stay tuned... Smile

Excellent

We'll keep an eye open for it.

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