Please pardon me if this is not the proper place to post this.
Daryl & Daryl,
A “What I Learned Summary”. What an outstanding idea.
If there was a way to have an ongoing, updated “What I Learned Summary” as the first page of Stickies for the top 25 or 50 topics of greatest general interest with the explanatory posts beneath, that would be one heck of a powerful summary knowledge base. Its existence might be an additional inducement for new-bees to join as unlimited members.
I actually read thru probably 50% of all posts in the MYOG section over the last year, first because I was very ill and home bound but also because it was so darn interesting and I was trying to solve a particular puzzle. Thank you all and those that have gone before for helping me keep my sanity.
I found that the keys to my particular puzzle of making a kind of ‘best of the best of class features external pack frame’: the lightest external pack frame with the best necessary attributes available, with sufficient strength for the occasional large resupply and water runs, with the least complicated fabricating process and at a reasonable (and certainly not the cheapest) price was spread all over in very small and sometimes confusing bits and pieces and unfortunately some of the most important information is referred to but is no longer accessible. Sadly I believe that some of the best contributors in these subject areas are no longer with us.
Hopefully someone here can figure out a procedure to make this work. Maybe the top page Summary would consist of a number of alternatives with member voting results ranking the alternatives..
Due to work and health issues I have not been much help here over the years other than being an unlimited member for some time. Compared to most here, I only have grade school knowledge based upon earning my Eagle Scout Badge and completing the BSA boundary waters high adventure trek as a Scout and attaining the rank of SSG in the Army. In those previous lives, almost 50 years ago, 60 pounds was considered lite. So I have little useful information to add. I understand that in the past there possibly were some storage capacity issues here. I do have an AWS account(s) and find that the storage costs there are darn cheap with proper management and may or may not be compatible with the current BPL forum IT structure. I am about to install two Western Digital Gold 2 TB Enterprise Grade Hard Drives in my hobby (as opposed to work ) PC and they are suppose to be the most reliable on the market and cost about $125 each. (I think that I heard that the entire library of Congress was only 3 TB?)
Not being worth much in the useful information to contribute area, I would be happy to donate $125 to support the effort if storage capacity is a deal breaker.
Can anyone see a cost effective way to produce some useful summary knowledge base?
Hawk
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