Thread: Thinking about growing the S.C. Network...

X-focus or Xposure hmmm you should run a competition to choose the name!

Please, no use of the word "togs"!! I see Eric Kim's face every time I see or hear the word "togs"!!! Not that I have anything against Eric!

X-posure sounds good!

But I'm wondering if the usage of the letter X without reference to Fuji will lack sufficient recognition. Or perhaps too much of a connection to XXX genre.

I also like X talk. X also being a symbol for the word cross.

Originally Posted by Armanius

I like this idea! One account gets you into the entire SC network!

I don't think it's possible to do, and I'm afraid of wrecking all the databases.

Originally Posted by Luke

That looks pretty good, but black and white seems an obvious choice (with perhaps some silver), but it's your site.

More like this?

Originally Posted by Armanius

X-posure sounds good!

Originally Posted by Luke

I also like X talk. X also being a symbol for the word cross.

Almost all the other X _____ combos are either taken or are available for a higher price than I can afford. Also, hyphens are generally not desirable for domain names.

that looks aces!

Agreed. All-black logo looks much better!


As for the all image forum, it sounds like a good idea. I'd love to see more discussion on processing images (with a step by step instruction). Hopefully, image processing discussion would be allowed in the all image forum.

I like it.

Originally Posted by Amin Sabet

As long as people don't think it means "ex photographers" .

Maybe something like this....

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The image forum sounds good to me. I think I tend to post my best pictures at RFF.com, using just the gallery for the most part, posting pictures as photos rather than as examples of what this or that piece of gear can do. But I do love my participation here and at mu-43.com. I imagine such an image only forum would need to be based on externally hosted pictures to cut bandwidth costs.

I would certainly make every attempt to support an image type forum. I stopped visiting m4/3 because of the number of gear related posts versus image posts although the fact that now you are able to filter out the image posts from other discussions is a big improvement and has seen me dipping my toes back into that forum. I does surprise me that so many people are either changing their equipment regularly, or at least thinking about doing so and seem happy to spend an inordinate amount of time talking about it, or speculating about it, personally it's of little interest to me. However it seems to generate a good deal of interest amongst a vocal band of people on the site which gives the impression, rightly or wrongly that that's the paramount reason for the site. I would support the idea of hiving off that aspect into an obviously separate entity so that it would be possible to filter out these two aspects of interest, equipment and images.

Barrie

It sometimes feels like SC is already a Fuji forum

Accordingly, I do think SC might bleed out if all the Fuji shooters/posters go to a new site.

I'm not convinced an image-only forum would stay very busy. Much as it would be nice to have a "photography" orientated rather than "camera" orientated site, it's hard to see what advantages it might have over Flickr, really.