Some people have a knack for selecting images that intrigue or move the masses. I am not that person, hence why I would need more time.

Some people think other people's hard work must be due to a "knack" for it. Unless you stood over previous IotD submitters' shoulders and watched them do it, you have no clue how long it took them.

Clod, I am merely trying to pay the ultimate compliment to those who contributed. I know hard work can be involved, but I think some folks also have a gift for such things. Particularly as I know some of the contributors beyond here.

I musta missed something BIG. I do, however, love me some IotD, and I bet if several of us got our heads together we could at least cough up a couple of new posts there a week. I'll be back to daily online activities around about the 25th of this month because my neighbor has to go say goodbye to his best friend since 1988, and when he travels I go with as a medical aide. His laptop doesn't do on-the-road wifi :(. But if the Cellar doesn't get wiped while I'm gone, I'd be happy to see what I might be able to put back into something that gave me YEARS of daily enjoyment before I scraped up the courage to join.

Does the forum have the code to put that little "Share it on Pinterest" button on images? Cuz I know a Pinterest account that would be happy to link up, which might get us more exposure.

The weirdest thing is that I have the IotD Archive page bookmarked, and the threads that don't show up in the forum any more still pop right up from that page. I have extremely limited knowledge of how these things work, or that might make more sense to me.

If we could just harvest all the mental energy required to come up with something to post in our 43 word ass threads, we'd have the power to Image the crap out the Day! :D

Look, I've got cat photos that need tending to!!! :D

I'm pretty sure that we can resurrect it. All I have to do is

1) Complete a forum software change, which has been pending for months now.
a) Fix whatever's preventing private messages from porting <- current issue
b) Create a design template that matches the current one
c) Make sure old URLs resolve in the new software
d) Make IotD Blog View work with the new software

2) Create (probably from scratch) an image sharing system where users can contribute IotD candidates. Integrate into forum software...
a) Have the login managed by forum, not an all-new security system!
b) Auto-post IotD at some certain time every day

3) Create (or add?) browser extension(s) to right-click to add URL to IotD image sharing system

4) Create The Cellar Facebook group

5) Create (or add?) Cellar<->Facebook hooks to auto-post IotD to The Cellar Facebook group (and point back to us)

6) Solicit current Facebook Cellar users to crosspost IotD to their feeds

7) Reap new users

The biggest problem is that most of it falls on me...

...but it would be so nice if all this stuff was in place, so I should just hunker down and do it

I'm not sure what you keep talking about. The IOTD's are all there in the forum view for me. There's also the blog view, which I don't care for, and it shows a handful of recent IOTDs and has a link to the archive, which has all of them.

UT, I can imagine you saying all this, being both sincere and a bit sarcastic. :-)

I would be happy to help on the social media end, since part of my current work involves that.

I think I am being both sincere and a bit sarcastic!

The Facebook bits are actually the fun part... but let's see how step one goes first.

And step 1e, not mentioned; which is, move everything to the new software and let everyone get used to it, and work out any kinks that happen along the way.

I'm sure plenty of cellarites would be happy to work out your kinks UT ;)

What do you mean bruce has left???? I thought he was just not around right now?

Has he actually properly left?

People never properly leave, they just decide to move on. Sometimes they have reasons, most times they don't.

Bruce's last post and activity are over a month old now.

Yeah - but that happens from time to time. I meant has he indicated that he is 'leaving' the Cellar?

Not to me, not like he told his daily email list goodbye.