The Book Of Sand is a little different to your standard forum, and may be a bit disorientating at first, but we believe our discerning fans are intelligent folk and will soon get their bearings. These are the main differences:
1/ Each post is forced to be concise, Twitter style. (How Twitter improves your writing). If you have longer things to say, you can break them up into smaller posts.
2/ Conversations are no longer organised into threads, but as infinitely
branching conversations. To keep track of interesting posts, you can
them, and updates will be sent to your notifications
page, which has an RSS feed (What is RSS?).
When they stop being interesting,
them. This helps other people find interesting posts
as well.
3/ To find interesting posts, you can sort things in different ways:
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