Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2

[Chris Bergin]

Ok, Sping Clean done. Wil take advice on anything I've missed.

Certainly could use some more in-depth work, such as sections for Firefly, for example. Astra might get Rocket 4 going, but Firefly should have one if they do Etc.

But on headers and descriptions, let's get those sorted.

[Vultur]

Ok, Sping Clean done. Wil take advice on anything I've missed.

The Missions to the Moon one still says EM-1 (not Artemis), at least on my mobile device.

[ChrisC]

There isn't a thread here* in the NSF forum for meta-discussion about NSF's Youtube activity, and I'm still resisting getting a Youtube account and commenting there, so I'll post it here: thank you Das et al for enabling the dual-audio capability so that we can continue watching the Starabse videos with ambient audio.  I see from the video comments that everyone else luuuuuuvs the new narration, but I do not :/  I mean, I love your update videos with the talking heads working from a script (and special thanks go to the writers), but for these Starbase highlight footage videos I prefer the ambient audio (and brief captions) over the unscripted commentary   So I'm thrilled that you all got that audio option working!

* see my whining about this back in 2022 ...

[catdlr]

There isn't a thread here* in the NSF forum for meta-discussion about NSF's Youtube activity, and I'm still resisting getting a Youtube account and commenting there, so I'll post it here: thank you Das et al for enabling the dual-audio capability so that we can continue watching the Starabse videos with ambient audio.  I see from the video comments that everyone else luuuuuuvs the new narration, but I do not :/  I mean, I love your update videos with the talking heads working from a script (and special thanks go to the writers), but for these Starbase highlight footage videos I prefer the ambient audio (and brief captions) over the unscripted commentary   So I'm thrilled that you all got that audio option working!

* see my whining about this back in 2022 ...

Chris,

Thanks for the candid response to YT.  Since I post a lot of YT content on the forum. I wanted to get feedback from you when I post a link to a video (two ways).   Tony.

The first example is a link that is not embedded:

Sample:  https://youtube.com/watch?v=s5UdWAnUoWI

Are you able to view that?


Or do you prefer to watch the video embedded in the Forum:
Example of the embedded viewer link:

[Chris Bergin]

There isn't a thread here* in the NSF forum for meta-discussion about NSF's Youtube activity, and I'm still resisting getting a Youtube account and commenting there, so I'll post it here: thank you Das et al for enabling the dual-audio capability so that we can continue watching the Starabse videos with ambient audio.  I see from the video comments that everyone else luuuuuuvs the new narration, but I do not :/  I mean, I love your update videos with the talking heads working from a script (and special thanks go to the writers), but for these Starbase highlight footage videos I prefer the ambient audio (and brief captions) over the unscripted commentary   So I'm thrilled that you all got that audio option working!

* see my whining about this back in 2022 ...

We do listen

[catdlr]

Quick question: When using the "Recent Post"  query, is it limited to the 100 most recent posts? Can that be altered in the query to display more recent posts?

Thanks,
Tony

[jebbo]

But on headers and descriptions, let's get those sorted.

There is inconsistency around European launches. Most, like RFA/ISAR/etc are in the Commercial Space Flight General section. However, PLD Space is in ESA Launchers - Ariane/Vega (this section also includes things like Callisto/Prometheus/Themis, which don't fit the title either).

Feels like either PLD moves to Commercial or the ESA Section becomes:

European Launchers.
Updates and launch coverage of European launches.

If nothing else, the ESA section description needs to lose "unmanned." (should be uncrewed or similar)

Also, all the descriptions of the subsections in the International section are worded differently, but the intent is the same. Might be better if they were consistent, perhaps something like the Japanese one: "Section dedicated to XXX launches and missions."

--- Tony

[Chris Bergin]

Hmm yes, we could do some more housekeeping over the holidays perhaps.

PS Anyone noticing the X feed on the right side of the forum (desktop and not an ad blocker bad person ) - was always working for me as admin, but stuck on the spin prime boom for everyone else. Noticed it was up to date for me when I was on a friend's computer the other day and thought "Oh!" - anyone else find it's working again now?

[leovinus]

Hmm yes, we could do some more housekeeping over the holidays perhaps.

PS Anyone noticing the X feed on the right side of the forum (desktop and not an ad blocker bad person ) - was always working for me as admin, but stuck on the spin prime boom for everyone else. Noticed it was up to date for me when I was on a friend's computer the other day and thought "Oh!" - anyone else find it's working again now?

Yes, it updates again, thanks.

[woods170]

Hmm yes, we could do some more housekeeping over the holidays perhaps.

PS Anyone noticing the X feed on the right side of the forum (desktop and not an ad blocker bad person ) - was always working for me as admin, but stuck on the spin prime boom for everyone else. Noticed it was up to date for me when I was on a friend's computer the other day and thought "Oh!" - anyone else find it's working again now?

Yes, it updates again, thanks.

Same. It updates again.

[clongton]

Hmm yes, we could do some more housekeeping over the holidays perhaps.

PS Anyone noticing the X feed on the right side of the forum (desktop and not an ad blocker bad person ) - was always working for me as admin, but stuck on the spin prime boom for everyone else. Noticed it was up to date for me when I was on a friend's computer the other day and thought "Oh!" - anyone else find it's working again now?

Yes, it updates again, thanks.

Yup. Working fine now.

[Eer]

Hmm yes, we could do some more housekeeping over the holidays perhaps.

PS Anyone noticing the X feed on the right side of the forum (desktop and not an ad blocker bad person ) - was always working for me as admin, but stuck on the spin prime boom for everyone else. Noticed it was up to date for me when I was on a friend's computer the other day and thought "Oh!" - anyone else find it's working again now?

Thanks for the reminder - I don't mind seeing your adverts, so just added the site to the exceptions list on my blocker ...

[Greg Hullender]

Any plans to celebrate 20 years of operation this year?

[Chris Bergin]

Any plans to celebrate 20 years of operation this year?

There may be cake!

[russianhalo117]

Any plans to celebrate 20 years of operation this year?

There may be cake!

If I was still in the UK I'd bring everyone https://www.fitzbillies.com/

[leovinus]

Any plans to celebrate 20 years of operation this year?

There may be cake!

Didn’t Fuller’s brew a space inspired beer?

[ChrisC]

There isn't a general thread for discussion of the NSF Youtube channel, so as before, I'll document this here ...

NSF's Starbase footage highlight videos (not the Monday updates, rather the videos that previously had just natural / ambient sound) started getting narration from Das a few months ago.  Thankfully they then offered the original nat sound version via another audio track.  Starting with today's video, NSF now offers both German and Spanish audio tracks as well; nat sound is still there but now listed as Klingon   I thought it was worth noting here.  Thanks to the editors for offering the nat sound version!

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1877163548972871941

[Metalskin]

There isn't a general thread for discussion of the NSF Youtube channel, so as before, I'll document this here ...

NSF's Starbase footage highlight videos (not the Monday updates, rather the videos that previously had just natural / ambient sound) started getting narration from Das a few months ago.  Thankfully they then offered the original nat sound version via another audio track.  Starting with today's video, NSF now offers both German and Spanish audio tracks as well; nat sound is still there but now listed as Klingon   I thought it was worth noting here.  Thanks to the editors for offering the nat sound version!

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1877163548972871941

Thanks for posting Chris, I don't use twitter and that would have confused me, leading me to not watch the video.
While I like the fun in calling it klingon, from a UX pov, that can create confusion for users and I would suggest just calling it ambient.

[ChrisC]

There isn't a general thread for discussion of the NSF Youtube channel, so as before, I'll document this here ...

NSF's Starbase footage highlight videos (not the Monday updates, rather the videos that previously had just natural / ambient sound) started getting narration from Das a few months ago.  Thankfully they then offered the original nat sound version via another audio track.  Starting with today's video, NSF now offers both German and Spanish audio tracks as well; nat sound is still there but now listed as Klingon   I thought it was worth noting here.  Thanks to the editors for offering the nat sound version!

Thanks for posting Chris, I don't use twitter and that would have confused me, leading me to not watch the video.  While I like the fun in calling it klingon, from a UX pov, that can create confusion for users and I would suggest just calling it ambient.

Glad this was helpful!  I expect that "Klingon" was just for fun the first time, and they'll revert to something more useful in future videos.  Although, Youtube doesn't let them have complete control over the options displayed, so don't be surprised if it's still somewhat obtuse, like "US English = Ambient".

(I don't have a Twitter account either, rather just keep up with four specific Twitter feeds via web browser, including NSF's.)

[Hobbes-22]

But on headers and descriptions, let's get those sorted.

There is inconsistency around European launches. Most, like RFA/ISAR/etc are in the Commercial Space Flight General section. However, PLD Space is in ESA Launchers - Ariane/Vega (this section also includes things like Callisto/Prometheus/Themis, which don't fit the title either).

Feels like either PLD moves to Commercial or the ESA Section becomes:

European Launchers.
Updates and launch coverage of European launches.

If nothing else, the ESA section description needs to lose "unmanned." (should be uncrewed or similar)

Also, all the descriptions of the subsections in the International section are worded differently, but the intent is the same. Might be better if they were consistent, perhaps something like the Japanese one: "Section dedicated to XXX launches and missions."

--- Tony

Agreed. See also this thread.