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Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Laying It On Thick

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I’m going to be a bum and just paste in the documentation to our new Layered Charts feature. I still need to read the comments from my announcement last night, since I know some of you had good ideas I want to implement. But I am continuing to ask for feedback and ideas to improve this – – and for you to tell me if you’ve seen anything like this anywhere else. I’ve been wanting this feature for years.

The ability to “layer” charts is a unique and powerful feature in SlopeCharts which at first glance might seem to be just an other form of comparison charts, but it is much more flexible and sophisticated than that. This feature allows you to combine charts in ways that are simply not possible with standard comparison charts.

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Hey, Tim, whatever happened to SlopeTalk?!?!

Glad you asked! Let’s recap, especially for newcomers…………

  • The Slope comments system has been the centerpiece of the site for most of Slope’s nearly seventeen years as a beloved website;
  • I decided to up Slope’s conversation game by creating a clone of the popular Discord system (although well shy of Discord’s $15 billion valuation). This new creation is called SlopeTalk.
  • Because Slope’s comment system is already oh-so-awesome, very few people have been using SlopeTalk, because there’s not a particularly compelling reason to do so.

So………..what to do? Ditch it? Give up? Nah, that’s not my style. I’d like to explain a couple of things we’ve been working on to put the paddles on SlopeTalk’s chest and see if we can get you good people to care about it and use it.

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