Engineering News Blog Retired, New Feed to Engineering360 Launched

Savvy has earned some much-deserved vacation. I've agreed to answer any community questions as best I can in the meantime!

I'm not inclined to register for another site just to be able to comment on items that, before the big change, would have required no more effort than commenting on a "normal" CR4 discussion.

Even though we all know that we are here at the pleasure of IHS, I think that CR4 regulars should be allowed to comment as before, without registering, yet again.

I forget new screen names and passwords as soon as they are entered anyway.

Anyway, to say that you have some large shoes to fill would be in insult to our Savvy, so let's just say thanks for filling in for her.

Eventually we will have a single sign-on (though the date for that is unknown) once the programming infrastructure is in place.

It takes a pretty good friend to volunteer to take her place on the hot seat.

I have noticed, on the new E360 articles I have read, that there are no comments. There may be some recent threads with comments, but I haven't seen any. Not one. Is there any validity to my observation?

I sense a reluctance from the group (as a whole) to sign up. Is there any validity to this observation?

And lastly. why doesn't Tarzan grow a beard?

Not 100% sure what you mean. This recent article on Eng360 has a comment (even if the comment quality is woeful). Are you referring to the comments for the Engineering News feed?

"This recent article on Eng360 has a comment (even if the comment quality is woeful)." Yes, I did see that one... perhaps, if a one word comment that is the commenter's name counts as a comment, then I misspoke when I said I didn't see one thread with a comment.

"Are you referring to the comments for the Engineering News feed?" Yes.

The general gist of my comment is, with the change I am seeing no participation from the CR4 community in the form of a comment, for that matter, I am seeing no participation in the form of comment from any source. I am sure that you will agree we here at CR4 are a chatty bunch, seldom hesitating to toss in a comment of some type about just about anything. It seems quite odd to me that, with the recent change, nobody has anything to say.

It is well known that I have an opinion about just about everything. If you notice, even I haven't commented on any of them because I am resisting signing up on another forum.

I signed up a while back, like a couple months ago, and made one comment. For the longest time mine was the only comment there so eventually I stopped going back.

I decided that if a really good article deserved to be read and commented-on by CR4 members I'd copy the article and start a discussion about it on CR4.

I see no point in having another separate website that duplicates a lot of what CR4 has been doing, especially since it requires another login.

"I see no point in having another separate website that duplicates a lot of what CR4 has been doing..."

Well, I think it's really CR4 that was duplicating what E360 is doing. If this thinking is correct, then the format change is understandable.

"...especially since it requires another login." Ah HA! The point of my resistance.

To perhaps restate my question, are there other CR4 members resisting as well, or are we simply not interested enough in the recent string of articles to comment on any of them?

Shape changing airfoils? That is quite an interesting article and subject.

I only wanted to determine to what exactly you were referring Doorman...

Anyway, comments on engineering news have been eliminated so as to not siphon away comments that should be submitted after the full article on the Insights homepage. And readers should explore the full article before submitting comments or using the star rating system.

We're working toward a single sign-on for all GlobalSpec domains, so at some point to transition between pages and post types will be seamless.

Lastly, Tarzan doesn't grow a beard because Jane is a clean-shaven kind of girl.