I see me gravitating away from this site now with the advent of SLUG. I hope not as I have found some good conversation here. It's the loss of communication with the good people I've encountered that I will miss.

I don't know anything about SLUG. I know that I don't care for the name or image.

Sounds like "Slug" is developing a "position". Not cool dude.

Having read the preamble about the introduction of Slug and the subsequent comments I’m still not sure precisely what’s happening. It just seems to me that for whatever reasons, IDW is not developing in the way it was hoped so it is going to be left to die a gradual death and that Slug is to be a reinvention of IDW. However it seems likely that Slug will probably just become IDW in all but name. Facebook scores in being an all encompassing bitching site which mixes opinions by idiots with the occasional comments by someone who has a brain cell but it is also used to spread actual information ( much of it false). It’s a bit like a downmarket soap opera that doesn’t pretend it’s something it’s not.You wouldn’t however go to Facebook for an intelligent discussion.
I think if IDW/Slug is to avoid being Facebook 2 it needs to be more focused on what precisely it wants to be. Less groups/ headings less bitching, dare I say more intellectual. At the moment IDW seems to be dominated by US politics just as Brexit dominated Facebook in the UK and anyone not involved opts out. This is to some extent inevitably but needs to be controlled.
So if Slug is not going to be a bitching site with one liners and cliched comments, what is its aim and how will it get there?

this site is not accepting my user name and password on my phone
got it fixed auto complete is now off on my phone

This concerns me

Slug - Wikipedia
Search domain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug[en.wikipedia.org]
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc.The word slug is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a small internal shell, particularly sea slugs and semislugs (this is in contrast to the common name snail, which applies to gastropods that have a coiled shell

IDW, my view, excellent but insipid and stagnant. Strange conundrum. Intelligent people, good discussion...so? So what?
Unless this moves into ACTION, eg. several backing a letter to someone in power, you have a playpen of words going nowhere.
I think you need a savvy planning department for action. Many excellent folks here.

You're on it though, tuned in.
We're WATCHING everything fall apart. Communism is winning.
This is beyond Trump. Maybe beyond anyone.
But need a team now. Trump's not a team player.
Can he become one? Maybe.

@Admin You are making a Mistake, your approach is normal. Therefore has little persuasive impact. This market is saturated.

I have some of the brightest minds on the planet looking at how to implement my suggestion.

There's another way that will be successful.

I have money, I have talent, it requires only a 10 minute phone call to explain.

You have my phone number, please use it.

Yeah...just read this and I thought as Josf-Kelley did.

Now...in keeping with this rebellious endeavor (not that I understand why IDW and SLUG are going to be 2 versions of the same site---whatever) the word "SLUG" does have a kind of anti-establishment flavor to it. I'm thinkin' in a "Dead Kennedys" sort of way.

"Anti-Face" would have been too infantile; the site(s) need to move away from putting FB referencs at the center of the conversation.

"AssBook" might have worked...

As the Administrator pointed out, domain names are hard to come by. Just as there are more mutual funds than actual stocks, there are probably more domain names than actual words.

I guess "SLUG" it is, for now.

BIG QUESTION, WHICH IVE ASKED BEFORE, AND YOU HAVENT ANSWERED, WHY IS IT ONLY ME THAT, WHAT I WRITE HAS WORDS AND LETTERS SPLIT UP ALL OVER THE PLACE, NO ONE ELSE HAS!!! Is there a specific way to write on your site or what??? Still no answer from you, but it would be greatly appreciated if you could tell me, why just me???

My God, couldnt you have thought of a better name than, SLUG, all I can think of are all those slugs I have thousands of, and thats no joke! A lot of us are turning away from Facebook, which Ive commented on in their comment section, and Ive mentioned Ive gone with another, and Ive had people ask me who, so I give your name to them, IDW. Community. People are sick of as I am to be reading something on Facebook, and the next thing its wiped, and you dont get to finish reading it. And other times, youre scrolling down through the sites and Facebook just sends you back to the top, and you could be just about to click on something to read! As far as Im concerned, Facebook has got too big for its boots, and now think it can control us! Like fun it can! What IDW should do, is get some coloured photo sites up just like Facebook, that way IDW will take their followers, colour makes a big difference, it gets people in. It`s great to see IDW doing something for people who are sick of Facebook! I wish you well.

Ermine is Winter weasel, yes???

A slug is also slang for a lazy, non-motivated couch potato type

Glad to see the Victor Davis Hanson Group available on Slug. He is becoming more outspoken and relevant as the election year goes by. Thank you!

I’m not sure I “get it” yet.
It seems that there is a lot of cross-posting which is popping up in IDW referencing all sorts of things that aren’t related to IDW content.
I went to SLUG to see if I could get the “rest” or the “beginning” of the content being referenced but, no ... its fragments of something else that ended up there from somewhere else (?)
Maybe SLUG will find its way (mature into) to being something interesting but currently it seems like bits and pieces of “leftovers”.
Further, what little there is there seems to have ratcheted the intellect level downwards quite a few points ...

yes I did look at Slug yesterday - appeared to be a mirror of IDS community. All identical content. If you prefer / if it helps you somehow I will begin going to Slug rather than here but I don't see any difference. Whatever I type or post or appears here is mirrored at Slug - right?

Very Interesting......

Sounds good.

A rose by any other name will smell as sweet.

Is a slug a snail without the defensive shell?