Ask Paul: April 6 (Premium)

This week, I tackle some new questions plus provide updates on the evolution of Thurrott Now and the timing of Ask Paul.
Changes coming to Thurrott Now
We created a site feature called Thurrott Now which addresses a concern I had raised when I first came to BWW a few years back: I wanted a blog-like way to address smaller topics that I felt didn't warrant the time it would take for me to write up personally. So we have this widget in the upper-right corner of the home page, and it required a bunch of custom coding, etc.

Well, after using this thing sporadically for several months, I finally came to the conclusion that Thurrott Now wasn't the right approach. I have a hard time filling it with several links each day, for starters. But worse, it's this additional "thing" and it just takes up space on the homepage. Which is too cluttered and, yes, will be redesigned.

So I came up with a solution, and I'm interested in your feedback. My idea is that we remove the Thurrott Now widget from the home page ahead of our planned redesign---in fact, we could implement this fairly immediately---and I will instead create Premium forum posts for those topics that used to go into Thurrott Now.

There is some internal (to BWW) debate about whether these forum posts should be under a new "Thurrott Now" topic, but my opinion is that we already have all the relevant topics we need, and that my posts should simply coexist alongside everyone's else. I don't personally care about Thurrott Now as a brand/thing/whatever.

So that's my plan, at least. Let me know if this makes sense to you, please.

Thanks! ---Paul
The timing of Ask Paul
Just a heads-up about the timing of this article series, because I know there are questions. I do intend to post an "Ask Paul" each Friday, and, yes, I often don't think to write a forum post for the questions until later in the week than is ideal. Sorry about that.

But in those weeks where I'm not just traveling but literally unavailable for the entire Friday that week, I'll be skipping Ask Paul. It's just too time-consuming to do otherwise.

In a weird coincidence, we just hit two Fridays in a row where this was the case: On Friday, March 23, I was at the local Microsoft field office for an all-day developer user group event. And last week, on Friday, March 30, I was in Colorado looking at potential colleges for my daughter. (This was literally two 8-hour full days of being out of the loop, and that the Microsoft reorg and Terry's dismissal also happened concurrently was the worst possible timing for me.)

Long story short, I do intend to do this every week. It will not literally be every single week, however. Because I'm human, etc.

Thanks for understanding. --Paul
Samsung Galaxy S9+ review
Daninbusiness asks:
Will you do a full review of the Samsung Galaxy S9+? Or are you leaving it with the First Impressions article?
Yes, I will publish a full review. My goal is to have that done by the end of the ...