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Is this thing on
Cortex™ has been a feature of Shacknews for months now, but it is still woefully underused by the Shack Community. I get it, I understand, I really do. It took me a few months to work up the courage to investigate it for myself, but once I finally took the plunge, I learned not only how fun and exciting it could be, I also learned how EASY it was. Easy enough for people like me to use!
If more of you wonderful folks realized the benefits of using Cortex, it would be used by much more than Shacknews Staff and Lola's Carnage Reports announcing that Maddog won Shacknews yet again.
'But what can I do with it', you whine. What do you WANT to do with it? Yes, Cortex is that versatile! You can do that! Movie reviews. Recipes. Game reviews. Opinion pieces. For example, ALL valcan_s posts tagged 'Interesting' would make GREAT Cortex articles. With EMBEDDED VIDEOS so you don't even have to leave the page. Getting it now?
Longevity and accessibility and tags, oh my!
Unlike chatty posts that expire in 18 hours, Cortex posts can be much more easily searched and accessed for later reference, and can be seen by more people. And thanks to something called Domain Authority (included for free), you get the power of Search Engine Optimization behind your articles, and that will drive eyes to your words moreso than your stupid blog or facebook dump. You have access to tags to help it be seen even more, and you can search for articles via tags, just like genuine Shacknews articles!
Ever write a post that you later want to share with friends or family, but it got tagged 'stupid' or 'political' or some shit and you don't want them to have to create an account just to view it? Now you can just send them the Cortex link!
Feeds and more tags
A great example of how I benefit from Cortex is: Pharaoh721 uses it to post movie articles. I subscribe to Pharaoh721, so I won't miss one, like I might if it were just a chatty post. And if I am worried about spoilers and don't want to read a review just yet, it will be easily accessible later, moreso than using Shack Search, winchatty search, or the lolpage 'tag' tag.
Can edit later if you want
For years, y'all have complained about the lack of ability to edit posts. Well, guess what. Make a post worthy of a Cortex article into an actual Cortex article, and you can edit it whenever you want! You can embed a bunch of videos into an article for your later perusal (I do this with music) and add new videos weeks, even months later. One stop music shopping without bookmarks loading your browser down!
Image hosting
Chattypics DNS woes and imgur ads got you down? MANY PEOPLE DO NOT SEEM TO KNOW that they can HOST PICTURES ON CORTEX. For example, below is a picture completely unrelated to this article, used as an example. It is hosted by Cortex.
It really is the best of ALL worlds. So quit being frightened and make YOUR all time great Cortex post TODAY!!!
