mameeshkamowskwoz Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 I dig all options, but (and maybe this is just me being a newb) on Reddit you can't see what you have and have not seen with the "mark as read" function. At least in Discord you can click the channel to mark it as read. I'll follow the future, but something similar to what we have minus the spam and outages is my preference... not sure that's a possibility though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justinadamk Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 Maybe the minority here - but I love this forum as it is. And while it's a bummer when it's down, I really don't have interest to join discord (it feels to immediate and creates an unnecessary sense of urgency for me), or reddit (to overwhelming). But that's just me, and I'd do what I have to, to stay up with the releases wherever folks migrate to. Bronchitis, Tommy, mitchard and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 28 minutes ago, Justinadamk said: Maybe the minority here - but I love this forum as it is. And while it's a bummer when it's down, I really don't have interest to join discord (it feels to immediate and creates an unnecessary sense of urgency for me), or reddit (to overwhelming). But that's just me, and I'd do what I have to, to stay up with the releases wherever folks migrate to. I'm feeling the same way. To me, Discord seems to hectic and fast-paced for my liking. As you said, feels "urgent". Reddit...so far in my measly 3 days of having joined, feels cluttered and in certain communities, was too many morons posting asinine shit. faaip de oiad, Justinadamk, mameeshkamowskwoz and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchard Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 13 minutes ago, jhulud said: Reddit...so far in my measly 3 days of having joined, feels cluttered and in certain communities, was too many morons posting asinine shit. Yup. MCDELTAT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronchitis Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 I have always preferred the forum format for this sort of thing vs. Reddit. I like posts being bumped to the top when new comments happen. And the vinyl subs are too big to really get to know people. I like that part of VC probably more than I like hearing about new releases. I use Reddit a lot for other hobbies and fandoms I am part of and can’t say I have formed any friendships or made any acquaintances in r/guitarpedals or whatever other ones I post in with a billion other people. whoa, Derek™, FEN1XD0WN and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchard Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 12 minutes ago, Bronchitis said: I have always preferred the forum format for this sort of thing vs. Reddit. I like posts being bumped to the top when new comments happen. And the vinyl subs are too big to really get to know people. I like that part of VC probably more than I like hearing about new releases. I use Reddit a lot for other hobbies and fandoms I am part of and can’t say I have formed any friendships or made any acquaintances in r/guitarpedals or whatever other ones I post in with a billion other people. My thoughts are pretty in line with this too. The self-contained nature of message boards definitely promotes more of a community aspect than any subreddit I've ever been on has. I still talk to old friends from various message boards on a regular basis, despite neither one of us having anything to do with those communities anymore (if they even still exist). Can't say the same about anyone I've ever talked to on Reddit. FEN1XD0WN, Bronchitis and prowl20 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadmonkey Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 echoing the sentiment, something about the way we are doing things here seems way nicer than reddit and discord. I really love our little community that we spent years carving out for ourselves. Really reminds me of times before the social media apps made just about everything toxic af Gstbmn, bobby, FEN1XD0WN and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FEN1XD0WN Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 14 hours ago, DarrenMcCall said: I played around Discord Forums when they first added the feature and I’ve forgotten about it since. Maybe they’ve worked out all the kinks. I’d love to test it out with VC! Yeah I'd like to test it out too but I'm not on desktop and the app can be weird on mobile. As to everyone else, yeah discord is too busy compared to forums as it's more of an "organized" chat room with areas sectioned off, and reddit while more organized, can also be a free for all but with flairs on topics, to distinguish topic from topic. Also reddit is like meme central, and fuck memes cluttering actual attempts at conversation. No one's suggesting abandoning this place. This place is MUCH preferred as that seems to be the general consensus 100%. Personally I'd hate to leave. It's just that we've had two outages lately that were for days and no one really knew what was going on, and it would be nice to have a secondary place where we could converse and share new PO and releases while the forum is down. A majority of the posters here know other people's tastes and would interest us. Vinyldeals posts maybe one good deal a week and vinylreleases covers such a broad spectrum of genres and artists that I simply don't care about. So yeah I don't think anyone wants to just up and leave here. It would just be nice to have a backup place when VC goes down because as much as I don't wanna admit it, it's prob gonna happen again 😞 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarrenMcCall Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 (edited) 30 minutes ago, FEN1XD0WN said: It's just that we've had two outages lately that were for days and no one really knew what was going on, and it would be nice to have a secondary place where we could converse and share new PO and releases while the forum is down. I was wondering what the issue was, so thanks for explaining. It would be nice to have a secondary place to chat. @jhulud if you don't end up creating anything, I can make a dedicated #vinyl-collective channel on my Discord server. Otherwise, let me know if I can help in anyway! Edited March 31, 2023 by DarrenMcCall FEN1XD0WN 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillybhatesme Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 For discussion? Discord. For announcements? Reddit. Reddit discussion leaves a lot to be desired even once you get past the formatting. I definitely prefer discord. RESCHAR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faaip de oiad Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 I think all we really need is to know what's going on with the site when it goes down. And what's being done about it. I'll wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardlineKid Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 I'm fine with these forums, minus the mysterious outages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daiei Posted April 3, 2023 Author Share Posted April 3, 2023 Just want to confirm I never started the topic to try and migrate everyone to another site. Was just wondering if there was/should create a backup site somewhere, during outages. 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FEN1XD0WN Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 Yeah forreal y'all. No one wants to leave. We'd just like to see what people would prefer as just a hangout spot for WHEN the site goes down again. yes chef and prowl20 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelby Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 Speak for yourself I'm all for leaving this broken ad riddled forum if everyone finds something better lol FEN1XD0WN, Bronchitis, RESCHAR and 4 others 2 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boaty McBoatface Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 6 hours ago, Shelby said: Speak for yourself I'm all for leaving this broken ad riddled forum if everyone finds something better lol Hey, we should all follow Wasda over to facebook! It’s nice and non-confrontational there! Shelby 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek™ Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 Wasda’s complete VC meltdown is still one of the funniest things to go down on this board, that I can recall from recent memory. I can think of no place more appropriate for him to dwell than Facebook comment sections. FEN1XD0WN 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 35 minutes ago, Derek™ said: Wasda’s complete VC meltdown is still one of the funniest things to go down on this board, that I can recall from recent memory. I can think of no place more appropriate for him to dwell than Facebook comment sections. Where was this and how did I miss it? Link me. prowl20 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FEN1XD0WN Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 Fuckin meatrocket geezfools 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek™ Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 15 minutes ago, jhulud said: Where was this and how did I miss it? Link me. It was all over the place. He got tilted over being ridiculed for his frivolous links / updates, and in the span of ~15 minutes, just went into a half-dozen different threads I was active in and spammed them. Threads that he had never posted in prior, and had no interest in – he just wanted to gunk them up with some obnoxious ToGgLe CaPs commentary. Some weird eye-for-an-eye attempt I’d guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezfools Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 There are some random spots out there. I think discord really depends on the community, any of them for that matter. Get some like-minded folks together and it will work well, let some turds be turds and anywhere will stink. They've all got pros and cons. Discord has a nice way to notify and alert people, so if a legit PO drops, you can notify your homies. Not something you can easily do on reddit or even these forums. Discord struggles with threads and kinda keeping long-running topics together, reddit and these forums excel at that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boaty McBoatface Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 1 hour ago, jhulud said: Where was this and how did I miss it? Link me. It was a quick and messy farewell. I think his last words were in the Alexisonfire Otherness thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelby Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Boaty McBoatface said: It was a quick and messy farewell. I think his last words were in the Alexisonfire Otherness thread. Oh god this exchange looks so weird now that I'm not meatrocket9 or whatever it was Edited April 3, 2023 by Shelby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarrenMcCall Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 I'll host #vinyl-collective on my Discord Server! http://discord.gg/beFg32u6 I've setup a feed for new forum posts, and up/down alerts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 1 hour ago, DarrenMcCall said: I'll host #vinyl-collective on my Discord Server! http://discord.gg/beFg32u6 I've setup a feed for new forum posts, and up/down alerts! Muchas gracias! DarrenMcCall 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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