I hear ya. I remember that place. I used to do a lot of HTML, CSS, and JS. Used to frequent it often for answers but never signed up, just a lurker. Found a lot of good advice and info on there, but always seemed like 50% of the answers/replies were wrapped in snark and hostility. Tough crowd.
I wonder about this as well. There seems to be so much bitterness and hate when people are just avatars on a screen. I start to wonder if lots of people in real life are also thinking these things, but censoring themselves, just in the nick of time, so they don’t get their butts whooped or thrown out of the backyard BBQ.
That was sometimes the safesy way! I used to have several accounts, just because I knew that if I asked a question from my main (high-rep) account, I’d get flamed. (Some people like to downvote out of “rep jealousy”.)
I definitely think this is a thing. Social mores within polite society just about keep a lid on things, particularly somewhere like the UK where there’s a culture of being insincere and smiley despite our true feelings. Take social conventions away, though, and I reckon most of us turn to animals pretty quickly. In a sense, the internet versions of some people are the truer versions.
The TV negative talk I found fatiguing and now all these releases and people getting frenzied, it’s felt noisy, most of that noise being negative.
I’ve kept well away from the TR1000 thread.
I haven’t muted anything as I think I’d rather just step away form the forum than have to self moderate it. Definitely in my considerations for next year! I lurked for a good few yrs and only joined last year, really enjoy it on the whole but have also felt the burn recently like some of the other posts mentioning.
Yeah, on second thought I guess I sound pretty naive. Maybe I just want to believe the people I come across in real life are 99% nice, and the assholes on the internet are shut-ins never seeing the light of day. But, yeah, I’m sure there is a lot of self-censorship IRL, for many reasons.
Makes it weird trying to discern who is actually sincerely nice and who is just wearing a mask. Doesn’t help my social anxiety lol.
My favourite part of this was when this showed up on my YouTube feed I thought it was satire and saved it to watch later. A year later I was in the mood for some old British humour, load it up… wait this isn’t a comedy sketch?
I actually enjoy positive gear chat and hearing what people think of new stuff coming out.
But fuck me the sheer volume of the threads is overwhelming, I think the TR1000 thread had over 2,000 posts in the tiny window between leak and actual announcement…. I wonder if there’s a way to limit post count per user per thread for newly released gear? You get one per day, you gotta make it count.
Because the flipside to that is that it is actually a genuinely pretty exciting time for new gear in the ‘groovebox’ arena. 1010 Bento, Tonverk, MPC Live 3, TR1000… it feels like a new generation of music making tools. I want to hear how y’all are excited and inspired by them! I don’t want to hear how you think X company has failed you on a personal level and set foot on the road to inevitable insolvency by excluding X feature. Big releases like these only come around every 5-10 years, get excited or just fucking move on.
For me, the excitement of new gear is what new things it can offer people in their music making. The new things we can bend and break to make new sounds
Threads used to be about stuff like that, but specs seem to be taken at face value now, hardly anyone is looking at gear with an eye on experimenting with it, probably not gonna own it long enough to get that deep with it.
Now it’s all spec wanking, largely because making music is pretty low down a lot of these lot’s list of priorities, whether they’re aware of that or not I don’t know.
Dude! People are dicks! Fire up that laptop and make some noise! Though, I hope the cpu is up to it. Do you even have enough memory. Better get a faster SSD!
You need that tattooed on you.
I’ve already funded some stupid shit on here like that digitakt skin,
I’d gladly help fund anyone getting a fin25 avatar tattooed on themselves.
