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[Trollheart]

Wouldn't that be cheating?

[Tristan_Geoff]

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Oddly enough, I'm familiar with Discord because that's where I've been conducting my classes ever since Mexico suspended face-to-face teaching back in March 2020. I'm not too sure if it's any substitute for MB though. Have you guys opened many text channels there? Do you use it mainly for talking or typing?
Perhaps I should log in and answer my own questions.

Please join our discord!!

[rostasi]

Faceplant and Dickrot are large wanky turdariums,
but there’s lots of smaller forums that can meet your needs.
If this place ever folds, it’s not that difficult to start your own,
but it does involve some bucks. On one music forum I’m on,
the guy is upfront about the costs to him and even has a
running total on donations. It costs about $225/month.
Latest topic: Mingus’s secret eggnog recipe.

On another forum, we lost a relatively young, very frequent
poster (from Denmark) of avant/experimental music back
around October, so we’re devoting a year-long thread to him
next week talking about his influence on our musical lives.
Latest topic: mostly just talking about year-end lists of ours
and others. (Both of those forums have respected music
journalists who’ve written for major publications and
Bandcamp, so there’s a healthy dose of year-end stuff).

I’ve been watching another music site that I may end up
on in March, but they’re really into music lists all-year
round which is kind of a time-consuming black hole
that I’m still debating if I want to be involved in.

… and that’s just some music ones …

There are some other good ones out there,
but, again, if anyone wants to start a site like this one
(if Psychoblather gets flushed down the googling turd hole),
you can do so with donation help if you don’t have the regular funds.

[Plankton]

When an instrument related forum got 86'ed a while back someone created a temp one through proboards:

https://www.proboards.com/

It helped to bring everyone back together until the issues were solved with the original site. It also helped that someone had a bunch of email addresses from a lot of the members.

Anyone remember BBS's? How about Chat Rooms?

[Plankton]

What about Datcord?

[rostasi]

I prefer Duhuddercord.

[adidasss]

Isn't discord chat+video? Do conversations stay recorded? It doesn't sound like a replacement to a forum.

[Marie Monday]

It's text, call, and video. Less ability to preserve and look up old posts, but the call and video options are a big advantage

[The Batlord]

Just imagine having your parentage disparaged by myself while being able to see the fried chicken bits falling from my beard onto my nude body as I recline like Dionysus on my bare mattress on the floor.

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by Tristan_Geoff

Please join our discord!!

^ That's very kind of you Tristan. Thanks. Perhaps I'll take a look over the holidays.

Originally Posted by Marie Monday

It's text, call, and video. Less ability to preserve and look up old posts, but the call and video options are a big advantage

Thanks for clarifying, Marie. TBH I'm not sure about chatting in real time. I quite like what we have here, which gives us time to pause, reflect and compose.
I'm not sure I'm ready to take this relationship to the next level.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Just imagine having your parentage disparaged by myself while being able to see the fried chicken bits falling from my beard onto my nude body as I recline like Dionysus on my bare mattress on the floor.

Difficult to resist a sales pitch like that...