I know what we could do, let's invite Susan back ! Good idea Thal ? I reckon she’d fancy you with your new body.
A platform to do collaborative music would be a nice feature - realtime online duets, with the option of posting the result in the audition room after the fact. Being able to do 2p4h across the internet within a community that truly appreciates the music and can bring forth meaningful discussion from it would be something quite valuable. I would be interested improvising alongside a number of people on here.
Understandably, there were some users in the past that abused editing posts, but those instances could be considered vary rare. I urge the admins to consider updating the edit policy.
It appears that people still can't make unpaid accounts on this site.
The audition room is the best part of the forum. It is a treasure trove of good and, sometimes, quite excellent recordings made by people who on the whole don't have significant public exposure.The amount of utterly inconsequential drivel which clutters up some of the other parts of the forum is a shame, but an inevitable facet of the internet.
... If the members don't care about the core of it, then what's the point?
There has been no word on turning back on the free membership option which I think is what has the most strangling effect on posts.
It's just the free membership that is killing this forum really. Pianoworld has members who chuck hissy fits and are very insecure, just have a look at how they responded to me in this thread: https://forum.pianoworld.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/2843617/always-build-up-never-break-down.htmlSo the way people interact is no different really.
Pianostreet is moderated much better than pianoworld imho, at least here the admin don't limit freedom of discussion or contribute to threads just to impose their authority, on pianoworld have enough cry babies on there who band together and they can influence moderators (especially when they are buddies, hows that for unbaised moderation?) Sure we have useless arguments here but thats no different to other places online, it shouldn't surprise users. I had those parrots try to overtake my thread I showed above, I think they got very angry when I responded constantly and added to my thread some free knowledge to share with others. Funny that on a teachers forum they want to limit free knowledge and cry and complain, like I said, so many delicate petals and insecure people on pianoworld who like to cry to moderators so they can have their safe space lol.
And I just read both Sorabji's thread. No wonders that this forum is empty. And will be even more. All of you are sitting in your own bunkers and throwing grenads to each other, and thinking that this is funny. Each of you posting there thinks "my word is perfect and if someone thinks differently is an idiot whom I do not even want to try to understand".If I would be new, and find this topic, I would go away and go to another forum (PW, ABRSM). On PW if do not kiss your opponent ass you will be kicked off, but tha'ts another story.
I believe its dying because its not easy for phone use. Almost eveyone now uses purley a phone and rarely a computer aside from work. Thats why reddits and instagram are more sucessful currenlty, its soley because those are phone based applications. I understand that you can use it ona phone, but its not as easy to use because its not an app. Most people nowadays dont want to go on their computer to type when they can message whilst on the train or travelling. I thinks the decline is soley because phones have became the dominant medium for these sorts of "social" apps (social in quotation marks because they are anything but!). Maybe if they just made a phone app with a friendlier ui(for phone) and notifications on trending posts and responses to your posts, it could reach a wider audience. But im not sure.
That's a good point. There is disrupting tech on its way set to make mobile phones a thing of the past (stylish and unintrusive wearable AR glasses), I've heard 2027 is the year, let's hope that's true!