MrKnobs wrote:Honest question (meaning I don't have a clue), to what do you attribute the decrease in posters / posts here in SSS?
I think it's mostly that this forum is "buried" - the multi-layered menus makes it hard to find it 
. OTOH I think they purposely buried a couple of the forums 
. I'm only able to navigate fine because I have no life at the moment 
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Anderton wrote:Doing a weekly newsletter takes a lot of my time, and I'm not sure that it's worth it given that I defy anyone to figure out how they can sign up for it (let alone know it exists unless someone mentions it in the forums). The pro reviews take a lot of time, but OTOH I think they are worth it - they get a huge number of page views, lots of interaction, and by and large, quality posts.
Yah, damned if I could figure out how to sign up for it. Can you give a brother a clue 
? And yes, I miss the pro reviews, hopefully they will be back soon 
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UstadKhanAli wrote:I'm too lazy to do your searching for you, but I'll give you this link with a guess that if you poke around here long enough, there'll be a link for you to subscribe, and this is very sweet of me.
http://www.harmonycentral.com/t5/Newsletter/HC-Newsletter-Issue-208/ba-p/34726028
There is a broken link there that just goes back to the main HC page but I was able to figure out that it is no longer a newsletter but a Blog and you can subscribe to the Blog if you look around hard enough 
. Or at least I think that will do it 
. Hell, I don't blame Craig for not wanting to spend any time here .
Well, there's the email version of the newsletter, and I can't figure out a way to subscribe unless you register. But they all appear as articles anyway. Simply go:
Music Biz > Stuff > More Stuff > Items of Possible Interest > News-like things > Community of Newsletters > You're almost there > Do not pass go, do not collect $200 > Okay, we'll let you pass go > Newsletters.
Actually, you go Music Biz > Insider Info > Newsletter and all the newsletters are there. So you don't really have to subscribe. The current issue is #208.
)It's up to us to get this forum back to life. We need to round up everybody that was ever a regular contributer to Craig's forum and have a big reunion. I think if we could do that, we could get the forum going again. 
I admit that I drifted away mostly, but the constant site designs and the 27k sub-forums (which I think hurts the whole site) was the cause.
Mainly, the 27k sub-forums. I fail to understand why sites do that. HC isn't the only one. You can't build a solid community when you purpusely fracture it into a million parts. Look at the previous HC. It was like a bunch of different cliques. You'd get hassled when you went into other forums.
And when HC did that first redesign that destroyed years of links from Google, I gave up hope. Back in the day, if you searched anything music/audio/recording/guitar/ect, HC was the main results. I could never understand who thought that was a good idea. I understand needing better infrastructure, but you can't just obliterate years of links to valuable info, just to do a redesign. Entire industries exists just to help entities get top search results on Google/etc. HC had a perfect thing...it was all organic, not SEO bought.
Anyway, I love this forum and all the regulars here. I consider you guys like family. I'd love to see the SSS become active and be a regular stop in my daily activities.
But something must be done about the site software defating my browser's spellcheck. That's enough to annoy me into not using the site. It's the little stuff. And defeating a browser's spellcheck is just retarded.
I'm guessing more than a few of us already have hosting for our various web endeavors and would gladly host a new home for the SSS.
The suggestion makes me think it's actually a good idea. The SSS is far too valuable to be buried in this maelstrom of software hell. Craig, you should jailbreak the forum and just get a url for it and make it an independent site.
I created a clone of HC and SSS back when Jive came here. Click on the angry mob in my sig and see if you can figure out which forum it is . In reality any arsehole with ten minutes to spare can throw up a forum - that's about what it took to do the initial setup back then. I think I've put all of a couple days into fine tuning it over the last three years. Anybody that tells you it takes more than that is full of it. OTOH to migrate all the old posts to here from the old forum was a pretty big task and to move elsewhere would be starting from zero as I'm sure there's no way MF/GC would co-operate with moving the posts to the new "home" .
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