I'm in four different forums and all of them are having really low posting lately...
 
(Must be me... )

No, your post rate is excellent craigb. I blame it on bapu.

There seems to be a distinct lack of the triple B's:  Bapu, Beagle and becan.

Web forums are getting very slow.  Music forums may be especially hit, as music professionals; and people who at one point in time earned their middle class, "fun in the sun," from music, haven't really got a pretty penny from their precious noise anymore.

Forget the grammy winners, the just in bibbers, and the lady gag.on.it's.  The real back bone of music audio, forums, and businesses, were the guys who did the 10 hour days, and made $40,000 - $200,000 a year.   Well..   Those guys are all but gone.

It doesn't matter if I'm a good musician.  I make exactly $0.00 from my music.  I can't find the time to play around with it, got bills to pay.  Can't find the time to buy a whole bunch of software, or instruments, cause I can't find the time to play music.  Bills to pay.

I just come on the forums when I can now.  Trying to find some way in my, "real world," life to use my digital media/audio production skills.

What is this "real world" you speak of and where can I get one?

I used to live in a real world once.

No, not really.

I've always wondered....in my own world...and heard that there were 999,999 or so guitar
pickers in Nashville. I kinda figured that a place for musicians would be smokin'.
Maybe the fire went out in the early eighties. I know Jeff and I wrote a "Slow" song that can be heard at Mix.........Bapu might not be here but I did learn about pluggin' from him!

To me, the whole web seems odd lately. Bugs and all...  
 
For example, one of things I've noticed becoming real frequent is w/ image files - corruption in graphics - like half the picture all pixelized and green -  image that won't display at all then get back after I hit refresh a few times. Everywhere - here, on FB, searching w/ Google.

Maybe it a Mac/Safari/Mail issue. It also seems to be worst since we've moved here. But we have the same provider, so I'm guessing that it's probably something more global than that.

But, yeah, this place feels like it's dying - how often have you seen only 4 or 5 topics active in the last 24 hours?


That being said, sometimes, when I cannot post or reply for a few hours like tonight, I end up thinking that maybe a lot of people are experiencing the same bugs and just gave up.

And we've lost people.

Come to think of it, how about all the other B's? 

Bub. (Well, technically, he posted upstairs not long ago and we know he's left).

Beepster - I was thinking about him today - where's Beepster, man? 

Britney Spears, Beyonce, Bjork, Bananarama, the Bangles - none of them posted recently either. Coincidence?

Then Bapu and Beagle.

Jubilee, I haven't heard of in a while. Craig Dubuc. And that's just a few names off the top of my head.

Seriously, we've lost people man... And the fact that they don't come around makes it easy to skip a day every now and then.

 
 The weather is getting nicer out, lots of people are either getting busier at their jobs or finding other  activities temporarily. 

 And.. we still have the longest running thread in the history of mankind!!!

 Quality over quantity right? I don't feel like this place is dying but maybe my definition of dying is different.


 The forum is ours to make of what  we want.

 If the forum is disappointing lets hear some suggestions...better yet, why not post something you want to discuss?

Starise


 
...better yet, why not post something you want to discuss?

Becan?
 
(I never tire of that subject.)