Like, would you ever really engage with DiS elsewhere?
Should I look to do more Twitter Spaces (really love how Tortoise uses theirs) or Instagram Lives or have a Dischord channel for things that might work better as a chat room-like flow of conversation (I can’t think of good examples outside of something like the finale of Breaking Bad or World Cup or when Glastonbury is on telly)
your website is helping me a lot
I’d be surprised if many people from this forum would shift across to those, or use them in addition to the Discourse platform.
You might get a few people who engage with the twitter or facebook accounts doing it, but I don’t think there’s much overlap between them and here.
Part of me does think that it’s a shame that the likes of twitter, facebook, instagram etc have effectively killed off just about every active forum bar reddit and mumsnet these days.
Maybe it’s a generational thing, but I like forums better than the socials, or Reddit, or discord or whatever. Don’t think I would be reading stuff all the time if this place was in one of those forms.
I can’t stand Discord. I just find it impossible to keep track of different conversations.
It’s like I’ve always said, a forum is only as good as the people posting on it.
I wouldn’t want to shift, but let’s say I had an interview with Trent Reznor or Ryan from Pitchfork or Lizzo… it would make more sense on those platforms than an Reddit-style AMA on the forums, potentially. And then be available as a podcast for on demand, etc.
Sometimes a forum thread can be A LOT to stumble into, which perhaps explains why, despite these huge stats, we don’t get a lot of newbies (a few people sign up every day but don’t end up posting or becoming regulars).
There are plenty of threads that I wish I had 2 hours to get into the weeds of and understand the full discussion but anything over 100 replies is hard to grasp it all, especially when there’s a lot of in jokes and things, which is also what makes this place so magical once you become a regular.
And like, even the threads like the ambient one, which I love, is impossible to keep up with unless you check it for an hour or two every week, and annoyingly I rarely have time to carve out to explore all the amazing recommendations in the way that I might if there was a good summary or really amazing things were filtered out by certain community members at a time when I was actively looking for a recommendation.
A disgrace of a website. How did it get to be that popular with that layout?
‘pornography’
It depends how active they are. I’m in a few that are quite tumbleweed but the different channels are really rich - and, like Slack, are easy to mute then dip into when you want to check them. Their audio quality for their audio rooms is also really brilliant!
I barely comment on your Facebook posts to be honest - I get weirdly embarrassed if my uncle Keith can read my bad jokes and musical opinions.
(I know that he could read this - and I look forward to the joke account @unclekeith replying to this - but he doesn’t get a notification on his Facebook saying "[CCB] commented on Drowned In Sound’s post)
Ask Amazon 
Think they prefer seventeen seconds over there
Big Neneh Cherry fans
Who isn’t
Nope.
keith
Forums are great, aren’t they.
