#220

Proper laughed at this :grinning::+1:

#221

ā€ŖC L A R I F I C A T I O Nā€¬
ā€Ŗā˜‘ļø Our forums will remain open and activeā€¬
ā€ŖāŒ No more reviews or interviews will be comissioned for the foreseeable futureā€¬
ā€Ŗā˜‘ļø Some editorial will run on our social channels and Medium blogā€¬
ā€Ŗā˜‘ļø 19 years of articles & posts will still be availableā€¬

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#222

Lovely formatting

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#223

Anyone would think I do social media for a living :wink:

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#224

@sean you should be very proud of what you have created and the work youve done for this. I dont think you get enough thanks

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#225

This place means a lot to me and while things have not looked so good for the main site Iā€™ve often mused upon an exit strategy should the place disappear. Iā€™d hate for this community to disappear into the the ether. But I think we can trust @sean not to just switch the lights off on us - if it ever came to the point where it would be better for him to cut ties with the forum Iā€™m sure heā€™d give us time to find an alternative hang out.

Itā€™s a really sad day for the main site - I was chatting with some dudes from Echoes and Dust (a couple of whom have written for DiS too) and they were saying how important itā€™s been for the UK music scene over the past couple of decades. We can be quite flippant about the actual Drowned in Sound on here but itā€™s been hugely important for a great number of bands and readers over the years. I guess what Iā€™m saying is that I know this place is our home and weā€™re bound to worry but cut the big man some slack, yeah?

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#226

At the end of the day, itā€™s a game of two halves.

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#227

I would literally not be half the nerd and half the cool cat I am without the main site.

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#228

I used to doink 4-6 lasses a year before i found this place.

Tempted to sue Sean, tbh.

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#229

Absolutely gutted!! Iā€™ve gone on this site pretty much everyday since 2006ā€¦
although much more of a lurker these daysā€¦

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#230

I reckon theyā€™d get picked apart pretty effortlessly, tbh. Terrible JAGs are always good funā€¦

#231

JAG

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#232
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#233

Mate. This must feel utterly gut-wrenching.

Not that itā€™s come entirely out of the blue. So my main hope is that when you come out the other side, the weight of worry (that I presume youā€™ve been carrying) is hugely lifted.

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#234

Would be really cool if the legacy of this forum (on top of the twenty years of shared music, etc) is an ongoing safe space and support network for people with mental health problems.

I donā€™t think iā€™ll ever be able to stop posting on the boards in their current form, iā€™ve done so virtually every day for twelve years, so a selfish part of me would probably see the day the doors close as a chance to sort of move on

Weird innit, that balance of needing a network versus relying on the net a bit too much, idk. Think iā€™m probably in quite a unique position of having been here virtually since day dot (nobody posted before 2005 letā€™s be honest) but having used the forum as a complete disconnect from IRL.

Bit neurotic admittedlyā€¦

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#235

@sean I think how quickly a bunch of people, who werenā€™t quite sure about the future of these forums, leapt into contingency planning, speaks massively for how important what you created is for a lot of people. Iā€™m really sorry about the closure of some of DiS. Since a colleague frist shared a a Mogwai news article with me back in 2005, Iā€™ve been coming here almost daily and have found so much great music and made some of my best friends and even first met my wife through here. Thank you for everything, and for keeping the boards running.

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#236

Been a member for a decade I think, and i found this place thanks to the brilliant reviews and features on the main site - when I was a student and thought I was the coolest indie kid in the world.

Kind of lost the passion for new music now, but still very sad to hear this.

Since joining Iā€™ve gone through break ups, depression, bereavements, illnesses, fertility treatment failures and other challenging times.

Stopping for a moment, even when right in the middle of something awful, to read something banal on these forums has really helped.

Cheers @sean

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#237

Youā€™re the one whoā€™s out of order here mate. Lay the fuck off Eric. He made reasonable comment to the suggestion that we delete the music board of a forum associated with music lovers.

Generally this feels quite positive although possibly this is because I was imagining you just having to close the entire site down. Will you have to move the old content to another site or redesign the existing site to streamline it for lower costs to keep the archive?

Anyway, itā€™s amazing youā€™ve kept this site running for so long. Good work.

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#238

Exactly this. Iā€™ve offered to do some consultancy for a designer to do some of this and then need to find someone to do the more technical shifts away from Heroku which is the expensive bit.

#239

Okay this sounds good. I guess creating just bare HTML might be good? Obviously the best option would be to get it hosted for free on something like Wordpress.org via a URL point, right, but I guess that messes with google unless you can make sure an SEO-friendly URL like
http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4152302-idles-smash-it-in-sheffield
is mimicked on Wordpressā€¦ and it wouldnā€™t be.

Thatā€™s the key thing I guess. Iā€™m guessing Static HTML would be the best for value, right? So you could use htaccess to reformat any URL like that to include .html on the end then create a raw HTML version. Then any hosting you need wouldnā€™t have to include a DB or anything, it would just need to be most Geocities of setups?