Van Basten II Posted August 17, 2013 Report Posted August 17, 2013 Thing is that boards or forums are so 2003... I tend to agree with you on that point. It is my theory that with so many people, especially younger people, now accessing the internet on smartphones, often while they are on the run or doing something else at the same time, that forums or boards are more difficult to use, and thus less popular. I access the internet sometimes on my smartphone, and sometimes on my desktop PC. It is in fact more difficult for me to read a forum on a smartphone. The type is so small on the screen, and it is often more difficult to view artwork within a post, or to access and read links within a post. It is also much more difficult to type out a post of any length on a smartphone. So the smartphone generation turns to Twitter, where the messages are all very short and easy to type into a phone. It takes a certain amount of attention, focus and ability to easily read on the device you are using, to participate in a forum, and it is not that easy to do all that when you are on the run with a smartphone. Exactly, the Facebook and the Twitters have taken over in terms of communication which makes these boards moot for certain types of communication,, especially short brief ones, logically it should mean for boards like ours less action and less postings but hopefully deeper ones. Also as you mentionned the new tools we use to communicate nowadays don't work that well with "old school ways" of communicating such as a forum. Quote
disaac Posted August 18, 2013 Report Posted August 18, 2013 Thing is that boards or forums are so 2003... That's actually a pretty modern outlook considering that most of us are stuck on music from the 20's through the 70's. B-) Stuck. Nah -- all of this music was hundreds of years ahead of its time... Quote
sonnymax Posted August 18, 2013 Report Posted August 18, 2013 Exactly, the Facebook and the Twitters have taken over in terms of communication which makes these boards moot for certain types of communication,, especially short brief ones, logically it should mean for boards like ours less action and less postings but hopefully deeper ones. Deeper posts? Aside from the "What are you listening to now?" thread, the other "discussion" that gets the most attention here (with 10,480 replies and 485,129 views) is . . . "sexiest album covers". Sad. Quote
mjzee Posted August 18, 2013 Report Posted August 18, 2013 I think the structure of a bulletin board is very conducive to what we discuss. Most of our posts would just get lost in a continuous feed a la Facebook. The one thing we lack is an index of musician threads. Quote
7/4 Posted August 18, 2013 Author Report Posted August 18, 2013 I think the structure of a bulletin board is very conducive to what we discuss. Most of our posts would just get lost in a continuous feed a la Facebook. The one thing we lack is an index of musician threads. FB sucks for discussions. It's not really set up for serious discussion. Quote
Scott Dolan Posted August 18, 2013 Report Posted August 18, 2013 No, it isn't You can have protracted discussions there, but it comes across in a very clunky fashion. Quote
xybert Posted August 18, 2013 Report Posted August 18, 2013 Exactly, the Facebook and the Twitters have taken over in terms of communication which makes these boards moot for certain types of communication,, especially short brief ones, logically it should mean for boards like ours less action and less postings but hopefully deeper ones. Deeper posts? Aside from the "What are you listening to now?" thread, the other "discussion" that gets the most attention here (with 10,480 replies and 485,129 views) is . . . "sexiest album covers". Sad. I guess the (slightly flawed) analogy would be a motorcycle club. The club forms around people's mutual love of motorcycles, but a lot of the time when they gather they just have a beer and shoot the shit about random stuff. Every now and again some one will ride in their new bike and then that'll spark an in depth discussion about the merits of this type of wheel or that brand of muffler etc. Or there'll be a controversial article in Motorcycle Monthly... i guess it would be the same on a bulletin board dedicated to motorcycles as it is here... the 'album cover/what are you listening to' threads/posts keep the embers burning... The way i think that facebook and twitter have affected bulletin boards is that there are people that really just want a bit of interaction online... they might realise that their love of jazz has been keeping them coming here, but really they hardly actually ever discuss jazz. They realise that they are perfectly happy scratching that 'online interaction itch' via their facebook friends and quietly withdraw from showing up at the 'jazz club' regularly. Quote
Ligeti Posted August 25, 2013 Report Posted August 25, 2013 Hello all. I am (was) a member of AAJ's forum, but have finally found my way here. I used to post there every now and again, and thought it was odd that is just switched off. Surely they could have sent out an email blast to members about the extended time off? A little strange, no? Still, I'm sure it's a lot of work for them. To be honest I have never used the rest of their site, so getting updates has been impossible. I don't have a facebook account, and don't use Twitter. On the other hand, I'm on the net 24/7, seven days a week. So - hello again! Quote
A Lark Ascending Posted August 25, 2013 Report Posted August 25, 2013 Hello Ligeti, Sure you'll find lots of interest here. It's a diverse place with lots of enthusiasm for music (and other things) expressed in a variety of ways. Quote
jazzbo Posted August 25, 2013 Report Posted August 25, 2013 Welcome Ligeti! Please read and post, join us. Quote
xybert Posted August 25, 2013 Report Posted August 25, 2013 Hi Ligeti, as a newbie myself it's probably not my place to welcome you here but welcome anyway! I also used to post on AAJ, funnily enough joined here not long before the AAJ BB went down. They had mentioned that changes were coming at some point in the future but there was no warning that the board would be going down when it did. Would've been nice if only to have the opportunity to PM a few regulars... i guess most would know that Organissimo exists and will hopefully make their way over here too (thinking about it they may already be here under different handles). Cheers. Quote
Tom Storer Posted August 26, 2013 Report Posted August 26, 2013 What's this? New blood in a jazz message board? <faints dead away> Quote
Bluesnik Posted August 26, 2013 Report Posted August 26, 2013 Thing is that boards or forums are so 2003... That is true and it's something I've been thinking lots of times. But the thing is they're still there, because they offer a good way of communicating around a topic. And the very social networks come from here... There was another forum I followed and around 2006/2007 it had the same thought and went Twitter. Since then I don't follow it any more. Quote
BERIGAN Posted August 27, 2013 Report Posted August 27, 2013 Well, AAJ forum is still down...odd. Hadn't signed in there in years. Perhaps forums will become cool down the road . Records aren't what people under 30 grew up on, same thing with forums. Someday in the near future, hipsters will overload the servers posting thousands of deep and insightful posts on jazz! Quote
docbop Posted August 27, 2013 Report Posted August 27, 2013 I asked AAJ about the forums and all they said was there is a big problem that is also expensive to so at this point no idea when forums will be back. Sad they were great place for discussing Jazz both improv and approaches as well as Jazz in general. Quote
Tom 1960 Posted August 28, 2013 Report Posted August 28, 2013 Welcome guys! I hope your board comes back soon? In the meantime, make yourself at home and get involved in the many great discussions. Quote
Jerry_L Posted August 28, 2013 Report Posted August 28, 2013 (edited) Welcome guys! I hope your board comes back soon? In the meantime, make yourself at home and get involved in the many great discussions. Yes, many great discussions, as long as they are not about anything political! Edited August 28, 2013 by Jerry_L Quote
JSngry Posted August 28, 2013 Report Posted August 28, 2013 Somebody's missing the boat by not opening a dedicated political board with a jazz sub-forum available for a nominal fee... Quote
Jerry_L Posted August 29, 2013 Report Posted August 29, 2013 (edited) Somebody's missing the boat by not opening a dedicated political board with a jazz sub-forum available for a nominal fee... Maybe I'll register and start a jazz thread at politicalforum.com. Don't seem to be too many jazz fans there, though. Edited August 29, 2013 by Jerry_L Quote
7/4 Posted August 31, 2013 Author Report Posted August 31, 2013 Now I can't surf AAJ on any of the three browsers on my machine. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/ opens and I can't scroll down on any page. They're having some serious problems there! I was thinking maybe there was some issue with Chrome on my machine, but it's doing this on IE and Firefox too. Quote
jazzbo Posted August 31, 2013 Report Posted August 31, 2013 Works fine for me. NO forum yet however. Quote
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