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Is this forum dead? Is there another forum like TA?

Just curious :P

well, facebook ruined everything. there's trancefix, but TA is TA.

remember when the whole page was filled with new posts and it was hard to keep up?

pepperidge farm remembers

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Originally posted by Kilixpree well, facebook ruined everything. there's trancefix, but TA is TA.

You mean with all the little facebook groupies pages that people make and just talk among themselves?

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Originally posted by Spacey Orange remember when the whole page was filled with new posts and it was hard to keep up? pepperidge farm remembers

lol

I started coming here around 2001 and never registered until good music became hard to find with the advent of digital downloads and my local shop closing. I remember so many TAs being pissed when progressive heads flooded MD...wish I could find some of those threads as they were highly entertaining.


TA is like a second family or home for me.

Its honestly not that bad.

Yea, used to be more posts but there is still a steady stream of new threads, especially in the USA section of the site.

You could always try reddit.....but that place is too big , and there is often too many people there, hard to ever have a good chat about a topic

I think age and the amount of time this site has been around.

I'm willing to wager a lot of people that used to be active have moved on from the scene, don't go out as much as they used to. Or they simply don't have enough time anymore to keep up with things, more important things came in the way like their own lives.

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Originally posted by Godking5 Its honestly not that bad. Yea, used to be more posts but there is still a steady stream of new threads, especially in the USA section of the site. You could always try reddit.....but that place is too big , and there is often too many people there, hard to ever have a good chat about a topic

This...

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Originally posted by r5a I think age and the amount of time this site has been around. I'm willing to wager a lot of people that used to be active have moved on from the scene, don't go out as much as they used to. Or they simply don't have enough time anymore to keep up with things, more important things came in the way like their own lives.

and this.

Facebook came along and really killed most conversational/topic forums but TA is still alive and kicking. Some areas are dead (uk subs are a fucking ghost town) but the cor, md, prod, dj forums are pretty bouyant.

There's really nothing ilke TA left and right now, I know more people abandoning FB than joining it - it's really used for grannies to keep in touch with their kids now lol. I probably log in once a week now and most of thr crap is shared from other networks like instagram and twitter anyway. I think TA will weather it all and still be around for a long time.

As long as Swamper doesn't pull the plug, there will be people here.

I grew up on message boards. I was registered on dozens of them. Facebook and others killed off pretty much every single one of them.

I'll be damned if they'll take this one away from me.

Speaking of social networks, TA also has an instagram......but they dont post pictures frequently enough.

TA will weather the storm indeed, all though some slight changes to TA may be a good thing and help attract more people.

But thats a catch 22, because more is not better in most cases, especially since the modern landscape of dance music is out of equilibrium.

Discogs. It was much busier in 2005 and earlier, with the likes of Frankie Bones and Adam X frequently posting. It's similar to TA now, with lots of people having left, etc. but there are still folks with good knowledge in music and some interesting threads and discussions. Much less drama and no circle-jerking, either.

Reddit can definitely be fun but I find it pretty lacking in personality. Independent boards tend to have more distinctive history and character, and also seem to have stabler userbases. Not to mention that the default mode for display on Reddit (threaded, with highest voted at the top) makes for a very different discussion dynamic.

The forum definitely needs to be upgraded to be mobile compatible while still maintaining the look/feel we've all become used to. It is very easy to simply install something out of the box but a formulaic-looking-clone wouldn't 'feel' like TA.

As for FB, the one thing that I miss most on here are the 'reviews' people would post after parties or events. There was something raw and genuine to it all... now, peeps will post a pic or a short video and say AMAZING OMG...#hashtag. Worse yet are the blogs that review these parties and 90% of the time write favourable thing because they want to maintain their media credentials for next time... so you don't know where to go for a genuine, objective writeup on what went down.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery As long as Swamper doesn't pull the plug, there will be people here.

Not gonna happen. I even set things up years ago so that in case one day something happened to me the site would still go on funded for many years ...aka until everyone still posting from the original days would be talking about introducing their grandkids to Trance music.

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Originally posted by Godking5 Speaking of social networks, TA also has an instagram......but they dont post pictures frequently enough.

I run that Insta and I can't disagree with you - I am aiming for more posts in 2016. It is EASY to grab just any old dumb trance/electronic meme and post it but then that doesn't separate you from any of the other million accounts doing that stuff. I'm not against memes but they need to be somewhat unique or original.

What I find the most tacky are the EDM instas who just post nonstop pics of half naked 18 year old girls. Sure you get a ton of likes but it all seems so trashy to me.

http://instagram.com/tranceaddictcom

vBulletin style forums in general are pretty web 1.0 by now, and titles like TranceAddict don't seem to attract as many post-2010 EDM neophytes as you might think* (and the ones that it does attract quickly realize that the name is all but satirical by now). The MD forum has always been more moderately paced than the others, and at this point it's 90% every conceivable variation on "which 1999 classic is your favorite/who was better in their prime (in 1999)", and 10% links to a hot new release you might have otherwise missed. Such as...

http://tranceaddict.com/forums/show...13&forumid=1&s=

*EDIT: I guess it doesn't help that a Google search of "trance forums" turns up TA several down over on the second page.

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Originally posted by Swamper I run that Insta and I can't disagree with you - I am aiming for more posts in 2016. It is EASY to grab just any old dumb trance/electronic meme and post it but then that doesn't separate you from any of the other million accounts doing that stuff. I'm not against memes but they need to be somewhat unique or original. What I find the most tacky are the EDM instas who just post nonstop pics of half naked 18 year old girls. Sure you get a ton of likes but it all seems so trashy to me. http://instagram.com/tranceaddictcom

You should allow people that follow it t o DM the account pictures of nights out, and if they are good enough, you can post those as well. I assume 85% of the people that follow are either us or legitimate and vetted fans. And the other 15% are neophytes that stumbled onto the account via the hashtag and searching trance in the search bar.

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Originally posted by Paradox Lost *EDIT: I guess it doesn't help that a Google search of "trance forums" turns up TA several down over on the second page.

I attribute that to need for better on site SEO.

Also i checked and it seems that TA is running some facebook custom audience and google analytics scripts. If they wanted too, they could easily run facebook ads to a targeted audience and recruit new members. Same for Instagram and other social networks.

Ads have much higher ROI than organic social media posting,

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Originally posted by Godking5 I attribute that to need for better on site SEO. Also i checked and it seems that TA is running some facebook custom audience and google analytics scripts. If they wanted too, they could easily run facebook ads to a targeted audience and recruit new members. Same for Instagram and other social networks.

Trouble with attracting new members is we always end up eating them alive within the first few posts.

Wtf is that instagram Swamprar. Someone suspend this pleb.

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Originally posted by MSZ Wtf is that instagram Swamprar. Someone suspend this pleb.

....its Swampers

^ lol he's trolling

the last that had to go was digitally imported. Its kinda sad where these electronica boards had to go. They used to be a vibrant community hosting winamp streams, exchanging party info/sets, dedicated 90s nostalgia trips or just goofing around in md. Those that are kinda around are now either ghosttowns, haven for bots or just plain ad revenue (GHF, philosomatika, Euroadrenalin, eurodancehits, di) RIP

I'm glad that tranceaddict is still around though after all these years. Even though i don't post much, it doesn't take alot to notice theres still a small thriving community keeping it altogether

and of course..
Thanks Swamper!

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Originally posted by Icesotope the last that had to go was digitally imported.

Oh wow, had no idea that DI pulled the plug on their forums. I suppose it makes a bit of sense, as DI has grown into a massive and reputable for-profit streaming service that probably wants to avoid being held in any way responsible for what happens on its forums, and cutting them is a whole lot less work than policing them.

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Originally posted by Swamper The forum definitely needs to be upgraded to be mobile compatible while still maintaining the look/feel we've all become used to. It is very easy to simply install something out of the box but a formulaic-looking-clone wouldn't 'feel' like TA. As for FB, the one thing that I miss most on here are the 'reviews' people would post after parties or events. There was something raw and genuine to it all... now, peeps will post a pic or a short video and say AMAZING OMG...#hashtag. Worse yet are the blogs that review these parties and 90% of the time write favourable thing because they want to maintain their media credentials for next time... so you don't know where to go for a genuine, objective writeup on what went down.

Couldn't agree more, what really separated this forum for other places was the ability to get opinions on clubs/nights/festivals. This still occurs in the USA forums, but sad to see it gone from the main section.

While SEO would draw more people to TA, it's really not as simple as just saying it.

Firstly Google changed their algorithm last year to favor mobile sites, so SEO on the current forum would do little to nothing to affect page ranking.

The danger with mobile sites though is that you lose the big picture content; I have yet to have someone show me a mobile site that gives the same functionality as the desktop version. Even XDA haven't cracked it and those guys are the very bleeding edge of mobile tech forums and very well funded.

What I'm worried about with TA 2.0(m) is losing the random content and stumbling across things I keywords never would have seen. It's the zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance of forums; There's no where that you can get advice on spatial panning eq's and one click later be in a discussion about how much Australia sucks or incredible photography or jay's penile ebola secretions.

The nights out aspect is a big draw but don't stay in was all about that and they struggled like hell with the ebb and flow of clubbing popularity.

A mobile version would bring new people but the desktop can't be forgotten. A lot of people use TA as an escape from the studio or work and mobile just doesn't have the same grip, feel or content that TA has been able to provide for 16 years now.

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