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Originally posted by the_gamemaster You said there is no trance scene there

Yeah, in Goa. All there is is sparse raves and psy-trance events.
It's become heavily commercialised now. I don't know about the rest of Asia, but personally, I don't see the need and the feasibility of a separate forum.

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Originally posted by Ian 5) It just wouldn't work. We need less minority groups & more people banding together on the main forums like this one. TA used to be a lot more diverse but now most people only use their subforum because of how things are here.

I would have to disagree. Subforums are the best way to actually meet people in real life at parties. TA is more than just talking about music (MD), it's also about meeting music friends at gigs, and subforums are the best way to do that.

We can have individual subforums for obscure locales like Norway, Israel, but you want to stomp your foot down for a huge asian populace? Lame.

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Originally posted by Porky We can have individual subforums for obscure locales like Norway, Israel, but you want to stomp your foot down for a huge asian populace? Lame.

The reasons for that is that we have/had users to make those subforums worthwhile (although the norwegian one is quiet) whereas the majority of Asian users are based in other countries, all over europe, north america etc. We have a few, but not many, active users that are based over a huge variety of countries. As I see it, say we add an indian sub-forum, people from maybe china, lebanon or malaysia could argue that they're due one too. It's just such a big area, with so many areas that lumping it into a big subforum like the spanish/portuguese speaking one would not work, especially with the number of languages spoken from country to country, it'd be a bit of a nightmare in that sense.

As for the first comment you brought up. Yeah, local forums have uses, but when it distracts from the community as a whole (like when we had people who'd use both local forums AND the main ones) then it's a bad thing.

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Originally posted by Ian Yeah, local forums have uses, but when it distracts from the community as a whole (like when we had people who'd use both local forums AND the main ones) then it's a bad thing.

no.

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Originally posted by Porky no.

Yes. This place was great when people mixed with others & discussed freely. You'd find people from all sorts of countries who'd find friends/allies and that brought a healthy level of banter. Whilst local forums have their purpose, they should never be anything other than secondary. There are way too many people now who never go outside their local forums and it detracts from the website. Adding more local forums therefore should be done extremely carefully and not because people 'demand' it.

I see however that you decided to disregard my other points, probably because you know as well as I do that they're spot on.

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Originally posted by Ian Yes. This place was great when people mixed with others & discussed freely. You'd find people from all sorts of countries who'd find friends/allies and that brought a healthy level of banter. Whilst local forums have their purpose, they should never be anything other than secondary. There are way too many people now who never go outside their local forums and it detracts from the website. Adding more local forums therefore should be done extremely carefully and not because people 'demand' it. I see however that you decided to disregard my other points, probably because you know as well as I do that they're spot on.

This has to do more with the layout of TA as a forum.

I have a similar forum myself (albeit it being hardstyle), and there is a clear distinct between the local subforums and the main forums. In fact most people who participate in the local forums see the main forums as primary and the local forums as secondary.

Additionally, before adding more forums TA should fix one very important issue; that being UTF-8 Unicode support. Without this local forums for Asian countries make absolutely no sense.

Feel free to check out my forum where I have succesfully intergrated subforums in other character sets like Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Russian amongst others

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Originally posted by LiquidNitrogen I demand an asian forum on TA

I demand that you stop demanding such demanding demands!

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