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This place is pretty dead, really
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| Vector A |
I can remember five or six years ago when TA was really hopping, new threads all the time, new members posting every day.
Now it's pretty much going to the tumbleweeds. I guess this is only natural as trance has gotten more and more disreputable over the years and people started getting into electronic music mostly through different avenues, but I am noticing it a lot more since I started posting regularly on some really lively boards (not music-related). If I stay away from those places more than a day, I feel like I miss quite a bit and have some interesting threads to catch up on. But if I do that here, hardly anything has happened in my time away.
You can see it easily right here in this forum, e.g. go to page 500 and it takes you back to March 2008, but go to page 1000 and it takes you back less than two years before that (June 2006).
Of course, I realize there are still probably a few hundred posts per day here or something, so it is hardly "dead" yet in an absolute sense. But it definitely seems to be on its way there, compared to its old self. |
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| Quazar |
Most trance conversation now is relegated to Twitter and Facebook. Most of the younger, newer trance fans I know follow tons of DJs/producers on twitter, and the artists are actually active and opinionated and tweet alot, respond to fans, etc.
Say what you will about the quality of the music, but trance as a genre is still immensely popular. It's just that most of the fans are now younger (since the older fans moved to other genres) and the younger age groups don't come from the message board era. |
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| Vector A |
| Yeah, I'm sure that's a factor as well. |
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| Lilith |
| Facebook, relatively dead genre of music and probably Stu. |
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| Sushipunk |
Yes, obviously, I killed Tranceaddict.
I also shot JR. |
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| Meat187 |
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| lostpsyte |
| Everyone who used to listen to trance just took too much mdma and it fried their brain. They're no longer able to use the internet. |
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| Vector A |
| quote: | Originally posted by lostpsyte
Everyone who used to listen to trance just took too much mdma and it fried their brain. They're no longer able to use the internet. |
An intriguing theory!
However, judging by the generally declining Plur Quotient (PQ) of trance boards, including this one, I think that probably fewer people are getting into or enjoying trance by means of MDMA. |
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| Sushipunk |
Quality of ecstasy drops, quality of trance forums drop.
You can't explain that! |
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
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:stongue: :stongue: |
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| 6meets9 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vector A
I can remember five or six years ago when TA was really hopping, new threads all the time, new members posting every day.
Now it's pretty much going to the tumbleweeds. I guess this is only natural as trance has gotten more and more disreputable over the years and people started getting into electronic music mostly through different avenues, but I am noticing it a lot more since I started posting regularly on some really lively boards (not music-related). If I stay away from those places more than a day, I feel like I miss quite a bit and have some interesting threads to catch up on. But if I do that here, hardly anything has happened in my time away.
You can see it easily right here in this forum, e.g. go to page 500 and it takes you back to March 2008, but go to page 1000 and it takes you back less than two years before that (June 2006).
Of course, I realize there are still probably a few hundred posts per day here or something, so it is hardly "dead" yet in an absolute sense. But it definitely seems to be on its way there, compared to its old self. |
I don't think it has hardly anything to do with trance or whatever your preference is in music. I think it also has a lot to do with the fact that a certain few have made tranceaddict their territory with an obvious "no trespassing" mentality and try to do anything to chase away any new members. Also, I'm sure a lot of people eventually got fed up with all the bull or just grew up and moved on and am sure have full-time jobs and families now. |
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