Under the Thum

[Serial_Apologist]

The state of jazz message boards is interesting. The old Bluenote MB in the States blew up over to turn to fringe jazz artists, the successor Jazz Corner in Newark deeply fragmented over the 2003 Iraq war and beyond, and sheer burden of administering it. There was a Bluenote review board on Amazon that was taken down overnight. Organissimo (States) is good when it's good, but seems to be a victim of age, collectiveitis and stamp collecting. This board is fine and I'm grateful but it's only the core now left. If people care about jazz they do so differently and are less inclined to do so online. The lights are going out all over ...

It's a well-know fact that philately will get you anywhere. Ian and I agreed and disagreed equally over things he wrote insightfully about and others where he showed lack of informativeness and ran on gut feelings. Ian wasn't always exactly diplomatic when putting forward strongly held views very much his own on this forum, including about other members, where good manners count for everything if you're to avoid excommunication, especially when venturing outside the jazz realm where we tend to speak our minds.

[FRJames]

I follow several forums on the internet - mainly music, film & hi-fi. In all cases the level of activity has been steadily decreasing over the last few years. A search on the subject of the current state of internet forums shows that my experience is not uncommon. I think it simply the case that forums have largely been overtaken by social media and collective discussion platforms eg reddit, facebook. The forums I follow are all gradually reducing to small cores, or perhaps cliques, of longer term users. Just a case of 'Everything Changes', even when you don't want it to.

[Joseph K]

The state of jazz message boards is interesting. The old Bluenote MB in the States blew up over to turn to fringe jazz artists, the successor Jazz Corner in Newark deeply fragmented over the 2003 Iraq war and beyond, and sheer burden of administering it. There was a Bluenote review board on Amazon that was taken down overnight. Organissimo (States) is good when it's good, but seems to be a victim of age, collectiveitis and stamp collecting. This board is fine and I'm grateful but it's only the core now left. If people care about jazz they do so differently and are less inclined to do so online. The lights are going out all over ...

The only other message board I post on is the Jazz Guitar Forum. It's a good place with a good number of users, including some professionals among its regular users, and it's a good place for people like myself who are trying to get it together. I guess much if not most its content is for practitioners rather than solely listeners, though.

[Joseph K]

It's a well-know fact that philately will get you anywhere. Ian and I agreed and disagreed equally over things he wrote insightfully about and others where he showed lack of informativeness and ran on gut feelings. Ian wasn't always exactly diplomatic when putting forward strongly held views very much his own on this forum, including about other members, where good manners count for everything if you're to avoid excommunication, especially when venturing outside the jazz realm where we tend to speak our minds.

Yeah, insulting people isn't cool, especially when it's unprovoked. He only had himself to blame.

[french frank]

I think this thread has served its purpose.