How To Improve This Place

**Marie Monday** · 05-09-2021, 05:17 AM

There's no blogging.

adidasss · 05-09-2021, 05:40 AM

Curious, I wonder if that was ever an active feature. There's some kind of a remnant of an idea in the user CP.

Trollheart · 05-09-2021, 06:17 AM

If you want to blog, start a journal. It's more or less the same thing. And no longer relies on entries being authorised by the mods.

Mucha na Dziko · 05-09-2021, 12:29 PM

why so?

**Frownland** · 05-09-2021, 12:30 PM

Spite.

Trollheart · 05-09-2021, 02:08 PM

Blame Biden.

SGR · 05-09-2021, 04:07 PM

I blame Norg

Trollheart · 05-09-2021, 05:43 PM

Good call

adidasss · 05-09-2021, 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mucha na Dziko

why so?

Yeah so just to give you an actual answer, nobody has improved this place in 15 years. No upgrades to the software have been made, and I think we have little to no communication with the owners (who if I'm not mistaken, are Polish). We are more or less abandoned. If a feature doesn't work, it's very likely it will stay that way.

But as Trollheart noted, the journals section is basically like blogging so if that's what you're looking to do, that's the way to do it.

Guybrush · 05-11-2021, 05:47 AM

Having so recently resurfaced, I wanted to make a comment.

One of the reasons I left so many years ago was basically the points brought up in the first post here. I had made several requests to owners/Yac that they do stuff like update forum software. I'm pretty sure I even offered to do it for them for free, although I did realize it was unlikely they'd give me the logins. Anyways, I did my share of crying about this but was told that the meager profits MB generated meant that updates etc. didn't make sense from a cost perspective. Also, they were afraid of unintentionally breaking things.

It pissed me off because what they're basically doing is exploiting the community, us fine guys and gals. We generate the content that will show up in google searches or otherwise pull people in and generate ad-clicks that doesn't just come from bots. I didn't think a BBPress update was too much to ask. In a way, if you care too much about MB in its current state, you'll suffer for that. It's sad how they run it that way.

The logical conclusion to the problem for me at that time was an organized exodus from musicbanter. It's easy peasy. Give me or someone else here who's a little tech savvy half an hour or two and we'll have musicbanter 2.0 up and running on a new domain. Possibly a patreon or something similar could be set up to cover costs, although it can be done quite cheap (hosting isn't that expensive and there's lots of free forum software). People could bring over the content they wanted to preserve.

I suggested this emphatically, but the idea didn't catch. Maybe some saw it as mutiny, although I feel that loyalty to the community could align well with a migration to someplace else. Staying here is loyalty to advameg and what have they done the last X years to deserve it?

So that has a lot to do with why I left in the first place. Coming back, I see the same old BBPress and I guess we're all lucky it's still browser compatible. Still, it's been nice being back. While I still think the community here SHOULD migrate to something else, I won't bring it up again unless it's on topic

05-09-2021, 05:40 AM	#192 (permalink)
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05-09-2021, 06:17 AM	#193 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	If you want to blog, start a journal. It's more or less the same thing. And no longer relies on entries being authorised by the mods. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

05-09-2021, 12:30 PM	#195 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Spite. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

05-09-2021, 02:08 PM	#196 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	Blame Biden. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

05-09-2021, 05:43 PM	#198 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	Good call __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

05-09-2021, 12:29 PM	#194 (permalink)
Mucha na Dziko Go ahead, Mr. Wendal Join Date: May 2021 Location: Paris, France Posts: 1,018	why so?

05-09-2021, 04:07 PM	#197 (permalink)
SGR No Ice In My Bourbon Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: /dev/null Posts: 4,326	I blame Norg

05-11-2021, 05:47 AM	#200 (permalink)
Guybrush Juicious Maximus III Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Scabb Island Posts: 6,525	Having so recently resurfaced, I wanted to make a comment. One of the reasons I left so many years ago was basically the points brought up in the first post here. I had made several requests to owners/Yac that they do stuff like update forum software. I'm pretty sure I even offered to do it for them for free, although I did realize it was unlikely they'd give me the logins. Anyways, I did my share of crying about this but was told that the meager profits MB generated meant that updates etc. didn't make sense from a cost perspective. Also, they were afraid of unintentionally breaking things. It pissed me off because what they're basically doing is exploiting the community, us fine guys and gals. We generate the content that will show up in google searches or otherwise pull people in and generate ad-clicks that doesn't just come from bots. I didn't think a BBPress update was too much to ask. In a way, if you care too much about MB in its current state, you'll suffer for that. It's sad how they run it that way. The logical conclusion to the problem for me at that time was an organized exodus from musicbanter. It's easy peasy. Give me or someone else here who's a little tech savvy half an hour or two and we'll have musicbanter 2.0 up and running on a new domain. Possibly a patreon or something similar could be set up to cover costs, although it can be done quite cheap (hosting isn't that expensive and there's lots of free forum software). People could bring over the content they wanted to preserve. I suggested this emphatically, but the idea didn't catch. Maybe some saw it as mutiny, although I feel that loyalty to the community could align well with a migration to someplace else. Staying here is loyalty to advameg and what have they done the last X years to deserve it? So that has a lot to do with why I left in the first place. Coming back, I see the same old BBPress and I guess we're all lucky it's still browser compatible. Still, it's been nice being back. While I still think the community here SHOULD migrate to something else, I won't bring it up again unless it's on topic __________________ Something Completely Different