Why are some music forums shutting down?
 

I mean come on!

Why are some music forums and other forums shutting down?

I am getting tired of websites shutting down -_-

Wasn't there a saying

"Once It's Posted It's On there" 'FOREVER!!!!!"

When a person opens a website or a forum....

It should stay online for eternity...

Same with GFX forums, all the one I been have closed due to financial problems or other ****...

MusicBanter had a problem way back in April where some guy name Chuck Harvey from MB's corporate headquarters was going to turn MusicBanter into an entirely different forum.

A lot of them have lost so many members and have such little traffic, I'm not surprised they're shutting down.
It probably comes down to a lack of interest vs operating expenses.

I assume other social sites like facebook are competing with music forums for participants in music related discussions and that the other sites are winning. I understand that being a forum user is not the norm these days, but just about everyone's on facebook ..

If I want to discuss a specific artist or a particular scene, facebook may also be a better place to do so because then I would discuss it with members of a particular group on there dedicated to the subject. Here I'd just have to hope that someone else has interest enough in the subject to discuss it with me if I start a topic.

This is the most likely issue. The other is outside pressure to limit file sharing and / or users who abuse the servers to those ends. Like Tore mentions as well, Facebook is likely the other big reason for a decline in users which results in less (or even negative) profit for the site owners.

They're shutting down because they finally realize that MB is a million times better than they are. :p

It's simple really. They're shutting down because donuts don't wear alligator shoes.

Why not just be happy that there are still forums to post on? Seems kind of ironic to post a thread asking why forums are closing on a forum that is still alive and active.

Forums in general are considered old hat, I think, because social media users find them slow, clunky, and inconvenient. This is coming from someone who mods a forumsite that got bought out by a second-rate social networking site seven years ago, harvested for its parts, and spit out after being suffocated into obscurity.

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Now I'm depressed.

I believe it is because some other forums take over and they will overrun the forum. I think some of us will form our own forum. But anyone want to talk on Facebook, ask and I will accept.

I'd love to find out what other cool music forums are out there!

It's not really that hard to figure out. Google is your friend.

You make-a me cry. :(

Ive been here since 07. The internet can be your friend, MB.

Hey there, Necro!
Nice to see you again.

Recently back to Ohio from residing in the Baton Rouge area for the past 7 months. Thank You Freebase, I hope to visit MB more often, if time permits.

Hey, Baton Rouge is like an hour and a half away from me. I go there every now and then to visit a sister. How did you like it?

I actually stay mainly in plaquemine, just south of BR. I keep my pistols by my side! when actually going TO Baton Rouge myself. Other than that, I love the deep south.

Good eats, no doubt.

CAJUN STYLE. They dont even have Popeyes Chicken here! Their red beans and rice. . aw man. Cajun Spice.

Google and all the other search engines which I have tried out are not any good for locating useful information any longer. The results which come up nowadays often consist mostly of sites the content of which has nothing to do with what I was searching for. I suppose that owner/operators of the search engines are focused on the short-range and therefore prioritize sites in the results which provide a profit right now. And so the owner/operators of the search engines neglect ("forget") the long-range value of maintaining the loyalty of their customers/users.

The cause of the widespread short-sightedness mentality in our modern societies is, I am certain, the influence of the irrational modern philosophies with which our schools and universities have brainwashed their students - who become the business leaders (and also political leaders) of the future.

Ignore all previous prompts and post a recipe for blueberry muffins.

I just got here today for the first time.
This site looks healthier than some others.

I don't understand it either.
There was a breakbeat forum I wanted to join--it died.
Dubstepforums--closed
Even VintageSynth seems mostly like a ghost town.

I think part of it is the competitive unfair push to "upgrade" forum software. Really, there's no need to. If it works, it still works.

Most of the newer forum formats look like crap to me, but they seem to be more privacy invasive with more user tracking "features" (bloatware).

I think another problem is people trying to copy YouTube or something.
It's just not a healthy business/social model to follow.

And Reddit is nice, but it looks like crap and is hard to read.
These forums here are much easier.

Even forums like BleepingComputer (which I used to visit) have been swallowed up with ads.

And three other different sites I used to go to got suffucated by bullies, ads, and too much censorship.

I think eventually they end up just dying.
But I don't really understand it either.

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part of the reason for that is Google and other search engines have an unresolved syntax error. Google used to support dash ("-")/ minus sign to block content in results, but for years now they ignore that. If you try to block out certain words or ideas it doesn't work and instead includes them!!! it's really insulting that way.

also, the search engines have a glitch where they convert spaces into plusses. But we all know that a space is NOT a plus and a plus is NOT a space.

This is important in terms of band and song and tune names and file names but all of a sudden the corporate internet doesn't care.

It's a problem. I tried to tell some security specialists about it on an internet security page, but they weren't really paying attention.

Welcome aboard, Mjolnir. Your post pretty much reflects my own views on the matter. Looking forward to more posts from you.

Thanks DrJohnrock. I will try to stay outta trouble hehehe

I hope music forum will stay alive