[HN Gopher] The Future of WATMM
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The Future of WATMM
Author : haider0721128
Score : 37 points
Date : 2025-02-19 17:47 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (forum.watmm.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (forum.watmm.com)
| jasperry wrote:
| WATMM has been an invaluable resource for my exploration of the
| world of electronic music. That said, I totally understand that
| when you just can't keep committing the effort to keep something
| going. Thank you for sharing the love of music.
| persedes wrote:
| oh wow, thanks to joyrex for running it for so long.
| mg wrote:
| I think a better solution than to "go offline" is to just turn
| the whole site into static content and leave it online forever.
|
| I have been running a music discovery website for a similar
| timeframe as Watmm now:
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| https://www.gnoosic.com
|
| And for about 10 years, it also had a forum:
|
| https://www.gnoosic.com/discussion/
|
| It was just too much work to keep the forum running. But I can't
| imagine removing it from the internet. I know that some people
| are still happy to find their old posts every now and then and
| read what they wrote back then.
| tempaway4747473 wrote:
| Problem is the site owner in this case literally wants to shut
| it down.
| conradfr wrote:
| Thanks for your website, discovered great bands with it.
| patates wrote:
| Very cool! Do you have a directory I can use to browse through?
|
| btw autocomplete lottery brought me this:
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| https://www.gnoosic.com/discussion/panic%21+at+the+disco.htm...
|
| had a good laugh.
| makz wrote:
| Any alternatives to this forum? I've never heard heard of this
| until now and as someone who spends a lot of time making music as
| a hobby sounds like a community I'd like to be part of.
| LevGoldstein wrote:
| Depends on what you mean by alternatives. Some gear focused
| forums (ModWiggler, Lines, Elektronauts, etc) necessarily cover
| some of the same ground. The Dogs On Acid forum is also still
| around, though it's changed hands over the years.
| tempaway4562345 wrote:
| Although its called "We Are The Music Makers", thats a
| reference to an Aphex Twin track of the same name and its
| primarily an Aphex Twin/Autechre/IDM/Warp Records electronic
| music (and/or general nonsense) discussion board. There is an
| active subforum called EKT (dont ask) where people discuss
| making their own music.
|
| I believe there's an unrelated subreddit called r/watmm that is
| more literally about music making.
| patates wrote:
| The owner also posted this on the "RIP to WATMM Discussion
| thread":
|
| https://forum.watmm.com/topic/105431-rip-to-watmm-discussion...
|
| > I don't want the site to continue on, in any form - I know a
| lot of people get a lot of benefit from it, but I do not want it
| continuing and going in a direction I would not agree with had I
| continued to administer the site.
|
| Interesting. So people won't be able to keep their comment
| history. I guess this could have been somewhat planned better,
| but it's their site after all.
| tempaway4562345 wrote:
| The mods and community are going to start a spin-off board
| under a different name (currently being voted on) and try to
| archive the best content from WATMM
| moritzwarhier wrote:
| Wow, this feels unreal.
|
| Was a lurker there when I still went to school (so ~20y ago)
| Xmd5a wrote:
| quite good
| hatingisok wrote:
| lol
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