hullo all,
so, as suggested by many of you and as discussed a month or so ago, we're going to be removing the social board from over there < - - -
but not from the site completely.
the main reason is that we're a music site and that we want peoples first impression of the site to be music related. and also because these boards seem slightly inhibited by being quite so public.
hope you all understand,
sean
founder, drownedinsound.com
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It makes sense.
George Pringle's got a fanny!!!111!!!
You shouldn't believe everything you read...
That could just be a rumour.
grow up
:D
*snigger*
YEAH!
We've been telling him that for ages. Maybe he'll listen to you.
Maybe....
Or maybe I'll instigate a 'farewell' to that bit <------ with some sweary thread title fun.
NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WHY GOD WHY
Could we have a one-click link
to each of the individual boards? I'm right lazy me
yeah
we're redesigning the boards
Grand
Sounds like a good move
Suck up
Man up
you tosser
Yeah thats right
No safety wink this time!
When have you included a safety wink?
Good point
Let's cuddle
Let's cuddle
Let's fucking cuddle
CUDDLE TIME!!!!
could we have lipster updates over there?
this is good for the site
udhuidfhvuhdfh
this
is terrible terrible news
last time it was discussed
it got nothing but positives from all the core boarders, in fact i dont think there were any reservations. anyway it's happening in the next hour or so.
what if people accidentally post social topics in the music forum?
pfft
it made sneaky at work social board monitoring so easy as well.
It does make sense obviously.
I mean from a practical point of view I like it as it is now but from a "running a music site" point of view, it is the obvious step to make.
Good stuff.
is it because i'm jewish?
yes
Gordon Bennett,
founder, this post.
It was meant to be...
Can we now have a monthly french band column ?
sounds like a good idea to me
Oh jesus...
"...these boards seem slightly inhibited by being quite so public."
It's going to be like the Fall of Rome by lunchtime...
Was this the final straw?
http://drownedinsound.com/articles/2930308
It had been planned for a while I think
Well DUH
Spastic face ;)
I'll spastic your face in a minute
I thought you said we weren't doing anything for Valentine's?
You keeping track of what I'm up to now?
That is so sweet
YOU TWO STOP FOLLOWING EACH OTHER
It's embarrasing
Jealous?
You're jealous.
OMG THIS IS AN OUTRAGE
yeh pretty much makes sense
as we read left-to-right it is surely a negative to have comedy threads on the left and reviews on the right.
phew
When I saw the thread title, I thought it meant you were abolishing the social board completely. For a horrible second it looked like I was going to have to get a life. And do some work.
I think this is a good idea, btw.
^ this would possible have caused world war three
well
more just a mass upsurge of productivity.
The economy would boom like fuck
Just had an image of a DiS uprising.
An army of fey indie kids marching against the ills of society.
Wouldn't acheive bugger all.
as much as i'd like to sulk
it's a good idea, really
easy come easy go
will you let me go?
beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
that's not fair,
sean's only doing his job.
I will not let you go!
is there any way that
the social threads can still be on the left when you've viewing a social thread, like now?
the music threads can still be there when you're looking at other parts of the site.
Or have an 'All' option
where we can choose to see all the threads. We've got options to see the most popular threads (which I'd guess is only used occasionally out of curiosity).
That we get the choice and newbies only see music threads. Everyones happy.
oooo
interesting.
Sweepstake on how quickly it comes back? i give it three weeks. :)
of course the power lies with us
i double-dares you to start a favourite type of pie thread in the music forum.
good call.
there seems to be very little musical discussion these days. i log on,look at the topics, go 'meh' and then go somewhere else.
start a fucking musical discussion yourself then
haha
ok that did sound a bit high and mighty of me. but it is a music site after all! anyway i will take your advice..
there's loads of music based discussion
on the music board, innit. and if no-one's talking about what you want to talk about, start a thread yourself. easy!
does this mean DiS will be down
while you sort this? If so can you tell me when so I can aim to do my work in that time slot and spend the rest of the day on here? Thanks.
ha! work? yeah right
w*rk
yeah
what was I thinking?
something about puppies?
I lost her for 2 hours
last night! When I finally found her she didn't have her harness on anymore, weird.
fair
this shocks me
...
Thank God for that
It has a place, but not on the front page.
seems like an odd move to me
but it's your website..
I'm leaving forever
who are you?
and by the way
I think it's a good idea.
I support this move.
DiS was losing it's identity. I joined up to discover great new music but all I found was weepy-weepy (many by me) thread about da gurlz.
Man the fuck up!
ahh, it's happened!
tricked me for a few minutes there
i approve
but i fear change
i really like it -
now i don't have to click to the music board to see what's going on etc etc.
Nice one Sean.
I'm hoping it will get me clicking on more of the music threads automatically out of curiosity. Too many of them vanish a bit too quickly and I'm a sloth these days when it comes to music.
:)
^
hopefully
that was one of the main reasons
maybe I'll get
less 0 reply threads...
lets not get carried away
a man can dream...
i never realy look at them anyway
probably a good move o founder.
I thought this was a good idea from the git-go
Cos music is my life, man!
No, seriously. DiS can let the hooligans run loose on the social board, but has to maintain its Music First axiom. For credibility purposes. You can't very well claim to be the first and last word in serious music shit right next to a I'm A Jelly Donut Whore! thread.
Well, maybe you can. I dunno.
Oh sean, you get more and more hilarious all the time