I just sent this message to the LAB moderators. I hope it makes the purpose of this forum clear.
I was writing this message personally, but I do not want this to be seen as ''my site''. This is a result of the changes in the LAB community. This is ''your site''. I don't want to see a mass exodus or perhaps loss of interest from people who I have come to know over the years and consider to be my friends. Therefore, this site exists as an alternative to continue the spirit of the community.
Thanks go out to the LAB moderators who have been doing more than their fair share to try and keep this together. They have set an excellent precedent that we seek to continue here.
This is not a ''new LAB''. It is a separate site. Hopefully we can have a different kind of discourse here, but I have no interest in spreading dissension.
Bennett Prescott said:I didn't want to message any LAB moderators until I had a better sense of whether there was actually any interest in a ''new'' pro sound forum. Apparently there is a lot, and since it is not going to stay a secret for long I didn't want you to find out from somewhere else and feel that I had gone behind your back (which may be unavoidable).
You know how good the LAB has been to me, and I will participate in some capacity until it is no longer relevant. However, losing the years of content that I have put into it without even the slightest recognition from our ''corporate overlords'' that it is significant is a real slap in the face. Learning new forum software is inconvenient, but feeling that my contributions are worthless to people who can erase them at any time is what really put me over the edge.
Obviously many others feel the same way. I have asked everyone involved to keep this off the LAB, old and new. Hopefully it will stay that way. I don't want anyone to feel that we are being malevolent here, but there is very positive support for having control of our content into the future be in private hands.
You are welcome any time, in any capacity you would like. We'll see where it goes, maybe EH Publishing will change their minds and we can all come home again.
http://www.soundforums.net
I was writing this message personally, but I do not want this to be seen as ''my site''. This is a result of the changes in the LAB community. This is ''your site''. I don't want to see a mass exodus or perhaps loss of interest from people who I have come to know over the years and consider to be my friends. Therefore, this site exists as an alternative to continue the spirit of the community.
Thanks go out to the LAB moderators who have been doing more than their fair share to try and keep this together. They have set an excellent precedent that we seek to continue here.
This is not a ''new LAB''. It is a separate site. Hopefully we can have a different kind of discourse here, but I have no interest in spreading dissension.