Are captchas killing PA?

 

For what it's worth, if this site met with an unfortunate demise, it has been archived at the Internet Archives' Wayback Machine (as are many, many other websites).

 

Just type in prog archives here: https://archive.org/web/

 

A downside is that some of the functionality doesn't transfer over to the archived version (like some images, scripts, etc.), but the textual data does get archived, and that's the most important stuff.

 

Otherwise, better buy a sh*tload of paper and a heavy-duty printer!

Regarding discussion....start an interesting thread ifn you want to discuss something complex....AND QUIT COMPLAINING ABOUT IT.

Maybe the forums portion needs to die off and this truly becomes a DB only site, look up artists and such, almost like a Discogs site. Huge monster site for albums info although it is also a POS site, but very little discussion on anything goes on there.

The Hoffman site is a different breed. Steve Hoffman is a mastering engineer very respected for his craft, working with many different artists releasing many reissues which are highly regarded in the audio world. He is also an audio gear head and that is another huge part of his site, people want to hear their music reproduced in the best possible manner, and there are huge discussions (hot and cold as you can imagine) based on audio gear, just like music a very subjective topic. Serious music lovers are in general, serious about their audio gear.

Hoffman site is very respected, that site is run like a machine, you step out of line and you WILL be called out by the GORTS!! You better read the rules cause the GORTS enforce them, I have seen it happen many times. So threads and posts pretty much for the most part stay on topic and without any problems. Threads will be locked in a skinny minute if they go south.

As micky states, the Hoffman site for music is very generic, you need to create a topic on genre or artist if you want to discuss it, none of those categories are set in the forum. You click on "Music Corner" and go....

I have discussed R&B, Metal, Prog, Funk, Soul, Jazz...all in the same day. if I get bored in music then I can go discuss audio gear or recording process, mastering and the biggest plus for Hoffman is those guys are insane about vinyl and all its info.....And posting your listens, especially vinyl, is great as you can get so much info on certain pressings and sound quality.

I must admit, I find out about new artists on SH almost as much as I used to on PA......without any pulse on a forum how are you supposed to find out info?

PA is still a respected site for prog rock and always will be as long as it is active, I really do not know what it would take to get it back to its glory days.

I'll still pop in every day.......