Anyone know if this site has a Discord? If not? Can anyone send me an invite to a cool Discord? Thank you.

SteveG wrote: what?

^What he said.

Most of them are light-hearted. Maybe he made a mistake assuming us old proggers would know what Discord was.

I say that with tongue firmly in cheek, of course, because as much as I find FB invaluable, it is the only social media platform I’ve ever used (since MySpace). I suspect at s9me stage, though, I may end up looking to Discord as so many FB groups and pages are putting more of their content there. I’ve never actually looked at the app, but the fact that every screenshot I have seen is white text on a black background puts me off, as I find that far harder to read than black text on white.

Like Dis Cord?

I tolerate FB, tho if it weren't for family and a few real life friends I wouldn't bother having an account there at all.

Twitter however is another matter, and I virtually live there.

[From an official 'old fart'.]

Camel: https://discord.gg/TWvchqs

Gentle Giant:  https://discord.gg/mnYKVaP" rel="nofollow - https://discord.gg/mnYKVaP

Wobbler:  https://discord.gg/2quxqe4AD7" rel="nofollow - https://discord.gg/2quxqe4AD7

Krautrock:  https://discord.gg/MDCSSg5" rel="nofollow - https://discord.gg/MDCSSg5

Yes: https://discord.gg/VtCzqgg

Zappa: https://discord.gg/YeQTJ84

Magma/Zeuhl: https://discord.gg/6epwcTv https://discord.gg/6epwcTv" rel="nofollow -

SteveG wrote: This old fart sees nothing advantageous about having another chat medium.

There's only one site I need for prog stuff and it's this one which I've been around since as far back as 2007 on my old account... though now retired I have a lot more time to come and irritate you lot!

Hi,

With apologies for some folks thinking they were being funny, and not wanting to say anything of value to the thread!

DISCORD is used for gaming a lot, and there are good things and sad things with it, mostly with folks that are not capable of paying attention or staying tuned ... as an example, our guild was raiding a boss and some folks were playing Diablo at the same time and another was watching something else on tv.

Discord's idea is excellent, and the guy that helped put it together is one of the best code artist I have known and he was/is in the guild that I was a part of in WoW Classic (don't play it anymore). 

There are some nice things that might help and be fun, but in the end, I think that folks would be even more scattered since you can do more than one thing on your computer, and if you have 2 of them (or just a laptop next to you), you can do a lot of stuff ... that in many ways was not cool as the folks in our guild playing 2 games at the same time!

Hi,

I might check these, however, in my experience including the folks doing a lot of the "radio" shows that are listed on PA, in general, the person running the show is not a "musicologist" (with a historic knowledge of the music) but just another fan, and too much of the music has a similar sound, not to mention that everything lasts 4 or 5 minutes, or what is imagined to be a listener's attention span. I can attest this is wrong for progressive listeners, as when I ran a show on the Real Audio server with 25 feeds, listeners to my show (files were online, so there was no time for folks to be there kind of thing!) were averaging over 12 to 13 minutes each time.

It will be a hot day (or cold day!) in Timbuktu when someone will play the Marilyn Monroe Memorial thing, or a complete side of the Cosmic Couriers or Popol Vuh, or Klaus Schulze ... and I even heard one of these shows listed on PA do a 5 minute part/bit from KS's Mirage ... I wanted to disconnect that guy so fast I could kill! The one thing we need the most with "progressive/prog" listeners is RESPECT for the music and the artists ... and that was an example of how short sided and screwed up that show was!

Hi,

I used to play some AD2, Can and other things while gaming on Discord and even got asked many times what that was ... so there are folks that have an ear for music, and our Guild did have a thread for music though I do not remember who put it together or who was streaming it but it was continuous.

Listening to the tube, buying a CD, or your friend has some weird stuff, is not the only way to hear some things, and they all work, however small that might be.

My main concern is that we do not shut the door on some of these things ... DISCORD is a much better solution for doing a SHOW than the streaming thing, since the streaming thing costs a lot more and some sites will not save the files or the show anyway, so what you did is history! DISCORD is the same, but you are "live" and that allows for some fun things to do. AND, are not limited to the size of a file, or how long something can be, which is a hassled in a streamlined show, when someone is only doing an hour, and he/she (I think I have only heard one woman do this in the last 5 years!) can not burn it with a 20 minute piece of 30 minute if it were KS.

The only issue I have with DISCORD is the fact that some folks login and they are stoned immaculate or drunk to the gills and then become a distraction to the whole thing and it kinda renders the music ... not as much fun, although the moderator could easily cut off that listener, and probably should for the duration of the music itself and then allow for some comments. I would hate to see someone destroy a piece while listening because of their silly comments, for example!

Hi,

Are you suggesting that many of us are not doing anything else? My office is 2 computers side by side, btw. My music machine and instruments in another room all networked. Earphones on that machine listening to the music and me writing like crazy on this machine! A laptop would be just as good, although I do not like the fidelity in almost all laptops at all ... I listen to Space Pirate Radio in a really good computer that allows me a fantastic sound (and no connection drops) and I can record it on Audacity if I feel like it!

Almost no one that I knew was just on DISCORD doing nothing else, including the many folks on a raid in WoW Classic, which I do not play anymore. One guy, one time (funny!) was changing diapers while also playing his Warlock!

You get all kinds!

FB is a good way for me to keep in touch with far-flung friends and family that I don't see in person. but Twitter?  Twitter is just full of psychos (your good self excluded of course). I only use it to complain to companies.

^ Exactly - I prefer to keep my Twitter account locked, that way I can keep my thoughts between my confirmed followers.

The first rule of Twitter:

Don't say anything to upset vegans, LGBT+ activists, cyclists, feminists, or religious nutters.

I’ve said it before on another thread, but this forum is a relic of the past and so are a lot of its members. I’m one of those relics, and realistically the only reason I moved to FB is that EVERY forum I was a member of slowly moved over to FB - except this one, obviously.

I am fairly sure I will eventually move to Diacord, too, just because musicians and artists are finding their reach on FB so diminished, and they can do all they canon FB, and more, by using Diacord. Honestly, the only reason I haven’t moved yet is because I don’t like the white on black format, as I find it harder on the eye than black on white. But just as I reluctantly moved to FB from the security of the forums I used to inhabit, so I can see myself reluctantly moving to Discord.

(NB - There is no negative connotation in relic, so as per the old saying, “offence is taken, nor given”.)

Osh wrote: This thread uhhh really did not go the direction I expected it to go.

That's the nature of these things - welcome to forum life!