I split and moved this to the general category, so we don't clutter up the archives and 'cause I know damned well that I'm going to respond and that'd make the archives a mess.

I'll send Putt an email to ask.

What method did you use to try to contact him and what date was it that you tried to contact him?

LOL You do know I get instant notice when you post, right? I'm pretty sure you said you were going to practice in the studio. Pretty sure...

It started with a plan. The plan was to create an archive.

An archive seemed like a nice idea, but it seemed like it could be more than that. So, I decided I'd concentrate on it being more a forum for discussion than a CMS or static pages.

I've been fond of saying it's like the FNGT, in that it's a framework. I get it started and show people that it can be done. They then do the work and put their hours in. In this case, it's an addition to, not a replacement of, v/Guitar. It's not meant to replace the thread, nor is it meant to replace the sub. The two are, at least in my head, distinctly separate entities.

I also have concluded that the weekly thread really isn't the greatest place for people to comfortably ask questions. We do get some questions, but they end up buried and threaded, wildly off-topic, and generally aren't as productive as they could be.

I suspect that's because the FNGT moves VERY fast. I mean, very fast.

Being me, I'm particularly fond of numbers and data. We regularly exceed 50 posts per hour. (I've taken to calling that PPH.) A couple of times, I've seen it exceed 80 PPH and I've seen the third hour over 100 PPH. The average thread is fairly active only for about 4 hours - and that's being generous.

It opens at 20:00 and it starts to get active at 20:30. Then, at about 00:30 it will slow down again - as a general rule. Sometimes, it slows at 00:00 and sometimes it makes it all the way to about 01:00.

It does stay active longer, I just mean the most active portions. During those phases, we are very, very fast moving. I often don't even have time to leave my message center. I'm too busy to leave it. I'm too busy listening to and commenting on shared tracks, and then I comment on the replies. So, I frequently don't have any time to leave the message center part of Voat.

This site is much more laid back, has a pretty good notification system, doesn't bury stuff, and seems like it should be a great addition to the weekly thread.

That's the goal, at any rate. It also stands as a stand-in, should Voat go down and remain down. I've got ample hosting and I'm on some pretty awesome hardware. SMF is pretty optimized and the site hasn't even slowed, even though we've had multiple concurrent users. It should be able to handle the weekly thread, if it is forced to do so.

I'm not actually sure why I'm typing all this out?

This topic has been moved to Recording and Production.

https://fngt.gq/index.php?topic=55.0

Categories are things like General, Resources, or Archives.

Boards are things like Tools, Anything Else, or 2018 Archives.

@MrHarryReems suggested a recording board, which was placed in the general category. @SandHog was talking about gear and the reviews board was created under the resources category.

Ol' Buddha isn't nearly as creative as one might think!

So, give me some input. What sort of boards would you like to see? What categories would you like those boards to be put into?

Even if you can't immediately think of something you want to put in there, toss the idea onto the table.

Warning: You may end up being the moderator of said category. Nope, mods are just janitors more or less. It's nothing fancy, but it becomes your responsibility to keep it neat and tidy. Don't worry, it's easy and it's not like we've really got to delete shit. 'Snot like we've inundated with trolls being assholes. We shouldn't even have a SPAM issue, with the way the site is configured.

So, yes... You may end up with a tiny bit of responsibility, but at least you're a member of the Cool Kids Club©!

Seriously, gimme some more board ideas and whatnot. If you do propose a category, at least make sure you can think of one or two boards that can go into it, please. I'm not a huge stickler for everything being on-topic, so if you want a category for something as outlandish as food and drink, we can do that. I don't see those being boards, but I use them to give you ideas.

Thanks in advance! More categories would maybe be a good thing. Giving people more options is a good thing, up to a point. So, let's have some options!

@COF I was looking at your most recent archive and I noticed it had like 541 views.

I don't suppose you've paid attention to those and happen to know what the highest number of views has been thus far? 541 is pretty damned impressive, considering that each person is only counted once. (Yes, I checked that such is how Voat works.)

My reason for wanting to know is mostly 'cause I'm curious about what is the most amount of people we've reached in a FNGT. To me, it's not just about those that share and comment, but it's also about those that listen and enjoy. Seeing 541 was pretty exciting! It made me pretty damned pleased.

Unfortunately, as nice as the archives are, there's no real (easy) way to really smash the data together and get more information, plot graphs, etc...

Hmm... That does make me wonder about a way to do just that sort of thing. It'd be neat to be able to visualize the data and I suspect your archives can be scraped and inserted into a DB, seeing as you've used the same format for them all. I will ponder data visualization solutions! (That's gonna be a long, long minute. That sort of project would be one way out on the back, back, back burner!)

If you played guitar today, you're a guitarist. If you've been learning and having fun, you're a guitarist. So long as you're learning, you're a guitarist.

There's no magical date when you get to say that you're a guitar player. And, I don't count those people who know only one or two songs. A guitarist is someone who plays guitar with the goal of learning to play it better than they did yesterday - and having fun is how you keep that motivation. It's a lot of work, but it's able to be fun. We work all week, we have fun on the weekends - we just do it with a guitar.

So, both of you are guitarists. Put your hours in, 'cause that's what makes you (and keeps you being) a guitarist.

There will be pie, but you have to come get it. On the way back from Farmington, I had the missus go the other way and we stopped and got two pies from the pie lady. They will be delicious!