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spacescape · Post by **spacescape** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:23 pm

Can't we just find a NEW HOME? I mean, I love osxaudio.com and bigbluelounge was nice... However, I'm getting annoyed that he's been down for so long. I e-mailed him MONTHS ago offering to help keep the home page up to date w/ new "news" every couple of weeks following "HIS" structure and "HIS" rules. He told me "just be patient because I've got some ammazing stuff in the works"... Well, here it is, 9 months later and we only had one update on the home page (name that snare competition). Now, it's been down for 4-6 weeks due to "updates". I don't know about you, but if I took down my company's site for 5-6 weeks while I worked on the new one I wouldn't have a job... Now, this isn't a "PAYING" gig for him, but it still sucks... Usually you leave up the old site until the new one is up and running.

Bill

hyerstay · Post by **hyerstay** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:55 pm

putte wrote:hey, what about this? maybe we can buy the name "osxaudio.com", and give it a new home.(only if the new lounge turns out to be somehwat dissapointing .. i agree that we should wait and see first.)

I'm way ahead of you. The last time OSXA went down, I bought osxaudio.net and osxaudio.org. I even had a whole forum system ready to go, but OSXA came back just in time. Right now I just have the domains forwarding to BBL, but if something goes bad...

Really, I don't want to compete with Tony, but we have insurance, I suppose.

jason

Puddles · Post by **Puddles** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:46 pm

that's good news jason. i'm sure people are interested in an alternative if this nonsense keeps up. here's hoping that it gets back on track soon.

tobyond · Post by **tobyond** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:57 pm

Hey Jason, it would be great if you went live with that. An OSXA haven is truly needed, the place goes up and down like an old man on viagra, even though it wouldn't replace it, it could be somewhere to shelter for a while.

kenn michael · Post by **kenn michael** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:55 pm

yea, we need something!

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:01 pm

Yeah.

KernelG · Post by **KernelG** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:07 pm

Yeah.

I'm down to assist, if necessary.

beej · Post by **beej** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:29 pm

Me too. I'm spending *way* too much time here and as a result my replies are veering away from helpful and positive towards insulting and aggressive - you know, just to fit in, like...

I long for the days I could post a Mac related issue without getting called a zealot...

RowdyBacon · Post by **RowdyBacon** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:55 am

hyerstay wrote:I'm way ahead of you. The last time OSXA went down, I bought osxaudio.net and osxaudio.org. I even had a whole forum system ready to go, but OSXA came back just in time. Right now I just have the domains forwarding to BBL, but if something goes bad...jason

Bring it on!! Give us Mac users a place we can call our own.

machinesworking · Post by **machinesworking** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:25 am

beej wrote:Me too. I'm spending *way* too much time here and as a result my replies are veering away from helpful and positive towards insulting and aggressive - you know, just to fit in, like...

I long for the days I could post a Mac related issue without getting called a zealot...

I feel the same way exactly.

mcnicks · Post by **mcnicks** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:06 pm

spacescape wrote:I don't know about you, but if I took down my company's site for 5-6 weeks while I worked on the new one I wouldn't have a job... Now, this isn't a "PAYING" gig for him, but it still sucks... Usually you leave up the old site until the new one is up and running.

It is a little bit strange that the original forum was not left up, particularly since the new one seems to have been set up on a different server. But I know how life can get in the way of labours of love - no matter how good ones intentions are.

I would like to point out one possibly negative thing. You are right that OSXA / BBL is not a paying gig but plenty of us have donated money to help keep the thing up and running (I think that is how the new server was bought, though I am not sure). As far as I am concerned it was well earned before this happened, because OSXA has been so useful to me. Still, though, the current situation does feel a little bit off at times.

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mcnicks · Post by **mcnicks** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:11 pm

I must also say that I am a bit nervous about the whole platform independance thing too. I would hate for the answer to Mac troubleshooting problems to start turning into a "buy windows" thing. In the end, any Forum is made up of people and those people will determine the mood of the place, but putting the two camps together - going on the evidence in *ahem* other forums - does not seem like a great idea.

machinesworking · Post by **machinesworking** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:17 pm

mcnicks wrote: but putting the two camps together - going on the evidence in *ahem* other forums - does not seem like a great idea.

The two places I visit almost as often as OSXA are the Ableton forums and KVR. It's dawned on me that places like KVR are filled with ex PC Logic users who would rather fight than switch..... At the Ableton forums, with ZERO moderation, the tension between mac and PC just isn't as high, here it gets pretty ugly. Apple might have made a smart move as far as the corporate world is concerned, but i get the feeling that they really tainted their image with cutting Logic PC, it's an old argument, but people still feel strongly about it.
For instance it's really impossible to state to a person who had Logic ripped from them that Microsoft are a much more evil company, simply because you personally don't see buying a mac as a problem.... anyway I guess I over analyze these things...

gold · Post by **gold** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:28 pm

machinesworking wrote:
beej wrote:I long for the days I could post a Mac related issue without getting called a zealot...
I feel the same way exactly.

You zealots!

µ¿ z3®ø™ · Post by **µ¿ z3®ø™** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:41 pm

hyerstay wrote:The last time OSXA went down, I bought osxaudio.net and osxaudio.org. I even had a whole forum system ready to go, but OSXA came back just in time. Right now I just have the domains forwarding to BBL, but if something goes bad...

Really, I don't want to compete with Tony, but we have insurance, I suppose.

jason

it's been weeks since i've had a chance to peruse any of the forums that i participate in. something to do w/ making a living...
i actually read all ten pages of backlog that i had in this thread as well.
jason, as far as i'm concerned there would be no conflict w/ TDC if U started a site that was OSX specific. if TDC's new site is cross platform, it's obvious that the mandate will be very different than what it once was. actually, the site WAS very different than when i first signed on.
i'm saddened to hear that barry removed his content on the site. he's one of the peeps that really, really knew his stuff when it came to sound reproduction and he seemed inordinately level headed. i can't imagine what would have transpired to make him do so.
unless...
he was getting the same sort of treatment that i was.
ned, i think it's noble of U to try and defend the old 'community' and for the most part, i agree w/ U that to voice a lot of 'crap' in another site really isn't productive. i haven't had the opportunity to post there for some time, tho'. apart from having posts deleted without explanation (to my knowledge i wasn't being even remotely contentious... would have been nice to know WHY they were deleted.) i also received threatening PMs from one of the mods there as well as PMs from TDC telling me how much he appreciated my membership. and then w/o notice i could no longer log on.
clearly, there was a HUGE failure in the 'chain' about what was happening within that community and how peeps wielded their power as mods and how they let that power make them believe they could act w/ impunity for seemingly personal reasons.
alas, things change. such is the nature of the quantum field.
by the time all of the nonsense that was happening to me there, the site had already changed in other ways that weren't really conducive to my personal needs. i certainly have no ill will towards anyone there (even the mod that put me in his crosshairs) and have nothing but good wishes for TDC and whatever his future is in whatever vehicle that happens to be. he created something really unique and i will always look w/ fondness at the community that was there.
time moves on and so should we.
there's probably a real need for a cross platform forum like what they have planned.
jason, clearly the void left by an OSX specific forum could be filled again. i realise that U can never go back. perhaps the OSXR site wasn't such a resounding success because it failed to provide the same sort of community as OSXA. i'm sure there's many other reasons as well. but if U ever decide to 'go ahead' w/ an OSX specific platform, count me in.
Urs, thanx for the 411 on the scientology conspiracy theory that U PMed to me. gave me a welcome chuckle.
fucany... seriously, tell us what U really, really, REALLY think.
michael... nice to, um, read U again.
putte, i miss Ur tongue. (no, not THAT way...)
other OSXA renegades and roust-a-bouts... howdy-hi!!!
and in the tradition of OSXA...
melodyne just keeps getting better and better.
version 3 is very cool.
hint to glitchmeisters of the world... the polyphonic pitch/time engine is also really great for deconstructing complete tracks w/ very interesting and unusual results.

u-he

KVR Audio

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