Roland Forum-Internet Ghost Town

Started by chrish, November 09, 2017, 07:51:50 PM

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chrish

Okay so maybe it's not quite a ghost town, don't really know, but I was there visiting that site tonight to check it out and this message appeared.

"WHO IS ONLINE
Users browsing this forum: Google Adsense [Bot] and 1 guest"

It was kind of amusing seeing that because I'm starting to get pop-up ads for products that I've been checking out and an ad from Guitar Center was doggin me around the site.

So the only one on the Roland Forum was me (1 guest) and the pop up ad bot from Google.

Then I went over to Korg Triton forum site where I had downloaded some patches in the past.

That site doesn't work anymore because the server doesn't recognize the language that the site was coded in any longer.

All that useful information just disappeared into the internet Ghost Town where the Forum owner has placed to coding cry for help sign on it's dusty Street.

I often wonder (now that I have a smartphone and have experienced "The Wonder of Interconnectivity") ;D,  if there will be a generation that comes along that rejects the current state of social media. It will be their parents thing and they won't want anything to do with it.

Will being attracted to bright shiny objects become a thing of the past?

And now for some Pink Floyd lyrics that came to mind.

"Hello? Hello? Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home?
Come on now
I hear you're feeling down
Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again
Relax
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb"


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#1
QuoteRoland Forum-Internet Ghost Town

http://forums.rolandclan.com/
In total there are 22 users online :: 5 registered, 0 hidden and 17 guests


QuoteThen I went over to Korg Triton forum site where I had downloaded some patches in the past. That site doesn't work anymore

http://www.korgforums.com/forums-frame.htm
there are 25 users online :: 1 Registered, 0 Hidden and 24 Guests 


www.VGuitarForums.com
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https://www.gearslutz.com/board/
Currently Active Users: 3808 (380 members and 3428 guests)



https://www.thegearpage.net/
Total: 1,333 (members: 393, guests: 727, robots: 213)


http://www.harmonycentral.com/forum/
There are currently 2385 users online. 96 members and 2289 guests.

chrish

#2
 That's interesting, 213 robots at the Gear Page. Looks like the machines are moving into town. ;)

Here is the message that was displayed at the site that I was referring to for the Korg Triton.

http://www.tritonhaven.com/forum/index.html

"Where's TRITONHAVEN.COM Forum?

I'm sorry.
The Forum is offline at this moment. And I don't see a way to get it back up.

The technical part:
The forum was made with snitz forums (http://forum.snitz.com), the problem with snitz is that it is written in the programming
language ASP (classic) with Access Database. This was supported a while ago, but now most of the servers run on Linux (PHP MySQL)

So, if you know someone who can convert such a forum to for example PHPBB then let me know. I don't have any budget for this
so this is purely free. I'm willing to host it somewhere, but the conversion needs to be done.

If you could help, let me know. Otherwise we'll have to wait.

Cheers,
Angelo (Tritonhaven.com)"

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#3
QuoteThat's interesting, 213 robots at the Gear Page. Looks like the machines are moving into town. ;)

We had a similar situation here at VGuitarforums - the Google, Bing, webcrawlers nearly killed VGuitarforums  after our hosting company wanted to raise my hosting fees to over $500/mo

too much web traffic

Luckily ShawnB initiated actions which prevent the nightly search bot web crawl  - at the expense of placing us on page 2 of the web search results instead of page 1

Spreading good information comes with a price these days 
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Quotehttp://www.tritonhaven.com/forum/index.html

"Where's TRITONHAVEN.COM Forum?

Seems most Korg Triton dialogues now occur here
http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=37

https://yamahamusicians.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=84&sid=036176166119a5a69aa6432a0a73ab1b


http://forum.vintagesynth.com/viewforum.php?f=1

QuoteThe technical part:
The forum was made with snitz forums (http://forum.snitz.com), the problem with snitz is that it is written in the programming
language ASP (classic) with Access Database. This was supported a while ago, but now most of the servers run on Linux (PHP MySQL)


trivia - if you have Access Databases on a Windows PC with a *.ddb extension - performing a "System Restore to a prior point in time" will automatically delete all your  *.ddb files that were created after the restore point date

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41329058/import-access-data-into-mysql-using-php

vtgearhead

Quote from: admsustainiac on November 10, 2017, 08:57:26 AM
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Elantric

Quote from: snhirsch on November 10, 2017, 09:46:01 AM
Thanks for the reminder!  Just sent $50 your way.

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chappi

And mine now too, long overdue. Thanks for all the effort that goes into curating this great resource.

chrish

That Korg triton forum site, which is hosted by Korg, that was mentioned doesn't see much activity. Maybe some of their other Forum sections for newer gear does better.

However Not like the Korghaven site which had a pretty active community and included patch sharing, even though the Korg Triton hasn't been in production for a long while.

Kind of like how vguitarforums has a different vibe then the Roland forum.

Has me wondering if Roland has ever offered to host vguitarforums seeing how vguitarforums is doing much of the customer support for Roland.

ALOfYRSnfWhres

this maybe shows the real people who are love guitar and music technology, this is the same trend going on from other forums ive been