Internet & Site & Technical Wojtek on 05 Feb 2007 01:56 am
The forum is up!
Back when I wrote my previous post, I thought that the forum idea would come after the personal log one. After giving it a lot of thought, I decided that the forum is more important…
Now let me explain a bit more. The main idea behind the forum is to have a place where people new to the whole audio biz and those who don’t have much experience, can ask questions about whatever problems they may have or simply state their thoughts and discuss them with others without any risk of getting laughed at from other, so called “elite” people. If you’re a frequent on any forum, I’m sure that you know what kind of people I’m talking about. I myself have been recently laughed at when I asked a novice-type question about speaker cables on a Polish audio-oriented forum. It took about 20 replies till I finally got the answer to my query and most of them where totally not on-topic. Later a fight started on that single thread of posts between the “all-knowing elitists” and people who felt that it was wrong to laugh at a potential newcomer and discourage him. I really must confess that if I would start my hobby by frequenting such a forum, I would surely be discouraged if people would be making fun of my lack of knowledge while I’d just be trying to learn something new from them. I guess that most people would.
That’s what got me thinking and this new forum is the result.
You can visit the forum by going directly to it’s address: http://forum.younghifi.com or by clicking on the “Forum” link, which is located above in the blog’s header and right on the blog’s sidebar under the “Pages” listing. I still got put a link on the forum that would bring you back to the blog though.
As for the technicalities, the forum runs on the new phpBB3 system (which is actually still in “beta” stage, as in “not-yet-final-version” state, but it’s already very stable) with the standard layout. The forum’s structure is still not-solid, as I’m thinking about new stuff and implementing new ideas on the go and of course I’m also open to any suggestions that might come from you. I still have to write and put up some forum rules there, but I hope that this feature will become useful and profitable in a number of ways to both you guys and me.
Now I still have some exams ahead of me and I hope that after I pass them I can get back to writing some new audio-related stuff here on my blog. So please stay tuned and do visit both the blog and the new forum from time to time.