To everyone who is participating in this thread. Go back to your post and forward it to your Regional VP and the President of PTG as well. It's time for everybody to make some noise BEFORE Council so that they will have to at least acknowledge the problem Will Truitt -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of david at piano.plus.com Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 6:31 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Really, really irritated with the New forum system >In many ways Pianotech had become a better resource than the Journal - >witness how many articles in the Journal have been lifted from Pianotech. Will, you make a highly significant point here, I feel (and everyone else's observations are powerful too). I very much enjoy getting the Journal. But it doesn't take me long to read through each issue. Some excellent tips, some complex things to look back at later, and so on. But the Journal affords nothing LIKE the resource that this List has constituted for years. If I have a query about something, I can draw on the collective vast experience of all here, and almost always there are immediate and very helpful responses. Plus, this list has had over the years a feeling of "community" that the Journal can't really offer. I have been trying out the new Forum. I have not had any real difficulties in posting to it and in uploading pictures (and it has the advantage of accepting much larger files). But it is clear that no general move towards the new Forum system is taking place. It seems to have a relatively small number of dedicated regular contributors. The quality of the information and discussion posted is fine, just as it is here. But the QUANTITY is very sadly lacking. Now, there has to be a reason, or several reasons, why we have not all migrated quite naturally to the new system. Various things seem to be emerging, from posts here in this thread. One is that people find it harder or less friendly to ACCESS for reading. Another is that people find it harder or less friendly to POST TO. Another is that it seems to be hader to SEND PHOTOS. There is the horrible spectre of a self-fulfilling prophecy happening with the new Forum: "I don't post there because nobody posts there", morphing into Council saying "We don't need a Forum - nobody uses it anyway". The collective knowledge, experience and goodwill on all things piano that comprises this list, and has done so since the mid 1990s, is FAR too good and important a resource to let die by attrition. I have not over the years become much involved in other Forums such as pianoworld, because time is limited and I like the closeness and technical expertise of this List community. Is it the feeling of others, that we simply will not, even given time, be able to translate the closeness and technical expertise and immediacy of this community, to the new Forum? If so, and volunteer time is unavailable to maintain this List, why not use the money for the new Forum, to PAY someone to maintain this list instead? I have been of the view that perhaps in time as more migrate across, the new Forum would begin to feel more like this List. Do others feel that that isn't so, even if everyone moves across, or because people simply WON'T move across but will give up instead? We cannot let this invaluable resource simply die out. Best regards, David.
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