How do we get more activity here?

Well, I have concerned myself with recording electronic music, which is something new for me. Not that I am much of a composer, but this might become a new hobby anyway. So much attention went into that direction. Also I have re-discovered much of the classic stuff that got me interested in film music a quarter of a century ago.
The interest in collecting and expanding my collection is largely gone. I probably should listen more to recent stuff on Spotify.
Yes, there is much good film music made around the globe, I don't doubt that. Still I often think that much of it is reminiscent of what I already have. I believe after 25 years of listening to film music that is somewhat inevitable. Things tend to become redundant.

Volker

Ha, ha....

Look what's Thor's created.

All materpieces, I would assume.

Three years later, and the forum is even less active than in 2016. Are we witnessing the death of Maintitles?

sadly I feel like specialized message boards themselves are waning. Forums dedicated to one subject are being replaced by subreddits and smaller cliques on big websites like Reddit and Twitter. It's more convenient to have a discord server dedicated to a topic than visit a separate website.

Which is too bad. Because, say, a subreddit like hiphopheads has literally tens of thousands of members. There's no sense of family like on smaller forums. On a website like maintitles or even good old FilmScoreMonthly, everyone knows everyone else, and every person becomes a distinct personality. You'll never see a post on the hip hop subreddit about a member's personal problems, or their new cat, or their birthday. Because you might as well be anonymous on a forum with thousands of members. The only notable members on such a board are celebrities and novelty accounts that, say, write their comments in the form of poems.

If I debate someone on maintitles, I know a certain amount about that person. I'm not just pumping words at some dude with a username I've never heard of before, I'm talking to Thor or to christopher or to Erik. There's actually a sense that these are people.

One thing I've noticed on Reddit is that there are very few debates of the caliber and detail as you would find on a smaller board. If someone says something absurd or controversial, they are simply downvoted into oblivion. Whereas on maintitles, if I post the (verifiable fact) that the Hunger Games scores are James Newton Howard's best scores, I'll get 20 posts with 10 citations each presenting good arguments, and whether or not I agree with them, I'm talking to *people*, not usernames.

I don't think these types of boards will die though. They are waning, but people eventually will realize the anonymous waves of comments on giant websites like twitter, Reddit, and Facebook aren't discussions, they're just giant riff sessions, people posting reactions and other people making puns and jokes... Occasionally you'll stumble on a good and interesting discussion, but for the most part, it's mindless references to old memes.

Regardless of whether activity on this site decreases, I'll still find even the most banal discussion here more interesting than anything on the behemoth message boards of the tech giants...

How would that work?

Something I've wondered about:

What has changed in your life since this board was first created in 2007 (or since this board was last active, around 2012/2013)? Are you at a place now where posting on messageboards isn't a priority anymore? Does film music get relegated as an interest too, with other priorities (like kids or family or other social situations) needing more attention?

As my film music interests have changed, moving away from the mainstream titles to less well-known ones, there's not much for me to say about the titles that are talked about here and there's usually little interest in the titles I am listening to. And by the time I do listen to the mainstream titles discussions here have moved on to the next blockbuster.

So, with not contributing too much to the messageboard I now feel more of an outsider looking in rather than being a part of things, though maintitles.net is the web page that Google opens on to so here is always the first place I start off at.

Social media is not the cause for me. But life changed over these past 12 years. I just have less time, family and work related, and also interest in film music in general is lower than a couple of years ago. I still follow composers and new works though, but feel less to talk about it. Indeed, the superheroe music leaves me cold, and there is so much of it.

However, I still follow what happens here, with one eye open. And I'm still there when there are meetups, if possible, and when the composer him/herself is present. So I hope the group keeps strong beyond the forum.

how to get more activity in here? easy, bring D back in hehe

srsly though, film music has became crappier (see you all lost interest somehow in varying degrees told ya soooooooo ) and life became busier and harder for all of us. i've got one kid who's 1 but i read that others got 4 (bravo! ) so i shouldn't complain by work / job life is a living hell though fuck the eu and fuck cyprus wages hehe, working our asses off day and night to make living wage.

hey ed life became crappier for all of us as we grow older i think it's a universal truth isn't it? hehe more or less. anyway, which forums?

I wish I got more members from this place (and FSM, for that matter) to post on our own forum at http://celluloidtunes.no/forums/

But when I implemented it last year, I was well aware that it was the worst possible timing for creating an old-school messageboard. I mean, when even veteran boards like this are dying, what are the chances of a new one surviving in 2019?

I listen to film music a lot less than I used to. A LOT less. When I do listen to it, it’s barely ever to albums - almost always playlists.

I finally became old enough to realise that arguing about opinions was not a productive use of time.

I think that about sums it up for me.