ATTN: Friendship Farm Shutting Down Permanently 4/8/11

bexcohal · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:49 am

Happy Trails, FF.

.. And don't foget to check out "parishioners" -brand music on Aoril 30th @ Ruby Tuesdays.

DoctorRock · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:46 am

If a friendship farm shuts down and nobody is there to see it? Is it really gone?

Snarky · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:51 am

Its been a great run! Thanks for the memories everybody :boohoo:

. Thanks Duffy for providing a place where I could pimp my rehearsal space, DW helped me get teh word out. Cheers to all friends new and old whom I met or met again on here. Read the Alive today. Later Gators

DJ Sleepy · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:37 pm

RoBeRTFoSHiZZLE wrote:

I guess I just really don't see the point of shutting down the forum unless you are losing a ton of money on it.

Fact: While I do read the blog, I spend a lot more time reading stuff on the message board. The shutting down of the message board will directly affect how often I visit Donewaiting. I will still check it out, but probably not daily anymore. I think the same could be said for a lot of people. So it seems to me like this is going to end up decreasing traffic in the long run. But, to each their own.

What he said.

Tristannus · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:50 pm

RoBeRTFoSHiZZLE wrote:

I guess I just really don't see the point of shutting down the forum unless you are losing a ton of money on it.

Fact: While I do read the blog, I spend a lot more time reading stuff on the message board. The shutting down of the message board will directly affect how often I visit Donewaiting. I will still check it out, but probably not daily anymore. I think the same could be said for a lot of people. So it seems to me like this is going to end up decreasing traffic in the long run. But, to each their own.

I'm more of a skimmer myself. If I can't, within 3 seconds, ingest the entirety of something then I move on.

Whoops, out of ti...

bela · **Joined:** Sat Nov 06, 2004 4:57 pm **Posts:** 112

I for one will miss this venue, not just for the suprisingly vicious attacks on people and their bands but to find out what is going on. As a semi-retired (or is that retarded) scenster with a large amount of reasons to finally be somewhat responsable I still want to know what people are thinking, interests and how they networkd. I don't do twitter, like facebook but only as a personal endeavor and have never been able to navigate the Cringe site, I will miss this.

Liek a few others I peruse it daily, and think that if fills a vital cog in our little burg. I would hope (while I send out a big thank you to Robert and staff) that they would keep it up and running. I mean I just figured out how to use a printer.
-cheerios,
Bela

Intercontinental C's · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 2:34 pm

bela wrote:

I for one will miss this venue, not just for the suprisingly vicious attacks on people and their bands but to find out what is going on. As a semi-retired (or is that retarded) scenster with a large amount of reasons to finally be somewhat responsable I still want to know what people are thinking, interests and how they networkd. I don't do twitter, like facebook but only as a personal endeavor and have never been able to navigate the Cringe site, I will miss this.

Liek a few others I peruse it daily, and think that if fills a vital cog in our little burg. I would hope (while I send out a big thank you to Robert and staff) that they would keep it up and running. I mean I just figured out how to use a printer.
-cheerios,
Bela

christopher lasch · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:01 pm

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

This is where I point out that this is easy:
http://vanillaforums.org/

AS AN ADDED BONUS, you can even have the domain I was going to use to build a show listing app: rockcolumb.us

BastardSuperstar · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:54 pm

Spine of Teeth wrote:

bela wrote:

I for one will miss this venue, not just for the suprisingly vicious attacks on people and their bands but to find out what is going on. As a semi-retired (or is that retarded) scenster with a large amount of reasons to finally be somewhat responsable I still want to know what people are thinking, interests and how they networkd. I don't do twitter, like facebook but only as a personal endeavor and have never been able to navigate the Cringe site, I will miss this.

Liek a few others I peruse it daily, and think that if fills a vital cog in our little burg. I would hope (while I send out a big thank you to Robert and staff) that they would keep it up and running. I mean I just figured out how to use a printer.
-cheerios,
Bela

thirded.

thisoneholymedium · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:04 pm

project_k · **Joined:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:26 pm **Posts:** 18

...who cares about Columbus? I come here to read about what's going on in Brooklyn and at SXSW

/bitter

BastardSuperstar · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:35 pm

well, anyone want to start columbusmusic back up again?
i'll co-mod, and kick in some of the $$$, but i gotz NO idea how to go about it . . .

at least we'd have a sandbox to play in . . .

thisoneholymedium · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:41 pm

in all seriousness i'm sad to see this place go. i've met a ton of good peeps, forged a handful of solid friendships and learned a lot about columbus music from being part of this community and for that i am forever indebted.

a sincere thank you to everyone involved

groundrules · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:44 pm

bela wrote:

Liek a few others I peruse it daily

I kinda feel like 'you peruse, you lose'. It takes more than that. People aren't adding content, there's no music discussion, and now it's like shopping at westland mall. The message board is made good by people posting, and look around- it's just not happening. Staff populates the blog, everyone else makes the board go. There's been more posts from regulars in this thread than there's been on here in months.

groundrules · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:45 pm

DJ Sleepy wrote:

What he said.

what did you do with the agit boards when it was a ghost town?

Independent Playground · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:52 pm

Wesley Flexner wrote:

Independent Playground wrote:

maybe things could just be scaled back. We don't need 77 forums, but maybe a music, hype, and, not music forum? Shit, I use the hype forum for a lot of my local music stuff at CD101.

If you send me the playlists, I will post them.

Totally appreciated and I will take you up on that, but what I meant was more that I use the Hype forum when putting together Frontstage and Independent Playground and it's an easy spot for me to check out who's bands are active and who isn't. I appeciate that it's been a bit of a ghost town. Shit, I can't even get my Overlooked in Ohio article together, so I'm the last person who should complain about this. Still, it seems like this message board is a sort of community hub and I'm sad to see it go.

Cookie · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:56 pm

I met some really great people because of this message board. I also met thisoneholymedium.

Intercontinental C's · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:00 pm

If its got to go its got to go, I just didnt notice it was any worse/better then the last few years.

the comfest/ PLBO season is always the busiest, and Id assume that wouldnt change

must..find...new ..procrastination ...methods

thisoneholymedium · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:37 pm

Cookie wrote:

I met some really great people because of this message board. I also met thisoneholymedium.

ladies and gentleman, cookie!

DoctorRock · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:45 pm

The reason I haven't been very active here lately is because I've just been too busy at work (which is where I was most of the time while posting here). At any rate, I am glad I checked the page today.

Turn the whole thing over to TJ and Kirk.

BastardSuperstar · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:04 pm

DoctorRock wrote:

Turn the whole thing over to TJ and Kirk.

if nominated, i will not run. if elected, i will not serve.

(instead i will simply rule with an iron fucking fist!!!)

BastardSuperstar · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:08 pm

seriously though, if no one wants to rev up a new "local musicians and the fuckwads that love them" board or even resurrect CMO then we should at least bum-rush another board and take it over. manifest destiny and all that. columbusunderground doesn't have enough scumbags.

i bet we could take over HDcolumbus's message boards with our lowbrow humor . . .

BastardSuperstar · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:10 pm

so joel . . . time to rev up the cringe boards again?

groundrules · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:11 pm

BastardSuperstar wrote:

seriously though, if no one wants to rev up a new "local musicians and the fuckwads that love them" board or even resurrect CMO then we should at least bum-rush another board and take it over. manifest destiny and all that. columbusunderground doesn't have enough scumbags.

i bet we could take over HDcolumbus's message boards with our lowbrow humor . . .

the Alive boards would love your attention.

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