> I don't want the site to continue on, in any form - I know a lot of people get a lot of benefit from it, but I do not want it continuing and going in a direction I would not agree with had I continued to administer the site.
Interesting. So people won't be able to keep their comment history. I guess this could have been somewhat planned better, but it's their site after all.
The mods and community are going to start a spin-off board under a different name (currently being voted on) and try to archive the best content from WATMM
It was just too much work to keep the forum running. But I can't imagine removing it from the internet. I know that some people are still happy to find their old posts every now and then and read what they wrote back then.
WATMM has been an invaluable resource for my exploration of the world of electronic music. That said, I totally understand that when you just can't keep committing the effort to keep something going. Thank you for sharing the love of music.
Any alternatives to this forum? I've never heard heard of this until now and as someone who spends a lot of time making music as a hobby sounds like a community I'd like to be part of.
Although its called "We Are The Music Makers", thats a reference to an Aphex Twin track of the same name and its primarily an Aphex Twin/Autechre/IDM/Warp Records electronic music (and/or general nonsense) discussion board. There is an active subforum called EKT (dont ask) where people discuss making their own music.
I believe there's an unrelated subreddit called r/watmm that is more literally about music making.
https://www.kvraudio.com/ is worth checking out. Some of the very best independent audio DSP devs in the world are there, along with great sound designers, hardware hackers, and a motley collection of music makers.
Depends on what you mean by alternatives. Some gear focused forums (ModWiggler, Lines, Elektronauts, etc) necessarily cover some of the same ground. The Dogs On Acid forum is also still around, though it's changed hands over the years.
https://forum.watmm.com/topic/105431-rip-to-watmm-discussion...
> I don't want the site to continue on, in any form - I know a lot of people get a lot of benefit from it, but I do not want it continuing and going in a direction I would not agree with had I continued to administer the site.
Interesting. So people won't be able to keep their comment history. I guess this could have been somewhat planned better, but it's their site after all.