Any other garage/punk/R'n'R forums out there?

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Permalink Reply by Mere Noise Records on August 24, 2009 at 2:34pm

Ning is fucking cool. I personally enjoy using it both as an admin and a peon (although admittedly I have done a pissweak job at finding any willing members for our community). For the dissenters in the thread I have located some gifts/necessities on the Internet.

Hope this helps. :D

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Permalink Reply by Andy Seven on August 29, 2009 at 8:53pm

Wipeout! said:

Point well taken, Kopper.
I just get the impression that the garagepunk world is shrinking...like I said, I live in the South and there ain't shit to talk about, garagepunk-wise, in my neck o' the woods. (One of the main reasons I'm franticly tryin' to get my band together!) I'm on MySpace and here, but I refuse to join Facebook (for reasons I don't care to get into here), so I have no clue as to the discussions on that site.

I was on Facebook for twenty minutes - I signed up and then the questionnaires began, tons of questionnaires. Oh my God, my head hurt, all those stupid questions. I had a minor freak out and got off the stupid site. I honestly don't feel like I'm missing anything.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Blackstone on August 30, 2009 at 1:00am

I think I was a member of the old garage punk forum.....I believe they had separate threads....new sounds (revival groups), the old sounds (sonics, remains ect) and many more? There was that remote control car looking logo thing? Am I right??? Maybe I am thinking of another forum but that one was a good one with all kinds of cool posts. I will occasionally hit up G45 central or It's Psych. Facebook and Myspace can be rough going for me....on these sites people have to post pictures of everything they do...whether it be going to Wal-Mart, showing off tramp stamps or taking a shit - I feel it makes my world way too small and this doesn't really do anything for me, privacy can be a good thing you know. I like the fact that people can share mp3's and post the occasional picture on this forum, that's definitely nice but once again the tattoo pictures or band promotions become overkill. I'd rather just chat to be honest. But overall a very good forum this is, fun stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Rockin Rod Strychnine on August 30, 2009 at 1:16am

Well, it looks like you can get the best of both worlds. Be in the hideout AND visit the old school forum....

http://garagepunk.proboards.com/index.cgi?

I'm mostly doing the Hideout and myspace (I too have no need for facebook) but if I have that weird obscure question concerning Baby Huey and the Babysitters, I'll go to the proboards for that.

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Permalink Reply by Wipeout! on August 30, 2009 at 9:57am

Andy Seven said:

I was on Facebook for twenty minutes - I signed up and then the questionnaires began, tons of questionnaires. Oh my God, my head hurt, all those stupid questions. I had a minor freak out and got off the stupid site. I honestly don't feel like I'm missing anything.

Funny how the shit bottle spins around and occasionally yer suckin' face with yerself...yes, I broke down and joined the dreaded FACEBOOK a few weeks back...mostly to stalk my g/f and self promote the fuck outta my projects...I ignore 90% of others postings and the like...and I've realized Facebook is the new fuct...long live TWITTER!

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Permalink Reply by kopper on August 30, 2009 at 12:03pm

I block all Facebook applications, most of them are dumb as hell and annoying on top of it. And I rarely ever post something to my wall, unless it's an article or video that automatically gets shared via FriendFeed, which pulls stuff from videos I favorite on YouTube and some other stuff. But I've noticed that, in general, the older I get, the less "social networking" I'm really interested in doing. I'm spending less and less time on Twitter lately, too, which I've noticed has resulted in a dramatic decrease in spam followers, which is nice.

By the way... the logo of the old GaragePunk Forums was the Voxmobile, not some remote-control car. It's a REAL car designed by famous '60s hot rod maker, George Barris. I chose that for the logo for the Forums because it combined two of my favorite passions: garage rock and kustom hot rods. For some recent news about the Voxmobile, check this out.

That other forum that ripped off everything from my original board does not use the same databases for content, so no, none of your old posts will be there nor will your same username or any of that stuff. Basically, it's a pretty lame copy of the original. The Hideout, on the other hand, is the old Forums taken to the next level (and done at a time when it was ahead of the game in that regard... when the Forum was in serious decline and social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook were on the rise), and I think those of us that are here and actually use it realize that.

kopper

Wipeout! said:

Andy Seven said:

I was on Facebook for twenty minutes - I signed up and then the questionnaires began, tons of questionnaires. Oh my God, my head hurt, all those stupid questions. I had a minor freak out and got off the stupid site. I honestly don't feel like I'm missing anything.

Funny how the shit bottle spins around and occasionally yer suckin' face with yerself...yes, I broke down and joined the dreaded FACEBOOK a few weeks back...mostly to stalk my g/f and self promote the fuck outta my projects...I ignore 90% of others postings and the like...and I've realized Facebook is the new fuct...long live TWITTER!

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Permalink Reply by Rockin Rod Strychnine on August 30, 2009 at 1:36pm

I didn't realize that you had nothing to do with this proboards thing. But I noticed that a bunch of past users from then were signed up for that. Yeah I had to re-register. Someone here had brought it to our attention so I thought why not....

I do have one problem here, though. Once I get passed a number of lines when typing (like 7 or more) the scrawl bar on the side starts bouncing around back toward the top and I can't see what I'm typing because it's all below the window. With my luck, I'm probably the only one with that problem.

kopper said:

That other forum that ripped off everything from my original board does not use the same databases for content, so no, none of your old posts will be there nor will your same username or any of that stuff. Basically, it's a pretty lame copy of the original. The Hideout, on the other hand, is the old Forums taken to the next level (and done at a time when it was ahead of the game in that regard... when the Forum was in serious decline and social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook were on the rise), and I think those of us that are here and actually use it realize that.

kopper

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Permalink Reply by VarmentPoontang on August 30, 2009 at 9:24pm

Isn't this a forum, I'm just sayin.

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Permalink Reply by kopper on August 30, 2009 at 9:48pm

Why would I set up a lame-ass proboards forum when we have this? Ning beats the snot out of proboards and phpBB combined.

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

I didn't realize that you had nothing to do with this proboards thing. But I noticed that a bunch of past users from then were signed up for that. Yeah I had to re-register. Someone here had brought it to our attention so I thought why not....

I do have one problem here, though. Once I get passed a number of lines when typing (like 7 or more) the scrawl bar on the side starts bouncing around back toward the top and I can't see what I'm typing because it's all below the window. With my luck, I'm probably the only one with that problem.

kopper said:

That other forum that ripped off everything from my original board does not use the same databases for content, so no, none of your old posts will be there nor will your same username or any of that stuff. Basically, it's a pretty lame copy of the original. The Hideout, on the other hand, is the old Forums taken to the next level (and done at a time when it was ahead of the game in that regard... when the Forum was in serious decline and social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook were on the rise), and I think those of us that are here and actually use it realize that.

kopper

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Permalink Reply by Rockin Rod Strychnine on August 31, 2009 at 12:44am

I don't have any web or tech knowledge so I don't know who beats out who. But anyway, I didn't think anyone would rip off your old designs and all your ideas just because they didn't want to join this new thing which is better, like you say. I only noticed today that you had nothing to do with it.

But I'm having troubles with the reply section. Do I talk to Ning about that. The scrawl bar keeps bouncing back up to the top, and once I get passed 14 lines (not 7 like I thought) I no longer can see what I'm typing because it's all below the window. And being the worst typest, I HAVE to see what I'm typing otherwise there are tons of typos.

kopper said:

Why would I set up a lame-ass proboards forum when we have this? Ning beats the snot out of proboards and phpBB combined.

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

I didn't realize that you had nothing to do with this proboards thing. But I noticed that a bunch of past users from then were signed up for that. Yeah I had to re-register. Someone here had brought it to our attention so I thought why not....

I do have one problem here, though. Once I get passed a number of lines when typing (like 7 or more) the scrawl bar on the side starts bouncing around back toward the top and I can't see what I'm typing because it's all below the window. With my luck, I'm probably the only one with that problem.

kopper said:

That other forum that ripped off everything from my original board does not use the same databases for content, so no, none of your old posts will be there nor will your same username or any of that stuff. Basically, it's a pretty lame copy of the original. The Hideout, on the other hand, is the old Forums taken to the next level (and done at a time when it was ahead of the game in that regard... when the Forum was in serious decline and social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook were on the rise), and I think those of us that are here and actually use it realize that.

kopper

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Permalink Reply by kopper on August 31, 2009 at 3:16pm

Sounds like a browser issue to me...

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

But I'm having troubles with the reply section. Do I talk to Ning about that. The scrawl bar keeps bouncing back up to the top, and once I get passed 14 lines (not 7 like I thought) I no longer can see what I'm typing because it's all below the window. And being the worst typest, I HAVE to see what I'm typing otherwise there are tons of typos.

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Permalink Reply by Rockin Rod Strychnine on August 31, 2009 at 10:46pm

See...I really don't know things like that. I have Internet explorer, Windows XP (I'm talking over my own head).

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