[acid-jazz] Is the Acid Jazz Server coming to an end?

From: Carl Barimore (carl_at_stirtloe.fsnet.co.uk)
Date: 2004-04-18 18:18:37

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    I've recently rejoined the list after about a year, and have noticed that the posts seem to have dropped off a lot. There seems to be the same number of gig listings and playlists posted as usual, but all the discussion in-between, on artists and on what's been in people's cd players, seems to be almost non-existent now. I wondered if it was a quiet period, so I had a look at the archives and, being the sad f*ck I am, I quickly went though and copied the number of posts per month into Excel. When I had a look at the graph (above), it showed that the list has had lots of regular up and downs in activity, but then has suddenly gone into free-fall since July 2002. Whereas there used to be between 300 and 600 posts are month, since 2003 it's barely topped 100 a month.

    Anyone know why this is? This list used to be such a goldmine of info, with lots of healthy discussion on genres hardly touched on elsewhere on the web. I first joined the list in 2000 and got into so much different music because of it. Some of my favourite artists I only found out about because of this list, and if I needed a tune I.Ded, I knew I could ask about it here.
     
    It'd be a right shame if the list died, but if the trend continues it might be all over by 2005.

    Anyone else got any thoughts on why this has happened? Is it because there are lots of websites with discussion boards now, and mailing lists are no longer very popular?

    Carl


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