propellerhead to shut official forum

[soronery]

https://www.propellerheads.se/blog/crew ... of-an-era/

An end of an era
Posted by Ernst on 2015-01-16 in Crew

On January 22nd Propellerhead is closing our forums. When we shipped ReBirth in 1997 we were one of the first companies in the business to start up direct communication with our customers. Mind you, this was before the term “on-line community” even existed.

But that was eighteen years ago, eons in internet time. Since then communication on the internet has changed completely. When we started, the internet was a small, closed place for tech nerds. Now it’s where we live our daily digital lives. New social channels are popping up every day and there are now more ways to communicate with like-minded than any of us have the time to fully explore.

We as a company have changed too. Over the years we have increased our communication dramatically. We’re engaging in a non-stop flow of conversations through all the channels of today and constantly monitoring those of tomorrow. It’s easier to get hold of us and talk to us than it ever was, and we’re talking to more musicians now than we ever did.

2014 was the best year for Propellerhead so far. Reason 8 turned out to be the most successful version of the program that we have ever made, which we’re extremely grateful for. And we’re completely committed to continue creating even better incarnations of our existing products, over years to come. But we’re also growing and expanding our reach through new products and services. While we’re humbled and grateful that so many people have already chosen to use our products in their music making, we also want to invite many more new musicians to the party. People who have other ideas about what music making means than we had when we started this company. And moving forward we will encourage more communication, connection and conversations between musicians, both those who are already our customers and those who will be.

It’s time to take the discussion out of the kitchen and into the streets. Look up and meet the musicians of the world where they are.

Ernst Nathorst-Böös
CEO and Founder

tldr - forum is obselete nerdfest

[fiveone]

so why are the forums closing?

[soronery]

obsolete because of social media

same people on them

nothing for new users except barrage of abuse from old crowd

much like all forums now to think of it

[ehbes]

its also an extremely confusing forum to navigate imo

[nowaysj]

Sad sad time.

[outbound]

Kinda sad but at same time fair play

[AxeD]

Been using Reason for a long time and I don't think I've ever seen this forum.
I should upgrade to a version with actual audio editing though. I've probably
said the same thing 2 years back.

[smalltock]

We no longer give a flying fuck about our community or anyone that actually uses our software. We only care about faggotbook®.

Anti-consumer move.

Kinda sad but at same time fair play

Fair play, but it'd also be fair play if consumers suddenly stopped feeding them money.

If there are any Reason users that aren't [flamboyant homosexual], they should start an unofficial PropellerDick forum.

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

Wtf was that rant about. I have never even use the propeller heads forum rly.

[hutyluty]

We no longer give a flying fuck about our community or anyone that actually uses our software. We only care about faggotbook®.

Anti-consumer move.

Kinda sad but at same time fair play

Fair play, but it'd also be fair play if consumers suddenly stopped feeding them money.

If there are any Reason users that aren't [flamboyant homosexual], they should start an unofficial PropellerDick forum.

i still can't get over the fact you called yourself smalltock looooooooooooooool

[smalltock]

My small tock is the tock that will pierce ur mum.

[nowaysj]

I believe your christ chip may have been dislodged.

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

Are u jrisrael or am I tripping

[nowaysj]

Maybe jr went to college and smoked some weed and is now a badass?

[mks]

Are u jrisrael or am I tripping

You have to spell it wrong.

jrisreal

[smalltock]

Or maybe I became a retarded weeb

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[calamity]

this seems counter intuitive....