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    How can we make Psynews more active? Post your ideas/opinions.

    in Psynews.ORG

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    On 5/2/2024 at 5:35 PM, Richpa said:

    Forum/board should be just one segment of the website. The front-page of Psynews.org shouldn't be board. It should look like a interactive web-page where you can find couple of things:

    - A nice clean horizontal menu with few sub-menus such as: News, Videos, Reviews, Events, Playlists, Forum. You can add Contact and/or Newsletter info as well
    - Big horizontal header, Psynews logo or promoted banner for certain release/event/something else
    - Top 4-6 articles should be right below, in form of a box or as a list, but pinned
    - Eventually side-bar with latest topics/threads from the board/forum
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    Agree completely. For reference of how it could work, perhaps look at https://www.psybient.org/ which has managed to stay going for several years now despite not having a working forum section.

    I would be happy to help out with this project, either on the technical side (I have a software development background) or by assisting with funding. Like Richpa said, with current Wordpress templates I think there is a lot that can be done with relatively low initial effort.

    Metadata and psy genre classification

    in General Psytrance

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    I put a genre tag on every track that I own but I don't use the Discogs genre information, because it is often either too vague ('Electronic') or just wrong.

    In the past I tried to be _very_ specific with genres but I gave up on that. There are a lot of good tracks that sit at the boundary between genres and I got tired of having to look in multiple different places for those tracks when trying to find them. Now I divide it up based on what I would play together in a DJ set. Goa gets its own genre tag/folder because I try to play purely goa tracks in those sets, but the chill genre tag gets added to everything from psy-chill to dub to acid-tinged ambient, because I mash all those kinds of tracks together in my chill sets. The psytrance genre tag gets added to a wide range too (full-on, twilight, uk, ...) because if I am listening to one of those then I'm usually in the mood for all of them.

    Are newcomers buying CD's?

    in General Psytrance

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    I used to buy CDs, but I stopped around 2010. I realized that I was ripping all the CDs to FLAC as soon as they arrived, and then never really looking at the CDs or boxes again. The box art looks great, of course, but CDs also take up space and decay over time. Now I prefer to buy the FLACs directly off of Bandcamp. I would like to think that more money can go to the artist + label that way, since they don't have to ship me anything.

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