Literally anything and everything except politics and religion, a thread might start on the finer points of subtractive EQ, progress onto some sports discussion, maybe take a diversion into a bit of comedy, horror movies. The thing was you never knew where a thread would go, and I loved that. The problem is that EVERYTHING became political, and when everything is political whats left to talk about. Sure talking about music is great and all, but you never get to know a person and build friendships if you never take the opportunity to communicate with each other. No man is an island and success takes a team with a common goal, the "check out my latest beat" brigade who never contribute anything, never leave feedback have always existed and always been annoying and selfish. Just seems to be more of it now, its become the norm instead of the exception.
There are many variables as to why traffic and participation has dropped off, its just "progress". Technology advances and we try to keep up with it. It moves so fast it can be hard to get ahead of the curve instead of reacting to it. AI is going to be the next big game changer, its going to change the world like computers did and later the internet. Might be worth investing into while its still early days.
The way people talk to each other has changed too, people are a lot ruder to each other when they aren't face to face. People also tend to take broad sweeping statements as personal attacks and get defensive and argue over bullshit. Maybe WW3 isnt such a bad thing, a few years stuck in a trench might bring some masculinity back to the world, ironically while a huge swathe of men are wiped from existence. I'm just watching the world descend into madness and making music while it happens, lol. My bad.
