yay new forums ftw!!!!

I have this warm fuzzy feeling that the new site is going to be great. :)

The gorilla and I have been thinking that this will be a grand step in the right direction. G.com moderators, and the like, I actually feel as though we are a part of a great community, so keep it up.

if change means making the site more fun as well as adding some very usefull resources for information, I'm open to that.

I mean after all, just like in most musical genre's, if there is no progress to keep it interesting then things become stagnent.

It'll take some time but we've got some very interesting plans. The first round will start with this new version. We'll have a link to it on the home page next week. Then we'll get to work at the phase II part of the program. Hopefully, that will include feedback from users, new ideas generated from the discussions created in the new space plus working with new partners to bring value to the site. It's exciting stuff and we're glad you guys are open to it. Looking forward to hearing from you

You know we're always good for opinions, open onions, err... something like that.

yes i do.............all too well!!

opinions are like assholes. everybody has one.

that being said, i really liked the manufacturer/guest forum on classic g.com. bring those back.... somehow.

good luck.

I only ever use the forum but I have been reading Insider's blog. To me the timetable doesn't matter - I was planning to keep playing till the day I die anyway. I tried for a month to check the new members every day and PM them, inviting them to say hello on a "Newbies" thread. The main thing I learnt was that there are hundreds of them who never say anything, so I assume they are using the Lessons and other aspects of the site. Are you incorporating traffic counters into different parts of the site?

Do we lose our webcred?!

Haha. Just kidding.

I really love the community on this site. And if it gives better resources, tools and stuff, then I'll practically live my life here.

The "Education" section is really good, btw. Thanks for putting it up.

Its gonna suck.............please don't make it suck.........please.....

I've never begged in my life till now!!!! Its going to be the same people so I really shouldn't give a rats ass. But I do, its Jims money at stake and not mine so hell yeah make it rock.

Yes, we do lose our WebCreds so, spend 'em while you can!

Mmmm....>>>>>

jpg, gif, bitmap, bmp, png....a rose by any other name!

Here's one that combines everything the US stands for. Pity she's not playing football as well.

No not my web creds...say it isn't so...anything but my web creds!!! I almost had enough for that swell decoder ring :-(

Those are all good ideas and many of them have been on the consideration page - a collaboration interface for all users to make music, lessons, the Manufacturers forum is a great idea and one we'll look into shortly - lots of good ideas and we appreciate those thoughts.

Hate to keep throwing ideas in but please set the forum font so that we can post tabs. I've seen a few java apps out there that allow you to click a fretboard to make tabs. http://www.hotfrets.com/tabwriter.asp for example.

I envision a virtual fretboard above the dialogue box where you type your message so that you can click in tabbed riffs and post directly to the forum. That would be cool!

Monospaced fonts are so passe. No visitor would take the forum seriously if the font was monospaced. However I think at least the ability to select between two fonts (one default and one for tabs) would do the trick adequately. Like in some tech forums there is a tag called 'code' so that the text between these tags appears in courier new and they use this to post scripts and other code in their posts.
If down the road the dev' team further wants to expand this into funky hightech flash functionalities, that's fine too.

This 'beta' concept is laughable. The last 5-6 years have been 'beta' for g.com! Just build a cool website and launch it already... If it's cool, people will go after it. If it's a shallow, pathetic attempt to deceive us into a false sense of self supplied community we'll either fall for it or we wont.


If you tank it this time (ie nosedive into abysmal, epic failure) can I have the guitar.com domain name? I promise I'd make it cool...

I peeked around the corner and all I saw was my cat. You lied.

Maybe the website could use something like google wave for it.

This youtube is hella long, but worth the watch, I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ&feature=player_embedded

Hmmm, i used to like Zombre - This current site was being developed by a new company. Never made it past "beta" - If you read the first post - you'll note that we're going back to the drawing board of sorts.

Het - good idea. We're talking to various tab prospects. The licensing is the lynchpin. Without it, you catch grave noise here in the US. That's why there's plenty of tabs site based everywhere BUT the US. Keep the ideas coming - we'll address them as we can. First things first - put up the site so that it has some content on it - it's searchable and then start to build upon the ideas. What for the link manana.

manana



it's a banana... for men.




manana

Ok,


I believe Jeff and Hetjr are right in the sense that having a Tab editor would be a great idea.We aren't stealing anything, were GIVING something. Its use would be to let the members who do the collabs, as Jeff pointed out, a chance to put the ideas across for those who like to use tablature.

Were not ripping off artists, y'know like Hal Leonard does. We are posting our own work, which last time I looked was extremely legal, for others to use by way of a lesson or transcription of our tracks. I have done a few on here, and it was a right royal pain in the scrotum. A tab editor would be beneficial for those that contribute in such a way.

Secondly, I agree with Zombre and Farlow on respective viewpoints.......just make it work. At the end of the day it will see traffic or it wont. And if you take my advice, which is always optional, make it simple and user friendly. If you start fucking around with additions and gimmicks and stuff that has limited appeal and use, then the site will be the elephant in the room. You know its there but no-one mentions it.

Guitar players are an easy bunch to please, lets face it look at Motorhead. But we play guitar, internet site or no internet site. The only reason I use G.com is to chat with the guys, sort out collabs, post the songs that I put on iComp for them to give me grief over, and sometimes get some advice. Oh, and have the odd disagreement but its human nature and I for one dont give a rats ass.

Anyway. I hope it works, I do. But if it doesn't then start asking questions of those that put it together. Members come and go, members can be faithful, members talk openly, agree, disagree, argue, help, support, advise, teach, learn, respect, compliment, criticize, bicker, whatever!!
But at the end of the day they all share a passion for playing guitar, and if the site helps provide something for them to share that passion with the instrument of choice, then mission accomplished.

If not I'm starting up a Posse.....

It has been my gripe that other guitar sites become too self important with too many pop ups constantly, or the tabs suck, or the One thing I would like to see is an advertisement that doesn't already stream a video. If I want to watch a vid I will click on it. I stopped going to Gamer sited because they have to many moving parts and it weighs down even a respectable computer, let alone an average schmoe like me.

It does not have to be aesthetically pleasing. Functionality is key. Most of the people who post are guys. Ocasionally we have a lady, but look on every post. Maybe one girl to 50 guys? It can look cool, but don't make that the priority. I agree about the tabs. I want to see, when I do watch a vid what they are doing.

I don't think the new site is going be bad. I trust that it's in the right hands with realistic goals this time. Otherwise it would mean that the owners didn't learn from past failures and I have trouble believing that for a company of the magnitude of DAddario.

I do have to agree with the main ideas recently mentioned, especially functionality. Easy and fast access to all the basic and most used stuff. Fancy gimmicks are cool but they get old fast and then they just waste our time, so save them for less used stuff. And any high- or low- tech way to post tabs that don't get completely destroyed by the forum font will keep us happy. We're gonna post tabs anyway, so it might as well be made easy.


Oh! and I'd love to see a cool new logo/banner! I kinda like the splashy G although it's a bit generic, but the rest of the logo is lame. We're posers at heart, we need a logo to match this.

Speak for yourself! haha......


I'll design a new logo for free, lets face it, I know my shit, I have had a lot of commissioned art sold, and I'll do this for nowt.

The offer is there....

I think you should let the Padre do it. I can't wait to see what he comes up with! Besides that, you can't beat the price...

Padre, post some art. i'd love to see it. oh hey... make some fancy avatars for us common folk!

I actually did post some sketches on here before, I'll see if I can find one to let you see what this idiot can do!!

Heres a real old one from high school, just pissing about really....

That's cool, but show me the stuff, the "Oh my BaJesus, what did I just feast my arse upon?" shiite. My wife is an artist, so I know that if that was high school, there ain't no tellin' what you're up to now.

I'll get to scanning then Papa....will post tomorrow as I'm heading out for a meal tonight with my Dee and the impish monkey Brianna.....

Cool... My art work always comes out looking like Acid Jazz mixed with Dali and Escher. Wacked. Of course it is stream of consciousness art, but it's mine. Maybe I will have the balls enough to post some of them. They aren't on the caliber of commissioned art, but I don't do it for anything other than hobby.

Nice pic of the terminator Padre. You do have some talent, besides playing the guitar. I actually owned a black Fatboy like the one Arnie is riding there. I was thinking of photo-shopping my head on your pic and using it on my facebook :-)

I think something that would be cool is to add a section where gear is reviewed... yes, there is already a gear section with recommendations from users and many of us post user reviews of gear we've bought or had an opportunity to really sit down and tinker with... but how about some professionally done reviews.

and I'd say if you use that suggestion although video reviews are good because we can hear and see what's happening also give us the choice of a text based article too - I say this because I'm often on the site at work where I have no audio (there's enough noise from the endless chatter in a call center without someone adding noise from video and soundclips to the mix).

Also, although there is already an articles section where you can learn tons of stuff if you take the time to sift through it and find something that interests you; make it easier to find. Categorize the articles so you can go straight to the subject your interested in and can bypass what's not about that general subject.

I remember the old G.com had interviews with artists and professional guitar tech's (I seem to remember once reading something with Joe Satriani's tech back in the old site) or other music industry professionals. It can be tutorial stuff along the lines of what I've mostly seen in the article section here or it could be something like, say, a professional musician sharing stories about the ups and downs of being on tour and what they went through to get to where they are today, in depth studies of the gear a guitarist used to get that elusive sound and the settings that will get you close.

"Something I also remember from the old G.com that was great too was interviews with people in the music industry (artists, agents, managers, lawyers, guitar techs, etc.)"

I have wondered about having forums with the guys in the industry. Being able to talks shop with actual major label groups, or professional signed artists, or just to shoot the shit with some of the greats. I know there are plenty of D'Adarrio users in the biz. Not that I expect it, it would be nice though.