mpc, rest in peace, Note: bumped from 2006 starting with post #78 Options

[Squeller]

The last article in the mpc forums is from July 1st. This is more than dead.

Isn't it time to remove the direct links to mpc forums? mpc is like a dead limb in ha.

This post has been edited by Squeller: Aug 9 2006, 07:12

[Klyith]

I like MPC, still have 5 gigs of them (20% of my music by bits), and still occasionally encode a cd in mpc. That said, it's a dead or dying format, and I don't think there's much need to keep the forums active or in the prominent position they have now. But deleting them is a bad idea, and merging into another forum is nearly as bad. The posts should be preserved, and moving them into another forum could cause problems for the receiving forum (like pollution of search results).

One preliminary idea that I think almost everyone could agree one: merge MPC General & MPC Tech into a single forum. That would at least make any subsequent move easier to do in a single step....

A question: Can Invision do a subforum without having the parent being a "holder" without posts? Could we put MPC as a subforum of Lossy Codecs without changing how Lossy is? The example I'm thinking of is the hardocp forums where the video cards forum has two subforums for ATI & nvidia specifically, but is still a full forum with posts of its own.

I think that merging the mpc section into the "misc lossy" could be a bad move, making historical information retrieval more difficult.

I like most of Gabriel's ideas.

The MPC forum history is precious and should be preserved forever (as long as HA exists, hopefully even longer in some form of Internet archive).

I agree. And unfortunately, archive.org is pretty horrible when dealing with forums. I'd love to see some of the stuff I posted to the Arstechnica forum way back (heh, pun) in like 1999, but first archive wasn't indexing it back then, and second it is nearly impossible to navigate a forum on archive. Damn, I'd love to reread the 3dfx vs nvidia flamewars I got into.

[DARcode]

I like MPC, still have 5 gigs of them (20% of my music by bits), and still occasionally encode a cd in mpc. That said, it's a dead or dying format, and I don't think there's much need to keep the forums active or in the prominent position they have now. But deleting them is a bad idea, and merging into another forum is nearly as bad. The posts should be preserved, and moving them into another forum could cause problems for the receiving forum (like pollution of search results).

One preliminary idea that I think almost everyone could agree one: merge MPC General & MPC Tech into a single forum. That would at least make any subsequent move easier to do in a single step....

A question: Can Invision do a subforum without having the parent being a "holder" without posts? Could we put MPC as a subforum of Lossy Codecs without changing how Lossy is? The example I'm thinking of is the hardocp forums where the video cards forum has two subforums for ATI & nvidia specifically, but is still a full forum with posts of its own.

I think that merging the mpc section into the "misc lossy" could be a bad move, making historical information retrieval more difficult.

I like most of Gabriel's ideas.

The MPC forum history is precious and should be preserved forever (as long as HA exists, hopefully even longer in some form of Internet archive).

I agree. And unfortunately, archive.org is pretty horrible when dealing with forums. I'd love to see some of the stuff I posted to the Arstechnica forum way back (heh, pun) in like 1999, but first archive wasn't indexing it back then, and second it is nearly impossible to navigate a forum on archive. Damn, I'd love to reread the 3dfx vs nvidia flamewars I got into.

Take a look around, things have already changed since 09/08/06.