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    Films Recently Watched

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    On 3/8/2024 at 5:28 PM, zkom said:

    I watched the Boxer's Omen, a 1983 Hong Kong occult film.

    And this is the strangest movie I have seen in the last few years. It is fucking bonkers. You might think the trailer up there is some kind of collection of just the craziest scenes. No, I can assure you the movie is even crazier. Everything is so bizarre: the plot, the effects, the camera work, the rhythm of the movie, the sound design, the acting, the locations. And it barely has any quiet moments. It's just 1 hour 45 minutes of madness. Like a nightmare you would have after 4 days of binge drinking. I would imagine that if David Lynch and Terry Gilliam got together and took some acid and decided to make a kung-fu movie it would be something like this.

    Rating: Flying severed tentacle head / 10.

    Experiencing this in a dark room full of screaming and cheering people cemented to me the importance of both cinema theaters and aspirin.

    Would You Pay to Access WATMM In Lieu of Advertisements?

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    9 hours ago, luke viia said:

    ngl I would never have signed up here if this was the state of things when I arrived.

     

    Yeah, me neither : with that the entry-level site looks like with the ads and the overbloat, I wouldn't have joined; I probably wouldn't have even browsed unless in search of specific information

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    2 hours ago, dcom said:

    Targeted/personalized ads following you around the internet is a nuisance. I'm adblocked up the wazoo, but I still prefer to contribute financially to the upkeep of a forum whose thematic and (para-)social dimensions overlap so greatly with mine as WATMM does. I would go as far as to prefer a completely gated/closed community, with no outside (Google) content indexing because we're regularly discussing very personal things, too, and having all that searchable from outside is a bit iffy.

    If this site wasn't indexed I'd be contributing more personally, sharing art and such, but I know it's not a common concern. Opting out of the google crawl is (probably?) cutting off a main entrypoint for newcomers.

     

    @Joyrex, would you agree to share with us some numbers? How much money is coming in from members? How much from ads? Do you have access to stats on how many users have elapsed subscriptions? It is possible to set up automated reminders? Thanks!

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    Would You Pay to Access WATMM In Lieu of Advertisements?

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by aencre
    english and statistics aren't my first language

    I was curious of the actual numbers, and since I don't have access to the stats I just did like a normal person and counted by hand who was online today:

    today.png

    I never pay attention to ranks and such. Tallying the accounts, I noticed that some of the higher paying contributors are people I've never heard of (some are full-on lurkers, hi!) while many users whose posts I enjoy on a regular basis are free members. I've also realized how a bunch are small labels and artists and how it'd be conterproductive to have them pay or shoo them away from sharing their upcoming releases — a main reason I frequent this very forum.

    Out of 215 users with accounts, 119 have bought a paid subscription; that's more than half. Today, we had :

    • 20 supporting members (3$/year) = 60 $
    • 35 members plus (5$/year) = 175 $
    • 48 knob twiddlers (10$/year) = 480 $
    • 16 expert knob twiddlers (20$/year) = 320 $

    Assuming the 8 admins who were online aren't spending anything else than time and patience, that amounts to 1035 bucks.

    That's just out of the people who where here today. There are 27 times more registered users than that.

    So if the hosting+software fees amount to the yearly 1200$, it seems like an ad-less, open community is pretty doable?

    We just need an automatic reminder to pay the bills.

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    Would You Pay to Access WATMM In Lieu of Advertisements?

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    1 hour ago, Alcofribas said:

    I think the major drawback to this model is that it would prohibit a lot of potential new members from joining when there are so many other forums and social media they can use for free. 
     

    I think if we can manage to get enough regular subscribers to pay for it, there should be no restrictions even for those who don’t pay. 

    100% behind this.
     

    What I'm curious is: are the ads bringing in proper revenue, or are they meant to bog down the non-subscriber experience?

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    Would You Pay to Access WATMM In Lieu of Advertisements?

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    Posted · Edited by aencre

    My first thought : wait, I'm already paying for watmming without ads.

    ...unless my subscription has expired once again without notifiying me?

    And, would you look at that, I just went in to check and yes, it had indeed relapsed. That's an issue right there: people like me, who can afford to throw in some money in the hat and already did so, but don't renew because they're not actively reminded once they're due. Surely an automated reminder — email or notification — could be set up?

     

    2 hours ago, chronical said:

    instead of a paywall you just redirect to twoism or xltronic lol

    lol

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    Favourite YouTube Videos

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    On 12/6/2023 at 8:40 AM, xxx said:

    I travel for work and wind up in strange places. I'm currently about 70 miles west of Chicago deep in agricultural production. This place (Bright Farms) is actually pretty neat. It has a massive greenhouse operation for microgreens that uses a system of bugs instead of pesticides. However, at night, it is a menacing, dystopian sight. The camera doesn't do it justice but the greenhouse looks like a space heater element taken to 10,000x scale. "eastre" just felt like the right unease I felt when I first found it. 

     

    my favorite ae music video in quite a while

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    Rae - A piece that stands out

    in Autechre

    Posted · Edited by aencre

    2 hours ago, neurone said:

     I always thought that LP5 is like Leonard Cohen using casio and nords instead of an acoustic guitar. . .    serioulsy, not joking.

    The ladies' man writing his famous ballad Under BOAC:

    cohencasio.jpg

    (But in the perspective of their previous output, yeah, I can kinda see what you mean in the chords progressions of, say, fold4wrap5 or corc...)

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