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Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:14 am
by samplaire
Isn't it that first users registered at 23rd of March 2001?????

Happy birthday PlanetZ FOURum!!!!! :smile: :smile: :smile:

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:19 am
by samplaire
Maths! 3 years :roll:

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:48 am
by bosone
i still wonder WHY jhon cooper chose the name PlanetZ: for what does it stand the Z?

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:56 am
by Counterparts
Zcope Fusion Platform :smile:

Royston

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 10:23 am
by at0m
The date of First User is not correct: it's when John transferred the forum to another server or something.

Read more about the z here, planetz is not only limited to /forums/ :wink:

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 11:05 am
by samplaire
Absolutely :smile: There was a time I searched the drawers of PlanetZ but not recently. That's why my knowledge is limited. Anyway, PlanetZ is here since 1998 (aaaa.... 6 years?he..he... cool...) :smile: Impressive!

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 11:28 am
by Spirit
This is what it used to look like before the new design: :smile:

http://web.archive.org/web/200010171826 ... 06901.html

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 11:31 am
by samplaire
I remember it! But my memories are foggy :wink: How to frame the found page besides the webarchive.org?

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Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 2:17 pm
by hubird
On 2004-03-24 11:28, Spirit wrote:
This is what it used to look like before the new design: :smile:

http://web.archive.org/web/200010171826 ... 06901.html
wow...never saw that! thanks Spirit :smile:

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 2:21 pm
by Neil B
I was only thinking about this, after a fashion, the other day.
I've been a member for only 2.5 years and there have been so many changes during that time.
Okay it's obvious to say that everyone has become more like a big family (with only 1 or 2 feuds), but the biggest difference that I've noticed is in the quality of uploaded tracks in the music forum.

Now, don't take it the wrong way all you early members but to me it seems as if:
1: a lot of the early uploads were experimentations with the Pulsar cards and synths.
2: A lot of these uploads were okay as tracks too.
3: Now, with so many people skilled in "Pulsar" and able to assist each other, the quality of music, differences in styles, quality of mixing/mastering etc has rocketed.
4: Comments and advice seem to be more honest, more helpful and more enlightening too.
For instance, my latest fun upload has received considerable advice. Perhaps a year or two ago many of these things would not have been said because it would have seemed as if they were condemnations or over-critical (well in my case they're deserved :lol: ). Nowadays though we know that people value these litlle comments and criticisms and as "family members" we can all absorb it.

The other thing that I have also noticed and I think that this goes hand in hand with my previous comments is just how many people now upload a track and include the comment:
"It isn't finished yet......" :lol:
Is this because the quality is so much higher now that we have to pretend it isn't our best shot?
Or is it because we are relaxed enough to upload an incomplete track and seek advice before finishing it off?

In summary, it seems to me that we've all grown individually and all grown as a team - really healthy!

So - what do you think??????

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 4:48 pm
by samplaire
We know each other much better than 2 years ago. At first I was against creating the off topic forum because I thought we don't need it. But now, after your observation I think the subforum is essential! Now we may know what to expect from a music review done by mr. X or Y . Isn't it like that???

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:18 am
by Micha
PlanetZ has been THE forum right from the start. For all of us it was a new world. We had to find out that first. And it took some time to understand. Especially the routing and the modular. First version with good sound was 1.2a. Before nobody really knew how it could sound. And the bugs. Oh, well... Yes, we all know better now and I think it was worth growing that way. The crisis is over now, so we can hope that the few remaining severe bugs will be fixed (PRESETS!!). Pulsar is a world of its own and so is the PlanetZ. But we are old enough now to have our school open, since a lot of experts are available. Congratulations, PlanetZ :grin:

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:24 am
by hubird
SCOPE


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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:53 pm
by John Cooper
On 2004-03-24 11:28, Spirit wrote:
This is what it used to look like before the new design: :smile:

http://web.archive.org/web/200010171826 ... 06901.html
Wooow, I can't believe that's still around! :smile:

Funny!
-John

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:58 pm
by John Cooper
On 2004-03-24 09:14, samplaire wrote:
Isn't it that first users registered at 23rd of March 2001?????

Happy birthday PlanetZ FOURum!!!!! :smile: :smile: :smile:
This isn't quite the birthday- we had that earlier on January 15 -- see <a href="http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... 10&9">this topic</a>.

Let's just call it a minor holiday- the day I ditched discserver.snap.com, and started the forums that we have here now. A few days after creating the forums, I unveiled them to the public- on March 26 or 27 I guess. (It took a few days, writing a custom spiderbot to suck in all the message threads from the old discserver forum, and iron out the problems).

Cheers,
-John

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:01 pm
by alfonso
This is the best web place I've ever seen.
People are nice, product is nice, web design is nice...

Cheers Planet Z!