it feels kinda dead here recently

[wrong_thyme]

for a forum in this day and age i think this place is doing pretty alright

as was already said, this is like. the only place to consistently get vocasynth news in one place (i've seen xitter accounts doing that too, but... it's xitter *shudder*)

i actually use reddit but i don't really hang around r/vocaloid much bc,,,, how do i put this without sounding like an elitist prick,, it feels like it's filled less with vocaloid fans and more just miku fans, y'know

 

[sunnyp4rk]

i actually use reddit but i don't really hang around r/vocaloid much bc,,,, how do i put this without sounding like an elitist prick,, it feels like it's filled less with vocaloid fans and more just miku fans, y'know

ok so i stuck around r/vocaloid for a while to help people with the software, and genuinely, its just miku and triple baka fans. people aren't even just surface level there, they stick with the same barely above surface stuff. Not even elitist to say that tbh.

not that its wrong to be a miku fan, just that the people there only know her and teto and MAYBE another character at the least.

 

[IO+]

Honestly, this place feels pretty neutral. Not just about Miku or any characters and it’s got pretty much everything: news, discussions, collabs, guides, discord, memes… even a corner to rant in. You don’t really see forums like this anywhere else, trust me.

The best part is it’s peaceful, and i will treasure it.

 

[Blue Of Mind]

as was already said, this is like. the only place to consistently get vocasynth news in one place (i've seen xitter accounts doing that too, but... it's xitter *shudder*)

i actually use reddit but i don't really hang around r/vocaloid much bc,,,, how do i put this without sounding like an elitist prick,, it feels like it's filled less with vocaloid fans and more just miku fans, y'know

ok so i stuck around r/vocaloid for a while to help people with the software, and genuinely, its just miku and triple baka fans. people aren't even just surface level there, they stick with the same barely above surface stuff. Not even elitist to say that tbh.

not that its wrong to be a miku fan, just that the people there only know her and teto and MAYBE another character at the least.

Even back in the golden era of V2, there were a lot of people who were really only Miku fans who liked super-popular songs like World Is Mine and didn't know anything else about Vocaloid as a software, a fandom and a budding music culture. If you were lucky, they probably also knew of a token Cryptonloid, another Vocaloid from a different company, an UTAU or a fan character (and for the latter two, they would assume they were official Vocaloids). Those fans were why I appreciated VocaloidOtaku back in the day, despite its retrospective reputation - at least I could have conversations with more hardcore fans about things I put the effort into researching.*

*Saying even that, I know Vocaloid is still a very difficult fandom to get into to this day. It's not a traditional fandom medium like a TV show, movie or game, and you need to do more than cursory research on Google to truly understand vocal synth technology. And if you do get interested in the tech and musical production side of things, you need to save up a lot of money just to purchase a vocal synth. So I get it - even I had to wade my way through misinfo and complete falsehoods on what Vocaloid was and still is back then. (Why did I think Kaito and Meiko were both canonically 21-years old back in 2009? Lol.) But even with places like this forum, fan wikis and even YouTube videos explaining what exactly Vocaloid is, there's still a lot of people who can't comprehend what Vocaloid actually is beyond Miku being a cute virtual idol from Japan.

 

[lIlI]

these XenForo forum software must be expensive to keep. isn't it a monthly rate? I remember I drempt of using something like this for my site and then looked at the price and suddenly making my own forum backend seemed much more appealing.

It's roughly $35 a month currently, plus a yearly fee for the domain. I know how much the forums are appreciated, so I hope to keep it running for as long as possible. Regardless of activity, I believe forums are important for information preservation, as they provide uniquely categorised snapshots of different points in community history, on top of all the valuable resources members have contributed!

Even if activity were to drop to zero, it would be my intention to have all the information archived and available.