MainTitles forum - time to call it a day?

I think most people, here or almost anywhere else, have changed in their level of commitment regarding any messageboard. So, I do not see any valiable solution.

Well, I, for one, refuse to give up, despite my hearing issues and what-have-you. I absolutely DETEST discussing on social media platforms like Facebook, and have rarely done it. There is still a space for us old-timers to discuss on messageboards, I think. But it requires radical solutions like the one I mentioned above. Even that may not work, but it's worth a shot.

It's so strange, years I've stopped posting and writing reviews, now I'm actually writing new reviews. I've already written a lot of Michael Kamen, and plan to do most of his discography. So I would find it sad to stop this newly revised interest.

Also, I don't know why but visiting maintitles always gives me such nostalgia, and feels like home. On the other end, who is posting here except a person here or there?

Personally, I can't seem to let go of this place, but I'm responsible for not awakening the flame as well, since I'm not contributing enough (except the reviews I'm posting again)

However, to perhaps summarize it the best, the fact Maintitles is still alive and kicking on Google:
I'm selling my CD's online, my girlfriend (who knows nothing of fillmusic) is thereby doing research, to see what's high of value, and what's not. She did a search of Stagecoach (Jerry Goldsmith) and the first hit was ... my review of it on Maintitles

If that's not a sign Maintitles is still alive, I don't know what is

I was never a big poster here, but I must confess I forgot the name of the forum which is why I haven't been here for years. I just found it quite by chance whilst Googling for something else. Needless to say I have now bookmarked it.

Hey. I'm defenitely one of the reasons this site is going nowhere community wise. Sorry for that. At the same time, that is how things go and family is indeed taking up a lot of my time. I still listen a lot to film music, but it is so different.

So I've been thinking about this as well.

1. Forum concept is not a 2026 thing anymore. What could be the alternative? For me Celluloid Tunes is okay! But perhaps we need to think further and think about the regular message board. Perhaps more involvement with notifications and interactivity would trigger more responsive. Also a mobile version would be very useful.

2. I don't want the reviews gone though so these I would let live.

3. AI has changed my job entirely in just the period of a year. It helps me creating things so much faster. One of the things that has been in my mind the past few weeks is to create a new site with the help of AI but need some more thought in this. But that also triggers questions 1: what should the forum become?

4. As an alternative for the board, we could setup a Discord channel for discussion, but that is something external. Not sure if people know or would like it.

I don't know what would help or not. But I'm strongly against Discord. I can't find anything on that darn app.

Sorry for not being active these last few years. My family had a really stressful time with moving into another city and home and setting up our lives there. Everything's alright now, and I'm slowly getting back on my feet and into my original hobbies.

I'll try to be more active again in the future.

Thanks for chiming in, Bregt! I totally understand how everyday life comes in the way.

To be honest, I'm a little bummed that none of you have elected to partake on Celluloid Tunes, but I can only surmise that it's because of a sense of allegiance to this particular board. I suppose that's understandable, in a nostalgic kind of way. My take, however, is that Maintitles folks are a mobile group that don't need to set themselves to any particular forum interface. We showed that when we moved from Scorereviews, and we showed that in the Zoom chats, at a time when the board itself was practically dead. We can exist all over the place. It's the people that matters, not where we are.

A move to CT would make more sense to me, because it has a "head start" with some 5-6 active members already, with which the Maintitles people could easily merge (it doesn't have to restart with zero on a new fancy platform).

Your alternative technical solutions probably make sense if one wants to recruit NEW members. I can see the point of that. But if the goal is to maintain the ones we ALREADY HAVE - to "re-ignite" them, so to speak - I don't think it matters that messageboard as a discussion platform is dying. We've all used it for many years, and many of us are more comfortable with that than with new solutions like Discord and what-have-you (I barely even know what Discord is).

Anyways, those are my two cents. Whatever you choose, I'll support it. The only thing I don't support is just "let it be" in its current state. For my part, I'm locked exclusively to the CT board for the foreseeable future (for health reasons, mostly), but I'd like to see the Maintitles spirit live on, in whatever fashion.