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It happened again - but it was easily fixable: Server restarted, all is well. cheers

No Crowd Strike, we suffered same fate like ETNOSCSOPE ("raw remains of a shattered drive")...

You may have noticed that Psynews recently was down for an extended period of time We had a shattered hard drive and needed some time to recover the data. Huge thanks to our admin Mars that the data was saved. I hope everybody is fine and well. The forums are up again. cheers RTP

Dear everybody, the poll is open for more than a month now and I don't think we'll get many more votes - letting it stay like it is is the winner I think we will be going with that for now.

ohhh this is great news! I'm so happy to be back and get these news first hand. Astral Projection belongs to Goa Trance like Psynews does

soooo .... I see that not many are hyped by this - I am not sad. I like the forum here with classic functionality and we don't need to hop with the hype -- just be informed that this Banano thing exists and I use my alias "RTP RECORDS" when enqueuing so if you ever drop by on Jungle TV it's likely that that's me. Especially when a lot of S-RANGE is in the queue. Other than that, there are no Psynews projects planned over there and this topic will stay without new posts from me. cheers

Hello people and all lifeforms on here, so we have these "reactions" available to posts since a few years ... the feature seems to be used quite a lot and it seems to be a perk, that the reactions are anonymous: you never know who reacted in which way. This anonymity function is inherent and can not be switched off. (I speculate the reason being that you can not delete a reaction even if you delete an account, so that's why they are anonymous and will always be kept that way.) Some do not like that concept. I have looked into that function and can tell you: it can not be removed entirely. The "Like" will always be available. But all other reactions can be removed. I'd like to make a poll - what to do with it? I identified 3 directions: Shall we keep the reactions as they are now - or screw them and only keep the "like" - or enhance them with something more (that needs icons which need to be custom made or obtained royalty-free). What is your tendency? Thanks for your votes! I will let this stay open a bit and wait for your REACTIONS

Hi yeah, we were a bit understaffed and I had my reasons, feel free to check out the Status thread if you're interested. Back now and cleaned it up quite vigorously (at least what seemed reasonable to me, which was most). It should be better from now on that we have a little people more on the team Thanks at everybody for not letting the drama escalate too much, you handled it reasonably, all of you No, we will not make it a rule that a review needs to include links The links always help the people that are interested - and it is nice to play the embedded video and read the text here, I give you that point. But overall, I still put good writing above all and that's well done by the Doctor here, so: no critics. Cheers!

Hello again, little did I know ... life is super (super!) crazy and turbulent for me these days ... I just wrote that first post, read the first replies, thought a little about what to say - then: boom .... I have been through so much it would fill an entire thread! But I put it short: Two family members in hospital ... still in hospital (it's been months). One of them is my daughter, who came over 3 months early. Second one is my dad. It looked bleak, really bleak and it also affected my psychological health. I recovered, but it was not easy and still is far from it. It's all so easy and shortly said, but I don't wanna spill out all my personal details in a post, I did enough of this in the past and while it would do me good, I do not have the energetic resources to process all the replies ... don't get me wrong, you are all great, but this is something I want to share only little. The situation is definitely a lot better now though and the outlook is positive again So if anybody wondered about admin absence, there you have the reason. Returning to it now though, I am happy that this forum exists and that I can write that here. No, I will not retire Psynews (if Mars keeps the server alive). I will embrace the requests from people who offered mod help and we will continue on, past 2024 and beyond I have a way better outlook now, a new private workplace under construction and I will now finally be able to be here more. And I also have begun to post Videos again on Jungle TV, which is a sign that I am well

Hello people and all lifeforms on Psynews, I thought imma give you an update on what's going on and arbitrarily share my thoughts about my life and about what is up with me on this forum here: As you might have read somewhat down the line of time, my life recently got a twist - or let me say: a complete turnaround - for the better. Ten years I have basically been sleeping under a rock and all of a sudden it went boom, somewhat - and as I came back to my senses it felt to me like I suddenly was going pretty far on the overtaking side on life's highway, in a fast car and taking turns in the driver's seat with a Soul that makes me really, really happy to be alive. Honestly, I only now realize what I have been missing out and I may ensure you from the deepest of my heart that it has nothing at all to do with any substance ingestion ... that never was my thing anyway. It's just good music and a speed of life that makes me tingle! As good as these news are for me personally, I have to admit it did not have and will not have the best effect on my time here. I will happily stay admin and do stuff when it pops up and when I have time - but I honestly am not much around anymore. If it wasn't for other people who cleaned up here besides me, it would be a true mess! A BIG THANKS to everybody in mod and admin team at this point! The forum has been "kind" to us by decreasing member activity and especially not making my attention so necessary in the past weeks ... but will it stay like that...? This brings me to a question - or rather a decision ... the way I perceive it, we are on a three way crossing and we can pick where we go from here ... the possibilities: 1.: We don't change anything and let all stay the way it is. You will maybe experience delay in requests and reports, in PMs to me, making a few spam posts disappear slower than they should. In fact I will drop by every few weeks, unregularly, clean up some stuff and tidy up a little and together with mods and admins still here we will keep it running as it currently is. 2.: We develop and evolve, get some new members in the admin and moderator panel and rock the place with good content. I'd love that -- but bear in mind that forums are on the declining side of the Internet. They won't get old that soon, but in the medium to long run we would HAVE to evolve into a Metaverse and I'd happily do that with you all, just not as a key driver because my time is a dwindling resource. 3.: Maybe you don't wanna hear it, but the internet has changed, forums are out of date and the activity counter on here shows it. I'm not going to pull out a diagram, but new posts have been steadily declining over the past years and recently some more active members left the community. Makes me wanna think out loud: Psynews could be hibernated and archived, open to browse but not to further post ... a possibility? I am just posing thoughts on my own. Everybody is welcome to voice their opinions. I am NOT saying that we stop this. I am just speaking it out as an admin for the first time and as one option of many - and without having asked anybody else. Bear in mind that this openness is also a form of me saying thanks to everybody for putting up with reduced admin time on here. Let me know your thoughts! If there's a team behind it, I'll happily stay a member, with or without admin rights as you wish, and let you carry the flame on and on cheers RTP

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I think I remember the forum this was posted on, it was Ottomatta's offtopic den (don't know the proper name anymore), wasn't it? However, if it was that thread (or a related one) that you mean with the reference, then I must say that whatever was posted there on that forum (I do not remember the exact words) left me very disturbed, confused and only half-believable on my end of the screen. The bottomline which was trying to be brought across in the poster's opinion was, that a certain person would be behind lots of accounts here. And to take the theory further, it was stated, that, being mentally ill, this person maybe doesn't even know and thus argues with him/herself, creating pure drama out of thin air... ...correct me if I'm wrong. I had long time to think about this. Was it real, or a form of bad joke? I even brought it up several times here in some comments, but as a bottom line after all those years of thinking: I can only say that I do not care. I just stick to my recipe: I do take postings here with face value, albeit with a certain amount of "not taking everything too serious". And, frankly: I think you should do the same. I find it not even bad that we have such a crazy theory about our forum. I mean, who else has this? You have to have a certain status and meaning in people's lives that they even come up with this. That's what I like about it. And the rest I leave alone before I beome insane One more thing: IP checks did not reveal multiple accounts, but if such a scheme really exists the person has enough knowledge to mask their identity. cheers

Cheers ... yes, never was really gone, but definitely back and still on it.

Remember ETNOSCOPE? I discovered them roughly 20 years ago when they were releasing their "Drums From the Dawn of Time" (available on Ektoplazm: https://ektoplazm.com/free-music/etnoscope-drums-from-the-dawn-of-time ). A true gem of an album, you can find stunning reviews here about it as well. Cheers @Basilisk by the way for keeping these online on Ektoplazm But apart from a number of single releases it went quite silent about Etnoscope quite soon afterwards. They didn't have an easy life: hard drive crashed, material lost ... fortunately after a few years they "managed to get their act together" and released a second album "Way Over Deadline" (also available on Ektoplazm: https://ektoplazm.com/free-music/etnoscope-way-over-deadline ), which was literally that: way over its deadline, for it should have come out ages ago but the material was lost. But after that it went quite silent about them. I was trying to keep up with the news, I was aware that Raz (one of the main members) was desperately looking for a label to release more stuff, but there was no luck with that. No more releases followed so far -- up to this day. We had some good previews on soundcloud ( https://soundcloud.com/etnoscope ), but apart from that: nothing. Apparently Raz is still looking for a label and believe it or not, I was trying to get in touch with him, but I had no luck with that either so far -- well, maybe it finally will be this time, with the release of this... ... So what is it, that I post here. A bootleg? Well, no. The Etnoscope site back then had a mix on it, one that was showcasing their latest material. It was dope. The mix was so good that I used common sense to access the file and download it, right from their site back then. Unfortunately the site went down after a few months, leaving me with the mix on my mp3 Walkman and leaving me to enjoy it while running -- which was fabulous. I mean, really fabulous -- I even was able to pull off a good run in Wan Chai itself, putting even Deus Ex' music to shame ... stunning... ...however, in the last weeks and months, my trusty Walkman is deteriorating, the buttons don't work anymore, the headphone jack has a piece of it that broke off, it's getting really shabby. I had to do something, trying to save the files on it -- and the most valuable to me is this mix, given that I have no backup copy (all PCs that I had this on are gone after the years). So I backed it up -- and being a man of the times, I just uploaded it to the cloud, for everyone to enjoy. It was public once, why shouldn't it stay public (if any Etnoscope member has an issue with this after all: feel free to contact me so that we finally can get in touch to release some stuff on RTP Records ... it's one click for me to set it private, no hassle). So cheers after all and I hope some people enjoy this. cheers RTP

Thanks for mentioning and getting my attention This is an importnat thread anyway. I'd like to do a "check in" too: My life has turned very much upside down, in a positive way (new relationship), but it was very challenging for me. I've also moved and am in a different flat now, still living out of boxes. I was quite under pressure during the last months. I'm really happy that there was no urgent matter here, for it could very well have been the drop that is too much for me to take... It has now calmed down a little and the cracking and creaking noises in my universe, which apparently was already suffering a little under the velocity of its expansion, have stopped or at least died down ... and I am now using the "calmer seas" to sit down and send out a little signal, that all is well in my life and that I will never forget this site and always will come back, now more than in the months before - it's a pleasure to be an admin and I thank you for it