MusketeerX

Agreed, it's so good.

I got an invite to join last year and signed up to test it out.

Felt like there was a lot less people and a lot less content on it than Mastadon.

Unless the users/content now really starts to take off, there's not enough on there to make it interesting.

Some forums are still reasonably active. I use Whirlpool fairly regularly. Mostly tech related, but has lots of other sections too.

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/

If you search around you can find others.

An interesting read. Yeah, it's complicated.

I think sound has been a bit under-appreciated compared to visual effects/quality in recent years.

It's things like this that make me glad that my email service defaults to not loading any images/links/html. There's a small button at the top to load them if I want.

Yes, I remember that! I recall thinking, imagine how good this will get in the future. Sadly it didn't.

Exactly the same in Australia.

This.

I use Adguard, if a site blocks me for it, then it goes on a black list of "never visit" sites.

In a few cases, if I use and like/support a specific site a lot and that site is ad supported with no other ad-free option, then I white list it.

But to read the odd crappy article? No I'm not disabling my ad blocker.

Yes, they are less prevalent due to Reddit and other social media sucking up a lot of the users.

They are still around though. One Australian forum that I've been on for years which is still very active is Whirlpool. Started as a tech forum and expanded. It's very useful as source of info as it's been around over 20 years and a lot of questions have been asked and answered there.

Nice! Took me to a site full of movie themes in midi format👌🏻

I thought Mass Effect had a great soundtrack that really fit the game perfectly. Moody in parts and rousing in others.

Mass Effect 1 Soundtrack

Connect is awesome. The fact that it is only a month old and that good is honestly mind blowing and it's totally free with no premium options or ads. I have really enjoyed using it up until now.

I'm a previous Sync for Reddit user though and I do love the app. The customisation options are insane. I can literally make it look and act exactly how I want, even down to things like specifying download locations for pictures, whether they go into subfolders by community, whether pictures show up as media files in your gallery or are hidden, the spacing between comment lines, etc.... It's also customisable by account if you have multiple accounts, so all of this can be different or the same for each account.

So once you spend some time setting it up, it almost feels like you've designed your own interface/app.

It's hard to beat.