Making my own music community on Discord and Reddit?

[Vojvodinosaurus]

So I wanna make my own community of likeminded musicians who use various trackers and DAWs and I wanna make my own themed compos that focus on music that is NOT Trap nor 2nd wave Dubstep/Brostep nor has elements of the 2.
Thing is I never participated in a compo and have no interest in ompt compos bc i kinda suck at making music.

So I wonder, are there any compos on internet for beginners and is it worth starting my own without prior experience?

Also can you recommend other platforms besides Discord and Reddit to create a community?

[Saga Musix]

Not that I want to discourage you to try things out, but it sounds like you are approaching this topic from the wrong side. People will not just randomly flock around you if you announce that you will start some random community. Most of the time that will result in a handful of people pretending to be interested (or maybe they even are) and then it fades away quickly because there is no momentum.
If you want to create a new community, it should address a need (of more than one person). To pick your example, are you part of an existing, active community that runs compos and several people are annoyed that 50% of the tracks in the compos are always brostep? Congratulations, you have found a niche, and those people might decide to follow you to your own community with 0% brostep. However, practically speaking, this is probably not even a problem in most music communities, so you have no universal selling point for your new community. People might just as well stay in the communities they already are in.

is it worth starting my own without prior experience?

Nobody's gonna stop you but you really should have a look at how other people do things to get an idea before you decide to start to do anything on your own.

[Vojvodinosaurus]

People will not just randomly flock around you if you announce that you will start some random community. Most of the time that will result in a handful of people pretending to be interested (or maybe they even are) and then it fades away quickly because there is no momentum.

This happened to my former community. There were only 6 of us but barely any communication, no matter how much I tried to animate, it was just me and only 1 member at a time talking and 2 of them even tho they stayed they almost never said a word

[SewerSide]

Heck, My AXS thread over at warmplace.ru is nearing 3/4 of a million views but only ever had a couple responders at all you may have a large amount of looky-loos but getting people to act on anything is not like it was 20-30 years ago. Don't know if it's boredom, low testosterone, melancholy, flouride, depression, too much gaming, smart phone fascination, AI madness or just extremely short attention spans that are common nowadays... hard to get anyone involved in anything...

But much luck to you Vojvodinosaurus... I suppose a well-thought layout might attract some there...

[Exhale]

Don't know if it's boredom, low testosterone, melancholy, flouride, depression, too much gaming, smart phone fascination, AI madness or just extremely short attention spans that are common nowadays...

I think it is likely that people want solitude, since that is my personal reason for cutting myself off from communities... especially since some communities have malicious bad actors in charge of things, such as these forums.

And yes, please make communities wherever you want, fork ompt and add whatever you want to it. The people in charge here have giant heads and are unable to see past their massive egos. Ompt needs to be freed from their totalitarian grasp.

[n0cturn]

Don't agree at all will your comments about this forum, if someone has a problem or a question they are usually helped pretty quickly.

I think if you only look for the negative, that's all your going to find. Lighten up a bit.

[Exhale]

That was very much not what i was talking about at all. And yes i have tried to help too, entirely besides the point i was making. Using a strawman there.

[Soundman]

I have known about and played with OpenMPT since the early 90's when it was called ModPlug Tracker and it was closed source and developed by Olivier Lapicque, he also developed ModPlug Player which I used to like use as well, now I use XMPlay. I think forks are okay, there is an active fork of Audacity called Tenacity and I believe it has real potential. Forks are not a bad thing because those who love the original will most likely stick with the original but those who want something new and fresh will go with a fork. I love Audacity but I also like Tenacity, however for me Tenacity is missing many features that are found in Audacity. Anyone who wants to make a fork or OpenMPT has to realize the amount of work and dedicated time it will take to develop, maintain and bugfix your fork. It is no small task, it will be like a full time job, and you better have a team of people that will help you and also be willing to spend a lot of time developing, maintaining and bug fixing. That being said I would hate to see a fork end up killing OpenMPT, although the Tenacity fork of Audacity has not killed Audacity. Tenacity has given people more options, however there is currently no Mac build of Tenacity, this is not a problem for me because I am a Windows 11 user as well as an Ubuntu Studio user, but it might be a problem for Mac users. i have both Audacity and Tenacity installed in both Windows 11 and Ubuntu Studio, so if someone were to fork OpenMPT I would probably have both OpenMPT and the forked version installed in Windows 11, because both would have their pluses and minuses because different developers would have different ideas and different features, just like Audacity and Tenacity are different from each other.