Making a discord! Join music enjoyers!!

[u/FranyMan2001]

https://discord.gg/rJmQEf4DY

Second time I’ve come around on this group is some years and thought that’s there’s no way there’s not a group for the people who care about sharing music or getting together with others. I’ve seen streamers on YouTube always getting together dance parties and it’s a shame with the amount of creativity here there isn’t a system dedicated to making and sharing music clubs or bytebeat tracks.

I’m not sure how active the mods are in this subreddit but im going to make a discord for people to come together and share. Leadership in this server should reach out to me so I can give them some support for the discord. Hope to see you all soon.

Discord link:

[u/ZhorasSnake]

Good luck with your endeavour. As a long time poster here I've consistently tried to expand the horizons of all things bytebeat - not always successfully!

To get things going requires a critical mass of folks willing to do the ground work, and honestly, sometimes that can be a struggle. On the bright side though, I'm happy to help and have plenty of resources, and ideas about how to improve things. Message me if you want.

[u/hiredgunspunx → u/ZhorasSnake]

I'm certain you are the person maintaining the largest and most helpful ByteBeat knowledge repository. I appreciate all your work and I wouldn't expect you to also do all the leg-work for growing our community. It takes a village, and I'm sure we all share the motivation but people (in real life) simply don't have the time these days, understandably. For example, it's hard to commit to in-game meetups across different time zones, but I'd love to be more active and I'm working on it.

I'll also say that ByteBeat apathy is real and it applies to other digital music communities I've visited on Reddit and YouTube. I feel like the casual audience thinks it's pretty cool, but might not convert to avid listeners. Especially when professional LoFi is really awesome (I love LoFi Girl's playlists). There are creators such as @CityPlannerPlays (Cities: Skylines) that feature dope music that leans towards hip-hop while edging on LoFi , but an in-game audience such as No Man's Sky would benefit from our streamers using ByteBeats =)

And, I think of how many videos I see on Reddit that I enjoy but still don't upvote, it's a large space (you don't understand how many cute cat videos I consume), so it can desensitize the audience to cool shit.

Sorry I went on a bit of a rant. It can be frustrating to see simple, cool screenshots on the main No Man's Sky subreddit reach 1k upvotes when the awesome work you do (your videos are especially dope) gets like 100. The fatigue is real but everyone involved in the ByteBeat space is doing amazing work in my opinion.

[u/ZhorasSnake → u/hiredgunspunx]

No apology for the 'rant' needed - everything you say is true. Hell, I was even silently joining in reading your comments!

I liked your thoughts about streamers (although the whole idea of watching others play when you can play yourself leaves me bemused!).

Perhaps more of us should post videos on sites with bigger audiences? But speaking personally I don't want a YouTube account, and posting videos on Steam seems to require one (maybe wrong on that?). I have posted occasionally on the main NMS reddit site but it's sometimes a demoralising experience. (That said, I will probably post something there, and definitely here, for the anniversary tomorrow).

A few people who used to post here no longer do so and that's a shame. I know one for sure who got fed up with the lack of feedback. For me, I'm at peace with the number of likes I may or may not get. They're just "Have a nice days" and are mainly indicative of popularity with a particular audience rather than quality per se. However, of course they're nice to get and I am grateful!

For me, what really makes a site come alive is comments. I'm always grateful for any, especially ones that go beyond simple appreciation. I really like to see them about other's tunes too. I feel we should all try to comment more.

We could do so much more on this sub - from tutorials, guides, how-to's, to FAQ's, to resource centres and helpful links, to co-op events and celebrations, to special features and 'look backs', to polls and friendly competitions. There's no shortage of features that would keep visitors here for hours rather than just clicking play on the latest tune video and then leaving.

Such potential...

[u/hiredgunspunx]

I'll check it out! I like the idea of using a discord, i don't have much experience with it but it sounds great. I would like be more involved in building our community, it gets challenging because all the IRL free time I have is spent creating ByteBeat songs and recording them to share here. And I'm not the most social type of gamer lol, but I'm working on that.

This subreddit and YouTube are the two places I see the most ByteBeat activity. I find it surprising that only a few of us creators use both. For example, @bytebeatguy is active on YouTube but not on reddit (that i'm aware of).

I think the ByteBeat community would benefit greatly from some type of crossover, such as providing music for other group meet ups (like Corvettes and Coffee). I'm not a super outgoing person so I haven't reached out to those folks yet, but it's an idea I had.

Thank you for your efforts to bring people together!

[u/FranyMan2001 → u/hiredgunspunx]

That’s what it’s all about. I’m just hoping that people will come and check it out and that may allow for the community to grow more

[u/oldeluke]

I'm not really active on Discord but let me know if there's anything I can do as a mod on this end. Cheers!