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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

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Robert Hofmeyr said:
I guess it had to happen.
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Pity, people nowadays are closing their own lives "swimming in their own fishbowl on Facebook or anything else year after year" rather than these dedicated forums like before... reduser.net is a pale resemblance today of those (were-the) days : (

BTW I'd suggest WhatsApp or Telegram groups instead... they would look more convenient, professional, much more decent because less obscene and much more reduser-like at least IMO :- )
 
The last decade in particular produced a accelerated change across the internet (2013-2023). Mainly in the form of internet availability, mobile access, and social media. Which over the span of time has also highlighted some of the deficiencies of online communication in terms of privacy and often sanity. Also over this timeframe our industry has grown rapidly, well beyond the earliest days or REDuser or even prior to that. This is viewed generally as a good thing or a bad thing, or for the more experienced, just the evolution of the flow.

REDuser is literally chalked with some of the most valuable information pertaining to filmmaking in the modern age, but most don't use it as that resource. In terms of what I contribute and when I can, I do my best to cross post across channels. But to argue with the convenience of smartphones and social networks as a whole, plus the general protections certain platforms provide is fairly silly. We've done our best within the boundaries we must work, and continue to do so, to protect people from fraudulent accounts and such. But that number grows on the daily. And more interesting there are non-real name people still active on this forum either due to privacy concerns or just old time users who truly never abided by those rules. It's a lot to manage and likely more than a full time job for an individual across platforms when looking into "strange people" who ping pong across groups.

There are 3 billion users on Facebook. About a third of our population. About 2 billion use the application on the daily. Instagram, which I'll make a moderate point of in a minute, has about 1.4 billion users in 2023.

I more or less view Jarred's and RED's Instagram posts as Recon now as it's convenient and easy to cross post to Facebook for more elaborate discourse if necessary with the added benefit of being easy to share across the numerous RED groups and other cinematography communities on Facebook. It's difficult having so many groups, but it's what has happened because genuinely there are different interests or expectations that members have there.

If anything, it would be nice to have a newsfeed that could be subscribed to and bookmarked to be alert of notable announcements like firmware, new cameras, etc. That's about the only thing I can see adding to all of this for now.

There was a huge falloff here prior to the pandemic and during for a variety of reasons. Some listed above, some not worth even diving into honestly. But there are still thousands of users online daily and often good topics, solid conversation, and information shared.

I think something worth saying is I've interacted with filmmakers who have never shot film, never used a tungsten light, or have ever signed up for a message board. Certainly an interesting new world. From the online communication and filmmaking community perspective, something you either adapt to or not. Most have in all directions they deem necessary at this point.
 
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