Welcome to 🎹 Piano | Tell

navindra

👋 Hi!

🎹 Piano | Tell is a traditional forum for anything related to the piano and music.

It's free, open, and you're welcome to contribute.

🎹 Piano | Tell is self-funded, which means no ads while being free to use.

I'll add some basic Terms for P|T when I get to it. There will be no small print here.

Things may be a bit rough at first! Please let me know if you have any feedback and I'll do my best to accommodate. I will implement support for piano recitals if there's demand.

If you're coming from Piano World or /r/piano or /r/pianopracticeroom, you're welcome to a Gold Member star. ⭐️

If things ever take off here, and you're a mod, leader, or rep, on Piano World, you're welcome to take on a similar role here.

Say hi!

ShiroKuro

Hi! What does it mean to be a gold star member?

navindra

ShiroKuro It's a little bit of fun flair, but more importantly, I think of it as a way for folks to come in here with the reputation of being regular Piano World members.

Often folks start on new forums with zero reputation, but I wanted to help maintain a sense of continuity and community from Piano World.

Let me know if you have any ideas on how I might improve on this. 🙂

WieWaldi

navindra I had zero reputation in PW!

Anyway, hello World!
Uhm...
Hello Tell!

PatG

navindra I have been a Piano World member for a few years. Not that I posted a lot, just over 160 posts.

ShiroKuro

Cool, thanks! (I’m fancy, I have I a gold star… 😄

AaronSF

I'm from Piano World. May I please have a gold star?

navindra

AaronSF Welcome! And most certainly. 🙂

twocats

Gold star, please 😂

Was looking at the profile defaults and would suggest changing default to private (can't see when online) by default and to enable autosave of post drafts for everyone by default. That's a huge benefit!

twocats

@navindra is there any private messaging available on this forum?

navindra

twocats is there any private messaging available on this forum?

There wasn't, but now there is! 🙂

I looked briefly into your suggestions to change the defaults, but I need to do more digging on this one.

twocats

navindra thank you!! 🙂

Animisha

Please give me a gold star as well! 🙂

navindra

Animisha Certainly, and welcome! I've very much enjoyed your performances. 🙂

Animisha

navindra

Thank you! And thank you for creating this forum. 🙂

twocats

@navindra is there a setting to automatically follow a new thread that I create? Thanks! 🙂

navindra

twocats That's a really good question. My first reaction was that this should exist already, but apparently not. The best I can see in Notification settings is that I can get a notification if someone replies to one of my posts, but it's not quite the Following functionality. I'll add this to my list of questions for Flarum and get back.

rsl12

I wish you luck. I really hope your forum takes off.

navindra

rsl12 Welcome and thank you! 🙂

twocats

navindra I turned off "automatically follow any thread that I respond to" but one would think that I would automatically follow a thread that I start!

navindra

twocats I agree. This seems like some obvious missing functionality. I've batched a few follow up questions for Flarum folks and will see if I can figure this out. 🙂

twocats

navindra thank you! Just wondering, is Flarum a relatively new forum interface? I'm a little surprised at some of the things that have come up!

navindra

twocats Yes, in the scheme of things, Flarum is quite new.

At its core, Flarum functionality is very basic, but then you can add on extensions for additional functionality. There are many extensions, which is nice, but at the same time, they can be of uneven quality because they might be developed independently... it's an open contribution model.

In this case, Subscriptions is a core extension but is missing this setting for some reason. The two options would be to find another extension that adds the missing functionality or I'd probably have to go deep into the code.

Flarum 2 may be coming in 2025, so maybe we'll be seeing some nice improvements then?