Label Threads The Official Film Score Monthly (FSM) Thread

[Tallguy 7,369]

"Have gun. (I) Will travel". See how it works?

[Jay 46,244]

Yes, I know what the image means of course, I'm saying it would be better grammar to say "we'll" instead of "will", and take up the same amount of space and be as quick to read.   

 

Gosh, explaining this is so boring

[Yavar Moradi 4,400]

52 minutes ago, Tydirium said:

I figured it was short for “We will be back soon!,” with the “we” left off.

I think it could equally mean “the site will be back soon”. I’m not sure why everyone seems to assume it was written in the first personal plural.

 

Yavar

[Tydirium 1,587]

2 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said:

I think it could equally mean “the site will be back soon”. I’m not sure why everyone seems to assume it was written in the first personal plural.

 

Yavar

 

That's an equally fair option; I was just giving one example. You're totally right.

 

22 minutes ago, Jay said:

Yes, I know what the image means of course, I'm saying it would be better grammar to say "we'll" instead of "will", and take up the same amount of space and be as quick to read.   

 

Gosh, explaining this is so boring

 

It's not really a grammar issue, though. The subject is implied, which is very common in signs and maintenance messages. Heck, some even just shorten it to "Back soon!"

[Nick1Ø66 8,330]

2 hours ago, Jay said:

Yes, I know what the image means of course, I'm saying it would be better grammar to say "we'll" instead of "will", and take up the same amount of space and be as quick to read.   

 

Well, the sign is in fact grammatically correct. “Will be back soon” is elliptical, omitting the subject “I” or “We,” depending on context. It’s pretty common in casual use.

 

2 hours ago, Jay said:

Gosh, explaining this is so boring

 

Now, what is grammatically incorrect is finishing one's sentence without a period. Bad form chap!

 

And if you think explaining it is boring, just try reading it.

[Yavar Moradi 4,400]

11 minutes ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

Well, the sign is in fact grammatically correct. “Will be back soon” is elliptical, omitting the subject “I” or “We,” depending on context.

Or “It”! Or even “They”! Since “will” as a verb form in English is so flexible, it could grammatically be first, second, or third person, plural or singular!

 

Yavar

[Edmilson 12,377]

They should've just used this gif:

 

[NewBlueEyes 237]

It's kinda like I saw the old Cartoon Color website saying it's coming soon, but it didn't give out the date

[Mr. Hooper 8,952]

The pedantry is strong here. Slow news day?

 

[Tallguy 7,369]

"I just said that this site message was good enough for Jehovah!"

[Jay 46,244]

Joe Sikoryak says the new forum will be up this weekend

 

Never have I been more excited to get this notice then today—when I logged onto filmscoremonthly.com. Because if all goes well, the newly-reworked site will go live sometime this weekend!
Fingers crossed, everyone!

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/12635886412?multi_permalinks=10163563016051413

[Marian Schedenig 11,695]

On 10/10/2025 at 5:30 PM, Jay said:

Shouldn't that say "We'll be back soon" instead of "Will be back soon"?

 

"Gone fishing"

[Mephariel 648]

Has anyone tried logging in? It only asked for my password. How do I type in my user name?

[Steffromuk 687]

 

10 minutes ago, Mephariel said:

Has anyone tried logging in? It only asked for my password. How do I type in my user name?

 

My guess is the page is still being worked on. I'd advice you wait before trying to log in.

[WillGoldNewtonBarryGrusin 1]

8 hours ago, Mephariel said:

Has anyone tried logging in? It only asked for my password. How do I type in my user name?

I tried - so far it does not recognize my password.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,387]

Maybe they're just....gone?

 

FSM is a business right? Maybe they gone bust.

[Jill Sandwich 11,166]

It's probably all on Internet Archive anyway.

[12-Mile Reef 164]

10 minutes ago, WillGoldNewtonBarryGrusin said:

I tried - so far it does not recognize my password.

 

https://www.lukaskendall.com/post/working-still

 

"If you see a password screen, that’s for admin use, it will not accept your board password."

[Jay 46,244]

Guys, this is a password box on the entire website - ie, the main FSM page, not just the forum page.  It's obviously not asking for invidual user's forum account's passwords, its asking for a global admin password to access anything on the entire domain

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,387]

FSM is toast!

[WillGoldNewtonBarryGrusin 1]

Just now, #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal said:

FSM is toast!

 

It´s not. Why would you post something like that?

 

Lukas is working on it. Looking forward to the new design!

[Holko 12,061]

Why is something like that left out for the public?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,387]

3 minutes ago, WillGoldNewtonBarryGrusin said:

 

It´s not. Why would you post something like that?

 

 

I have a point of view of it speaks for the many people here.

[Jill Sandwich 11,166]

I got in. The password is "password".

[Jay 46,244]

The new forum is up:

https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/community/

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,387]

I miss the old format

[Jay 46,244]

Everyone's avatars are gone

 

I am unable to log into my account

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,387]

1 hour ago, #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal said:

FSM is toast!

 

Like I said!

[Jay 46,244]

Every old post with a youtube embed, italics, bold, etc. are all broken.  They look like this:

[Jill Sandwich 11,166]

Loads too slow.

[Frank Vincent 301]

Posted about a half hour by Lukas on his site:

 

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Folks, sincere apologies. No, your password doesn’t work on the new FSM site, it needs the admin password and they are still fixing some things.

 

You know the production triangle: fast, cheap or good, you can have two. So we’re foregoing fast. We’re so incredibly lucky to have this web company do this for us (I’ll introduce them later) because otherwise it would have been completely unaffordable.

 

Thanks for your patience. I think the site should be up soon but I’m waiting for them to tell me—and I’m trying not to bug them as they work. Thanks!

 

lukaskendall.com/post/it-s-the-admin-password

[Slitherjump 154]

27 minutes ago, #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal said:

 

Like I said!

Is this your FB account? You two seem to have the same mindset https://m.facebook.com/groups/12635886412/permalink/10163578865711413/?mibextid=wwXIfr

 

I don’t get why you are losing faith in the forum this quickly 

[Yodaschild 1,582]

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[Mephariel 648]

"Your access to this site has been temporarily limited by the site owner"

[OneBuckFilms 517]

Same message.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,387]

All those posts will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

[Slitherjump 154]

It’s here!

 

https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/community/general-discussion/

[bruce marshall 1,988]

Search engine not work

[Maurizio 6,913]

Didn't they collect 65K USD on a Kickstarter to pay for the new website? This ain't a good start. Whoever designed it did a rushed job. It looks ugly on a smartphone. I know many cares just for the message board there, but the website was a great resource and now everything looks screwed up.

[Yodaschild 1,582]

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[Richard P 5,303]

Sounds like a rather substantial data transfer/conversion process, and finding and fixing a lot of small issues. I'd suggest waiting until Lukas says it's ready.

 

First impressions are that it's not the tidiest forum software I've seen, but nothing in this area (migration, tidying glitches) happens smoothly without major time and capital, and Lukas mentioned they'd gone the cheap/good route - foregoing 'fast'. They're not Amazon.

[Maurizio 6,913]

1 hour ago, LiterallyIconic said:

If you all bothered to read the posts Lukas has made in the past 24 hours, you would see that they are aware of the issues and are actively working on them. A boat that size doesn't change direction swiftly.

 

That's why you should run beta tests before going online and have something that at least looks okay. I fully understand the complicancies of migrating a 30-years old database and the urgency of bringing the site back online in a short window, but from the look of it, this doesn't look like a website built with several grands at hand. I'd be much more complacent if this wasn't done by asking users to put their own money to revamp. Hopefully things will improve.

[Tallguy 7,369]

34 minutes ago, Maurizio said:

 

That's why you should run beta tests before going online and have something that at least looks okay. I fully understand the complicancies of migrating a 30-years old database and the urgency of bringing the site back online in a short window, but from the look of it, this doesn't look like a website built with several grands at hand. I'd be much more complacent if this wasn't done by asking users to put their own money to revamp. Hopefully things will improve.

 

Hopefully. 

 

I've seen worse and I'd imagine the thing that cost the most money was preserving 30 years of data. Without that requirement this would have been cheap and easy.

[Yodaschild 1,582]

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[Richard P 5,303]

Everything tech-based is expensive if you want it done right, and I'd certainly agree that retaining decades of content and user information would be no small task, consider how old the prior forum software clearly was.

 

And in general, the backend techy stuff is usually given priority over 'making it all look nice', unfortunately. Hence if the odd thing looks strange or isn't formatted correctly, they'll get to it - they're just not as important as the board actually working BTS, and no one can foresee all problems or complexities.

 

From the perspective of a somewhat techy person, I think this would have to have gone leagues worse than this to start complaining. It's a free resource.

[Stark 1,023]

Lots of complaints from people who know nothing about tech

[Jill Sandwich 11,166]

They told us computers can do anything!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,387]

They're better than us.

[Maurizio 6,913]

1 hour ago, Stark said:

Lots of complaints from people who know nothing about tech

 

If you're referring to me, you're way off the mark, kiddo. 

[Jay 46,244]

Looks like the forum isn't working at the moment.

 

I will say their developer has been making seemingly daily changes and upgrades and fixing a lot of the issues.  Old youtube embeds sprung back to life, for example.