I’m glad Murmurs is back but with no admin it is frustrating when issues with the site continuously go unaddressed.
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Yeah I’m not really sure what happened there.
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Nor do I but if Ethan ever returns perhaps he’d be kind enough to grant admin abilities to someone who visits the site more frequently.
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I believe Ethan pays subscription fee to keep this site running, so he must care for the handful of us that still come here, rather than the site itself. That’s how it appears to me anyway.
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Perhaps but if there’s technical, site related issues that need to be addressed none of us have the ability to fix them. So, while I certainly appreciate the presence of Murmurs, having an Admin that doesn’t help maintain the site beyond that is a deterrent.
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As I understand it, one needs to reach Level 4 trust to be granted admin. from Ethan. One would have to be familiar with Discourse Meta features or at least want to learn how to use them. I’m not sure if Ethan looks at this site, if he does, Ethan, @DriveNate Jonathan, would make a wonderful administrative moderator here at murmurs.com. He is a great contributor here, and elsewhere, and passionate about R.E.M and other music.
I heard Ethan is now working with AI, if we start talking more about robots, maybe he’ll come here. 
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Is anyone in touch with Ethan elsewhere? When Murmurs went down a couple years ago I tried to send him a FB message but I don’t know if it got through; I think FB messages are questionable if you try to send to someone you haven’t already connected with.
Other than that I really don’t have any active accounts on major sites anywhere. Back when I used to use Reddit, I had a variant of “acheron” as my username, and Ethan replied to me once on /r/rem and recognized me (that may be the only time someone has recognized me on a different website than where I originally knew them from). But I killed my Reddit account years ago, also Twitter and pretty much anything else. (Mass social media was a mistake.)
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I’m not. I saw Ethan post on the facebook R.E.M fan page a while back, that he doesn’t come online much anymore and had recorded an R.E.M. tribute album. I have no idea why he didn’t mention that here. Recently I saw his name pop up at a tech site in an article about AI and music.
@ethank, @system, please edit and kick out the line " Facebook is now mostly terribly", terrible? This is much better.
“From 1996 to 2014, Murmurs.com was a home (then the home) for R.E.M. fans online. Over time, Facebook started encapsulating most of the community side, and the band broke up. While R.E.M. isn’t making new music, their history, and the work of the individual members still continues to resonate. So, in this year 2022, 42 years after the infamous show in 1980, and 26 years after Murmurs.com launched, we are back.”