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by _rknLA 5159 days ago
I was pretty addicted to Turntable for a solid 3 weeks last summer. Maybe 4.

Like others have mentioned, I do think one of the reasons they're flattening out is due to lack of updates, but I stopped logging in for two reasons.

One: It was _too_ engaging. I enjoyed every minute I was on it, but my productivity started to slip. Drastically. Suddenly it's 5am and I'm having a great chat and listen with some blokes from the UK. Dashing good time, but not the best way to spend a Wednesday night.

Two: It was too hard to find (or create/maintain) a room that played the kind of music I wanted to listen to. This speaks to their lack of updates more than anything else, as they could have fixed this pretty easily: index rooms on songs played and allow users to find rooms that recently played a specific song. Or three.

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I 100% agree on your second point. When I created a room, with a specific music genre name on it, I would get other user coming in, playing different music and down voting/skipping my music. That was very frustrating, and that is why I stopped using it. I'd rather listen to friends' Spotify playlist