PA Genre Charts at Progfreak.com

Mr ProgFreak wrote: One good example: progressivemusic.com is available! I would take that in a heartbeat. But it costs 90,000 EUR ... such a shame. Someone purchased the domain a long time ago and is holding it hostage, waiting for someone to cash them out.

90,000K? lol to the domain holder; good luck and god speed to him or her xD

I'm going to bed, soon, so I'll respond later with a a more elaborate response

One big problem is that RYM DOES exist, as does the Progarchives, the Metal Archives, and dozens of other sites. The fact that RYM is so enormously large is why it's so hard for the other sites to compete - it can do everything that pretty much every other site does, and it's flashier (although I think it's ugly af), with unmatched social features - that's what they have going that no other site going to be able to match. Ever - and that's because of two reasons - RYM already has such a large community, and that community itself isn't as large as it may appear in the sense of member retainment. The typical user on that site is a teenager. There are not as many adults proportional to its size as the other sites, such as the Progarchives, which is not really a good thing. The other reason is social media. Forums have decreased in popularity since Facebook, Myspace (RIP - I was never old enough to actually use that site before it died lol), Twitter, etc. have essentially taken over our lives (although to be fair I do not own a single social media account, hence why I still use forums). Reddit and RYM, nowadays, act more like social media than any (other) music database.

In any case, RYM is horrendously moderated, as is Reddit. The Metal Archives. The larger the site, the worse the moderation is - and there's likely a correlation; just a like a larger, more powerful government tends to be more corrupt, "Reddit/RYM Mods" are basically the online equivalent. So I would consider the small community on the Progarchives, TagYourMusic, Metalstorm, etc. to be a blessing.

I will admit that I do use TYM over many of the other sites because of the tagging capabilities and the collection features, but the forum and community on the Progarchives is better than on TYM, which is why I use this site - and TYM will likely never be able to obtain a community as large as the Progarchives, largely because the Progarchives already exists. Just like the MetalMusicArchives will likely never reach the popularity of the Metal Archives, because the latter exists already. I don't know where I'm going with this but I digress, I guess. Nighty night!

As I mentioned in the forum at TYM, I will keep the progfreak.com domain alive (stay tuned), and I am always looking for a better name. These are simply very difficult to come by.

Ultimately even a cool name like Progfreak doesn't help - as exemplified by silly puppy, many will happily use PA, RYM and who knows what else  in parallel, and still give PF the finger. The solution for me is to not give a f**k about it (to put it bluntly) and just do what I think is best, as many of you have suggested.

What makes my site unique? Why do you use it (if you do)? What could make it better? I'm listening! Also when it comes to the genre charts. 

BTW: To fix your log in problem properly I can change your email address to something useable (if you PM it to me), then you can use the password reset. The main problem with reactivating old accounts is them having been created with junk adresses.

"Restricted purview"? There's a lot of things TYM members can do on the website which PA members can't. You can also become a curator at TYM (haven't announced it publicly yet), giving you more rights to edit artist/release/track entries. In any case, if you have a complaint, I cannot do anything about it unless you let me know about it.

In regards to the comment about "one and done" ... I'm not exactly against it, with one exception. 50 years ago, the chances of doing something like that were not very good, due to studio costs and all that, plus you had to play the stuff, instead of simply using a VST to mimic yet another instrument.

Today, the "one and done" thing is easy to do, specially when you can take many "examples" from folks trying to find out what we all think about their music, and you can just see the DAW ... and the instruments played ... and what many of us might consider the general lack of direction in regards to the music ability, anyhow.

50 years ago, creating something "new" was very different since there was no airplay for it, and the only chance you had was word of mouth and friends ... and sometimes, lucky ... a friend on the other coast. Today, you have the Internet, and you can showcase your little tune to the whole world, and allow everyone to comment, and love it or hate it, it's not a great way to do it, since it all has to come from you, inside you, with you, by you ... not from the comments, which tells you a MAJOR DIFFERENCE between the work from many folks 50 years ago, as opposed to today.

"One and done" 50 years ago, makes sense, from a historical perspective, but today? It does not, since we can immediately determine the ability and talent level, which was not possible in those days, as so much of the material was very experimental, and different from the main stream works. 

However, 50 years has not been kind to the compositional styles and methods, since all you are finding are copies of copies and copies of nothing ... thus, "one and done" for today, I would not specifically close it down, but I would make it clear ... we want to hear more! 

I am not sure that I made this clear before, and while there maybe differences between one site and another, I like the idea of one site making an attempt to join up things to make them better ... I happen to dislike the way RYM is setup ... with no forums, and the comments being strictly about the band and its work, which we could use, however, many bands do not even survive 10 replies past the top 5 or 10 bands! Which means that not enough folks have listened to it well enough to be able to make a comment ... or they would have one, that is not a simple one word saying ... absolutely nothing about the music!

There are a lot of little things that could be improved, but the generic, mass appeal, or the "one and done" that someone has applied to me, is a false comment, on something that was not investigated and asked a little more about ... which sometimes specifies the talent and ability level of the folks involved. Some here love to trash Mosh for anything including the fly that fell into your soup .... ohhhhhh, let me shed a tear! And maybe make a song!

Please let me know if you encounter any problems.