Plans on PA for becoming an all-music site?

David_D wrote: Do ProgArchives have plans for becoming an all-music site? If that is the case, I think it would be best to discuss it with the members.

Isn't there more than enough music for you here already? There's a lot more than just prog on ProgArchives, starting with Miles Davs' first album from 1945 for instance. 

I prophesy disaster wrote: When you say "all-music", do you mean "AllMusic" (ie a part of https://www.allmusic.com/)?

This site belongs to M@x, and that ultimately would be his call unless, say, he sells it and it becomes someone else's call. Collabs are all individuals, some even misplace topics by putting them in a Prog forum, some are more strict and careful than others in that way, but I have not seen a move to convince M@x to make this site an all music site like rateyourmusic or all music. As already said, M@x has sister music sites, and actually those are more functional and have better architecture than this one does, and this site can not be easily adapted. This site is primitive, doesn't even support https. I think if M@x wanted to make such a major change to this site then he would want to rebuild it from the ground up, but I think he's sooner build a new site with a new name, or adapt one of his other sites that may be technically better but less popular.

There have been a tonne of collabs over the years with their own ideas and ways of doing things. Some have said that we should get rid of labels altogether. Some team members at some times have been more embracing of questionably Prog additions, and I have wanted to expand our notion of Prog at times, but we are a site of disparate individuals with disparate ideas and ways of doing things. I don't see an advantage to M@x by making a site called progarchives.com into an all-music.com type site even if he decides to build such a site. I would like to be part of that venture if he does.

Edited by Logan - August 03 2022 at 10:16

I've been waiting for M@X to start up ProgPolkaArchives ........Let's go!!

David_D wrote: I prophesy disaster wrote: When you say "all-music", do you mean "AllMusic" (ie a part of https://www.allmusic.com/)? No, I don't mean that. I prophesy disaster wrote: And why do you think such plans might exist? That is on basis of a number of reasons, but not least that I've seen many cases where collaborators were unwilling to discuss and put focus on Prog/Prog term, and where they listed very obviously non-Prog bands in Prog threads, like they wanted to diminish the significance of Prog and confuse the Prog term, while increasing the significance of other kind of music. I really don't understand the reasons for it, and the only reason I can think of is such plans - or not exactly "all-music" as I haven't been thinking of including Classical.

Edited by earlyprog - August 03 2022 at 11:07

Rate Your Music already exists

PA offers a lot of prog bands that nobody has added to RYM

I love all music but I love a site like this that is focused on prog and related

Logan wrote: I know when people have sometimes complained about the "what is Prog?" discussion coming up again and again, some of us have responded that without these kinds of ad nauseum discussions this forum might die. Yes, a lot of people who have been active forum members for years have got sick of these discussions, and don't want to have to keep repeating the same old things. It can get very tedious.

Mormegil wrote: Man, I hope not. I like my prog undiluted.