Issues / Rumours about Progarchives

You guys do a great job. Thank you for making this THE place where i spend most of my time on-line (all the hours and days ). Seriously, this is a great site and you've done great.

Look foward to the new version of the site.

Thanks for all the good work!

Great job guys , i will try to help one day when i know more about the music (bio's, reviews, etc.)  .........I am excited about the 'new version' of the site coming in '06. 

Keep up the good work.

progarchives is very fun guys and i don't want you to have more work than you can handle. imay even think about becoming a collaborator!

Great job all responsible that means M@X Ronnie and all other participants.

if you need my help, I will do what I can

Time for a bit of back slapping here guys and gals.

Without M@X and Rony there would be no site. I find it truly astonishing what they have achieved with the site, and the amount of time and effort they dedicate to it (and thus to us).

They deserve our sincere thanks.

We can help them to help us in many ways, but I think the most important one is to provide constructive feedback, and avoid whinging and overt negativity.

PROGARCHIVES STATEMENT

I would like to give some details about 2 things that I was aware in the last few days.

1. Some are saying that Progarchives is closing
-> WE ARE NOT CLOSING and preparing a new version of the site

2. People complaining about proposals of new groups get no answer
-> WE ARE SORRY , see explication below

First , let's recap about WHO is progarchives.com:
(This post is not a complaint , we love our job with progarchives.com it is our project)

We are mainly 2 Operator :

• Rony (ProgLucky)
• Me (M@X)

In the last year we record a DRAMATIC increase in the terms of visitors/day (2000/day to 30 000/day) and members -> this has a big impact on our job regarding progarchives.com and imagine the number of emails and PMs we receive. Over 100 emails a day.

Our jobs in the past years was and his still:
(In time consuming order)

• New bands proposals email answerings
  In the past year we received over 500+ new bands suggestion and I am not kidding I kept all the emails
  
  I developped a web form so that new artists, missing artists can be added without waiting for US http://www.progarchives.com/submitband.asp
  
• New mp3 to add
  We have a new COLLABORATORS who will handle this in the future , JF COUSIN
  
• Watching for new PROG REVIEWER , SPECIAL COLLABORATOR
  We are looking for help
  
• Preparing the NEW and IMPROVED Progarchives.com v3.0 for 2006
  I handle this alone (programming and all)
  We need help
  
• Managing our external collaborators
  We need help
  
• albums missing and errors in albums
  That is why we developped a tool so that you can ADD ALBUMS missing for your reviews and to complete the discography of bands ( We cannot check the new releases for all the 2000 bands we have )
  
• Error about bands listings
  We need help
  
• Thinking and programming new features to add to progarchives
  I (only) handle this
  
• Handling technical issue with the Web Server, Database, etc...
  I (only) handle this
  
• New biographies
  We need help
  
• Reviews abuse, problems
  Thanks to EASY LIVIN , he is now handling this  VERY well
  
• Forum abuse
  MAANI is the MAN and special thanks to others NEW admins (EL,UI)
• Partnership
  MAANI helped us, but we receive  a lot of emails regarding partnerships...
  
• Try to animate the forum
  We need help
  
• Reviewing albums we received (We do not handling this, a shame and we receive a lot)
  We need help

I must also say that RONY and ME are working spare time here...
Our passion about music and prog is strong....

So SORRY if you experience some troubles communicating with US. We are trying to do our best to answer everyone but we need to priorise our replies.

What we are doing now to get us out of this HEAVY CHARGE , we want our collaborators to work closely with us....

I repeat this ain't a complaint, I hope this will help you better understand our situation.

Thanks for your collaboration

We appreciate it

After all it is your site , we do it for you and to make progressive music live longer ...