Macmusic, The End Of The Adventure Options

[Francois Déchery]

We may be spoiling your day with the news that has been spoiling ours for quite some time : MacMusic will most probably not be able to continue anymore. Attempts to finance it through advertisements have failed and plans are to close the site in February.

MacMusic in the past...
MacMusic has been thriving for five years thanks to the ongoing dedication of Soif, its founder who was gradually joined by a group of enthusiastic volunteers, known as "the Team".
MacMusic's success -10,000 visits per day - may be forcing the site to close down. The technical and practical means necessary to have a continually accessible and updated tool represent an investment that can no longer be supported, particularly financially speaking. Server, host, contents management, etc. all involve ever growing expenditures of money and time, that are no longer within the team's realm of possibility.

Hopes for the future...
Over the past few weeks, the team has been working on finding a solution that corresponds to the spirit of community underpinning YOUR site. We hope to work out within the next 10 days a proposition that we believe will retain the attention of all those who hope that MacMusic will not just become a good memory...

In this regard we need to know: what do you think about it ?
Your feedback is needed!


The MacMusic Team

[ryosode]

>"What do you want MM to do to be alive and kickin' in 2 months?"

I mostly look at the news quickly and then move onto forum in search of some useful information. It probably means your article/software/etc sections aren't appealing (to me at least). Maybe you can use this opportunity to determine which part of the site needs to be truncated?

On the contrary, may be you can think about how to enhance the site so that you could drive more traffic through. (Useful Mac related articles? For example, moderators maybe required to submit one article per year to keep their title? I dunno. Just a thought.) After the upgrade, let's put up banners from Apple/emagic/digidesign and so on!! More pages and higher traffic rate means you can charge more for each banner, right?

>"What solutions can be acceptable for you? Or NOT acceptable?"

I don't think money based service is acceptable. It'll keep all beginners away from the site and most of the discussions are triggered by newbie questions. If you want this site alive and kicking in 2 months, keep it free.

On the contrary, I am all up for donation system.