[quintin3265]

Hi,

I've been visiting this site for about three years, but never posted until now. I noticed on the front page that the site is being redesigned to provide a way to review arrangements and add other features to the archive. While I think that's a great idea, I wanted to see if anyone had considered working with other sites to accomplish that goal and to avoid duplicating effort.

I recently launched remixSite, which is available at remixsite.org. The purpose of the site is to provide a place for people to post and update their video game music as it is developed, and to provide an alternative to VGMix, where registration is disabled. Since launching the site, I've tried to integrate it as much as possible with other sites and avoid duplicating effort, such as by including data from the Video Game Music Database.

At the risk of sounding like spam, I was wondering if anyone here might be interested in working together. For example, remixSite does not need yet another forum (people should post at existing forums, where there are more people to reply), and it seems like the music archive here is missing some features that remixSite has. Both sites could benefit from the increased traffic produced by a collaboration, whether it be major or just a few features.

Just a little thought for consideration,

-quintin3265 (Steve Sokolowski)
editor at shoemakervillage.org

[Tim]

Hello Steve,

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you.

I'm not opposed to the idea of collaborating with other sites to reach a common goal, and I understand what you mean about duplicate work. I read in your blog that you've contacted other sites about this and have been generally brushed aside. I agree that this is rather unprofessional, but from their perspective, I think they want to know what good a collaboration with your site at this point in time will be to them.

It sounds to me like you're looking to merge sites with someone by sharing arrangements and forums. People with well-established sites that have been years in the making are not necessarily willing to do this with sites that have yet to become established. Then again, I may be way off-base with what you're trying to accomplish. Perhaps you could go into a little more detail about what you had in mind for collaboration. Thanks!