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Full disclosure: About the same time as when I started posting on YC I came across another composition forum, my only recollection of which is that it was about the same size as YC, and the website had a blue background. I'm hoping this thread can help me 'recover' that website.
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Not meaning to sound defensive nor competitive, but you do realize that Young Composers is nearly 14 times the size of Music Web? You can't even compare these two sites. Not to mention, we constantly have active members on this site at all times of the day/night. But Young Composers is not a children's site in the least. We have been taking active measures to build this awareness, and the content and music on this site should prove it somewhat. Nevertheless, more measures will be taking place soon, such as a revamp in the design of the website, and the addition of web 2.0. We will not change the name of our site despite the confusion it may cause, due to the long history behind this domain name, and branding. I honestly think the branding "Young Composers" is very catchy, easy to type, and easy to remember.
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It's strange though how this one doesn't come up on searches with 'composer', 'composition', 'forum', etc. keywords. Fortunately I remembered a unique phrase in a particular post.
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That's because we rank for those terms
Music Web appears to be YC's first "up and coming competitor". In fact, it looks like a complete copy cat. That's ok, whatever works right? I'm not worried though, because it would be very hard for someone to copy our future proprietary software
No one will be able to crack the algorithms behind the customized search and ranking systems.