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Also, the bare-boned review post system (when compared with the forum post system), the broken composer profile link problem and the website's weird multiple-personality disorder of having essentially two main pages (Home and Forum.)

Done.

I thought you'd be interested int getting rid of that damned banner!

^Yup. :) Having been here 8 years, I can say the same thing! I loved the site back in 2006-2009ish. It was an amazing time for us as a community because we ALL wrote pieces and shared them. We had more discussion NOT on music (specifically) than we did on music. Around 2010, I think, there was a movement to discontinue the excess talk about other stuff because it became very, very heated and people started acting like children. We had members who brought the off-topic discussion INTO the reviews forums. It was pretty weird. We had people who just... started leaving. I mean, I took a hiatus in 2013. *shrugs* So, we can either build a new community, or let YC die a natural death.

Heh. Remember the days when Mods and Admins had meetings on Skype every month or two? Some of those discussions were actually quite good. Did it do anything? No. ThatGuy is right. It is all about what *we* do as a community, not the site itself. Mike will be forced to fix things if the place is viable; right now it is not. Being a great lover of this site and a member for seven (!) years now, there's been a lot of up and downs with the site. Most of the ups were in the "old days" when the site was on Vboard and all brown and disgusting. It wasn't pretty to look at, but that wasn't the point. We all loved it because the community was viable to be worth one's interaction. Reviews, while rarely detailed analyses, were truthful and helpful, from the heart. You occasionally see that today but its rare. What really needs to happen is the *community* gets working on building a community. The problem is, I feel so discouraged involving myself here (for several reasons) that my contributions will be for naught. Its apathy that kills any community, not a site's design. But, in fairness, that banner has GOT to go...

I thought there was not enough people in this site to actually have a meeting.

I agree. This is a good idea. We should have the competitions 4 times a year. One beginning every three months. June-July-August (Summer Competition), September-October-November (Fall Competition), December-January-February (Winter Competition), and March-April-May (Spring Competition). This also coincides with school calendars on the US schedule. So, we will have more competitors in the Summer and Winter, which is fine with me. In this way, we can begin in June with the first big one, and have the whole summer to try this system out. In this way, we can do bigger projects. Like, a whole orchestral piece, or a song cycle... and have them be good. If there are people who want to do smaller projects, perhaps consider the alternative we had some success with twice in the past: the challenges forum. Where there might be a fugue subject and you're asked to complete the exposition. Or, where you're given a melody and told to compose a piece developing the motif.