MakeTunes needs your help people!

Well Amittai has been good enough to donate the first $20 - thanks a lot man!

Unfortunately the little Chipin Widget donations progress indicator isn't updating for some reason at the moment, but I've contacted them, and hopefully that will be fixed soon.

I'll be deciding soon just how to post about the contributing members, to thank them for their help with keeping MakeTunes going! But rest assured those who donate will not go un-thanked :)

Thank you very much Ed! Yeah I think it said the check will take 4 days to clear, but its all good - much appreciated man!

And to the other people who have donated so far too - you've directly helped maketunes and I'm stoked to see people stepping up to help the cause.

So far we've had generous donations from these maketunes members

Amittai

Ed

Audiohead

J.B. (not sure of your username, if you've a member?)

Thanks go to Giechi Dan Productions for his donation too!

Keep them coming people, every dollar you donate is going to reinforce maketunes, so our community can continue to grow, and the tunes can continue to flow.

I thank you all for your support. It means a lot to me.

And thank you also to Bill for your donation!

Cool MB, at the moment its only really possible through Paypal, but I think you can sign up for a free paypal account, enter your bank account number into paypal, and then use that to charge up your paypal account with however many dollars you want? Then you can use your paypal account online like a credit card equivalent? Pretty sure thats what I did before I got a CC.

Cool thanks for the donation Illusivemind, we're really starting to make some progress on the fundraiser now!

Yeah I have considered something along the lines of removal of totally inactive accounts, though generally speaking its pretty rare for someone to have a large number of uploads and not at least check in every so often, so I don't know that it would make much of a dent. I guess that while the costs are getting higher, the continued growth of maketunes is the name of the game after all. The absolute last thing I want to do is stifle freedom to create and share (and continue sharing) great original tunes. But yeah I hear what you're saying, and certainly I'm less likely to sit idly by if I see an account which is blatantly spammy or otherwise abusing the concept of our community.

Yup that might one day have to be the case... in the meantime I'd like to keep things as open ended as possible, and encourage community numbers to keep growing. Maybe I should add a little reminder that appears every few days, and reminds people to tell someone about maketunes :)

I wonder... maybe the user points could be factored in somehow. Perhaps if you could earn points by posting in the forums, posting comments etc, but you have to spend points to upload a song. That would reward forum/commenting activity and helpful people, while limiting uploads of those who never bother to get involved in the community...

One thing which I would like to encourage the use of is the forums, as obviously they don't take up virtually any space compared to the tunes, but act as a very useful knowledgebase, and also a nice drawcard for new search visitors - many of whom will go on to become members... its tricky, because naturally a lot of the conversation ends up happening on the audio pages comments - and there are many thousands more of them than forum pages. Of course thats perfectly acceptable - its the primary place for community/feedback/ideas/advice/inspiration here at maketunes I think. But all the same, I'd like to somehow help encourage increased use of the forums too.

Thanks go to maoribeats for his donation!

ill no no no fees it would put me out and I love it here....but we do have to do our share when needed but I believe it would scare off people having fees and such.....

maybe some ad banners might help (I know everybody does it but it seems to work selling advertising space) just an idea...... my problem is I have no credit cards, hell I don't even have a bank account and I'm on disability so I don't make much but if there's some way I could send you $5 I will.....let me know if it's possible.....

yea I know what you mean about advertising it can be a bitch finding and keeping clientele but it's an idea as I said.....but let me say you're doing a great job with this site....I really enjoy being here and all.......thanks Matt (and the rest of the gang that help out and or post thier songs here....) give everyone a great big hand "clap, clap, clap....." lol

Thank you Geomatic for your donation! We're past the 40% mark now people, please help out if you can!

yea matt if i can get a paypal ill definitely contribute to the cause....

but as far as the forums, i agree that they should be used more, especially on the broad subject of music production that are already categorized in the forums.. and in addition to those categories, as a suggestion, i believe there should be some for each of the mainly used software/hardware that is being used(for example: reason, cubase, fl studio, keyboards, and other popular controllers).

and not just that, the site will be more useful to people who surf the web on their phones, like me, who want to keep in touch with the site on the go... (i have a t mobile dash)

just a thought... =D

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Hey Toogoodtobetrue guess what? I am in training for 6 weeks to become a T Mobile Technical Care Specialist! Cool huh?

Thanks also go to m1ch431 for his donation! Thank you so much guys, its really going to help maketunes continue to grow.

come on people between all of us we should be able to come up with $500. (total) I'm doing my part by not uploading (I have no credit card)

I'll do that so where do I email you at again? so I can get your land address..... I do want to help....

great now all I need to do is get some money....lol...I'll send something as soon as I can.....

Thanks go out to Coolboy for his donation today! Much appreciated :)