Elements from Netherlands for NEO PROG

He hadn't logged into the site for ages before this, and he MUST have seen all the posts dotted around the place about the captchas and access denied problems that we've been having, and doubtless would have had a great pile of personal messages about this farcical situation to wade through too...but has he done anything to fix it? - Has he Hell. 

When the site owner himself doesn't seem to give two hoots about the maintenance and functionality of the site, is it any surprise that so many other long standing members who played such an important part in getting it up and running back in those early days have lost interest? I don't think so.

There are still a few here who care, thank goodness - and who soldier on regardless - but the number is dwindling all the time, and unless something happens soon to reverse this sad decline...something which has to begin with M@X himself, then yes - the site will eventually be as good as dead.

I dunno. I recognise some of the sentiments and frustrations voiced here but I cannot in all honesty say that I share them or in some cases, even agree with them.

At this moment I sit here wondering whether I have enough resilience to keep fighting the CAPTCHAs for another 18 days just to make it to my tenth anniversary, I have a lot of patience in most circumstances but it's not limitless. Like with so many things about this site, it seems so indiscriminate and arbitrary with no rhyme or reason behind it. One of my first band suggestions here all those years ago was about as Prog as it gets yet got consigned to Prog Related because it sounded too new-agey and the production wasn't very good... and from that moment on I realised that this place isn't quite how I imagined it would be or should be and that view has continued ever since, even during my tenure as a Team Leader and as an Admin. My most recent suggestion was an artist I didn't think was particularly Prog but was being promoted as such by their record label and in the music press, they were added to the site without any further acknowledgement or feedback. My view of this site is not a jaded one, it's merely an acceptance of how things are, despite all the changes that have happened since its inception both in the site itself and how it is managed, operated and used but also in the music industry and the world in general.

The point I'm attempting to make is: whatever anyone thinks this site is for or about the reality can never meet that expectation. That's not to say the site isn't any of those things that people believe it should be, or that is isn't capable of being used how you would like it to be used - it's just not geared to be that thing specifically, nor can it ever be. And that means whatever your view is or your expectations are then this site can only disappoint.

Hi 

Of Course its not personally. I talking about "Guys like me" not only myself.  Thanks 

What I don't understand is people who make life impossible, insisting every day that we should add a determined band.

Sometimes we accept them, and we ask for help with the info...Immediately the guy who insisted vanishes in thin air.

There's a recent case, we've been suggested a band called MELODY with one song sample.

We ask for more and the guy said there's no more.

How can anybody suggest a band based in one song? What's the point to add a band who's album nobody can get? (If several thousand of Prog fans can't get it, nobody can).

People who suggest, should add a bio and at least send a link to their music.

Are we talking about this 'Melody' Iván?

https://www.discogs.com/Melody-Come-Fly-With-Me/release/1450611.

They also did a second album called 'Yesterlife' in 1977: https://www.discogs.com/Melody-Yesterlife/release/1303621.

They were a French 1970's band, with male/female lead vocals sung in English. Their debut LP "Come Fly With Me" was actually recorded as a demo at Philippe Besombes studio, which won them a contract with Vogue.

Collaborator apps79 reviewed their debut album on RYM, and provides all the info you'll need to add them: http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/melody_f1/come_fly_with_me/.

Both Melody albums have different versions of some of the same material.

They are on proggnosis as symphonic prog band: https://www.proggnosis.com/Artist/4386.

If you want to take it any further I can pm you some more samples.

The CAPTCHA isn't a problem at all...it's the 'Access Denied' error that happens after I've solved the CAPTCHA almost every single time for me that sucks. I have to make anywhere between 6 and 12 attempts with 90% of my posts before it finally goes through. It's a damned nightmare!!  Surely M@X can fix these access denial errors that keep getting thrown back at us? It must be a software thing that can be quite easily fixed -  surely all the other Web Wiz Forums on the Internet aren't having to endure this same bullsh*t?