Reply To: A Call to the Community to Post Deals

[peter]

On Barrie said

Understood, but maybe you are so fast, no-one has a chance to post 🙂

Or maybe we could break up the posters to handle specific companies.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I am proposing, that we divide and conquer and focus on specific developers / companies / retailers. But hey, there are a couple of people here who copy and paste my posts to Cakewalk Deals Forum. It’d be nice if someone could do the same in reverse. For anyone going to both places, if you see posts there that aren’t here, share them here. Larry grabs his deals off of a Facebook deal group that we’re both in (the real deal guru guys are Stu and Pedro  — and by Pedro, I don’t mean me! It’s just a cut and paste from there or emails. There’s nothing really unique. The big value is having everything in one place. I mainly have these sources:

– Two subreddits (my top sources)
– Two Facebook Groups
– Dozens of developer and retailer emails, from Best Service, Plugin Boutique, Plugin Fox, D-Fused Sounds, etc.
– Press releases from MedlaProductions, Native Audio, etc.

And then I check Cakewalk Deals Forum to see if there are any stragglers that I’ve missed. My role has been to sift through all of that and curate it — posting what I think is relevant to our community. But it takes up a lot of time and it’s kept me from everything I had planned for the community to help it grow and to develop new areas of content. However, with no one sharing the load to a level that will keep the community coming back, I have no option but to keep going.

Now consider that I also have to maintain the site. Like any site, we regularly get hackers attacking the site and it’s a pretty complex with A LOT of components (scripts/plugins) that have to be kept up to date, so this has become a second job, and, of course, it’s a money pit, so I’ve pulled back on adding to functionality, as everything has to constantly be kept up to date, otherwise, the site can easily be hacked. Anyhow, sorry, I don’t want to come off as some kind of complainer, the world doesn’t need another geezer complaining! I love this community. I want to grow it. But right now, my wrists and elbow are burning and are in pain. I need to stop for the day. That’s my reality.

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