Good afternoon, friends; although I've still been busy on the backend to slowly snag chances to attempt getting most of this backlog down before the end of this year, I'm taking this time to touch bases with all of you regarding our current "social media/interactive portals" related to these music operations as a whole at this time. Reason I'm doing this is because of one major piece of news that has me (and a lot of others) definitely concerned.
(1) News About Our "Twitter Portal" Profile Page
As many of you are in no doubt aware, the Twitter website/entire Twitter company itself (which is where our profile account is also held) was recently purchased by billionaire Elon Musk. Now, while our respective account for these music operations and following is technically small and we're still doing the "manually approve new follower requests" procedures since almost one to two years back, I still have to say that as the years have progressed, I'm starting to get very concerned for this environment because even before this ownership takeover recently, the "environment" in question has been getting even more fragile and this just now brings it to the point of being "very questionable and/or dangerous". Therefore, at this time, although we're not jumping ship from this platform, our respective account on Twitter will still remain in a "Protected Status" for the time being. As the months progress after this posting, we'll reevaluate our options from this angle.
Please note that this does not mean that you are discouraged from filing your join requests from our profile page; far from it (and especially if you do meet the criteria from our "About Us" page). But until this massive storm regarding Twitter itself dies down, it's best from our end regarding said account to be very safe than sorry.
(2) Discord Portal
Which also brings me to here, because I'm very sure that many people will be scrambling to find other "interactive portal community" options because they too are concerned about Twitter's stability in the months to come thanks to new ownership at the help. We are still in a very great need of you faithful followers/listeners of these beloved music operations to please file in your invite links to join our existing server on the Discord (which you are able to do so by going to this "Invite Link Request" page). Once again, as long as you definitely meet the criteria on our "About Us" page (along with not having any issues with us before), we shouldn't have any problem with giving you the approval upon review of your application.
(3) IRC Portal on EsperNet
While it's true that activity on this angle has been very slim to none, I'm still determined to let you all know that this channel on EsperNet administered by yours truly exists and we're still in need of new people who are interested in talking about this stuff in the IRC approach/format. If you or anyone else that you know have a high interest in keeping in the know about all activity going on related to these music operations on this said angle, please do not hesitate to join us here.
(4) SoundCloud Portal
Last, but not least, our profile page at the Soundcloud website - although there haven't been any recent "personal favorites" from yours truly to share there yet (along with noticing that the account still has a timespace status of 170 / 180 minutes), the visitor base on the backend is still making statements on the kind of music they want to hear in general, especially in regards to my Super Nintendo music styled covers of them! I don't have time to take a screenshot right now to show you evidence, but apparently both visitors and followers are mostly into the stuff I've covered targeting (but are not limited to): Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart Tour, Mario Kart Wii, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. This tells me that according to the "majority", they know what types of songs LITERALLY resonate with them, especially in regards to the covers that we do for these music operations as a whole. Right now, we're still at 120 followers, however I'm sure that number is going to go up as more "personal favorites" get added. Once again, I thank those of you from the "SoundCloud" portal angle for this support so far and I hope I haven't dissapointed you all here.
My apologies to you all if this is a huge block of text again, but this is where things stand for all our "social media/interactive portals". The one thing that is definitely clear and what I also need to remind you all of: please, please, please don't forget to keep bookmarks on all our "community angles" for these music operations as a whole, especially as we get through these "final two months" of the 2022 year. As I elaborated in the previous post before this one, I'm slowly trying to make progress on doing new covers targeting songs from Super Mario Odyssey; I'm really hoping we can get these dealt with to share with you all before the end of this month if all goes well. You don't want to miss a thing from this point forward; thanks again for your patience and I'll see you all again next time around. Later, everyone.