Good afternoon, friends; just snagging the chance this afternoon to let you faithful followers/listeners of these beloved music operations as a whole know that we are definitely in a very great need to get our exisiting community portal numbers increased between now and the end of year related to our endeavors here. As of the date and time of this posting, here's where things stand:
(1) The SoundCloud Portal still leads with a total of 126 followers on that platform housing my personal favorites of Super Nintendo music styled arrangements featured for these operations as a whole.
(2) The Twitter Portal (yes, we still call it that, even though it's called "X" for reasons that yours truly can't even understand at all) stands at a follower count of 70.
(3) The Discord Portal still is holding on with a server member count of 12.
(4) And although it's true that it's considered to be the "least used method" in this day and age, our "IRC Portal" (on EsperNet) usually fluctuates between 2 - 4 members.
The "Forum Portal" angle is still a different case, but I honestly have not forgotten about that; at this time I'm still playing catch-up on a whole lot of music operations related stuff on the backend due to so many real life matters outside these operations that literally keep getting in my way. I'm still honestly hoping that I can elaborate on this angle a whole lot further in another post down the road since I'm more than aware it's been two to three years since that part of the site was taken out of action due to unfortunate circumstances and such.
But as for the other existing interactive community portals mentioned above that are in action, why do I say about these numbers at this time? Because especially as your truly is about to get ready for getting our next batch of Super Nintendo music styled arrangements posted for these operations as a whole (hint: they're all targeting songs heard in Super Mario Bros. Wonder), we definitely need to step up our game between now and the end of this year to get all of those numbers to increase!
The "criteria" in terms of joining any of our community portals (as shown on this page) still applies, however (especially if you're attempting to submit a follower request at our Twitter page or applying for a temporary server invite link to our Discord server). Remember that in the case of Twitter and Discord follower applications, I still have to manually review and approve any new requests received before you're granted full access to those specified portals there. The SoundCloud Portal page and our IRC Channel on EsperNet is an entirely different story, but still make sure that you have answered our music operations related "criteria questions" that are asked here before attempting to join our followings there as well.
That all said, even though that although yours truly is the only person who is the main author/site administrator/operations administrator of these entire endeavors as a whole, remember that this is still absolutely nothing without your heartfelt support from the faithful followers/listeners angle. This one thing is certain that I do not in any way, shape, or form take what's been God-given to me regarding managing of this site as well as doing the Super Nintendo music style cover process here for nearly fifteen years for granted. I know I still have a lot of work to do to catch up and focus/start planning on what's next for these endeavors down the road after this 2023 year is in the history books and we do it all over again for the upcoming 2024 year, but I still have the faith that there are still many people out there who are dedicated fans of Nintendo's Super Mario videogame series who may still be very curious on how many of the songs from the modern installments would sound in the beloved Super Nintendo music style process and it makes me happy to know that I'm able to help in a way give those answers; here's hoping this definitely continues between now and the end of this year - but please still don't hesitate to definitely join our existing community portals mentioned above in the meantime so that you don't miss any new postings from yours truly when they go live!
Thanks again in advance for your heartfelt support in advance, especially to those of you viewing this and are attempting to join our existing and active community portals at Twitter, Discord, SoundCloud, and our IRC channel on EsperNet; also, don't forget that you also have a say in our online suggestion forms as well to let me know what kind of stuff you're keeping track of for these music operations as a whole. All of this means a whole lot to me as I still continue this mission of covering all of these awesome "modern" Super Mario (main, spinoff, and branched) tunes in the beloved Super Nintendo music style, and as I mentioned earlier, it looks like that mission will definitely continue as soon as the first batch of covers targeting songs from Super Mario Bros. Wonder gets posted before this week is out, so stay tuned on that angle! Until then, see you all later.