Seriously... If they're gonna start an FNGT, they should immediately start an archive. It stops the loss of good tunes and provides a reference for what has already been covered.
I should start charging people that want to use the FNGT moniker - like a motherfucking franchise!
They're still trying to figure out how, and if, they want to build a site. That alone takes all the qualities you mentioned and then a subset has to have them for sharing their music.
These sites attract a certain segment of people and then they need to separate the daily commentary from the musical part of their lives to an extent. It's a delicate balance, if you go for a bigger more "mainstream" site you get more interest but that starts to attract commercial interests. You lose the community connections and the honesty of the music.
I thought about starting an FNGT on Reddit. I was too lazy, or so I decided.
I can't see that turning out well. As I said, way too large and manipulated to have a feeling of familiarity or connection. I would think it would quickly attract commercial interests with the intent of promoting business. I much prefer the local bar feeling we have.
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