Mon 1 Nov 2010
b00mb0x
Posted by naz under A
[74] Comments
Hi all, we provide free hosting of 1000s of mixes for your listening pleasure and are always interested in new talent. We use FTP to send files (FireFox has a handy plugin for this). Post your email address in the comments using AT and spaces of course to join. If your comment doesn’t appear right away, don’t worry.
New Mixes are listed chronologically on the podcast link on the right.
Bmbx is entirely free, we do ask people that use it a lot to consider donating to our payza acccount, usable with any credit card at eugenecATbmbx.org
This will always be the first post, so you can put support requests in here. Beats the staff having to change our emails every six months because of spam and your question may answer someone else’s.
FAQ
Q. What’s b00mb0x/bmbx for?
A. Lovingly crafted mixes & mixtapes.
Q. Does it cost anything?
A. No! Lovingly crafted mixes & mixtapes are free and will always be free. Donators do get higher on the front page than non-donators, so if you are donating to support bmbx and are not higher than normal in the hierarchy, let us know here.
Q. How do I join?
A. Post your email address like so naz AT bmbx dot ORG and ask for the FTP details. We use FTP to transfer. If you use FireFox, FireFTP is a handy plugin you can use to send to us.
Q. What is stickiness?
A. You’ll always have a post on the front page. To get sticky, help out on the site with maintenance/support or subscribe to us at 4 USD per month. We have eight people subscribing currently and four site operators. There’s bong who is the admin. We have Luminosity who helps me when things get over my head technically. And assorted & I are the owners, but assorted is “sleeping partner”.
Q. I want to unsubscribe.
A. You can do it automatically. Thanks for the support. Permalink: http://www.bmbx.org/2009/11/unsubscribe/
hiess AT evolver dot AT
Bong m8, di you have the site op rota for 2010? Can you paste it here if so? TY.
October 31 – Axl
November 07 – Swamp
November 14 – Matrix
November 21 – Warvadal
November 28 – Axl
December 05 – Swamp
December 12 – Matrix
December 19 – Warvadal
December 26 – Axl
Thanks mang.
Hi Naz,
Can you spill a few details on the need to change?
Also what does your donation mean in terms of stickiness? are you always on the front page? It would be a shame if you lost sight of the good new stuff – it also seems against the ethos that the site has been run on.
Can there be a new mixes section to avoid new content getting lost?
Can we get d/l stats back?
finally if you need cash to run the site – can we do a whip round as per last time or are you looking for consistent subscriptions?
cheers – interested as to how the site is evolving.
Len
Nice site re-fresh y’all, most pleasant on the eye. Thx again to all Site Ops. cheers hp 🙂
love the new look guys — nice work…!
thanks, a few kinks left but im happy too. the host had also been on our back regarding the amount of resources we were using so any increase in funding from the userbase will go towards getting a dedicated server (a computer/vitrual machine) for bmbx only.
Bong I changed your image, but it doesn’t seem to be sized quite right.
hi len, constant low subscriptions is the only thing that works. as far as the ethos of the site goes, I don’t use b00mb0x regularly anymore so I’m not sure what the ethos is.
I think 4 bucks a month is a good deal for those donators. Like I said, only 8 contribute and I would like to reward them.
re stats: no. I’m not a programmer and the developer has indicated this is problematic.
http://mixes.b00mb0x.org/stats/
stats/stats
ok – thanks for the answers! appreciated 🙂
I’ve got problems in maintaining the new design (I broke the site), so I’ve switched back for now.
Self posting is back. Tutorial to follow!
Can’t see the donation button anywhere. Or I’d join the 8.
well spotted
Thanks for putting the subscribe button back. I used it and subscribed. Reasonable considering the visits, use and pleasure the site has given me.
Like Lenodd, I think “It would be a shame if you lost sight of the good new stuff.” Please avoid, at all costs, new content getting lost.
its visible at first sight, on the right,
+1 subscriber
keep up the good work
Only just read this…I’ve re-subscribed about a month ago so hopefully we’re into double figures by now…
I’m amazed that there are that few people contributing considering how many people regularly post their mixes…
Just got introduced to this site via Soul Society. How do I subscribe, upload files, and contribute? Thanks.
hi dj 2:22
subscribing’s pretty straightforward.. just hit one of thise subscribe buttons on the front page.. and away you go 😉
uploading/contributing..
just register with the site, leave a request for the dets in this thread and you’ll be mailed them..
cheers
Thanks for the info. For some reason I didn’t notice what was right in front of me, partly because it was hard to read the subscribe text on the button. Now I need to get my paypal account in order!
Take Care—–DJ 2:22—–
A big hand to you, siteops, for this gentle solution! I’m glad to give my modest support as a subscriber and I want to thank all of you for the benefit I had from your work during the last years. Long live b00mb0x!
Hi Ops
Subscriber + 1. Thanks again for your great work.
Not sure I agree with all subscribers being on the front page but having said that not sure what the solution could be. It’s sometimes difficult to tell who’s got a more recent mix as a sticky and where the new mixes start from. Will it get to the point whre there are so many subscribers that they cover the whole first page?? Is there anyway the subscribers mixes could be demarcated (is that a word?) somehow?
You’ve probably got the most workable fairest solution already but just thought I’d throw in my twopennyworth (is that also a word?)
love to all – hp 🙂
Hello Siteops,
using chrome I realized that there is no next page button when a genre is choosen. I didn’t test this with other browsers. Perhaps the button is missing completely and a lot of mixes are invisible. Would it be difficult to bring it back?
Nevertheless your work on the site is great. Best wishes to all of you!
ddtm, itz not just chrome… itz bin a problem fer many months & has yet to be addressed…
It’s me again with the question of the day: Wouldn’t it be fine to have all new xmas mixes on the top places during the next four weeks?
Hi… 10 years eh..??
wow
I made a new mix
I’ve joined can you send ftp details to
inuttney at hotmail dot com
hope i’ve got this right!
I’ve been happily paying the subscription for a good few years now. Well worth it for the enjoyment I get from the site.
Speaking as a subscriber, I would prefer it to not have the sticky posts. Just having the newest mixes at the top meant there was always something new on each visit.
I reckon more prominence to the “support b00mb0x by subscribing” type of links on the homepage would help. I’ve seen other sites use a thermometer graphic to show what % of the running costs are covered by the subs to drum-up contributions.
Anyway, I say all this without having been arsed myself to setup and run a mix hosting site for 10 years. So I reckon it’s your baby Naz and crew – do what you think is best.
What is the handy plugin for firefox you mentioned ?
The Podcast link doesn’t seem to list the new mixes chronologically at the moment, as far as I can tell it seems to be Xmas mixes first, then subscribers, then non-subscribers. This means there’s nowhere one can view a chronological list of the latest mixes. Despite being a subscriber myself, I preferred the old way when the homepage listed the latest mixes in descending order by date, as a site user that’s what I want to see.
the podcast prob is a bug in the wordpress. hopefully it’ll sort itself out
i’ve copied this post from firestopper. he left it in the email comments and i’d hate it to get lost.
Hi all.
Just wanted to say a huge thank you to Naz & all the moderators & assorted Santas little helpers for all the amazin work you do on here year round.
Yer all top, top fellas for sure.
And of course to all the mixers n fixers, thank you also, for sharing your prodigious talents with us less talented types.
S’been emotional.
May you all prosper in this coming year.
Stay classy. Neil.
^^^
nice one Neil mate
Hi Ops,
just checked my paypal to make sure I had subscribed at the beginning of the year – all good… probably should have given it the heads up here, could be another wordpress bug, but noticed my latest was supa smooth… i.e no sign of stickyness… not a big deal just letting you know 😉
love this place
S*A*T
laffin.. glitch unglitched 😉
nice 1 mr B – many thanks mate 😉
soopajud…
maybee naz was talking about this one
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fireftp/
hope this helps
Subscribed… Thanx to everybody for this wonderful site…
and thank you too
Take a look at your email…the check in the mail…so to speak. 😉
LONG LIVE b00mb0x!
thank you brother solcofn 😈
Naz,
I would like to request the FTP details please as i have more mixes to share.
I posted “Therapy by Pure” awhile back.
My email is: puremusik AT gmail DOT com
Thank You for your time,
Pure
ftp dets sent
Paypal have reviewed the site and asked for the links to be removed. I am looking for another solution.
Hey folks, long time no see! Glad to see so many of the old mixes still on board. I have some mixes to share as well, so please send me your FTP details. 🙂
henrikrs A gmail D com
can you plz send ftp details to
nobbus [at] gmail [dottt] com
its been a while
hey mate… hows things?
norinathushmail.com
Hey all, been a long time! I’ve finally got a couple of new mixes for sharing. Could you send me some ftp details?
mattbarton1 [at] gmail [dot] com
peas
RB
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