Being a new site, the Unsung Composers Forum is work in progress and so it gives us all the opportunity to create a site which over time has the features which its users want it to have. It begins life as a bare Forum because we were eager not to delay the replacement of the Raff Forums any longer than necessary.
The layout and feature set of the Forum itself more or less replicates the old Forums but it need not - you'll see by looking in the
Help pages that there are more features (a Calendar for example) which could be enabled if we all feel we'd like them and, perhaps more importantly, would use them. Don't jump straight in but have a look around, get used to this new Forum and then let us know what's on your wish list.
Secondly, the sub-forums, of which this is one, aren't fixed in stone. They're what Alan and I felt was needed to begin with. You'll see that we thought it might be sensible to split out news and discussion of new recordings, for example. We can add more or have fewer. Once again, your input is very welcome once you've used the site a bit.
One idea we have had is of building up a comprehensive listing of unsung composers' web sites such as those for
Felix Draeseke and
Joachim Raff. A list of CD and download retailers is another. These could be either further sub-forums or a static web page. No doubt you'll have other ideas and, again, we'd like to see them.
Inevitably, there's a caveat. As I'm providing the web space and am ultimately responsible both for what's published here and designing and coding the site, I'm afraid that I reserve the right of veto! So, no change there then...
