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Thread #174086   Message #4223007
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
21-May-25 - 10:36 PM
Thread Name: Review: sea shanties and maritime music website
Subject: RE: Review: sea shanties and maritime music website
Dean Calin, sciencegeek posted about the site "It's still a work in progress" and remarks about your new site have been solicited here. You're new to Mudcat, which has been around for over 25 years, collecting, in a more random fashion, some of the information you appear to be organizing. (The Mudcat oeuvre is much larger overall.)

Your remark I invite you to please explore the site before you cast aspersions at the remarkable effort a handful of volunteers have put into this directory was dismissive and inappropriate after feedback was solicited here at Mudcat. For someone who has only four posts so far on Mudcat, if looks like you're kind of full of yourself.

Mudcat has a rather fraught relationship with the old search system still in place on the home page, but there are many excellent guides to how to search the site, and the content is quite comprehensive in many areas. Rather than dismissing the remarks of people looking for scholarly content, take a look at what has been achieved on Mudcat without even the shoestring budget you have rounded up. Max runs this out of his house, last time I checked.

These sites can complement each other, but it helps if you don't start out by insulting users here.