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[louisdeb]

Does anyone know what happened to 8 bit collective?

For a while had their own site saying the website was under maintenance or something, and now I think they've stopped hosting it all together.
It was an awesome site.

(reference: http://www.8bc.org)

EDIT: wait no i dont think theyve stopped hosting

[DavidCaruso]

It's been like this for months at this point I think, no clue what's going on. It's a shame because there was some really neat stuff on there that isn't anywhere else (or if it is, uploaded in a variety of disparate places and often in varying degrees of sound quality, e.g. .ftm files versus Youtube uploads).

[Irock]

8bc was a really cool site and I even had some tracks of my own on there.

I don't know what happened though. For a while, it was unusable for me; pages were slow and often times parts of the site wouldn't load at all. I eventually stopped visiting there because of it.

[forwardresent]

A lot happened with 8BC, and a sort of splinter site was formed called http://chipmusic.org/ where you can find a lot of the old 8BC members. I'm not sure why it's down, I sort of stopped frequenting it after some mod drama among the forum that caused people to leave and start chipmusic.

[louisdeb]

Ah had no idea chipmusic.org was from the 8BC people / community.

[emacs]

Yeah, it's been down for a while, which is disappointing 'cause there was some great stuff on there.  I remember at some point someone was planning on buying the domain and recreating the site, but I don't know if that ever went anywhere.

[Dr. Cooldude]

It has been down for over a year now. I miss that site.

[Schoq]

seems to have met with a similar fate as vgmix.com

[jamesprimate]

it's kind of a long and drama filled story, but basically a lot of people who were originally funding 8bc server costs became disgruntled over some copyright issues and behavior of the owner, so defected and created chipmusic.org. 8bc held its ground for a while, but fell apart over the course of a year or so. There we're some server issues that happened, losing around 3 months of posts and music, then a full server collapse. Jose Torres, who owns 8bc, said it would be taken down for maintenance, but it's been almost a year with no news. In that time a number of other similar sites have popped up, created by former 8bc mods, like ucollective.org and noisechannel.org, to various degrees of success. One of the main things anout 8bc was that EVERYONE was there, so even if it were to return it would never be what it once was, as at this point the scene has factionalized.

/7 year daily user of 8bc

edit: oh, for what it's worth, Jose Torres has been much more active online recently, and has been doing some things (like organizing well known 8bc vets into a "worked at 8bc" thing on facebook) that gives me the impression that he may be planning on a relaunch. We'll see! A lot of the l33t ch1p d00dz like to disparage 8bc as a noob site filled with trolls and idiots, but I thought it was a lot of fun and kinda miss it :/

[louisdeb]

I got into the community of chiptunes (as opposed to the music itself) so wasn't a regular of 8bc, was looking forward to getting into that community. Ah well

[Dragonmaw]

I only used 8bc as a music trawling site, so I don't know about any of this community stuff, but I really loved the stuff on there so :V

[dewlap]

It is a shame about 8bc. Allot of older members got put off by all the drama and people reposting memes. I had stuff on there that i dont have a copy of anymore so if anyone happens to have all of the big-chip tracks that were on there or knows where i can download them again let me know please.

[Aquanoctis]

Oh yeah, sad to see it's still down. I discovered so many artists there: henryhomesweet, smiletron, spamtron, 4mat, fantomenk, the list goes on. Shame there's not one place where everyone gathers now. Instead it's all spread in pieces around the net.

[jamesprimate]

most everything  in the scene is done on Facebook now. there are a few good public groups if you want to keep up with what's going on like https://www.facebook.com/groups/chiptuneswin/ if anybody wants to join from here let me know and I'll confirm.

also, even though it's not the friendliest place, most things do get posted to chipmusic.org like upcoming shows and stuff. The "releases" section there is basically everything that's been released that's worth listening to (and plenty that isn't hehe)

honestly, there is so much cool stuff going on in chiptune right now. like, in Boston we have 3 actual chiptune radio shows and a bunch of podcast/Internet radio stuff. and chip artists are always on the bandcamp top charts and getting press on kotaku and big sites. it's cool come hang out!

[louisdeb]

3 Chiptune radio stations?!

So jealous...