Lambda Records

Radio Nintendo's Future.

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:27:37 +0000

I wish I was joking. But you all need to hear it anyway as it's had to come to this.

Before we were accidentally popularised, bandwidth was beyond anyone's issue. Radio Nintendo could happily be part of Mode7Radio Network's server (with the hosting kindly donated by Shawn/AutoDMC) and get on with being fun. We've always begged to increase our average listener count from the average 8 on a day off and 18 on a live show.

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Wellp, now we've done it. But...it's been done a bit too well. It's now at the point where the server's using up 40% of its monthly bandwidth allowance in a single day. A SINGLE DAY. Putting the listener cap to 30 was actually very generous of Shawn, as with that current peak we'll still be doubler over the allowance.

This leaves us no choice but to consider the following options:

1. Donations to keep the place going and sustainable - We've started on this already so that I can buy the next month or two of the streamer off Shawn, as we've vigorously torn his bandwidth allowance to shreds. This, of course, is the nicest option, but knowing people's pockets these days, asking for donations, even if it were $1, seems to be too much to ask.

2. We approach Nintendo, again, to see if they're interested in keeping us - Yes, I've approached them once already, and they've decided to not respond to it. Back then when we had 8 listeners, they were probably right to do so. On our side, no one seemed to be biting on the idea. But now there's people pretty much gatecrashing the cap. I hope this means they notice us better and maybe get sponsored directly by them, or:

3. Nintendo allow us to get sponsored by someone else - You know, maybe like a national retail outlet. Admittingly I had a brush with my old work place, Gamestation, to see if they were interested. They too went quiet. This place isn't exactly a legal riddle that people should avoid. We're Nintendo fans that like to spread the love of Nintendo music. There's no market for this yet, and very VERY few OSTs are marketed either here (UK) or the US. Where's the harm in liking this stuff? We're defaming no one here.

4. Nintendo allow us to stick ads on the site to offset the server costs - Just another option there

5. We outright close the streamer altogether - In a response to the Facebook wall and IRC, putting the cap to 30 made me 'most unpopular person in the Nintendo community of the year', but put it this way. To sustain our current numbers would require a budget of $959.40, per year. This is a lot of money for what all the current staff consider the place to be a hobby. With this option means we can't do live shows, but podcasting will still be fine as that's running off an affordable server.

So there we have it. Those are the options. Very harsh ones indeed. We of course thank everyone for actually liking us! We love having you all about, but in its current state the place is financially unsustainable. Let me repeat, with the current cap it would cost a man $959.40 per year to run. We'd be happy to keep the place going if we can somehow even slightly offset this cost, one way or another.

Post your opinions in the Facebook feed or reply to this post.

~Phil 'GreenYoshi'

XiinBoard Opening Information!

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:09:18 +0000

It's the news we know some of you have been waiting to hear for a little while now, so we thank you for you patience! We finally have a fairly detailed list of what to expect of the completely and entirely new XiinBoard when it's scheduled to reopen!

Speaking of which, we can now confirm the opening date to be Sunday 30th January 2011.

See? We did mention January to some of you, and it ended up being so If you're interested in the nitty gritty details of how it's all gonna work then please click the read more button below.

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Methods of registration
Three ways, in short. They are:
- The old-school forum registration
- Facebook Connect
- Twitter Connect

Yup, connect up your Facebook AND Twitter accounts in one go if you wish! You can update your status all in one place if you want to, HERE! Or, if you update on Facebook it'll update here, and same with Twitter. You get the idea. Basically, it's one massive ball of sexy time.

We should also note that anyone with the old XiinBoard/GYN Board accounts should re-register, as we have purposefully wiped the database. Fresh start for all!

Finalised Forum 'Style'
Matt and I have spent days (and we're not joking) on how we were going to lay out the forums and categories to suit everything that we do. Though we are mainly known for Radio Nintendo, we do other things as well. Plus, the previous experience of our forum structures felt a little too widespread and specific.

In short, don't expect site-specific areas on the board. The place is for pure discussion of any kind, and we hope you'll like it as much as we do. It's hard to manage many places, especially when the core staff count for Xiin Networks is two.

Themeing and personalisation
For the moment, just one skin/theme for the board. We'll be rolling out site-specific ones over time to make you all feel a little more at home with the site from whence you came, but it was more important for us to get the tech right behind what we're doing before diving deep into skinning. We do hope you like the master theme though. Rhade put in plenty of effort to get it working!

We'll leave the personalisation info out of this post for now .

Your Account: XiinID
Roll back 5 years and some of the old-timers reading this may remember us ranting on about the crazy yet good idea to have one account across all of our sites...which never came to fruition. There were 2 main reasons for this happening:
1. Our previous sites had no necessity for XiinIDs on the sites themselves. They were very Web1.0 places to be, meaning they were informational, rather than something could interact with and using XiinID for it.
2. Our programming skills, in short, fucking sucked.

We hope to see some activity come back to us after almost a 1 year closure of the boards. We didn't realise that people still actually wanted to use discussion boards and have all flocked to Facebook/Twitter etc for this kind of thing. But, some of you demanded, so here it is!

We hope that you enjoy using the entirely new XiinBoards

Domain announcement

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:06:35 +0000

ANNOUNCEMENT: Thanks to an anonymous donor donating his organs (and $10), we get to keep our .com domain! HURRAH! And now for a picture of said donor: Click Here