Thanks for the ad

Last week we added an artist ranking to Resonance, and honestly, it came out looking an awful lot like what podshar.com does — same idea: ice, tiers, names laid out in bands. We never pretended otherwise: they had built something that looks good and reads clearly, so we looked at it and made ourselves the same thing, just over our own scene and with our own formula.

They weren't thrilled about that, and they wrote about us — with jokes, with screenshots, with a thorough explanation to their audience of who we are and what exactly we had taken from them. And here's the funny part: over the few days everybody was talking about us, more new people showed up than we had ever had arrive at once, seeing as we have never run any advertising at all, and quite a few of them didn't just have a look and leave — they stayed, and they bought subscriptions.

So, entirely sincerely and with nothing hiding behind it: thank you. Thank you for the traffic, for the attention, and for telling your audience about us better than we would have told them ourselves. If any of the people who came over are reading this right now — stay a while, we're glad you're here.

The ice did melt in the end, though — not because anybody made us take it down, but because keeping someone else's picture on your own service is a pleasure of distinctly below-average quality. The ranking is called the Tower now: same artists, same formula, but a scene of our own — space, air, the tower and the ground, instead of ice and water. We like it better this way, and more to the point, it's ours.