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JPopJapan.com is now live!

Posted on 19 Dec 2008 by Chris
12 Comments
Life In Japan
Stumble It!

After 2 false starts using 2 different PHP packages I decided to flex my programming muscles and build the exact site I wanted in Ruby on Rails.

It’s launched in beta, which basically means I’m working behind the scenes to improve the site and if something goes wrong I’d really appreciate any feedback you can give me. Even if you think something looks bad or have a cool feature idea I would love to know!

So if you’re interested in Japanese music come visit JPop Japan. Share and vote for your favorite articles and voice your opinion. I hope to see you there!

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Comments
  • Congratulations on launching the new site! Are you going to have torrents up for download and such?
  • Thanks. It will be a purely news/blog/review bookmarking site. There's plenty of places to download the music already and I want to avoid any legal issues :)
  • This is very cool for fans of the music but don't speak the language! :) Hopefully this launch goes through smoothly!
  • Cool. :) I'll be checking out the site as I recently resumed listening to J-Pop. Currenly listening to a free online radio station featuring Japanese music.
  • Hi Fernando, Feel free to post the link to the radio station on JPop Japan. I'm sure others would be interested to listen.
  • Oh, cool. I always find it pleasantly surprising when a blogger responds to comments. :) Let me see. Right now, I usually listen to the streams coming out of Live365, though I did listen to Japan-a-Radio a bit. Will now head over to your site and see if I can figure out how to post the links...
  • Hmmm. Something went wrong unfortunately. :( I registered, but was unable to log in. Got the 'We're sorry, but something went wrong.' message.
  • Hi Fernando, Oops! An update I published today broke the code.

    You need to first activate your account via the link in the email you will have received (check your spam folder too).

    I've fixed the error so everything should work for you once you activate your account.

    Sorry about that, and thanks for telling me about the error!
  • Looks pretty neat! I guess this'll be waaaay easier for you to manage, as it's more user-based. Good luck mate!
  • Thanks Ramses. I hope it will take off eventually. It's slow going right now, but you're right, it lets me focus on creating a great site whilst members get to interact with it.
  • looking good so far, I just signed up :D
  • @Jamaipanese: Thanks for signing up :D
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