What if we did this, but instead with a melody? It'd be cool to see how everybody incorporated it.

I actually think this is a good goal. Ensuring at least one comment on each song will not only keep us involved, but help newcomers stay interested. It really helps when you know that somebody is listening to your music.

I would like to report that, as of now, there are only 12 songs with no comments! The zero comment movement has almost finished its work, only 12 more to go guys! Also, Slopelujah is crazy popular! It's got like 54 comments.

Let's keep in mind that sometimes the tracks that truly need more feedback are usually not the extremely awesome tracks. Since Weekly Beats is meant to be a learning and growing experience, often the most useful feedback is the constructive advice given to people who are newer to music. I remember during 2012 that I learned so much just by getting steady feedback on my songs from people who knew a ton more than me.
Also, the ludum dare thing sounds nice, but if people were to get a handle on the idea, we might see a spike in useless "That was great!" comments so as to boost their own tracks. Possibly just put that system under a "In Need Of Feedback" filter option?

Last year I never really listened to others' tracks, so this year I decided I'd try to listen to the other beats of the week. I'm already exhausted. There are a ton of people this year!

Well, I'm backing up from my goal, seeing my mic sucks, I don't have a good recording space (at all!), and I'm actually pretty darn awful at guitar. It's also kind of hard to record live onto FL. Therefore, I'm just gonna do my thing, possibly add in vocals on a few songs. I also may switch to every two weeks later on in the year, so as not to rush the art, and to instead take the time to make decent music. Idk when I'd switch though.

I think it's pretty awesome that everybody came back to check the site. Says a lot about our community. I hope I get to do some more WB someday, even if not in 2014. I miss this a lot!