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Re: New Release Highlighted Album Adjustment

albummaster — Fri, 3 Jul 2026 04:28:07 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 07/03/2026 08:28

MadhattanJack wrote:

I almost never go to the home page myself... Regardless though, this isn't exactly the best week to be making that change. There may be fewer notable new releases this week than any week in the history of recorded music.

Agree, this time of year is very slow on the new releases front.

Releases by month since the start of 2020s:
Jan - 3,572 - 8.6%
Feb - 3,708 - 8.9%
Mar - 4,112 - 9.9%
Apr - 3,949 - 9.5%
May - 3,879 - 9.3%
Jun - 3,326 - 8.0%
Jul - 2,767 - 6.6%
Aug - 2,859 - 6.9%
Sep - 4,080 - 9.8%
Oct - 4,491 - 10.8%
Nov - 3,415 - 8.2%
Dec - 1,504 - 3.6%
(Total - 41,662)

(This is a very minor change in the scheme of things & the summer lull isn't a bad time to make changes, can roll back/tweak if things go wrong with less impact).

Re: New Release Highlighted Album Adjustment

MadhattanJack — Thu, 2 Jul 2026 18:45:52 GMT

Author: MadhattanJack

Posted: 07/02/2026 22:45

albummaster wrote:

Just altered it so new releases are constrained to this week, it may have been that way before for safety in case there were no upcoming releases.

Re: New Release Highlighted Album Adjustment

albummaster — Thu, 2 Jul 2026 10:35:49 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 07/02/2026 14:35

Cheddar wrote:

I've noticed that on the home page that the highlighted New Release album in the main scroll tends to get stuck on one upcoming album (at least it has the past couple of months), which might be a couple weeks out sometimes. Maybe it's better at generating click throughs, but I have wished for a couple months now that the highlighted New Releases album was actually released in the past week or so. Perhaps highlighting the best ranking new release on the site, or if you want to focus on discovery, rotate the lowest ranked album released in the past week or so. If nothing else, maybe there's a way to make the album it highlights on the main page to be within a week of release at most so it doesn't get stuck on an album that's being released 2 or 3 weeks down the road. Of course, there may be a different vision for that highlight than I'm seeing, so I understand if this isn't something that's viewed as needing changed.

Additionally, I only just ran into this, but it would also be nice to be able to see last months releases in the actual site section, or at least the past couple weeks, in order to override the month reset where I can't seem to easily view last week's releases from the end of June since the section has transitioned into July releases only.

Thanks for highlighting/spotting, looks like a bug (issue with algorithm looking too far ahead). Just altered it so new releases are constrained to this week, it may have been that way before for safety in case there were no upcoming releases. It might be a few hours before it's updated on the home page due to caching and might need some more fine-tuning afterwards to get the frequency right (and to make sure the right albums are highlighted), but should be better than it was.

The suggestion about being able to browse recently released albums is a good one too. At the moment, once the month changes there's no easy way to see releases from the previous week or month, which isn't ideal. Planning to add extra tabs to the New Releases page ('Last Week' & 'Last Month') so those albums remain easy to find. It's a slightly bigger change, so it'll be part of the next site update.

Thanks again for the feedback. It helps immensely in making the site better for everyone. Let me know how the change looks once the cache clears. The extra filters will take a while longer to add as a bit more involved, but it has been added to the list for the next site update.

New Release Highlighted Album Adjustment

Cheddar — Thu, 2 Jul 2026 09:12:52 GMT

Author: Cheddar

Posted: 07/02/2026 13:12

I've noticed that on the home page that the highlighted New Release album in the main scroll tends to get stuck on one upcoming album (at least it has the past couple of months), which might be a couple weeks out sometimes. Maybe it's better at generating click throughs, but I have wished for a couple months now that the highlighted New Releases album was actually released in the past week or so. Perhaps highlighting the best ranking new release on the site, or if you want to focus on discovery, rotate the lowest ranked album released in the past week or so. If nothing else, maybe there's a way to make the album it highlights on the main page to be within a week of release at most so it doesn't get stuck on an album that's being released 2 or 3 weeks down the road. Of course, there may be a different vision for that highlight than I'm seeing, so I understand if this isn't something that's viewed as needing changed.

Additionally, I only just ran into this, but it would also be nice to be able to see last months releases in the actual site section, or at least the past couple weeks, in order to override the month reset where I can't seem to easily view last week's releases from the end of June since the section has transitioned into July releases only.