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Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Sat, 5 Sep 2026 11:43:05 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/05/2026 15:43

AAL2014 wrote:

Dark Mode issue: I really like Dark Mode and I’m going to use it going forward, but one small thing I noticed is that top comments on an album (highlighted comments) are blocked out because of the highlighted format.

@ AAL2014 Deployed a fix for this earlier, working my way through other issues.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Sat, 5 Sep 2026 11:41:34 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/05/2026 15:41

Definitely a back end issue, and I’ll also keep an eye out. A weird one that’s for sure

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

Hayden — Sat, 5 Sep 2026 04:00:31 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 09/05/2026 08:00

albummaster wrote:

Hayden wrote:

Hmm... the new Rebecca Black album (released today) is appeared as the AOTD on my home page—

Unless it's just a very odd random coincidence, I haven't a clue why or what's doing that in the back-end, but—

I’ll check into that, seems to have corrected itself after you posted.

Weird 😶

I'll let you know if it happens again—
(Was using Safari, desktop)

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Fri, 4 Sep 2026 17:09:18 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/04/2026 21:09

Hayden wrote:

I’ll check into that, seems to have corrected itself after you posted.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Fri, 4 Sep 2026 17:08:07 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/04/2026 21:08

MadhattanJack wrote:

I don't want to seem greedy or anything, but is there any chance of someday implementing limited BBCode tags for individual chart-item annotations as well?

(That's what I had been hoping for, anyway.)

That’s planned for the next update (want to see how comment formatting beds in first and pick up any issues before widening the scope) - formatting in chart notes and for each item. Either late September or October, depending on what happens in-between.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

MadhattanJack — Fri, 4 Sep 2026 16:56:41 GMT

Author: MadhattanJack

Posted: 09/04/2026 20:56

I don't want to seem greedy or anything, but is there any chance of someday implementing limited BBCode tags for individual chart-item annotations as well?

(That's what I had been hoping for, anyway.)

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

Hayden — Fri, 4 Sep 2026 12:40:05 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 09/04/2026 16:40

Hmm... the new Rebecca Black album (released today) is appearing as the AOTD on my home page—

Unless it's just a very odd random coincidence, I haven't a clue why or what's doing that in the back-end, but—

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Fri, 4 Sep 2026 12:06:38 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/04/2026 16:06

AAL2014 wrote:

Thanks for reporting the issue, added to list. Dark mode still a bit rough around the edges, intend to fix the worst quirks over the next few updates.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

AAL2014 — Fri, 4 Sep 2026 11:44:15 GMT

Author: AAL2014

Posted: 09/04/2026 15:44

Dark Mode issue: I really like Dark Mode and I’m going to use it going forward, but one small thing I noticed is that top comments on an album (highlighted comments) are blocked out because of the highlighted format.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Fri, 4 Sep 2026 11:29:54 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/04/2026 15:29

Romanelli wrote:

Cool! Thanks!

I was also thinking (too much time on my hands) 🤡

It's cool that we have mentions on forum posts. What if we took it one step further? What if, when someone quotes a user in a post, it could create an automatic mention? Quoting someone is like directly responding to their post, so why not let them know in the form of a mention? They would get a notification that someone is quoting them, and they might want to see what that is about, and maybe respond back? And if they don't like it, they can opt out of the notifications.

Sometimes, I think too much...

Thanks for the idea. I did consider doing that, but an explicit mention carries the intent to notify someone, whereas quoting someone doesn't necessarily mean you're trying to get their attention. (Also, if you're posting in a thread, people who've already commented will generally get a reply notification anyway if they're subscribed to the thread).

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

Romanelli — Fri, 4 Sep 2026 11:16:20 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 09/04/2026 15:16

Cool! Thanks!

I was also thinking (too much time on my hands) 🤡

It's cool that we have mentions on forum posts. What if we took it one step further? What if, when someone quotes a user in a post, it could create an automatic mention? Quoting someone is like directly responding to their post, so why not let them know in the form of a mention? They would get a notification that someone is quoting them, and they might want to see what that is about, and maybe respond back? And if they don't like it, they can opt out of the notifications.

Sometimes, I think too much...

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Fri, 4 Sep 2026 07:36:01 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/04/2026 11:36

Romanelli wrote:

With the new format on the album pages, it's more difficult to see if an album is in the wish list, collection, listened and favorites.

Would it be possible for those boxes to be highlighted by a solid color if I have them flagged instead of just saying "remove from____"? I have a lot of albums in my collection (and wish list). It would be great if those boxes were easier to identify if marked or not.

Thanks!

Thanks for this, scheduled something similar to be worked on as part of the next site update. Trying to make it more obvious that an album exists in collection etc. Thinking of moving the collection options into the info panel on top of album page so don't need to scroll down to find it (& keep the existing feedback area purely for comments)

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

Romanelli — Thu, 3 Sep 2026 16:19:40 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 09/03/2026 20:19

With the new format on the album pages, it's more difficult to see if an album is in the wish list, collection, listened and favorites.

Would it be possible for those boxes to be highlighted by a solid color if I have them flagged instead of just saying "remove from____"? I have a lot of albums in my collection (and wish list). It would be great if those boxes were easier to identify if marked or not.

Thanks!

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Thu, 3 Sep 2026 03:17:47 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/03/2026 07:17

Fix deployed for the above two issues. Thanks again for reporting and apologies for delay.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Wed, 2 Sep 2026 12:13:28 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/02/2026 16:13

AAL2014 wrote:

Another very small issue on my end: trying to arrange artists I’ve listened to/rated in alphabetical order gives me an error message.

Apologies, thanks for reporting. Identified the issue, plan to deploy a fix along with the above tomorrow morning (when site is a bit quieter).

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

AAL2014 — Wed, 2 Sep 2026 11:52:57 GMT

Author: AAL2014

Posted: 09/02/2026 15:52

Another very small issue on my end: trying to arrange artists I’ve listened to/rated in alphabetical order gives me an error message.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Wed, 2 Sep 2026 09:41:02 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/02/2026 13:41

Cheddar wrote:

This is a pretty small issue, but I was browsing the Best of the 2020s decade page the other night and found something that is off with the composition lists. When paring down the criteria from Top 1000 to Top 100, the table was displaying a number of albums that went beyond 100. Specifically, there was one extra 2020 and 2021 album and nine 2026 albums as well. I then went through every decade and found that from the 1990s decade page to the present that there was a similar issue with each composition table when pairing down to just the top 100. I checked the 2020s page again this morning since it was the most egregious and it at least partially fixed itself where now the only error is it saying there are four 2026 albums in the 2020 top 100.

I'm not sure how many people use that functionality, but I thought I'd point out what I'd seen.

Thanks for picking up, agree looks like a bug (the live & soundtrack compositions also show an extra four albums for 2020s in top 100 - same bug probably exists across different periods). Checking into now to see where the issue is coming from. (EDIT: Identified the issue, plan to push a fix live tomorrow).

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

Cheddar — Wed, 2 Sep 2026 09:28:36 GMT

Author: Cheddar

Posted: 09/02/2026 13:28

This is a pretty small issue, but I was browsing the Best of the 2020s decade page the other night and found something that is off with the composition lists. When paring down the criteria from Top 1000 to Top 100, the table was displaying a number of albums that went beyond 100. Specifically, there was one extra 2020 and 2021 album and nine 2026 albums as well. I then went through every decade and found that from the 1990s decade page to the present that there was a similar issue with each composition table when pairing down to just the top 100. I checked the 2020s page again this morning since it was the most egregious and it at least partially fixed itself where now the only error is it saying there are four 2026 albums in the 2020 top 100.

I'm not sure how many people use that functionality, but I thought I'd point out what I'd seen.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:46:53 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 07/30/2026 06:46

AAL2014 wrote:

Very sorry for the confusion. Correct, it’s the same “Yes” confirmation error.

What I was trying to say is that when I uploaded this album, I moderated the album’s year of release (without moderating anything else), clicked yes to confirm and was successful doing so. But then went back to moderate the remainder (album cover and tracklist), clicked yes to confirm and then got the error message on the next page.

Hopefully this helps, apologies again for the confusion!

Thanks for the extra detail, I'll see if I can repro the issue and make a fix. I think it might be a combination of the back button and iOS. I've added an extra safety check before the form is submitted to verify that the 'Yes' confirmation is actually selected. It's possible that, after navigating back, the button still appears selected even though the browser hasn't correctly restored its checked state.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

AAL2014 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:08:27 GMT

Author: AAL2014

Posted: 07/29/2026 23:08

albummaster wrote:

Thanks. I'm not quite sure what you mean by between the album cover and the track list. Is there a particular field or something else that's preventing you from moderating, or are you seeing an error message? My previous reply suggested the 'Yes' confirmation might have been the issue, but now it sounds like something different is going on. Apologies, I just want to get to the bottom of it so I can reproduce the problem and get a fix in place, but at the moment I'm not sure where the issue is occurring.