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Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 05:44:20 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/26/2026 09:44

MadhattanJack wrote:

Thanks for the new italic and underline tags in the chart annotations! (Boldface would be better than strikethrough, but just having italics is a big improvement!) 😄

However...

I totally understand why you don't want to enable full URL tags in chart annotations, since people could use them to link to all sorts of horrible offsite web pages. And I really do hate to keep nitpicking about this... but if you could just put a [chart] tag in there, with the chart ID as the parameter — like this...

Code:

[chart=87801]More Albums From 2026[/chart]

...and then have the parser substitute a full chart URL for the ID parameter, then everyone (like Romanelli, for example) who has been making multi-part charts for all these years could put links to their "Part II", "Part III", etc., chart(s) at the end of their "Part I" chart, so readers could just go seamlessly from one to the next without having to go back into the user's profile and scroll around looking for it.

I'm sure you've thought of this already, and you could be almost ready to go live with it for all I know, but if not... assuming it's not too much effort, that's just one cool thing, among many, that we could do with such a tag. Also, [album] and [artist] tags would be useful too, of course.

Thanks for the useful feedback. Adding BEA links to charts is on the radar, more than likely just in chart notes and not at rank level (probably in October/November depending on what else is going on). Continuation charts also on the backlog which will serve a similar purpose.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

MadhattanJack — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 03:26:13 GMT

Author: MadhattanJack

Posted: 09/26/2026 07:26

albummaster wrote:

Site update planned for back end of next week will address this (already done in background) and comments with formatting will be like you outlined. Next week's update also includes chart/item formatting. (Apologies, sometimes takes a few rounds of changes to get things properly bedded in).

Code:

[chart=87801]More Albums From 2026[/chart]

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:36:40 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/22/2026 11:36

DommeDamian wrote:

Very good idea that you brought the "Your rating" section of an album page op towards the top instead of the bottom. In dark mode, a lot of its text is white on bright green. I reckon the text either should be black or the filter should be a darker shade.

Thanks for spotting, just made a quick fix. Intend to make further refinements to dark mode as part of each site update (quite a few areas on the radar).

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

DommeDamian — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:51:22 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 09/22/2026 10:51

Very good idea that you brought the "Your rating" section of an album page op towards the top instead of the bottom. In dark mode, a lot of its text is white on bright green. I reckon the text either should be black or the filter should be a darker shade.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:44:34 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/21/2026 19:44

DommeDamian wrote:

albummaster wrote:

Apologies, this should now be showing at the bottom of the edit profile page.
AM

And now all profile pictures disappeared. Not just mine before I was gonna change it, but everyone elses. I still cannot change it to anything other than the instrument-gallery things.

Off-topic question: In dark mode, why is an album on its album page having a white frame around it?

Whoops, that'll teach me for making live changes (again). I should have learned after the first 100 times. 😉 Dark mode is still a bit rough around the edges, but continuing to work on it with each update. I'll check into the issue with borders.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

DommeDamian — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:33:04 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 09/21/2026 19:33

albummaster wrote:

Apologies, this should now be showing at the bottom of the edit profile page.
AM

And now all profile pictures disappeared. Not just mine before I was gonna change it, but everyone elses.
EDIT: fixed now. Thank you.

Off-topic question: In dark mode, why is an album on its album page having a white frame around it?

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/21/2026 18:30

DommeDamian wrote:

I cannot find where I used to edit profile picture.

Apologies, this should now be showing at the bottom of the edit profile page.
AM

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

DommeDamian — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:09:32 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 09/21/2026 18:09

I cannot find where I used to edit profile picture.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

Romanelli — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:56:56 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 09/21/2026 17:56

When adding an album to a chart in dark mode, if an album is not found in the database, the following is in white letters and not visible because of the light background:

"Nothing found. Did you use the correct spelling?"

"It doesn't look like the album '___' exists on BEA: Click here to allow '____' into your chart"

Also, the artist & album suggestions in dark blue over dark gray and black are hard to read.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 03:57:48 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/19/2026 07:57

MadhattanJack wrote:

I was thinking, if italics are going to be available for use in comments, then unformatted text in comments should be displayed (on the album, etc., pages) in a regular/normal font, shouldn't they? Either that or display the italics as regular. (Otherwise there's not much point in having them!) :-k

Agree, thanks for feedback. Site update planned for back end of next week will address this (already done in background) and comments with formatting will be like you outlined. Next week's update also includes chart/item formatting. (Apologies, sometimes takes a few rounds of changes to get things properly bedded in).

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

MadhattanJack — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:48:05 GMT

Author: MadhattanJack

Posted: 09/18/2026 20:48

albummaster wrote:

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 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

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.)

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.