Best Ever Albums

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:00:36 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 10/15/2026 17:00

No worries, a day"s work is never done. Out of interest are you having this issue in both dark and light mode? I can swap out the headphone icon.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

Hayden — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:50:55 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 10/15/2026 16:50

albummaster wrote:

Hayden wrote:

Not to make things more frustrating for you AM, but I'm not sure about this update either. Everything is blue when unchecked, but 'plain' when checked? 🤔 (if we're going to keep this I would opt for the distinction to be the other way around... 'plain' until clicked (blue)—

And I'm finding the headphones on the listened button a slight double-negative. If the headphones are crossed out it means... you have listened to it? I'm not sure that's the best representation.

Sorry, I’ll try again tomorrow.

All good AM—
It's a lot of work 🫠

& thanks for the clarification on the ignore feature—
Changes changes changes 😁

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:29:20 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 10/15/2026 15:29

Hayden wrote:

Sorry, I’ll try again tomorrow.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:27:48 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 10/15/2026 15:27

Romanelli wrote:

As of now, the buttons give zero indication as to whether you have selected an album into collection, listened or favorites. Even the plus/minus signs are gone.

Apologies pushed an update live a bit earlier, but some assets were still cached, Hopefully should now be better.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

Hayden — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:26:42 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 10/15/2026 15:26

Not to make things more frustrating for you AM, but I'm not sure about this update either. Everything is blue when unchecked, but 'plain' when checked? 🤔 (if we're going to keep this I would opt for the distinction to be the other way around... 'plain' until clicked (blue)—

And I'm finding the headphones on the listened button a slight double-negative. If the headphones are crossed out it means... you have listened to it? I'm not sure that's the best representation.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

Romanelli — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:38:14 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 10/15/2026 13:38

As of now, the buttons give zero indication as to whether you have selected an album into collection, listened or favorites. Even the plus/minus signs are gone.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:44:38 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 10/15/2026 07:44

Hayden wrote:

Agreed — even on a laptop, I actually thought it wasn't working at first — definitely need better visibility, somehow — it seems there was an update to add the words back, which is an improvement, but the single strike through on the (i.e.) headphones is still a little subtle (and this is from a person who likes simple and subtle)—

I don't have an recommendations atm, but if I think of something I'll post it—

Also, pardon the ignorance, but what does the ignore button do?

Thanks for the feedback. Going to look into improving the visibility of these buttons today (if you have any ideas let me know). The 'Ignore' button basically allows albums to be excluded from the listening and collection progress stats for people using the collector's summary e.g. if you're not interested in an album because it's by an artist or in a genre you don't like, you can add it to your ignore list and it won't count towards your progress (it has no effect beyond that). (The Ignore feature was an item on the 2026 roadmap).

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:38:04 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 10/15/2026 07:38

Romanelli wrote:

albummaster wrote:

Romanelli wrote:

On the feedback pages for albums, it is now only showing either a plus or a minus sign if it's been selected. This makes seeing if an album is in my collection, or any of the other categories, almost completely invisible now. We seem to be moving further away from making it more visible. :

How about a giant red star? Anything that makes it easy to see. A simple plus or minus sign is WAY too small and doesn't stand out at all. This is something I check on an always ongoing basis to make sure my collection is all there. It just keeps getting harder to see.

Apologies and thanks for the feedback, the labels were shortened to fit the new Ignore option on the same row, but that’s made the current state harder to spot. This will be looked into, with a fix rolled out over the next day or so to make this more obvious .

Thanks!

Also...opened a chart and got the message that there is an artist or an album that needs more info...but nothing in the chart has a red flag to indicate it's the one that needs info, so I don't know what needs to be fixed.

Thanks, I'll check into that issue

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

Hayden — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:06:38 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 10/15/2026 04:06

Romanelli wrote:

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

Romanelli — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:03:41 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 10/14/2026 20:03

albummaster wrote:

Romanelli wrote:

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:58:27 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 10/14/2026 19:58

Romanelli wrote:

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

Romanelli — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:11:01 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 10/14/2026 19:11

On the feedback pages for albums, it is now only showing either a plus or a minus sign if it's been selected. This makes seeing if an album is in my collection, or any of the other categories, almost completely invisible now. We seem to be moving further away from making it more visible. 🙁

How about a giant red star? Anything that makes it easy to see. A simple plus or minus sign is WAY too small and doesn't stand out at all. This is something I check on an always ongoing basis to make sure my collection is all there. It just keeps getting harder to see.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Wed, 7 Oct 2026 03:37:18 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 10/07/2026 07:37

Cheddar wrote:

Is the front page down for anyone else? I was assuming this was a problem on my end, but it has persisted for a couple of days now on every platform I've tried.

Thanks for reporting and apologies, didn't know this was happening. Just checking into now... (EDIT: hopefully now fixed)

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

Cheddar — Wed, 7 Oct 2026 03:13:31 GMT

Author: Cheddar

Posted: 10/07/2026 07:13

Is the front page down for anyone else? I was assuming this was a problem on my end, but it has persisted for a couple of days now on every platform I've tried.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Sun, 4 Oct 2026 03:54:19 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 10/04/2026 07:54

Romanelli wrote:

A request...

On the album pages...can we remove the Summary tab? It doesn't go anywhere that isn't already on the screen, and it makes it more difficult to hit the tab next to it (Your Feedback).

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Yes, this can be removed. The album, artist, chart and track pages all have this tab, so I’ll look at removing it across those pages, possibly combining its function with the Your Feedback tab for logged-in users.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

Romanelli — Sat, 3 Oct 2026 12:17:48 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 10/03/2026 16:17

A request...

On the album pages...can we remove the Summary tab? It doesn't go anywhere that isn't already on the screen, and it makes it more difficult to hit the tab next to it (Your Feedback).

😎

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:30:05 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/30/2026 07:30

DommeDamian wrote:

Small bugs that don't need fixing right away:
- On chart, choosing "Your rating" just glitches it out and shows the top menu instead
- When editing a chart, all albums are the question marks, but transparent question marks (meaning you can see parts of the album cover through the question marks)

Thing to maybe add to the next update:
- On viewing the user ratings, there could be filter to see Compilations, SoundTracks, Live albums etc.

Thanks, will check into those. The 'Your Rating' sort issue will be prioritised and fixed (EDIT: now done). Several changes have been made to dark mode recently, and the artwork issue stems from one of those (just rolled back). Ideally, prefer to release changes as part of a bigger update rather than making them on the fly (which I've been guilty of doing recently).

A top-rated chart composition feature is on the radar and should be implemented in the next few updates (hopefully before the end of year as it's something on the 2026 roadmap).

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

DommeDamian — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:07:35 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 09/29/2026 17:07

Small bugs that don't need fixing right away:
- On chart, choosing "Your rating" just glitches it out and shows the top menu instead
- When editing a chart, all albums are the question marks, but transparent question marks (meaning you can see parts of the album cover through the question marks)

Thing to maybe add to the next update:
- On viewing the user ratings, there could be filter to see Compilations, SoundTracks, Live albums etc.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

albummaster — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:42:15 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/27/2026 16:42

DommeDamian wrote:

The new feature of italic on charts is amazing. Very helpful for my long descriptions of albums. Thanks, AM. �'�

A tip on ads would be to keep them as much on the right as possible, because sometimes they cover the charts. That's less important though.

Two different tips color-wise in Dark Mode:
- When adding new albums to the database on a chart, the text is white on yellow.
- When going through chart-pages or pages of a user's ratings/comments/etc, the number of the page is grey on black whereas the others are white on black (same with the "Total ___" underneath). Sometimes, depending on lighting from the phone or computer, cannot be differentiated too much. I recommend the current pagenumber of whatever page you're on to be black-on-white while the rest keeps the white-on-black

Thanks for feedback. Quite a few issues with dark mode picked up in the background ready to go live in the next site update. If it’s possible, I’ll try to bring forward a few of these (and prioritise the above), but about 50 changes of varying sizes worked on per site update, so more efficient to test/release as a unit (to get more done in the same amount of time). Quite a lot of bigger changes going on as well, as chasing down the remainder of the 2026 roadmap.

Re: Minor annoyances/usability issues

DommeDamian — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:52:01 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 09/27/2026 15:52

The new feature of italic on charts is amazing. Very helpful for my long descriptions of albums. Thanks, AM. �'�

A tip on ads would be to keep them as much on the right as possible, because sometimes they cover the charts. That's less important though.

Two different tips color-wise in Dark Mode:
- When adding new albums to the database on a chart, the text is white on yellow.
- When going through chart-pages or pages of a user's ratings/comments/etc, the number of the page is grey on black whereas the others are white on black (same with the "Total ___" underneath). Sometimes, depending on lighting from the phone or computer, cannot be differentiated too much. I recommend the current pagenumber of whatever page you're on to be black-on-white while the rest keeps the white-on-black