Minor annoyances/usability issues - Suggestions

albummaster

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Probably opening myself up here as plenty on my plate already, but just a thread for anyone to list minor annoyances/usability issues/visual problems that affect your enjoyment of the site and I'll add to the list to mop up alongside bigger changes (I can't promise I can action them all, but if any common issues emerge these will be prioritised).

(EDIT: To clarify, this is not meant to be limited to the forums, but site-wide annoyances e.g. home page, year/decade/overall/individual chart pages, album/artist/track pages, chart editor, admin pages etc).

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Repo

BeA Sunflower

Location: Forest Park

Just my lost devil emojis. 🤣

albummaster

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Repo wrote:

Just my lost devil emojis. 🤣

If you can find a replacement from this list, I'd be happy to add/replace any of the new emojis & the same for the 'post reaction' emojis (subset). I expected emojis to need to change slightly to help them bed in once they were added, so no big deal for me (most of the new emojis are like for like replacements, but some probably aren't quite right).

Repo

BeA Sunflower

Location: Forest Park

albummaster wrote:

If you can find a replacement from this list, I'd be happy to add/replace any of the new emojis & the same for the 'post reaction' emojis (subset). I expected emojis to need to change slightly to help them bed in once they were added, so no big deal for me (most of the new emojis are like for like replacements, but some probably aren't quite right).

Thanks, AM. They're not there. It's ok!

MadhattanJack

Just to end the list...

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The Bestographies on album detail pages still don't look right — it looks like there are two table rows now and the "higher ranked" album is in the second row, so it's positioned lower than the "lower ranked" album (which is in the first row).

albummaster

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MadhattanJack wrote:

The Bestographies on album detail pages still don't look right — it looks like there are two table rows now and the "higher ranked" album is in the second row, so it's positioned lower than the "lower ranked" album (which is in the first row).

Thank you for feedback, I'll check into that (again) and make a fix 🫢 (EDIT: fix made)

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Romanelli

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I know it's probably not a fixable item...but is there any way to get rid of the horrible obnoxious Purina ads that move when you try to close them...and open new windows when you miss the x? If you don't get them right away, you have to click them twice to close them. They are becoming more frequent and more annoying.

I'd happily trade these for a nice devil emoji...
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albummaster

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Romanelli wrote:

I know it's probably not a fixable item...but is there any way to get rid of the horrible obnoxious Purina ads that move when you try to close them...and open new windows when you miss the x? If you don't get them right away, you have to click them twice to close them. They are becoming more frequent and more annoying.

I'd happily trade these for a nice devil emoji...

Apologies, I had no idea they were appearing (locale dependent etc). I’ll report to people who look after ad stack to see if it can be removed. (EDIT: ad reported/awaiting response).

baystateoftheart

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Location: Massachusetts

Now that we have reactions, a next step is site notifications in the top bar - by default it could be reactions to your posts, ratings/comments on your charts, and album in your chart marked as suspect/year change. Then people could opt in to notifications for things like replies to a thread you posted in.
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albummaster

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baystateoftheart wrote:

Now that we have reactions, a next step is site notifications in the top bar - by default it could be reactions to your posts, ratings/comments on your charts, and album in your chart marked as suspect/year change. Then people could opt in to notifications for things like replies to a thread you posted in.

Thanks, that's next on the list and is being worked on for the next site update (but probably just start off with a few key configurable notifications to replace some of the emails and get the foundation right, rather than everything at once).