New changes

I agree with most of what Rico and others have brought up here - and most of it seems to be fixed by now. However, may I suggest removing the avatars in front of the Blog entries as well ? 


Edited by Angelo - December 06 2007 at 18:10

Easy Livin wrote:  Looks like the bolds etc are back too, but the paragraphs are yet to be fixed.

Indeed - my nicely formatted review looks quite corrupted at the top of the main page right now....

All OK again now?

Rivertree wrote: Rivertree wrote: I just noticed the album pics on the album pages are stretched now to 300 pixel. Not a good idea because most of the pics have only 200x 200px and therefore lose quality if they are displayed in this way ... This is still existing and not a good solution ...

I agree that album pics should be all the same, if resolution is not high for every one, then better go for lower resolution so the pic would look nicer.

Bot the home page is now much better...

Easy Livin wrote: All OK again now?

Everything seems fine now
Paragraphs back again and reviews on top

A suggestion made by -r-y-i-n-c- on Progressive Ears (in a thread about PA):

I had that happen to me as well, but fortunately I closed the window immediately, and nothing bad has happened. I agree that PA is an invaluable tool for research into prog. The rating system is very valuable for choosing a particular album to get started with for a given artist, or which album to go to next. Recently, the layout has changed slightly, and while I think the integration of eBay listings and streaming songs is great, I find in annoying to have to scroll through all of that to get to the ratings and reviews. The eBay listings should be after the reviews, and the streaming songs window could be shrunk to a tenth of its current size. These are minor quibbles tho, and PA will continue to be a much-used site for me.

He asked me to post it here, so I did.

^ agreed!
Shrinking both songs window and the Ebay window would be beneficial

I may be out of line here (hopefully not), but what happened to the non-reviewer reviews on the album pages? Sure, you can click to see the rest, but I really don't like the way they're displayed (having the reviewer's avatar in there is nice, though.), not to mention that FireFox seems to bug out and not display everything.

I liked the way it was set up before and didn't see any problem with it. I put a lot of thought and time into my reviews, I'm sure other non-collaborators feel the same. Why then exclude us from the album's page? I can see where someone likely is not going to read any of the guest reviews on CTTE or Selling England, they have enough already. But what about the albums that only have one or two written reviews to them, and those are done by guests? Any album that has less than 100 reviews is one that I'll likely check out everyone's opinions on.

In short, please reconsider this change, or at least make it better for those of us who are not collaborators. This was kind of a kick in the balls.

I don't like the new layout in the albums' pages concerning reviews...
Although it's nice to see the collabs reviews on the left hand side, the reviews of members have been shrunk on the right side, and someone needs to follow the permanent link in order to read them in full. Also, IMO it is easier to read something horizontally rather than vertically, thus, I don't feel this layout is convenient for the reader.
I definitely prefer the old way, as you were able to read every review scrolling down, and the line was already there between collabs and members.

aapatsos wrote: I don't like the new layout in the albums' pages concerning reviews... Although it's nice to see the collabs reviews on the left hand side, the reviews of members have been shrunk on the right side, and someone needs to follow the permanent link in order to read them in full. Also, IMO it is easier to read something horizontally rather than vertically, thus, I don't feel this layout is convenient for the reader. I definitely prefer the old way, as you were able to read every review scrolling down, and the line was already there between collabs and members.

I agree with every point here. 

I'm particularly offended by the fact that only colab reviews appear on the main album page; it's as though the archives are saying "here's the legitimate reviews.  If you REALLY wanna read the OTHER reviews, you can, but they're not worthy of the album's page."  If you're trying to get people to submit reviews, you should be respectful to the reviews of those who haven't already submitted dozens and dozens of reviews.