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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2007 at 18:09
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 ? 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2007 at 18:10
 
   
 
 
 
  The Doors on the top of the Prog Archives homepage, what else do you want LOL ?!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2007 at 18:45
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Clap 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.... Confused
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2007 at 18:59
Many thanks to Admin for the response on this, and for their efforts in general. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2007 at 03:29
All OK again now?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2007 at 06:12
Originally posted by Rivertree 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 ... Ouch


This is still existing and not a good solution ...
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2007 at 07:54
Originally posted by Rivertree Rivertree wrote:

Originally posted by Rivertree 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 ... Ouch


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...Clap
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2007 at 10:31
Album covers are now automatically resized to 300 x 300. It doesn't look good when the original picture had smaller size, like here, though.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2007 at 10:34
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

All OK again now?


Everything seems fine now Big%20smile
Paragraphs back again and reviews on top
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2007 at 22:24
Everything is back where it belongs! Big%20smile
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2007 at 11:50
A suggestion made by -r-y-i-n-c- on Progressive Ears (in a thread about PA):

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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.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2007 at 11:55
Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

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

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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.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2007 at 12:01
^ agreed!
Shrinking both songs window and the Ebay window would be beneficial
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2007 at 13:43
Hey - nice changes to the reviews section of the album pages Thumbs%20Up

Album pics are still stretched to 300x300 Confused



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2007 at 15:54
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.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2007 at 16:03
If there are only a few reviews of an album, they do all still appear. The objective is to find a balance between showing the reviews in the best way we can, while addressing people's complains about being presented with 300+ reviews on one page.
 
M@x will take account of the feedback here of course so keep the comments coming. On the plus side for non collaborators, their reviews are now given equal precedence on the all reviews pages.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2007 at 21:26
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.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2007 at 21:57
I'm going to second the above opinion, things just look a bit messy now. Anyway, I do appreciate all the hard work that goes into this and the willingness to hear out all the various opinions.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2007 at 22:24
Originally posted by aapatsos 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.
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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. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2007 at 22:32
Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

Originally posted by aapatsos 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.
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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. 


ehhhh....I think you can look at it from the flip side as well.....  Prog Reviewer's are chosen for their ability to review albums.. and for excellence in that.  Would it not stand to reason to spotight them.  Hell... .I've asked that they be the only ones' displayed on the main page.  Anyone who isn't happy... should work to see that they  DO make it to Prog Reviewer.. They make anyone a Prog Reviewer here.. you just have to want it.. and simply write good insightful reviews.  Call it ...incentive.  The other reviews are still there....  you can see them as an slight or insult...  but recognize that the site isn't in the business of putting people down.. but raising people up.   Difference in perception I guess. 
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