^^if you can't see the clearly labeled "compilations" tab with is literally 1 MILLIMETER FROM THE ALBUMS TAB RIGHT BESIDE IT, then i'm surprised you can even read or type words into ilx
of course i can see it. i see those tabs because i know to look for them, being familiar with the site's basic design from years of use. i can't imagine that a not-particularly-internet-savvy first time user, however, would even think that these options might be available. there's nothing in the page design that draws attention to the fact that you're initially seeing only a portion of the discography. in fact, the elements that might draw attention instead seem to have been intentionally designed to evade immediate notice.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
xxpost but it doesn't work the same as it did before (contenderizer otm)! the sorting feature may not have been something that everyone cared about, but I don't see the need to get rid of a useful tool.
I don't think it's obnoxious that Rovi is trying to make money; just pointing it out.
― barman's bar mitz (unregistered), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
ok i know your trying to contenderize me with this shit but i'm not having it
how in THE HOLY HELL DO YOU HAVE TO BE "INTERNET SAVVY" TO SEE THOSE TABS?
http://i50.tinypic.com/2woepu8.jpg
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
there's nothing in the page design that draws attention to the fact that you're initially seeing only a portion of the discography.
compilations, singles & EPs, and dvds were separated from the main album in the exact same manner in the previous design
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
it used to be that when you searched for something like "girl" + "yesterday", a list of song titles would come up, and when you clicked on "the girl from yesterday", for instance, you'd be able to see all the artists who recorded that song.
to clarify, if in the past, you wanted to find a song called something like "spongy mountain" (or maybe it was "mountain of sponge" or something, i dunno), you'd type "spongy mountain" into the search, and it would cough up something like this:
Spongy Mountain - 177My Spongy Mountain - 118Spongy Mountains - 32Mountaintop Sponge - 4Spongiform M - 1I Had a Sponge - 1Mountain Spot - 1
you'd click on a phrase, and it would show you a list of all the performers of songs with that specific title. very handy for tracking down songs whose title you only half-remembered, also for researching variations on a phrase and/or titles involving specific words.
using the current version of the song search function, however, you'd get all 334 results, unsorted and unsortable, 20 at a time, so that you'd maybe have to go through 17 pages to find that one version of "mountaintop sponge" you were looking for.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
good page design should draw attention to what is useful, and minimize distractions. this design makes useful functions unobtrusive and draws attention to junk.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
incredible discussion itt
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, May 30, 2012 4:23 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you are crazy
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
probably ¯\(°_0)/¯
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
well, it's a conversation about the design of this one particular website. not sure what you expect...
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
BOW DOWN BEFORE THE ONE YOU SERVE
http://media.blurt-online.com/cqtuEEeFKNUV_m.jpg
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/AllmusicNewMain.png
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
MY SPONGY MOUNTAIN
― emil.y, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
OK, I got the search box to work. I had javascript turned off sitewide because their old version was so terrible with it. It seems slightly better than the old version. I like that it shows which albums have reviews on the discography list.
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Thursday, 31 May 2012 07:03 (eleven years ago) link