Changes

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5/21 - Removed the possibility of adding an album to your favorites, removing, then adding again to boost it up the album charts.

- The album stars no longer horribly clash with a gray background on the main pages

- Length of comments and new albums are now standard on the main and genre pages. Click on next or previous on the main page will not lead you to a genre page entitled 'All'.

- An error has been fixed which allowed previous buttons even on the first album page

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5/23 - Reduced the size of the header by 20 pixels to make the content appear closer to the top

- Changed the favorite bands page to reflect the # of reviews for that band, and the correct updated times. Also sorted alphabetically

- Fixed an error where a band,album, or reviewer was added twice to the favorites list

- Per request, underlined links on the album reviews pages

- Added album covers to the album favorites list and sorted by band name alphabetically

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5/25

- Increased the character limit on album names from 60 to 75.
- Added featured reviews on left hand side of main page.
- Staff picks (featured) will now have short paragraphs explaining the picks on the reviews themselves.

- Changed moderator controls to allow supers to moderate
- Added a few more comments visible on each genre page (Less clicking next/previous)

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5/26

- Added 'User Album Rating'. Now you can rate an album without having written a full review. This rating will be displayed in all your comments on the album, and will be averaged to provide an average user rating for each album. This will be tweaked in the future as necessary.

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5/27

- Fixed bugs in user album ratings that allowed you to only rate 1 album
- Changed display of user album ratings to small stars

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5/28

- Made user rating stars look less strange
- Added a page listing all of the featured albums

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5/30

- Changed the header to save space and allow for more genres to be listed
- Added Pop and Jazz as main genres
- Fixed error where album charts would display albums not in that genre.

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6/5

- Added a bunch of new genres, and tweaked the existing genres
- Added a link to this forum "Feedback" at the bottom of the page

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6/7

- Fixed error where comments pages would have empty pages, or incorrect # of pages

- Removed View All Bands from the main page due to the large number of bands

- Began work on performance issues to make sputnik faster

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6/8

- Worked on adding release date to albums
- Images of newly released albums now appear on the main page of sputnik

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6/30

Added an "All-Time Charts" Feature accessible underneath the weekly charts. This displays the albums that are on the most favorite lists sitewide per genre. Enjoy.

Added release date to albums that have them

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7/05/05

- Added support for vbcode on the main page
- Misc changes to latest albums
- Added user rating to the main page for the latest comments section. This replaces 'Views', as it is more useful
- Added user album ratings to band pages
- Added release dates for albums on band pages (for those albums that have them)
- Added release YEAR to main page for albums that have release dates. The release year is being used to prevent clutter, and it should be pretty distinguishable which album reviews are current and which are from past history, etc
- Changed the letter '1' to '1-9'
- Updated 'All' to 'All Genres'
- Increased the number of albums on weekly charts (genre pages) to 20

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7/06

- Added a feature so that mods could merge albums

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7/18

- The new releases section sometimes only showed one album, due to the other albums lacking images. The section has been revamped as follows:

Only albums with images will be displayed (4 in total)
If no new albums have images, the box will not appear

- Mods now have to approve the first review of a new user before it appears on the new reviews list.

- Mods can now mass delete all comments by a user (to combat spam and trash)

- Added an instruction to the recommended albums list

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7/20

- Updated the Mxtabs new cd reviews list to not include reviews that have not been approved.

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7/22

- Fixed an error where the last page of comments would not appear for some reviews

- Added a jump to last post link. On the reviews list, clicking on the red double arrow will jump you to the latest comment made on that review.

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7/25

- Misc. graphical changes

- Clicking on 'rating' under recent comments now sorts the reviews by rating, and not last post date. Please note that by making this feature, I have realized that an inordinate number of albums have a rating of 5 stars... fanboy 'ratings' aren't truly helpful

- Added comment pages browsing at top of comments
- Modified the new releases section to show the album title and the user rating

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7/26

- Fixed a bug in the # of comment pages

- Major addition today:

- Recommended albums have been reworked. A reviewer can still recommend albums as before, but they appear below the review, as suggestions. The recommended albums have been replaced in the box with 'Other Members Liked:'. This function looks at all the members who have the album on their 'favorites' list, and looks at their other favorites. It adds up the top favorites cross-referenced among all these members. This provides a quick jump to albums that other people also liked... which I feel is a great helpful feature. Of course, people will have to be more active with favorites lists, but I don't see this as a problem. For those who can't conceptualize the new feature, it is similar to the feature on iTunes "Other members bought," except this concerns favorites instead of purchasing. As members continue to use the favorites list the relevency will increase.

I might do this with bands as well further down the road.

Enjoy.

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7/27

- Removed the ability to rate your own reviews
- Added the corresponding 'other members liked' feature to the band pages as well. More people will have to add bands to their favorites to make this effective.

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7/29

- Removed the manual recommend albums and recommend bands