Dream progarchives features

Hrychu wrote: Implement the option to write a review without having to give a numeric star rating. B)

That would be the ideal scenario indeed, however unfeasible it may be in practice.

Edited by SolNiger - March 03 2021 at 09:26

siLLy puPPy wrote: Pretty much implement all the features that Rate Your Music has. That site has just totally upgraded itself so there's no valid reason that ANY site can't do the same.

Both of these. However, I chose the second one(genre by album). 

someone_else wrote: dougmcauliffe wrote: ^ well to be fair, implementing half stars would effectively be the same as implementing a 10 star system. I'm curious what people think of the weighting system: Rating=1 Review=10 Collaborator Review=20 I am satisfied with it. That said, the only minor improvement I can think of is lowering the weight factor for rating-only from 1 to 0.

^ another good use for a comment box sort of thing

Rateyourmusic does well with album tagging, and if that confuses some people, well I would rather not particularly cater to the most easily confused and least intelligent. This site's architecture does not support it, and it would have to be rebuilt at great time and expense. Practicality of that aside, as a music Archive, I am confident that this site would work better as research tool if we had album tagging and being able to tag albums with multiple labels (provided we had a great many good people to collaborate on the project). I think Progfreak was working well. It may not be practical for this site, but I still think it would be more ideal than what we have.

I don't use PA much to search for albums or for research generally and that's partially due to its limitations. RYM's filters are helpful for me and doesn't require that steep a learning curve to get used to.

I would quite like to see ratings only given 0 weighting. Long reviews are not always preferable to me (I wish I was better at being concise).   I would like the ratings descriptions to be phrased in a purely subjective manner. Five stars -= adore etc. I would like the option to review an album without rating it. My favourite film sites had no star ratings to go with the reviews. I'm most interested in ratings as it gives me some quick insight into an individual's tastes, but actually I am interested in what the general consensus is and I have found that that can be a useful guide when it comes to where to start with an artist.

By the way, my favourite reviews often mention their favourite tracks (if applicable), describe the music well, might give some history, and mention similar albums. That last bit is very useful for me to help me in discovering similar music, and to see if an album is likely to appeal.

Edited by Logan - March 03 2021 at 15:13

progaardvark wrote: siLLy puPPy wrote: Pretty much implement all the features that Rate Your Music has. That site has just totally upgraded itself so there's no valid reason that ANY site can't do the same. I admire the way RYM has developed. It's a really well thought out system and I love using it just to catalog my own collection. The major difference between RYM and here is that they have a team (maybe a community?) of developers. Without having something like that here and a more active owner, I just don't see this happening at this time. There may also be costs involved.

I had meant to say that I'm thinking of weighting as it affects album "ranking" specifically but that doesn't help much with the obscurity issue.

Other: ability to add partial prog discographies from otherwise non-prog artists. It's not rare to stumble with unthinkable pearls from outside the club.