The new Share Your Music system!

[Gastly]

The possibility to order the list by rating or submission date.

Maybe the latter, otherwise you'd have a song from a few months ago just dominating the front page forever 'cause it has the most ratings, other than that, I like this idea

[Nequissimus]

The possibility to order the list by rating or submission date.

Maybe the latter, otherwise you'd have a song from a few months ago just dominating the front page forever 'cause it has the most ratings, other than that, I like this idea

I was talking about "the user can order the list by those things if he wants to". default could, and should, be the submission date.

[JellyAdotMeyer]

i know i'd posted a few pages ago, i just wanted say what happened to me with the new system over the weekend.
i had posted a few comments on some tracks here and there and put up a thread to a track i wanted to get some feedback on, then i noticed my thread was buried down to the second or third page but my first post ever was on the front page, i was literally competing with my own thread and getting critiques on a track i had gotten feedback on already and didn't really want. then i started commenting on a whole bunch on other tracks in the vein hope of getting this other thread to land on the front page, i eventually had to post the track i actually wanted feedback on in my first post. i've said before i'm not a fan of the new system but if its here to stay it'd be nice to either have it go to the most recend post with a soundcloud track in it or some how give the artist a way to choose what track they'd like a critique on the most

[armahillo]

OK -- As promised, I've restricted the evaluated period to only 30 days, rather than "all time". This means that, when calculating your ranking, it will do so based only on your activity (and the activity on your threads) in the last 30 days. I have sufficient data from the "all time", so we'll see how that compares to restricting it to 30 days.

@JellyADdotMeyer
Can you please let me know the track that was appearing and the new track you posted? The bug you're reporting has been reported by others, but without knowing specifically what you're seeing, I can't help you. It's *supposed* to only select the thread that is most recently posted by each user whose ranking is in the top 25, but there are occasionally some anomalies and I'm still trying to figure out why. Please respond in this thread with:
- The title of the newest topic you posted (that is buried)
- The title of the topic that is/was being put on the front page

Having users be able to select which topic they'd like put at the top would be nice, and I agree that would be an ideal implementation. I don't think PhpBB has any way to hook into that without some substantial modification, though. I'm open to suggestions, if anyone has any!

[MnilinM]

Having users be able to select which topic they'd like put at the top would be nice, and I agree that would be an ideal implementation. I don't think PhpBB has any way to hook into that without some substantial modification, though. I'm open to suggestions, if anyone has any!

It would require the users put more effort, but you could have the system read the text or maybe title and match a string like "[PS]" for "Preferred Song". (This is just an example string, you could probably make a better one.)
The user would then maintain the [PS] string on their own songs and the system would then choose this thread out of the array of threads from that user.
If the user has more than one thread with this string, most recent.

The user can add and remove this tag from their own threads already so there's no work there.

[JellyAdotMeyer]

@armahillo it took me a minute to see the comment sorry

@JellyADdotMeyer
Can you please let me know the track that was appearing and the new track you posted? The bug you're reporting has been reported by others, but without knowing specifically what you're seeing, I can't help you. It's *supposed* to only select the thread that is most recently posted by each user whose ranking is in the top 25, but there are occasionally some anomalies and I'm still trying to figure out why. Please respond in this thread with:
- The title of the newest topic you posted (that is buried)
- The title of the topic that is/was being put on the front page

the title of the thread that was posted on the front page was called "hi i'm new here", there were two tracks posted in it, metroidian a scary place and deathNearz.
the title of the newest thread (at that point) was titled "somethAngZ-A-Foot [one of those electronic genres]"

hope this'll help with bug hunting, i know thats one of the hardest parts of programming

[ConfusionGrows]

The same thing is happening to me. My older post "Helios [Ambient Breaks]" is on page 1 while my new one "Spacewalk [Dubstep/Dub]" is on page 2. Spacewalk was on page one last night.

[MrNiceguy]

yup happened to me to suddenly an older track was on the front page i didnt really want there cause it was just a quick thing i uploaded to show some people what i was working on

[ConfusionGrows]

This error is affecting quite a few others as well now.

[Viktor]

I think this system should be expanded to the share your mix forum, the critiques in this forum should count too so the forum gets some more attention, because posting there barely gives any feedback, but it shouldn't have stickies itself though there are far less post in that forum anyway.