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School is out for me (Eric shortly). Going to take a week or two to unwind and then am going to get back to working on fixing things and working on the page.

We will begin our much talked about code redesign, but none of that will be made public for quite some time. So in the meantime, we want to keep all of you people happy...what features would you like to see most? and what about the site would you like most to be changed?

I'll start: I'd like to see "Mixtape Themes" -- Having a few common templates to base mixes on. ie: "The Breakup Mix", "The Road Trip", etc... When making a mixtape, if you so choose, you could select one of these themes to submit your mix under. Each theme could have its own competition, so we could keep a list of the top 10 "Breakup" mixtapes, maybe even award badges, and have more mixtaping outlets.

What I want to see fixed: The moderation system. I made it pretty poorly. I'll try and rework it so it is more usable.

comments:

sledgbrainerd

Level 36

Congrats

6/13/06 12:32pm

Alice

Level 24

1. When tagging people's profiles/mixes, the avatar should be the icon under the person's name, not the badge!
2. More badges! I love badges!
3. Points for rating albums/songs? Maybe like 1 point per 10 you rate or something, because there are 2332083 of them.
4. The theme idea is awesome

6/13/06 12:35pm

galaxiepi

Level 26

1. A total mixtape listing (not just top and bottom 50s), that can be ordered by title, and then if it's possible, be able to rearrange and view the list by who made the mix and/or by when it was submitted. A la iTunes. It would facilitate easier mixtape viewing and rating.
2. Similarly, a complete list of all users, arranged by name, points, and/or 'joined on' date.
3. 10 viewable comments on the mixtapes, not just 5.
4. CONGRATULATIONS! I think a celebratory mix is in order... Or just a lot of beer.

6/13/06 1:41pm

coreysprague

Level 20

yeah, we're going to be making a profile page and mix page a la the music page so people can find shit and rate it easily.

6/13/06 1:51pm

bootylicious

Level 28

LUCKYYYYYYYY!! I still have 3 more days and 2 more finals!

1. I mentioned this before when I first started making tapes, but I'll say it again: tape length options.. ie. 30 min, 45 min, 60 min for one siders, 60, 90, 120 for full 2 siders, 74, 80 min for CDs.
2. SEARCH function!!!
3. More badges woo!
4. DEFINITELY agree with galaxiepi's #1 & 2 suggestions.. sortable lists of everything here would be AWESOME!
5. I know theres more but I can't think of them now.

6/13/06 3:26pm

jaysix

Level 16

I really like the ideas of a full user/mixtape list able to be viewed in different orders.

Also, the categories for different mixtapes would be awesome.

6/13/06 4:00pm

bisounours

Level 21

A cute baby for the newbie badge.

6/14/06 1:30am

whackedtollie

Level 27

I totally agree with points for rating albums/songs cos I went around rating those thinking I'd get points but then I was like "what?"

Various suggestions about organization/search functions are good

MORE INTERESTS LISTS

6/14/06 3:14am

bootylicious

Level 28

a way to delete songs you've added to the database would be nice. i know i made at least 3 mistakes in my adding spree that still need to be deleted.

6/14/06 7:00am

Daedalus