Up!
Sorry about that. The server rebooted without asking me first leading to some unexpected issues.
u/SidledsGunnar — 12 days ago
Push Notifications
Hello,
I've just added a new feature: push notifications.
Everyone who is using a device that's supporting push notifications should be prompted about it on their project page.
If you approve, your daily album reminder will be sent as a push notification.
There's a huge amount of users that just signs up without an email then forget about the site. This a way to reach those.
But let me know if something doesn't seem to work as expected with it.
u/SidledsGunnar — 2 months ago
New contributor perk: Discord server
Just a heads-up: I've set up a Discord server for contributors.
If you're a contributor, open your project menu and click "Contribute" to grab the invite. It's got album quizzes, a couple of stats bots, and already some great conversation going (200+ members!).
I've also removed the old "submit a user-album" perk for Patrons. To keep the user-album list exclusive, submitting an album is now earned by finishing a project (and the top Patron tier keeps it too).
The Discord takes its place as the contributor perk.
I'm keeping it contributor-only for now, mostly to keep it small and easy to manage and moderate. We'll see how this goes, maybe part of the server will be made public in the future.
u/SidledsGunnar — 2 months ago
Some new stats (and other fixes...)
I usually don't mention when i do small updates but this was quite a few things at once so i thought why not write it down for once!?
- A new "Dig Deeper" page. There's a link to it from the Global Stats page (or direct here: https://1001albumsgenerator.com/stats/explore). It has a few old insights/stats, but i've also added 3 new stats:
- Risers & Fallers. Albums whose rating has risen or fallen the most since the start (and/or since last year, via a toggle).
- Albums with the highest percentage of "Did Not Listen".
- How far do people reach before giving up?
- Fix issue with the order on artist pages if the artist had multiple albums released the same year, as mentioned here: https://www.reddit.com/r/1001AlbumsGenerator/comments/1v3h2rf/anyone_notice_that_paranoid_comes_first_on_the/
- Group Creators can now pause the group manually from the Info page. Anyone in the group can resume it from the Group Page.
- Streaming links from the history page should now work with all streaming services, previously if you had Deezer as default it would still open in Spotify.
u/SidledsGunnar — 2 months ago
At least they liked the first one...
As discussed in another post, where someone had all three Tim Buckley albums in a row, i was curious to find out if there's any other crazy runs out there.
This Bowie-run was the wildest i could find. Also it was the users first 4 albums alltogether. If - and that's a big IF - my math is correct, the odds of that happening are about 1 in 374 million.
There were quite a few other three-in-a-row artist runs, but they were mostly from artists with five or more albums in the list, so not as rare as the Tim Buckley one.
u/SidledsGunnar — 4 months ago
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Hosting company now changed from Amazon to Hetzner!
I've been meaning to get rid of Amazon for a while now but with so much data i wasn't exactly looking forward to the move.
Luckily it went pretty smooth (at least so far, haven't noticed any issues from my initial tests).
We're now fully running from Hetzner.
Feels good not being attached to Amazon, and let's just say it's better for the environment as well!
Same price, 4x the performance.
The expected outcome for users visiting the site should be that it's working the same as before.
Let me know if you find anything weird.
u/SidledsGunnar — 4 months ago
We're back up (or are we?)
Things are a bit shaky but when I'm writing this everything seems to be working.
u/SidledsGunnar — 5 months ago
This subreddit has grown quite a bit recently, and I don't have a huge amount of time to keep it moderated.
The workload is still pretty light (only a handful of posts have needed removal so far), but as we've discussed recently, a bit more active moderation would probably be nice.
So before anything else i just wanna check: are there any volunteers interested in becoming a moderator?
Ideally, i'm looking for someone who's already active here and understands the tone and direction of the community. I've got a few names in mind but let's see!
If you're interested, drop a comment or send me a message with a bit about your activity here and why you’d be a good fit and we'll take it from there!
u/SidledsGunnar — 6 months ago