What's the status on this? Has it been requested?

I just noticed something odd. Okay, so on an album page, above the art, there's usually a link back to the main band page, followed by a "less than" inequality sign:

For example:


However, on albums with Arabic text, the inequality sign points in the other direction:


Is that intentional?

you read it from another direction. From right to left.

Oh, okay. Sorry for being an idiot.

Greater than, not less than. Remember, the alligator always eats the bigger one.

Wow, I'm on a roll for looking like a dumbass today.

Yes.

Using the colors to seperate the moderators is indeed a great feature. In fact, I don't know if it's only me who got a little confused or this is something that needs to be modified. For me Forum moderators should includes the moderators that are only modded on the forums but as I can see failsafeman, MMisantropo and OneRodeToAsaBay are also modded on the main site. Therefore, they should belong to Global moderators (I assume that this groupe includes the moderators that are simultaneously modded on the forums and the main site).

Esoteric looks like a Site moderator although he is not a moderator on the main site but apparently only on the forums. Madsorceror is also listed under the Site moderators group.

Site updates:
-The list of upcoming albums now starts with the albums released on the current day.
-A "cause of death" field was added. It can only be modified by mods. Normal users can't edit a cause of death unless a date of death has already been entered by a mod pr trusted user.
-New roles for compilations, "Liner notes", "CD layout", "Remix".
-A few minor bugs were fixed.

Not exactly, forum moderators are those who have some administrative power on the forums. They can also be site moderators (as is the case with all current forum mods, I think), but the priority is in showing their forum status since, well, this is the forum. Conversely, those in the "site moderators" group on the forum do not have any special rights on forum management, but their rank is displayed mainly so that people in S&C know they speak with some authority. The confusingly named "global moderators" rank just means they have additional forum privileges above those of forum moderators. Likewise, "administrators" have access to all forum options. Admittedly, the average user probably doesn't need to make the difference between some of those so we might reduce the number of different rank colors displayed.

Also, Esoteric is a special case. He still has his mod rank on the forum even though he retired long ago, in recognition of his help as main forum admin in the site's early days.

-New status for labels: On hold

-Lists now scroll-up automatically.

Can you guys limit the amount of vertical pixels a thumbnail on a band's page can have before it's sized down? I know I'm probably not making much sense, but here, look at these:

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Pit ... ast/130084
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Thy ... 3540316559
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Lyk ... flame/2884

On these bands' pages, the band photo (in the case of the former two) or the band logo (in Lykathea Aflame's case) has no restraints on width, so it pushes the end of the page really far down. I assumed you've done something to curb the X-axis of a thumbnail already since band logos don't fly off the right edge of the page... could you do something like that for the Y-axis?

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/La ... _For/76686

Was this actually ever released as a real single? Because I can't find a single scrap of information outside MA that says it was.

^ Wrong thread...?

Wasn't sure where to post it, actually...

Come on, this thread is about v2 stuff, not debate about the existence of a single.

Yeah true, but I've just seen people bring up a lot of random crap in this thread, so I figure if any thread was appropriate to dump the question on, it'd be here.

Well as a mod you should know better.

I'll be more careful next time.

Could adding the albums line-ups be restricted to the users with the metal demon rank? This is really extremely important. In fact this is one of the best ways, if not the best way, for users to point-whore and add completely wrong and misleading information. Beside if a normal user have the correct information he can always send a report showing evidence that what he is claiming is true at this point someone with the proper rank could modify that. It's really confusing and misleading especially with the (more-or-less) underground bands (for example Deathspell Omega, Ayat...). In fact for such bands most of the times there is no clear information about the line-ups of the albums but probably rumors. To illustrate what I am trying to say with examples please check this report: http://www.metal-archives.com/report/view/id/353243/ and let me quote my post from another thread:



You can also check the point-whores thread and you will notice that most of the posts there are to report users adding freestyle line-ups to albums.

I don`t think so. What we could do is to lock the album lineup for some problematic bands.

Enhancement:
-Adv. search now has the option to select multiple countries and statuses.

I think a better course of action might be to prohibit "normal" (non-veteran) users from editing an album line-up that isn't empty. It might help curb the rate of guesswork line-ups, and normal users can always file a report to finish incomplete line-ups if need be.

So maybe this has been brought up before, but when browsing artists by letter, there are a large number of bands that can't be looked for. As it is right now, the tabs at the top of the page cover A-Z and 0-9. But, bands whose names begin with symbols (!T.O.O.H.!, $uicide $olution, '. . . [l]ight am I' . . ., (Psychoparalysis), +3 Broadsword, etc.) do not have their own tab, but also do not appear in lettered tabs either (i.e. (Psychoparalysis) does not appear under the "P" tab). The exception to this rule seems to be if the band's name starts with "..." (i.e. ...Aaaarrghh... will appear in the "A" tab). Now granted, there are only around 20 of these bands in the Archive, but it seems like they could plausibly be lumped into the 0-9 tab and make it the numbers and symbols tab.

And more importantly, with V.2's ability to process encodings and charcters from around the world, the large number of bands whose names are now start with Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai and Arabic characters (among others languages) can not be found in the Browse by Letter section at all. With these groups, I cannot think of an easy way to list them, but maybe someone reading this has thoughts?

Band: http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/%D9 ... 9%85/99139

Look at this: http://i40.tinypic.com/2hf6olf.jpg the demo title does not appear correctly although once you click on the demo you have the correct name.

Same problem with the first demo of this band: http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/%D9 ... 3540287914

For me both appear correctly. Maybe something with your browser?

Well I don't know I've tried different browsers and tried this on 3 different PCs, the thing is that only the demo titles are wrong all the rest are correct.

What about other Arabic bands?
http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Al ... %B1/229462
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/%D8 ... 3540328342

same problem?

EDIT: Durrrrr.

For me the problem is only with the demos, so the first band is good but the second is not (only the demo name) and again once you click on the demo it displays the correct caracters.

EDIT: I have all demos in all pages in Italic, isn't that to be supposed normal?

Again

God almighty, I'm an idiot. Yes, of course. I concentrated so much on the Arabic script and what set the entries apart that I overlooked they were all demos and those are always displayed that way. So, in conclusion, they're displayed correctly for me, too.

Fixed.

Hey guys posting here in this forum after months.

Wanted to know something. Can we deleted albums if added twice by mistake??

No. Just file a report to have it removed.

Optionally, you could post in this thread instead and it'll tend to fetch quicker attention from a moderator (which is generally a better alternative to filing one more report in a neverending queue of reports).

If you've accidentally added an album twice in a band draft, I'm afraid there's no means of deleting it until the band's been approved... at which point, you'll need to repeat the steps mentioned above. I do believe it's a bug, although it might've been fixed since I last encountered it.

Seems to be down again

Fixed.

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Sc ... ion/177147
http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/M% ... _Oz/138374

is this allowed? Adding the tracklist in the album notes? Or shall these be added as compilations with normal track lists? The latter has the stuff in the add notes as well ... does someone know more about this release?

Assuming that's the tracklist for the actual albums featured in the set, yes. Otherwise it's probably better to add as a compilation if most or all of the discs have misc. tracks.