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Ashley wrote:I know its better to pick one hole in yourself than a thousand in others but its always easier to spot other peoples mistakes so here are is some constructive criticism;

On the users panel, the green is very hard to read, even with anti-aliasing turned off.
An upload progress indicator could be nice. Achievable using Ajax.
On the upload form, it tells me one of the fields is too long but doesn't say which, this could be done via JavaScript validation rather than wasting time uploading a file that will go nowhere.


I like the way you use the PM system on these forums to activate accounts - however, seems a bit of a faff and what happens when this forum gets the "bandwidth exceeded" message every couple of months?


People have commented about the overall design, I personally like it however I feel it is more suited towards nerd culture as it reminds me of a command line interface. Possibly making the darker grey slightly darker and options to increase font size would be better. Not sure if you ever studied web accessibility and section 508 etc

Yup, all very valid points . Feature wise (other than fixing the login bug ) an upload meter and client side form validation are both things i'd really like to have, but I just wanted to get something working first. I think once I've got the design fixed up a little bit (which a couple of people now sound interested in helping with ), I'll work on these.

For most of the time when I was writing the current desgin, I was working on a single computer with a very large monitor. I was looking at the site at the uni's computers today and was really suprised at how small the font was, and must admit to really struggling to read the text at all. This was definitely a bit of an oversight, which I'll try and fix tomorrow.

The main reason for using the PM system to create accounts was in an effort to try and limit the site (as much as is reasonably possible) to the dubstep community. I figure that compared to the rest of the site the create user page is going to get used comparatively little, so hopefully when the DSF goes down it should only affect the small numbers of people trying register during that time, and they can always PM/email me if they're really in a ghurry.
I'm really open to new ideas on the registration thing (as for the rest of the site, if anyone has any more suggestions?), but this is the best way i could figure of doing it without risking filling the site with kids and their warez.

Thank you for your comments, they are much appreciated.

Anyway, I hope the site proves useful to people, and I look forward to listening to more tunes!

Spartan wrote:nice one!

Big up yourself for registering the domain, and getting the ball rolling on the whole idea again

I can't upload anything?
Its 320 mp3 and it says it isn't the right format

UPLOADED FILE IS OF THE WRONG TYPE.

And maybe more neutral colours would be better I think..

Greys and white or Light blues & white..

Legendary wrote:I can't upload anything?
Its 320 mp3 and it says it isn't the right format

Hmm, ok. I was worried this might happen, as the library i'm using to check the files isn't quite what i'd like.

I'll remove the checking code for now, and just check the files myself until I can find some decent code.

Right! So, i've removed the format checking for the moment...

Also, i've done the following:

Increased the font size in the content from 12px to 16px
Increased the contrast in the grey
Changed the font back to sans-serif

This should hopefully make it a bit more readable .

Nice one! Big ups on the site either way I can see it really taking off.

The login issue is because people are copying straight from the PM on Dubstep Forum which has a tab character that gets copied 99% of the time. I think you can fix this if you use a function that removes white space before and after the string.

Not sure what this is in Python but its trim() in php.

Ashley wrote:The login issue is because people are copying straight from the PM on Dubstep Forum which has a tab character that gets copied 99% of the time. I think you can fix this if you use a function that removes white space before and after the string.

Not sure what this is in Python but its trim() in php.

I'm fairly sure that's not the problem, because i've recreated the issue in Opera, typing in my password by hand. Of course, there might be two seperate, unrelated problems...

just got signed up, uploaded a dub, changed password, added email

Totally flawless

great ideah!

cixxxj wrote:just got signed up, uploaded a dub, changed password, added email

Totally flawless

Great!
Good to see more people uploading tracks too

cixxxj wrote:just got signed up, uploaded a dub, changed password, added email

Totally flawless

Just so you know, in your profile - if you change your myspace url to http://myspace.com/DUBBWUNE it will get turned into a clickable link

simian wrote:

cixxxj wrote:just got signed up, uploaded a dub, changed password, added email

Totally flawless

Just so you know, in your profile - if you change your myspace url to http://myspace.com/DUBBWUNE it will get turned into a clickable link

thx man!

Right, so I've fixed (i hope! ) the code that checks all uploaded files are 320s. Please let me know if anyone has any problems with it not recognising your files properly.

Just fixed a bug that caused a server error when someone tried to download a file and the client wasn't setting the HTTP referer header.

Big ups for doing this

love the idea! =D

wont let me login though...

16bit wrote:love the idea! =D

wont let me login though...

Hmm, it seems lots of people are having this problem.
If you are having problems logging in, please can you tell me what browser you are using, and what version (and what OS), and if it lets you log in if you try and login twice in a row.

I've narrowed the problem down a little. It seems to occur with firefox 2.0.0.14 (I'm using firefox 3 beta 5 on my laptop...), and possibly other versions and browsers. I should be able to find a work around for the issue, but I'm moving to london tomorrow (brap! ) so I probably won't find time till the weekend.

In the mean time, I recommend using another browser (or the beta/release candidate version of firefox) to upload dubs.

simian wrote:I've narrowed the problem down a little. It seems to occur with firefox 2.0.0.14 (I'm using firefox 3 beta 5 on my laptop...), and possibly other versions and browsers. I should be able to find a work around for the issue, but I'm moving to london tomorrow (brap! ) so I probably won't find time till the weekend.

In the mean time, I recommend using another browser (or the beta/release candidate version of firefox) to upload dubs.

Which Borough?