Widgets for showing your Discogs data
We’ve just put out two widgets that you can use on other websites. These are snippets of HTML that can be placed on other websites or blogs in order to show your Discogs data. There is one for user profiles and one for seller’s items for sale.
link here: [url=/widgets]http://www.discogs.com/widgets[/url] (also in My Discogs and the bottom of every page)
In addition to what mayday says – please return the feature for renaming an artist/label.
I chuckled when I saw the link on my page. Yeah let’s create more hype around a flawed system. I wonder when this whole thing will cave in on itself. …it’s getting closer every day! ;)
Stupid waste of limited resources.
Teo, why don’t you listen to what your userbase are telling you, and focus on fixing bugs and the voting system?
Honestly, there are far more important things you need to do!
Merge release facility for one thing!! Now people have to manually delete a release and owners then have to add it back to their collections. Why?! This is such a basic omission
Then the voting system, why are people allowed to vote on things when they don’t even understand the system? I’m talking about noobs with voting powers. The criteria for becoming a voter has never been known due to some paranoid reasoning and it should be, since they are doing more harm than good. It’s causing dilution of knowledge to such an extent there is no longer any need for the RSG, since nobody is following it and half the people have no idea about it either! I see loads of noobs and others commenting such rubbish on subs, saying the opposite of whatever we have been following for years.
I could go on for ages. I won’t since this isn’t the correct thread for such, but whilst I’m here (and in case you are reading) please also fix the images on sales items which are not updated when the primary image has changed.
Oooooh. I’m truly gobsmacked by the utility of this new feature. Way to go Teo!! Anyone up for creating a Teo fanclub?
Initially i found this feature ‘good’.
But when i’ve tried it on [b]myspace[/b] ([b]the ONLY place where a thing like this could be useful, and where you can have a bit of advertisement too[/b]),
i discovered that it doesn’t work…
So, for me this feature is useless… and for you is just some sort of small advertisement in some small site or blog… nothing paragonate to myspace.
This feature got some potential, if it is used in a right way.
You should look to the way are done ‘slideshow’ or ‘beatport’, for example (without iframe)
I like.
widiculous
[quote=trebor31]Have admin ever thought of actually employing or at least speaking to a project manager? So many things here are ill conceived and badly planned that they seem to be nothing other than whims or this week’s flight of fancy. There seems a massive lack of forethought, professionalism and project planning. To get this place even slightly on track professional planning ability really seems to be needed.
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100 % agreed
down the years ive come to realise this is discogs main problem.
the list of credits discogs uses, the list of instruments, the vague discography template discogs uses, and most of the releases on discogs were around long before discogs. Discogs has only been going about 8 years. If someone had have been bothered deciding on the scope of the project, and indeed implementing most of if not all of its features [b][i]at the beginning[/i][/b] then we wouldnt be in the shitbox we are today of frustrated users and releases with an array of [i]tens if not hundreds[/i] of legacy submission formats.
Yes Discogs 4.0 and the current engine are pretty bad. but this chronic lack of focus are the MAIN PROBLEM FACING DISCOGS TODAY
for gods sake teo, PLEASE employ someone capable of turning this site around.
What a load of pointless junk.
Last FM this is not…and at least their widgets display useful information that makes sense outside of their own site – Discogs info such as rank, average vote, etc is meaningless outside of this site.
Instead of wasting time developing tut how about fixing the holes in this place – there is a list here: http://www.discogs.com/disbugs
Have admin ever thought of actually employing or at least speaking to a project manager? So many things here are ill conceived and badly planned that they seem to be nothing other than whims or this week’s flight of fancy. There seems a massive lack of forethought, professionalism and project planning. To get this place even slightly on track professional planning ability really seems to be needed.
Boring.
[quote=Jayfive]The widgets were brought in yesterday. The site problems happened today. Complaining one thing is at the expense of other isnt fair.[/quote]
Well, in all fairness, maybe it wasn’t todays problems he was refering to but rather to everything going down the drain since March?
[quote=Hannesl]How about making this ***** site actually work??[/quote]
The widgets were brought in yesterday. The site problems happened today. Complaining one thing is at the expense of other isnt fair.
Wow I’m stunned another useless function, didn’t see that coming. How about making this ***** site actually work??
The seller widget doesn’t work on last.fm. They use the
[] style of tags. I’d like that fixed. Although myspace does use the same type of tags, it is still flawed by bad coding.
But, I really shouldn’t be surprised by that now, should I?
[quote=LostInVinyl]I tried that with the code for “Your seller widget:” today:
Just the upper search field was visible & worked properly.
The stuff below wasn’t showing up as shown at Discogs’s widget section:
http://www.discogs.com/widgets
Instead of that just some HTML code appeared. [/quote]
That’s a javascript code. Myspace doesn’t allow that. Everything after the word [/style] won’t work. It’ll probably work on xanga though or something.
[quote=Jayfive]Ill try the seller widget on my myspace page and see how it goes..[/quote]
I tried that with the code for “Your seller widget:” today:
Just the upper search field was visible & worked properly.
The stuff below wasn’t showing up as shown at Discogs’s widget section:
http://www.discogs.com/widgets
Instead of that just some HTML code appeared.
Ill try the seller widget on my myspace page and see how it goes..
It’s also in every My profile page right under Export Data. It’s not really needed though and I can’t see many people using anything but the seller widget. Besides, you could work on fixing the existing problems before adding new features because those are going to have problems or need improvement on eventually as well. A few improvements on this would be the ability to change the size, color, text, maybe a design around it, have my profile, have my name listed (not sure why it omits this), etc.
As a side note, I don’t know why anyone cares about anything “Web 2.0”. The more basic something is, the easier it runs. Most websites these days are a mess because of 20 something useless features.
I don’t get how this is too hidden. Click on help forums, and it’s right under your nose. Thanks for the widgets, very nice and web 2.0 (god knows it’s time something around here was).
Is this some sort of sick joke?
Firstly, the widgets are god-awful and nothing short of utterly useless.
Secondly, is there nothing more important to do… aren’t there enough real bugs to fix?
And am I the only one seeing the irony in this announcement?
Widgets are usually a sneaky and useful form of advertising. No problem with those, widgets are very web 2.0 and can be pretty cool. But announcing them in a too-hidden forum is rather counter-intuitive, innit?
[b]Stop trying to sell tickets for the lifeboats of the Titanic, [u=teo], rather concentrate on plugging the hole caused by the iceberg![/b]
How about fixing the voting system?
Nice to know that this was one of your major jobs last days/weeks/months. Teo, can you please first fix all points from the disbugs system?
The profile is displayed in a very odd way – why list all the groups I’m part of, but exclude my personally entered profile? Now that I think of it, none of my profile is really that exciting. I’d like to see this implemented into someone’s site without looking awkward and weird.
The for sale element is a bit more … useful, but it omits the seller history. Maybe if you could customize the widgets, then people could pick + choose the bits that are interesting to them, this could be fun. But o’course, this is just my view of the additions.
very cool, thumbs up!