Anorax

are any cats involved? all hail joojcat! sorry, find no reason to repeat what DusK's already asked. Just had to make an OCR joke.

I'm not so sure, I abuse the favorites button on Soundcloud

There's a reason for that: when you're in soundcloud, any url that is specifically "you" /soundcloud/you/tracks is only visible by you when you sign in. If I follow that link, the page will load with MY tracks, not yours. Instead, what you might want to try is http://www.soundcloud.com/(your username here) for instance, my page would be http://www.soundcloud.com/anoraxofficialmusic, and if the grand benevolent overlord Feld0 had a soundcloud page, it'd probably be www.soundcloud.com/Feld0 As for specific suggestions, I don't really have any, at least right off the bat. We'll see what you have so far and go from there.

Someone's already said it, but yes. Soundcloud uses "favorites", but they function the same as likes. there's no need for a duplicate system.

what would qualify as "song of the month"? The "top song" of the month, staff pick of the month, etc.?

ooh, new pill nav. Too bad there's no keyword search function. Oh, what if you added a tag system for tracks that allow the artist to apply custom tags to their tracks? This way a keyword search can be added. This can be used if someone wants to search for songs that have been tagged with "luna" or "twilight", or if they want to search for a keyword within a track title. EDIT: Screenshot time! Small mobile issue, it seems. Screenshot here, apparently I can't post as a straight image. Android 2.2 Gingerbread, device is Samsung YP-G1. page is zoomed out as far as default browser will allow. The dropdown menu of the various search criteria is clipped on the left page margin as shown here. EDIT 2: It seems that this is not an issue on the iPhone. weird.

Hey guys, have we decided on the official mascot of Pony.FM, or if there even is one? If so, will it be an OC or one of the show's characters, main or background?

I intend to upload all of my future pony music to PFM - unless it's something that would be considered album-exclusive and such

Alright, let's get this ball rolling.

I feel as if this thread needs a good solid BUMP I'm leaning towards option three. Now, guys, this is especially important, not only from an artist's perspective but also from the perspective of our resident alpha listeners as well.

Here's my (rather fancy) idea for the notification system GUI, which can be compatible with real-time notifications, but not dependent on them. Ok, so! This is a four-image progression to help explain my idea. You begin with no (new?) notifications. Notifications will follow you around as a dropdown system built into the navbar, using this icon (as per the current Pony.FM design) When you get a notification, the icon becomes correctly colored, and has a notification image showing you the TOTAL number of notifications. In my case, one. Clicking on the active (or Notif_Yes state as I named it while designing) icon will open a dropdown menu, consisting of only two icons, as well as a further-detailed notification count. In my case, one notification for content. Now, here's where it gets weird, because I don't know how to go from here. Somehow or another (click?), you get this panel, which details your new content notifications. In this case, I have one new album, which is displayed in the format of · Artist - Album title ... ...timestamp > At this point, you can click to go right to the content that the notification references, or you can go to the notification page to view all notifications. It's a similar idea for the new tracks, and the Feedback notification types (or type singular if you're not an artist?). One thing I just thought about though is using mouseover to navigate most of this panel. Mouse over notification icon to open dropdown, hold mouse over one of the icon types, and then the only click you have to make is on either the notification itself or the "show all" button. What do you think? EDIT: I also made an animated GIF to go with it, but I couldn't get it to embed properly, so DusK did it for me thanks DusK. Don't know why I couldn't get the GIF to embed properly.

the current design is this which matches the current layout 0% Feld0 says that it's fully customizable, so... ideas on what the BB embed should look like?

namely, this one: the dropdown menus won't reposition themselves in regard to window size, and if your computer's display isn't big enough, the furthermost menu (the username menu) will be partially cut off as shown above. Please note that there is no horizontal scrollbar shown when in fullscreen HOWEVER, if you are viewing the page in a cascaded window, there is a horizontal scrollbar, and the dropdown menus are off-screen, still distanced according to the draw distance set up by the maximum page size (fullscreen mode). But, when you click on the far right dropdown menu, the page extends slightly to allow for the dropdown (which would normally go off screen) until it is closed. EDIT: by "fullscreen" I mean the window is maximized. I don't mean fullscreen as in F11 Whoops, should have posted to the bug tracker.

Once again, this notion is seconded. IF you have any concerns or ideas about this, please head on over to this thread where there is more detailed info on this idea for you to read through and contribute to if you feel so inclined.

I personally don't mind the Soundcloud notification system. I don't know how familiar you are with it, but I don't mind it at all. Although it seems that the main concern right now is how to set up a "read notification" system. Now as for your diagram Bohtty, is that the intended GUI design, or just a simple proof-of-concept mockup?