Questions & Answers

To be honest, I didn't see any of these messages until Daniel just told me about them. I can see that there was a big spike over a couple of days, but I have no idea why. I've reset the server now anyway, so things should be fast.

In future, it would be great if someone could send me a private message if things get bad. Perhaps not every time you have an issue, but if there's any consistency to it.

In the meantime, I'll continue to work on the new site.

OK, yeah, that seems to have done the trick, Ben. Thanks.

Hi Ben & Daniel, thank you for the reply and Information that's great! There is so little out there on the band and it now has me intrigued.

Daniel, It would be awesome if I could get copies of them files over Dropbox when ever you have the time, that would be very much appreciated and I'd be in your debt!. It will make my Iziah tape somewhat complete as I'll try and clean the files up with software and copy to a cassette for my personal collection. I will private message you in regards to my email, cheers and thanks again guys.

Sorry Gator. I missed this thread until Daniel drew my attention to it. I can very easily remove your reviews / ratings if that's still what you want to do. Just send me a private message. It would take me a few minutes to do.

This issue has raised its head on a new list today, to the point where it has rendered the list unusable with multiple duplicate entries. The final entry was triplicated and there were 7 other entries duplicated out of only 50 entries. Deleting and re-adding didn't work, so in the end I have just deleted it altogether.

I think you'll find that if you've already rated a release & then add a review to it then it'll maintain the original date & won't be pushed onto the main page. Could that be the case here Rex? To get around that you need to delete your rating before posting your review.

Ah.  Okay.

Secondly, the thread loads really quickly for me (a couple of seconds per page). I can't see any issue, either on my PC or my phone.

I've just visited the main forum page for The Guardians & it took 32 seconds to completely load up so there's definitely something going on Ben, at least there is for me.

Like Ben, I have no issues with slow loading speeds on either tablet or laptop for most pages except for those under the "Releases" main tab, which can take 30 seconds or more.

Thanks for the detailed explanation, Daniel. Please count me in for The Horde; I will be getting in touch with other playlist administrators soon.

ah well it seems I've since fixed them during that time. Thanks anyways!

No, it is not intended that anyone can rate releases 0 stars. I don't think it was always possible, so something must have changed at some point to allow it. I will ask my developer to fix.

In the meantime, I will delete any 0 star ratings that I see.

Well, it worked perfectly for my Meshuggah review.

https://metal.academy/reviews/26159/2600

Ah, that will explain it. I will update using my tablet in future as that has the app on it.

Sorted.

I wrote my Reign in Blood and South of Heaven reviews yesterday, and for some reason they're dated as having been published on the 22nd instead of the 31st.

Ben, I've just rated Godflesh's "Merciless" E.P. & after rating the cover artwork I noticed that both my rating & Andi's rating are being included under Clan Cover Rating as well as Site Cover Rating despite the fact that neither of us are a part of The Sphere. It'd be worth looking into that.

It's absolutely worth it. The loading speed of the homepage is incredibly quick now.

I like that idea, Sonny! That way, I wouldn't have to make a review to-do list anymore whenever I have so many releases that I plan on reviewing.

Yeah, go for it. I wish we could find a way to connect a release to multiple bands, but it’s not going to happen.

Good question. I'll put some together in the next couple of days.

Cheers!