We will generally post as news when it’s a Supreme collab that is surprising. I thought Mezzanine stuff from a weeks ago met the threshold. Maybe Butthole Surfers does too, but when I suggested a post in Slack, everyone else said you guys hate Supreme posts lol. I find the idea of kids using bots to buy Butthole Surfers shirts amusing. 🤷♂️
Yep! Very close. We are finalizing the avatar upload functionality this week. There’s just one tricky cache issue the devs are having a hard time with.
You can email us if comments aren’t displaying, but our new commenting system will fix all issues. It’s pretty much ready but want the devs to fix a cache issue first so it always remembers if you’re logged in.
The Army response was over the top. Obviously we knew we would get ratio'd, but it went way beyond that. They launched a DDOS that made the site inaccessible, signed up for our newsletter just to report it to our provider, flagged our tweets as abuse to Twitter, and posted pictures of Tom's family while accusing him of racism. Plus many emails and tweets telling me to fire him lol. In the past 10 years Tom has written more articles championing K-pop groups than any other rock critic! It's not BTS' fault that the chart system is fucked, and their Army are certainly not the first problematic stans -- maybe I could've edited to make that clearer. But they are still cyberbullies.
No need to fight y’all. I promise I know you guys want it, and we will find a way to do more things, including Panopticon reviews, in time! There is a plan tba!
Honestly everyone is so swamped, it's hard enough for us to collaborate on the weekly list of other albums, and we still miss plenty of those. This isn't just me being stubborn — all the writers feel like there is enough/too much on their plates right now and I support them. My hope is we can bring back descriptors at some point in the future once we are able to hire staff. It may not seem like that big task to do the descriptions week after week, but once our staff was downsized we had to reduce workload somehow... that and Straight To Video and having someone work Friday nights and a couple of other things were the least disruptive tasks to discontinue, at least temporarily.
I know you guys want whoever reviews the Album Of The Week to also listen to and describe 20 other releases, but we don’t have the resources for that right now
So actually ... one of the holdups with the new commenting software is that their API did not easily allow for a best/worst output. So my developer has built a tool from scratch (and it was very expensive) but while he was at it I had him include an ‘exclude The Number Ones’ option. 👀 Still several weeks away but we are making sure the new system has everything we could possibly need.
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