Ormion Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Ok,this is actually off-topic but it's about reviews so... Do you prefer the reviews forum or the old reviews database? It's kind of hard to find the releases,artist or tracks you want in a forum.Also database looks more official.What do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Reviews Database is much better medium than reviews forum cause of better functioning year by year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trolsk Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Ok,this is actually off-topic but it's about reviews so... Do you prefer the reviews forum or the old reviews database? It's kind of hard to find the releases,artist or tracks you want in a forum.Also database looks more official.What do you think? 208831[/snapback] Well, I think that what we need is a seperation of reviews (database) and comments (forum). Comments can be good, but has a tendency to only be relevant for a short period of time. If I'm thinking of buying a record I don't want to read posts about mp3's and how labels are hurt buy them, or what has caused the decline in sales. These comments are most of the time relevant at the time they're posted, but a month later they're not, and furthermore they will not help me to decide if this is a good record or not. I guess that what I want is both, as they fill different purposes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmiwinks Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 I don't think there is a doubt between the 2 systems: we ALL agree that a database is a million times better... but in the meantime a forum is the next best thing during the wait for a better database system which will allegedly come one day (hehe this is becomming like all those biblical stories on the comming of the Messiah ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericflyer Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 What is the problem why can't we have the database review system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmiwinks Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 What is the problem why can't we have the database review system? because the system we had needed too muc time to update, so we're wating for a more performant system that updates easily... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahf Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 it'd be cool to merge all the current reviews back into the database when such a thing finally comes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmiwinks Posted January 20, 2005 Share Posted January 20, 2005 it'd be cool to merge all the current reviews back into the database when such a thing finally comes. that's the plan... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuff Posted January 20, 2005 Share Posted January 20, 2005 I really like the minimal way that the Reviews Database is built. The internet is already flooded with messy stuff everywhere so it's really refreshing to visit the old Psynews database. Review forums is a total chaos in my opinion, so i definately prefer the old reviews database. in fact, i still use it everyday, searching releases, reading opinions about all those good releases (damn i want to express myself there . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmiwinks Posted January 20, 2005 Share Posted January 20, 2005 the new database's look and feel won't be much different from the old from what I understand. The only thing will be that there will be dynamic pages instead of static. On user-end there won't be much difference but there's a huge difference for the site administrator since the pages will automatically fill in instead of needing lots of hours of work to insert them manually... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ktrance Posted January 20, 2005 Share Posted January 20, 2005 Well, I think that what we need is a seperation of reviews (database) and comments (forum). Comments can be good, but has a tendency to only be relevant for a short period of time. If I'm thinking of buying a record I don't want to read posts about mp3's and how labels are hurt buy them, or what has caused the decline in sales. These comments are most of the time relevant at the time they're posted, but a month later they're not, and furthermore they will not help me to decide if this is a good record or not. I guess that what I want is both, as they fill different purposes. Well Im with Trolsk on this one, but if I have to choose one of them I'll definetly go for the database. Easy to search both by year and other, and as Trolsk states, when I want to buy a record I want just the review and not all this other nonsense as the mp3 war going on. However I state again that I would like both options. -peace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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