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Festivals 2010 beta

 
    • flaneur said...
    • Alumni
    • 5 May 2010, 17:07

    Festivals 2010 beta

    Hi all,

    Today we’re excited to introduce a new Last.fm Festivals section. It's designed to help your scrobbles work harder to find the best festivals for you and your friends to attend this year, wherever you are (or want to be!) in the world.

    You can get a broad overview of the new stuff on our blog, but here's some more detail:

    • You can now toggle between browsing all events and just festivals from the main events page. There’s also a new location navigation tool so you can easily jump from place to place.






    • If you’re logged in, you’ll see a compatibility score for each festival. This is a comparison of how many artists in your library are playing at the festival, and also uses a tag-based judgement of your taste against the artists in the lineup. You can sort the listings by compatibility to easily find one you'll love.




    • Once you’ve found a festival that looks interesting, you can use the new festival page that includes a list of recommended artists to see. There's also links to flights, accommodation, and tickets to the festival, forums to talk with other attendees, and more.




    • You can flip between your personalised lineup and all the artists playing, or filter the lineup by tag. You can also print or email your personalised lineup as a handy guide for when you’re actually at the festival.






    We’ve got more festival functionality cooking in the Last.fm Labs but we’d love to hear what you think so far. We'll do our best to answer your questions in this thread (apologies if we're quiet during the wee hours in London), and we'll be listening carefully to all comments, criticisms, bug reports, and ideas.

    Edited by flaneur on 5 May 2010, 17:39
    • [Deleted user] said...
    • User
    • 5 May 2010, 17:12
    Looks good!

    Reporting bugs as I find them, because it's what I do :)

    I jumped straight to the last page of my recommendations - wondering "which festival am i LEAST compatible with?" - there's a bunch which have a "-100%" rating, is that correct? Surely 0 is the lowest compatibility?


    • BeZet said...
    • User
    • 5 May 2010, 17:13
    Your compatibility algorithm seems faulty, I get weird results. By 'weird' I mean I get high compatibility for festivals I wouldn't even consider going to, and low compatibility with festivals that are a "must see" for me.

  • I like the idea. Good job!
    Will definitely have in mind the recommendations Last.fm gives me for some of the bigger festivals I'm planning to attend this summer.

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  • Nice!

    Good idea!

    • [Deleted user] said...
    • User
    • 5 May 2010, 17:21
    It seems that all one-day festivals (e.g. this one) display a message below the description: "This event currently doesn’t meet our festival criteria. Care to help?"

    And, the "What's a festival?" link says: "If your festival is longer than 1 day or has more than 5 artists, it will be included in our festival listings."

    However, there are a load of events in the festival listings which don't meet these criteria. For instance:



    I'm guessing these criteria need to be applied more rigidly.

    • [Deleted user] said...
    • User
    • 5 May 2010, 17:26
    Would be nice to highlight events I'm already attending (currently it doesn't).

    And if I attend this event, it says "1 days to go!" at the top - should be "1 day".

    • flaneur said...
    • Alumni
    • 5 May 2010, 17:27
    Heheh, you're a machine, Studley! Thanks for the reports, keep 'em coming.

  • ookay, here goes the things that are a mess:

    - the lineup recommendation feature - it's all nice and shiny, but the one with the top artist being highlighted and pictured was sort of better and clearer.

    - the shoutbox layout - longer messages are painful to read, curable by moving/removing the next thing i'm whining about

    - the recent activity feature - not really essential, hardly anyone shows interest in that

    - attending friends' names are highlighted. should have been the whole friends' profiles backgrounds

    and the things i actually happen to like:

    - the countown timer, always wanted to have one ;D

    - the recommendation feature, really helpful, but i'd to it by adding tabs like the ones in profile charts to the old lineup feature.

    all for now, boy, my criticism is lame ;)

    edit: oh, yes, forgot about the shout counter with a link to the top of the event shoutbox, that was really useful.

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    Edited by nEverfrost on 5 May 2010, 17:37
    • [Deleted user] said...
    • User
    • 5 May 2010, 17:36
    flaneur said:
    Heheh, you're a machine, Studley!
    One final report for now. I'll save the rest for next week, I don't want to clog this thread up with annoying reports from annoying testers :p

    If you go to an event page while not logged in, e.g. go to this page and hit Logout, you can still use the Email button to send the festival lineup via email. Which is nice.

    However, this doesn't work while logged-out on international site. e.g. go to the same event on the Polish site, make sure you're logged out, and try to send an email. The popup window has a red exclamation mark.

  • BeZet said:
    Your compatibility algorithm seems faulty, I get weird results. By 'weird' I mean I get high compatibility for festivals I wouldn't even consider going to, and low compatibility with festivals that are a "must see" for me.


    Please give us specific examples and we'll work to improve the service - it's a brand new algorithm so the more feedback we get the quicker we can improve it. Thanks for your help!

    • Tecfan said...
    • Event Moderator
    • 5 May 2010, 17:50
    Sweet! :D

    Bassnectar \o/

    on topic:
    I think the little transparent thing on top of the posters looks a little weird.

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  • One thing I noticed:

    In the discussions section some discussions that were there seem to have disappeared.
    And when you click the "See more/new thread' link it redirects you to the general last.fm/forum page instead of a forum for the festival

    • shimn said...
    • User
    • 5 May 2010, 17:59
    If you browse events/festivals for a certain city/country, when there's a line up that features more artists ( festivals and such ) those less known will be a the top. Headliners should be seen, not those names no one knows about.

    example: Melt! festival in germany: phillip poisel, archie bronson...instead of massive attack and other big names :/

    and yes, compatibility with those festivals is also weird. i got 46% compatibility with a line up and i listen to 5/6 of the bands listed, a lot!

    one more thing. as someone stated before: "Would be nice to highlight events I'm already attending"

  • I liked the design but wanted to suggest that the poster of the festival are bigger like before!

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    • Tecfan said...
    • Event Moderator
    • 5 May 2010, 18:12

    Some suggestions:

    *Integration with Facebook "Like".

    *Better "Share"-ability, by that I mean more services to share to.

    *When a friend is attending, highlight the whole cell instead of only the nick.

    *Make a countdown timer for everybody, not just for those attending, and make it a little more fancy than red text :>

    *A little too much whitespace for comfort here:


    *The thing on top of all posters still looks weird

    *Highlight festivals already attending

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  • I'd like to be able to sort festivals by distance from my location but browse my whole country at the same time.

  • Europe isn't working

    Hey guys,

    What an awesome feature for you guys to add on to a website that I'm constantly using already. I wanted to let you know that Europe isn't working, at least not for me. I can get my location, North America, UK, but when I click on Europe it goes to a blank page.

    These are the 2 links that I've tried:

    Europe from the Main screen
    Europe from the UK screen

    Cheers for all your hard work.
    Mark

    • kjzlo said...
    • User
    • 5 May 2010, 18:17
    i don't like it ;/

  • Nice idea, but one suggestion:
    Not every band that I have in my library might be of interest for me on a festival. Especially on bigger festivals like the W:O:A, I have about 79 artists which are in my "personal lineup".
    You might filter the list and make restriction like artist scrobbles > 0.1% of total scrobbles or something similar.
    And it's not important for me to know when I first scrobbled an artist when it's in my lineup.

    • DFA1979 said...
    • Subscriber
    • 5 May 2010, 18:22
    On the main festivals page, maybe it'd make more sense for each festival to list the artists you like, rather than the headline artists?

    An example of why: when I view all UK festivals, sorted by compatibility, the second result from the top is Summer Sundae, and underneath it is the artist list:

    Tinchy Stryder, Krystyna Miles, Kirsty Almeida, Alex Highton, These Furrows, Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three, The Guthlaxtones, el pussycat and 63 more…

    There's only one artist there who I've ever heard of. And they're not an artist I like.

    If I actually click through the event page, it then displays the 'recommended lineup' for me - that has 4 bands I love, and quite a few others I'd certainly be interested in seeing. So the recommendation of that festival isn't too bad, but from the main page of the festivals section it looks like an absolutely terrible choice which I'd never have clicked on were it not for the bemusement that comes from being recommended I go to a festival with a bunch of artists I've never heard of, and Tinchy Stryder.

    Displaying the recommended artists list would seem more sensible. It'd make it easier for events to catch your eye without having to click through to the individual event page for each one.

    Feature as a whole, though = awesome.

    • Babs_05 said...
    • Forum Moderator
    • 5 May 2010, 18:34
    Excellent!

    Love that you've included the small local ones too, not just the big names. My favourite.

    Not sure about compatibility figures either. I started to think maybe distance was a factor but I see some low ones for London, so now I'm not sure.

  • Hello, it would be great, if there was a third view for the lineup where artists are sorted by listeners like before. Otherwise you'll always have to look through the whole lineup if you just want to see if any famous artist were added.

    I also can't find a link back to the event from the "Edit Event Listing" page any more.

    The new features seem useful.

    Thanks!

  • New look of the festiwal site isn't clearly enough...

    • flaneur said...
    • Alumni
    • 5 May 2010, 18:51
    Thanks for the reports and feedback! We're already looking into some of the bugs you've caught, keep it coming...

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