idea for front page

hi,

the front page always shows the 'all genre' user voted top 20.

how about instead of that (it does tend to be the same songs all the time)  we replace it with randomly shown specific genre user top 20's instead. might get people clicking into songs they might not normally see . generate a bit of traffic onto artists sites?

any thoughts ?

obviously im no coder so no idea how easy/hard this would be

yes the charts are pointless, do away with them and put random songs up.  An idea first concieved by Fudgepacker, who was then thrown under a bus.

maybe it could have user chart of the week and rotate it by genre so each week its shows a specific genre top 20 .  dance, then rock then folk .... whatever.
at the moment its just a pretty much static top 20 and with the reduction last year or so of people listening or rating, no tunes really get enough rates to get into the main list anymore so why not change it ?

was gonna say sommat on them lines myself 

don't think there be many changes coming up

the charts have gone from bad to worse of late...can't even get a top 20 every week

the user chart has changed very little in over a year...so yeah on the front page it looks very much like the site has been neglected

Well, going back about three years (three years! my god). I did suggest to Stew that in order that guests and users could be encouraged to enjoy the full meats on the bone at mp3 unsigned we could replace the front end, charts etc with 20 or so random artists, much like you see one of everytime you view the front-end. Without quoting because it wouldn't be accurate, Stewpot said that it would hammer the engine/database of the site (which I took to mean slowing it down), and that the charts would stay because it was better than no chart and it was the best thing compared to other things that we also didn't have and wouldn't get. I always got the impression that Stew loved his charts, it is the first thing you see when you load up the site. I loved the charts when I was younger, I used to hang on every word on a Sunday evening on Radio 1 wondering if Garry Glitter was going to fly in at number 1. Quite a feat in those days. But then I went off the pop charts because things I liked never ever got into them anymore.... sorry, waffling.

I disagreed but we all have views, no biggy, views on the site were invited and that was mine, amoungst a couple of others that were taken up. See the search artists influences? that was my idea  [smug face] The motivation behind the site was good, the initial execution was good, the join-up was good.... then.... the rudder fell off.

Im concerned for people who have dished up £25 / $50 worth of VIP lately or indeed over the course of the last 12 months, because from what I've seen and heard, if you get a response from the site its from a volunteer admin bod who have only limited super powers. I would ask for a refund. If the site is still taking money from people then it should be stated somewhere that this is a non-evolving web site just waiting to vanish.