Comments on: Improved Badges/Widgets Launch!

By: Owen Moore

Owen Moore — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 02:13:16 +0000

when will the badges be working again?

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:00:27 +0000

thanks for the new badges =-)
they’re great

By: Audio Pimpstress

Audio Pimpstress — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:21:52 +0000

Nice one on the new badges guys : )
The other one wasn’t working on our site, it was running off the page, but these work out perfectly, well done.

By: boyhowdy

boyhowdy — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:18:47 +0000

Though I find it hard to believe that’s what’s causing posts not to be picked up today, I appreciate Paul’s sentiment — I struggled with this at first. The faq is useful to address this currently, but you have to go looking for it.

Better tags would also lead to clearer labels in badges. In the rare occasions when a popular song is not tagged well, it’s hard to tell what song it is from the badge. Given that — a tutorial would be a great idea! (See, it’s still on topic!)

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:13:04 +0000

I think I’d be worth while to do a post on how to tag mp3′s posted on blogs in order to get the Hype Machine to index them. Like the one on elbo.ws. Helped me out loads and I know a few bloggers who have been frustrated when the Hype Machine doesnt pick up their MP3′s.

By: boyhowdy

boyhowdy — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:27:24 +0000

This is pretty cool. Thanks for the continued good work on extras and peripherals.

That said, and I hate to have to say it this way, I also think that while new functionality is great, core services need to come first. Announcing a new way to do banners in the midst of a timeframe in which hypemachine seems once again not to be picking up new blog posts (the newest post on the front page is 4 hours old) makes it LOOK like you guys are focusing your energy on novelty to the detriment of stability. I’m sure that’s not the case, but timing matters, you know?