Power Tab Discussion Forum

Golbez's Ideas!

Legend:
= expired concept.
= In progress
= Implemented
Big text = Greater practical use for request

PTC
1.Counter for each tab.
2.Page reload.
3.Authors: Overall Ratings. (I'm unsure about this one. May refine.)
4.Link to Rev. Queue in Profile.
5.Theory Forum.
6.Updating Tabs (revisited).
7.Link returning to Artist.
8.Up/down arrows for the mailbox: (5th post).
9.Album assignment (revisited).
10.Powertab Backing Tracks.
11.Main page highlighters, personal profiles, new posts.
12.Browse by genre/category.
13.Color-coded main page (under reconsideration), Live updates.
14.Random tab selection.
15.Simplifying navigation.
16.WIPs displayed on artist page.
17.Quick Select at bottom of page (I don't know where my original post is, but I requested this soon after the new site went up).
18.Tab totals.
19.PTC projects/facilitating co-authoring.
20. *moved to UCA section*
21.Voting encouragement (see long posts at bottom, also 23).
22.Updating tabs of users long gone (see near the bottom).
23.Voting ratios displayable in The Queue
24.Co-author access, Button size vs. usage.
25.Restoring ratings.
26.Theme (Video Game) + Album Management
27.I steal ideas from Google.
28.Rating/Comment usability.
29.Special Features
30.A "Bands" forum.
31.Site Maps are cool!
32.Browse by date.
33. Chatroom-embedded forum front page.
34. Earn front page bonus exposure through votes, ratings, etc.
35. Simplifying the rating system.
36. PTC Extended Community (external community networks info)
37. Tabs w/o Ratings section
38. PTC Radio (I still would love this.)
39. Artist - Title on Firefox tabs (First half = )
40. Make it easier to rate, part 2.
41. Banner of distinction for Bass Guitar ONLY tabs.
42. New Ratings/Comments/Thank Yous notification
43. Artist Discussion section
44. Favorites section in your profile.

UCA
1. C-Projects - Toggle a project between Closed and Open. Link back to closed project when adding members.
2. C-projects - Link back to "All Open Projects" on any individual Open project. Open project linked on author's profile.
3. C-projects - Arrange a user's Closed Projects based on Date Modified. Here and here.
4. C-projects - Author can Assign Public/Open projects a genre that can be assorted on the "All Open Projects" page.
5. C-projects - Toggle closed "contest" projects as Open, with distinction, to demonstrate evolution of the contest piece. The now open project can be tweaked to give authors some further constructive criticism.
6. C-projects - Add Open projects in which you've posted to the group of "Projects you take part in:"
7. C-projects - Remove duplicate C-project entries in your personal projects page.
8. C-projects - Purge old C-projects (Jamie's)
9. Guess-the-theme Competitions.
10. The long requested rating text extension.
11. UCA radio player (random song selection) on the front page. Default turned off. (Sag's idea, L0L!)
12. Expansion on radio topic. Customizable perhaps?
13. Youtube-esque discussion box for each tab. (SGUO's)
14. Daily Face Off (S-GUO's)
15. Browse by genre - add the "Genre" link beneath "Browse" and "Search" in the side column, front page.
16. No Ratings section on the front page. (New_noise) & Top songs section ( Top Songs)
17. Fix the Date stamps to include the years. (Jamie's)
18. UCC Contest Archive Overhaul

Just a list of broken links...
1. Tablature flags
2. Tablature flags pt. 2
3. Color Scheme 100
4. Sticky Maintenance
5. Co-authored tabs lacking co-author authorization
6. Artist Index
7. Archive Updated (Bump)
8. Rev. Q ratio
9. Rating review board
10. Youtube tabs (Asmo)
11 Tab-wall aesthetics, linked genres, multi-tab firefox downloads.
12. PTC public text field
13. Forum organization
14. Forum organization pt. 2 - an accordion's tale.
15.

NOTE - As these changes are added, please let me know if you don't like any of them, and preferably be specific as to what you don't like. I've been thoroughly impressed with every change, but I can't speak for everyone. Please share your thoughts, so we can continue to craft better and more efficient ideas.

Plus, other innovations are in progress: Public To-Do List

I stickied the post. Thanks for all the suggestions!

I was just waiting for this to happen.

And now you are immortal, congratulations.

Cacofonix just submitted your requests: 2, 8, 11 (main page), 12a, 14, and 23!

Please direct a huge Thank You to him!

Caco, can't thank you enough. Truly. Thanks.

Some other items not mentioned on your list that haven't yet been done. Have been mostly suggested by others:

These are very specific ideas:
- Extended Profile, individual birthday fields optional
- Extended profile, Avatar
- Extended profile, Last.fm toplist (not sure about this)
- Voting Ratio in community member's profile
- Report offensive message
- Tab average ratings
- Tabber's ability to reply to ratings
- Editor, Re-activate ratings, jump back to list
- When giving an low rating, encourage the rater to pm author to suggest improvements
- Assoc. Editor editing/removal of votes
- Enforce tab file statuses, backdate so tabs all have statuses
- Using the tab file statuses, add outdated ratings support (by default hide outdated ratings but keep accessible, outdated ratings aren't used in tab average rating, provide member's with lists of their outdated ratings)
- Add your aqavs listings for archived tabs
- Listing for archived tabs that are updated but the new file falls short of the necessary standard
- More link for latest updated on main page
- bug fix: hide deleted tablature in the vote browser (affects searches too)
- Add tab browser
- Add filters for the future tab browser above and to the individual artists listings by type(genre) and instruments
- Add messaging links to requests

Some more general, more ambitious and bigger and far less defined ideas:
- Improve layout, shift menus around, add sleek usability features, cleanup code etc
- Tab project statuses
- Member info statuses
- Recording events (like rating an tab) and listing those events relevant to members (e.g. member1 rated your tab a 3 out of 5)
- Genres/tags/lessons/difficulty/browse by tuning, etc
- Member favourites/recommendations
- Give members a chance to rectify/justify reported bad comments/ratings
- Member related to member, artist related to artist

Wow, with this lengthy list, I feel bad about asking for new features. Nice comprehensive list though. Thanks for sharing!

Caco is an actual hero

New idea; host site on a non-UK server.

Not exactly a new idea.

And you're not Golbez.


This man is twice a liar.

Huh? I didn't post that today.

would've been kinda late

As I was going through the list, I checked on this idea, and came up with a new one. Should be simple. Probably insignificant:

req_browser.php?param=pattern,21,1712,869295,127,100;page,0

For the Request browser, when the parameters "expired" and "fulfilled" are selected, I think those pages should link back to the actual tab that fulfilled them. Or at least offer the link so that they can do it directly (if you don't want to remove the the request and its results).

I have suggestion for the main site. I didn't notice it in Golbez's list above, but if I missed it I apologize.

Under each member's user profile, it would be nice to have an alert when one or more of your tabs has a new rating, comment, or thank-you. As it is now, I go to my profile, click on all the above-mentioned links and check to see if anyone has left any new feedback on my tabs. I think it would be much more convenient if the link would have a number in parentheses (kind of like when you have new messages in your mailbox) to let me know if any of my tabs have any new ratings/comments/thank-yous.