Website Update Announcements (Updated: February 16, 2024) • Page 11

Minor aesthetic and bigger behind the scenes changes to the share page.

Details: https://chorus.fm/changelog/

 

The Rank Anything and Share Music pages now both have Dark Mode themes. These activate based on your system theme and are available to everyone.

https://chorus.fm/changelog/

 

Added a small, but often requested feature, to display a message on blocked quotes in posts:

https://chorus.fm/changelog/#09082023

 

Added a "singles review" banner and sort to the reviews page: https://chorus.fm/changelog/#09182023

 

Added a sort feature on author pages: https://chorus.fm/changelog/#09202023

 

Couple minor fixes to the sort option and added the clear button to tag pages + the homepage: https://chorus.fm/changelog/#09212023

 

https://chorus.fm/changelog/#01152024

The search results page now returns the full (above fold) article, complete with formatting.

 

Release Notes • chorus.fm

I added a new “Embed Preferences” option for forum accounts. Due to bad management over at Twitter, there’s been issues with their embed code crashing the browser if there are too many of them on one page. This new option can be found on your Preferences page, and there are three options:

1. Always Auto Embed: This is the default option and how the website has always worked up until now.
2. Do Not Auto Embed: This will disable all of the embeds in the forum. You will see a small placeholder on posts where embeds used to display. Clicking, or tapping, the placeholder will load the hidden media.
3. Do Not Auto Embed on Mobile: This will hide the embeds only when you are browsing the forum on a mobile device. This way you can still see full embeds on a desktop computer, but save your phone the stress.

This should work with all multimedia embeds on the website (social media posts, videos, etc.) and if you see any issues or bugs, please let me know.

 

Update: I’m playing around with it on in the absurdist Twitter thread and still seeing the browser crash at times.

I’ll need to explore more, it's better, but not perfect, so I'll keep exploring.

Update #2: I think I fixed the bug I was seeing. This should be much better as soon as it propagates.

Update #3: Pretty funny how ridiculously fast the website is on mobile with these disabled like this, it flies.

 

Release Notes • chorus.fm

• Fixed some bugs with the new deactivate embed feature to better conserve browser resources. Now, with the “do not embed” setting on embeds do not load in the browser at all until activated by the user (by clicking/tapping the placeholder). This greatly improves performance.
• Restyled the placeholder to be a little more button-like to make it more obvious it can be tapped or clicked on and to differentiate how it looks from the “blocked user” feature.
• Added the feature to all of the auto-embeds that are active on the website, and optimized their code, so that when the option is turned on it works exactly how one would expect and removes all embeds. The only media that is still shown automatically with this feature turned on are inline images. The forum feels incredibly fast, especially on mobile, with this turned on and it is now my recommended way to browse the forum.
• Cleaned up and removed a bunch of old code around previous embeds that no longer work. Going forward, the media that can be automatically embedded includes: Apple Music, Bandcamp, Giphy, Imgur, Instagram, SoundCloud, Spotify, Threads, Twitch, Twitter/X, Vimeo, and YouTube.

If you like this feature and want to help support continued development on this website, please consider becoming a supporting member. No ads makes the website even faster, but it also allows me to spend time working on these kinds of projects.

 

Release Notes • chorus.fm

Fixed the issue where page titles and links were not showing properly for trending posts in the homepage carousel or in the popular posts section in article footers.