Monday, December 30, 2013

My Concert Archive V2

I'm glad to tell that the new version of My Concert Archive website is now live.

new features
  • new user interface implemented using bootstap to support mobile usage
  • new home page with picked users gigs pictures
  • new faster open-page event input interface
  • new edit event interface : event dates and venues can now be updated by their creator
  • new "my concerts" page displaying up to 100 concerts upon first display for faster page load times
  • ability to link unlink a facebook account
  • temporary accounts : non logged visitors are now able to add a concert and manage a temporary history (temporary until they sign-up using an email or a facebook account)
  • new data model which handles more complex events such as festivals
  • artists are now matched against musicbrainz db

future
  • re-implement a new publish-to-facebook feature
  • "I attended" will allow selection of viewed artists in case you did not attend the whole gig or for festivals
  • image and comments can be assigned to a specific artist in an event
  • improve the facebook friends feature
  • support for twitter sign-up and post to twitter
  • manage user location and timezones to allow "attending now" feature

discontinued features
  • audio import (but may be re-activated in a future release)
  • user events RSS feed



This release is dedicated to my father.