Zeus 7997 Posted August 17, 2015 Journals are still available if you use the link www.last.fm/user/yourusername/journal If you get an error, refresh On the forum they said they'd bring the feature back Not always. Mine seems to be inaccessible. I am unsure if it's because they deleted them or if the server is down. I get a "502 bad gateway" when trying to view one of my journals. You can try for yourself here. However, you can still access your journals! You must do it now before it disappears. Follow these simple steps: Google "last.fm journal username" with your username. Find the journal you want to save. Click "Translate this page". This brings up an old version of it. Save! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Des 289 Posted August 17, 2015 LOL look what they did to this thread: https://getsatisfaction.com/lastfm/topics/how-can-the-devs-simply-ignore-all-criticThey tagged it with "DOESN'T NEED AN ANSWER" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Des 289 Posted August 17, 2015 Not always. Mine seems to be inaccessible. I am unsure if it's because they deleted them or if the server is down. I get a "502 bad gateway" when trying to view one of my journals. You can try for yourself here. Refresh once or twice and it works fine. Meanings: Not AOTY Material Possibly AOTY Material Definitely AOTY Material Haven't Gotten To Yet 101A - 0号室の旅人 12012 - XII 1000mods - Vultures Agalloch - The Serpent and the Sphere AKLO - The Arrival Alcest - Shelter Aldious - Other World Aldious - Dazed and Delight ALSDEAD - STARLESS ALSDEAD - IDEA Animals as Leaders - The Joy of Motion ANTEMASQUE - ANTEMASQUE Aphex Twin - Syro アルルカン - ニア・イコール avengers in sci-fi - Unknown Tokyo Blues BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL BADBADNOTGOOD - III Boris - NOISE BORN - THE STALIN -666- Burial - Rival Dealer Cannibal Ox - Blade of the Ronin Casualties of Cool - Casualties of Cool Charisma.com - DIStopping Clockwork Indigo - Butterfly Effect The Contortionist - Languages D機関 - 非理法権天 DEATHGAZE - ENIGMA Death Grips - Niggas On The Moon dieS - VICTIM Dir en grey - SUSTAIN THE UNTRUTH Domo Genesis - Under the Influence 2 Electric Wizard - Time To Die FEMME FATALE - GLADSHEIM Fire! Orchestra - Enter fox capture plan - Wall GALNERYUS - VETELGYUS the god and death stars - mary bird milk グリーヴァ - 終焉 GRIKO - 超想都市 Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi Hiroyuki Sawano - ALDNOAH ZERO OST HOLLOWGRAM - Qualia Inferi - The Path of Apotheosis I.T.G - Instigate the Grief jizue - Shiori Jungle by Night - The Hunt Jupiter - Arcadia Jupiter - 氷の中の少女 KAMIJO - Symphony of the Vampire KAMIJO - Heart 吉澤嘉代子 - 変身少女 吉澤嘉代子 - 幻倶楽部 la la larks - ego-izm Lament. - Beautiful Creature Lantlos - Melting Sun Lindsey Stirling - Shatter Me LIPHLICH - GRATEFUL NONSENSE LOSTAGE - Guitar lynch. - GALLOWS 浜田マロン - マヤカシのブルース Martyrdod - Elddop Mechina - Xenon Meliyas - MAJO LP MEJIBRAY - Theatrical Blue Black MF DOOM - NehruvianDOOM Mono - The Last Dawn Mono - Rays of Darkness Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro - 壱弐参四伍録 NEMETH - Creature Nocturnal Bloodlust - LIBRA NoGoD - 四季彩 NoGoD - Make A New World THE NOVEMBERS - Rhapsody in Beauty 陰陽座- 青天の三日月 陰陽座 - 雷神創世 陰陽座 - 風神界逅 palitextdestroy - twilight Perturbator - Dangerous Days Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 Sadie - GANGSTA Shrapnel - The Virus Conspires SOIL&"PIMP" SESSIONS - brothers and sisters Step Brothers - Lord Steppington 椎名林檎 - 逆輸入~港湾局~ 椎名林檎 - NIPPON 椎名林檎 - 日出処 sukekiyo - IMMORTALIS Squarepusher - Music for Robots Tech N9ne - Strangeulation TK from 凛として時雨 - contrast TK from 凛として時雨 - Fantastic Magic Trioscapes - Digital Dream Sequence Trophy Scars - Holy Vacants Tumbleweed Dealer - Western Horror Vampillia - The Divine Plan VI Seconds - Animated 和楽器バンド - ボカロ三昧 和楽器バンド - 華火 WUJA BIN BIN - INAKA JAZZ Yoko Kanno - 残響のテロル オリジナル・サウンドトラック Yousei Teikoku - 使徒覚醒 edit: These journal pages might be the last remaining relics of the 'old' last.fm layout. Cherish them while they're here. 1 Zeus reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zeus 7997 Posted August 17, 2015 Refresh once or twice and it works fine. Meanings: Not AOTY Material Possibly AOTY Material Definitely AOTY Material Haven't Gotten To Yet 101A - 0号室の旅人 12012 - XII 1000mods - Vultures Agalloch - The Serpent and the Sphere AKLO - The Arrival Alcest - Shelter Aldious - Other World Aldious - Dazed and Delight ALSDEAD - STARLESS ALSDEAD - IDEA Animals as Leaders - The Joy of Motion ANTEMASQUE - ANTEMASQUE Aphex Twin - Syro アルルカン - ニア・イコール avengers in sci-fi - Unknown Tokyo Blues BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL BADBADNOTGOOD - III Boris - NOISE BORN - THE STALIN -666- Burial - Rival Dealer Cannibal Ox - Blade of the Ronin Casualties of Cool - Casualties of Cool Charisma.com - DIStopping Clockwork Indigo - Butterfly Effect The Contortionist - Languages D機関 - 非理法権天 DEATHGAZE - ENIGMA Death Grips - Niggas On The Moon dieS - VICTIM Dir en grey - SUSTAIN THE UNTRUTH Domo Genesis - Under the Influence 2 Electric Wizard - Time To Die FEMME FATALE - GLADSHEIM Fire! Orchestra - Enter fox capture plan - Wall GALNERYUS - VETELGYUS the god and death stars - mary bird milk グリーヴァ - 終焉 GRIKO - 超想都市 Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi Hiroyuki Sawano - ALDNOAH ZERO OST HOLLOWGRAM - Qualia Inferi - The Path of Apotheosis I.T.G - Instigate the Grief jizue - Shiori Jungle by Night - The Hunt Jupiter - Arcadia Jupiter - 氷の中の少女 KAMIJO - Symphony of the Vampire KAMIJO - Heart 吉澤嘉代子 - 変身少女 吉澤嘉代子 - 幻倶楽部 la la larks - ego-izm Lament. - Beautiful Creature Lantlos - Melting Sun Lindsey Stirling - Shatter Me LIPHLICH - GRATEFUL NONSENSE LOSTAGE - Guitar lynch. - GALLOWS 浜田マロン - マヤカシのブルース Martyrdod - Elddop Mechina - Xenon Meliyas - MAJO LP MEJIBRAY - Theatrical Blue Black MF DOOM - NehruvianDOOM Mono - The Last Dawn Mono - Rays of Darkness Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro - 壱弐参四伍録 NEMETH - Creature Nocturnal Bloodlust - LIBRA NoGoD - 四季彩 NoGoD - Make A New World THE NOVEMBERS - Rhapsody in Beauty 陰陽座- 青天の三日月 陰陽座 - 雷神創世 陰陽座 - 風神界逅 palitextdestroy - twilight Perturbator - Dangerous Days Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 Sadie - GANGSTA Shrapnel - The Virus Conspires SOIL&"PIMP" SESSIONS - brothers and sisters Step Brothers - Lord Steppington 椎名林檎 - 逆輸入~港湾局~ 椎名林檎 - NIPPON 椎名林檎 - 日出処 sukekiyo - IMMORTALIS Squarepusher - Music for Robots Tech N9ne - Strangeulation TK from 凛として時雨 - contrast TK from 凛として時雨 - Fantastic Magic Trioscapes - Digital Dream Sequence Trophy Scars - Holy Vacants Tumbleweed Dealer - Western Horror Vampillia - The Divine Plan VI Seconds - Animated 和楽器バンド - ボカロ三昧 和楽器バンド - 華火 WUJA BIN BIN - INAKA JAZZ Yoko Kanno - 残響のテロル オリジナル・サウンドトラック Yousei Teikoku - 使徒覚醒 I sat for five minutes and tried and still can't get through. I'll have to try later when I get home and pray the rest still work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nick 10212 Posted August 17, 2015 The future of Last.fm 2 Naaaaani and yakihiko reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
evilcoconut 109 Posted August 17, 2015 Journals are still available if you use the link www.last.fm/user/yourusername/journal If you get an error, refresh On the forum they said they'd bring the feature back Oh whew it came up. Saving immediately argh. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lestat 2167 Posted August 17, 2015 I am getting "502 Bad Gateway" on multiple sections of the website now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fin Paulux 17 Posted August 17, 2015 "You're viewing the beta" Can I please not view the beta version? Is there a way back, guys? It is dreadful and distracting. 2 Seimeisen and Sakurai-san reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yakihiko 1480 Posted August 17, 2015 I am getting "502 Bad Gateway" on multiple sections of the website now.I get this in all section, even in my prof and the main page-edit- I finally access my prof, and just... Also my pic is from eras ago not my currently one and comments are mixed... Total mess fm Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
beni 2149 Posted August 17, 2015 Requesting to change the thread title to 'no future of lastfm' 5 Seimeisen, Lestat, yakihiko and 2 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yakihiko 1480 Posted August 17, 2015 Someone... Plssss https://twitter.com/alasdair_brs/status/633345094830174208 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Des 289 Posted August 17, 2015 Also, thank you to @Lestat for taking your time to sign in and post feedback and complaints from this topic on their forums.I bet they'd get much more feedback if they didn't require people to log into other sites to post comments on last.fm support forums... seriously what is the big idea behind this? Why wouldn't a last.fm profile be enough? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
evilcoconut 109 Posted August 17, 2015 Also, thank you to @Lestat for taking your time to sign in and post feedback and complaints from this topic on their forums. I bet they'd get much more feedback if they didn't require people to log into other sites to post comments on last.fm support forums... seriously what is the big idea behind this? Why wouldn't a last.fm profile be enough? Tbh they probably do want to make it harder for people to complain Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lichtlune 915 Posted August 17, 2015 Why set the site to go live today if it's basically unusable? https://getsatisfaction.com/lastfm/topics/new-site-launch-temporary-service-disruption-information Can't even edit my profile? The fuck. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zombiesatemycereal 64 Posted August 17, 2015 Why set the site to go live today if it's basically unusable? https://getsatisfaction.com/lastfm/topics/new-site-launch-temporary-service-disruption-information Can't even edit my profile? The fuck. The new version has more ad space, and they clearly don't give a shit about usability (or anything it seems). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blacktooth 227 Posted August 17, 2015 Can't even complain in degbox. That cesspool was one of my favorite places in the whole world wide web and now it's going to dry up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pretsy 1343 Posted August 17, 2015 Myspace comes to my mind when I see this trainwreck happening... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
evilcoconut 109 Posted August 17, 2015 Honestly, it kinda looks like some crappy combo between Spotify and Myspace at its end. 1 Pretsy reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kai_desu 340 Posted August 17, 2015 This has it's own problems. Tagging isn't uniform and even the smallest deviation in one area of the tag could throw off the hash, edge cases of two different combinations hashing to the same value, etc. However it is infinitely superior to the current method. INFINITELY. Like I don't understand why it wasn't done this way to begin with. Hire me today five years ago and I could have fixed this. Now it's too late. We all have an expectation of our scrobbles being preserved through updates. Since they've mixed listening habits of many different artists together over many years into one page as well as allowed these "hacks" to move throughout the website, trying to bring together like artist pages while also separating scrobbles from Artist A from scrobbles from Artist B, while making sure A and B really don't have two tracks named the same thing, while then doing the same for each song is an exercise in futility. At this point, they'd just have to redo the system, nuke everyone's scrobbles, and start over. Either that, or direct people to the tool that restores lost scrobbles and modify the tool to do these hashes and then reinsert? That's even more hacky though. tl;dr - last.fm was designed badly from the ground up It's definitely not a 100% effective way, sure. But it could be coupled with a wiki-like community management of content - Nothing intrusive, but something like... when you log in, a small box (NOT a popup) shows somewhere saying "Hey! You've scrobbled some tracks that we don't recognize. Mind helping us assign them to their rightful places?" that would direct them to a simple tool to select the artist, album, and track to be added. Now take that and times it by the thousands of people that used their service. You'd have a pretty well established artist/album/song library with a dedicated community behind it. Though in the end, it kinda boils down to Google-like AI and machine learning to truly make it smart enough to pick up on things (hell, could be coupled with using Google itself to anticipate releases for artists and pre-add them). My developer brain is starting to go off the rails now, so I'm going to end it with that. 1 Zeus reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zeus 7997 Posted August 17, 2015 It's definitely not a 100% effective way, sure. But it could be coupled with a wiki-like community management of content - Nothing intrusive, but something like... when you log in, a small box (NOT a popup) shows somewhere saying "Hey! You've scrobbled some tracks that we don't recognize. Mind helping us assign them to their rightful places?" that would direct them to a simple tool to select the artist, album, and track to be added. Now take that and times it by the thousands of people that used their service. You'd have a pretty well established artist/album/song library with a dedicated community behind it. Though in the end, it kinda boils down to Google-like AI and machine learning to truly make it smart enough to pick up on things (hell, could be coupled with using Google itself to anticipate releases for artists and pre-add them). My developer brain is starting to go off the rails now, so I'm going to end it with that. If last.fm started like that it would have been an amazing, revolutionary service. It might have actually succeeded at it's original goals if they combined the machine learning with the radio so it would try to infer things you would like Pandora-style. But now we have Pandora and Spotify so it's too late to the party to matter. This is why I said that scalable architecture and software engineering is an art form (and I'm sure you agree). The trick now is to decouple several terabytes of artists and track data, assign them some new IDs, and then decouple songs, give those new IDs, and then assign them to the right artists. This probably falls into the category of intractable problems that are easy to describe and difficult to implement. Though if they can't get this update sorted out sooner rather than later this may not even matter... 1 kai_desu reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Seimeisen 4406 Posted August 17, 2015 There is already an online petition to make last.fm revert their website to the previous design! ETA: there are at least two petitions Not that I have faith in petitions... or the idea that last.fm staff will actually listen to a word that other people say. Considering the fact that the developers seem to be snubbing all of their users entirely, I'm about ready to abandon last.fm & scrobbling and go back to looking at play counts on iTunes. >.> 1 beni reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
herpes 1597 Posted August 17, 2015 people upset about losing scrobbles like it's their PReP medication 1 suji reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yakihiko 1480 Posted August 17, 2015 not about losing tracks, but for the big mess they did with it tbh Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
herpes 1597 Posted August 17, 2015 not about losing tracks, but for the big mess they did with it tbh the site has been in a nosedive for the past 3/4 years, really don't know why people are so distraught about this. this shouldn't be a surprise 1 suji reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yakihiko 1480 Posted August 18, 2015 the site has been in a nosedive for the past 3/4 years, really don't know why people are so distraught about this. this shouldn't be a surpriseI don't use the site that much, the app is easier to me... but the point that they force me to use beta instagram copy version is bleh.Also, they upload my first pic to be my main avi xD Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
