Equipboard Improvement Ideas

Another idea I've had floating around for a while: What about adding manufacture dates to items? aswell making options for discontinuation/revival timelines (e.g. Fender Mustang: 1964–1982, 1990–present).

I'm all for it IF it doesn't create separate items in the database. As metadata to a single, generalized Fender Mustang entry, it's great.

Given the grainy videos and cameraperson-shooting-from-the-pit concert photos that serve as evidence here, it's unlikely most users would have enough visual evidence to make a distinction between an original run Mustang, vs a 90's MIJ, 10's MIM, etc.

Given the grainy videos and cameraperson-shooting-from-the-pit concert photos that serve as evidence here, it's unlikely most users would have enough visual evidence to make a distinction between an original run Mustang, vs a 90's MIJ, 10's MIM, etc.

But when the evidence is something like a vintage guitar magazine article they get really specific so it would be cool to be able to select the appropriate metadata.

Given the grainy videos and cameraperson-shooting-from-the-pit concert photos that serve as evidence here, it's unlikely most users would have enough visual evidence to make a distinction between an original run Mustang, vs a 90's MIJ, 10's MIM, etc.

But when the evidence is something like a vintage guitar magazine article they get really specific so it would be cool to be able to select the appropriate metadata.

agreed. I'm all for metadata, just not 45 separate Fender Mustang items in the database.

UPDATE: So I just counted the number of Fender Mustangs currently in the database.

NOT counting Mustang Basses, Mustang Amps, Mustang-branded midi controllers(?), Mustang clones, nor Jag-Stangs... I counted 92 separate Fender Mustang entries in the database... ::hangs head in silence::

That does sound like a lot of mustangs that are provably very similar.

That does sound like a lot of mustangs that are provably very similar.

What are you talking about dude?!? Some are white, and some are blue, and some are even RED!

(sarcasm)

I've reached out to Equipboard via email on several topics and issues with the site, all of which I'm told to go through email to address. I have yet to receive correspondence back from the administrators at Equipboard in charge of the email.

• I've reached out to fix artists who are listed as bands on the website, and therefore, can't have gear attributed to them. Further, they can't be added as artists because they're already listed as bands.
• I've contacted about artists I've tried to submit manually not being added to the website, including Grammy-nominated artists, musicians in the bands of some of the biggest musicians in the world, artists whose bands are on the website, etc., and when I've reached out to moderators on the website about issues concerning the mechanics of adding artists manually, there have been errors on their end that have gone unresolved for months.
• I've reached out about fixing gear attributed to artists that are incorrect, as there's no way to remove listings or change the gear within the same listing to accurately reflect the gear that artists use.
• I've reached out about becoming a moderator on the website and to potentially help facilitate some of these changes happening, or at the very least contribute in the ways moderators are capable of currently.

On all of these topics (and presumably others I may be forgetting), I've gotten no response. This website is a great platform and has the potential to become much better, and it's unfortunate I've run into so many obstacles.

I've reached out to Equipboard via email on several topics and issues with the site, all of which I'm told to go through email to address. I have yet to receive correspondence back from the administrators at Equipboard in charge of the email.

I don't have a ton of helpful insight on most of these, unfortunately, but it sucks to keep sending out thoughtful observations and feedback, and not get a response. So here it goes:

• I've contacted about artists I've tried to submit manually not being added to the website, including Grammy-nominated artists, musicians in the bands of some of the biggest musicians in the world, artists whose bands are on the website, etc., and when I've reached out to moderators on the website about issues concerning the mechanics of adding artists manually, there have been errors on their end that have gone unresolved for months.

Bad news on this front: moderators can't add/approve artists request either, or at least I've never been unable to do so successfully since becoming a moderator. From UI on my end, it seems like this must have been possible for moderators to do at some point, maybe something is just fouled-up on my account.

• I've reached out about fixing gear attributed to artists that are incorrect, as there's no way to remove listings or change the gear within the same listing to accurately reflect the gear that artists use.

This is a problem as old as Equipboard. I hate to lob broad generalizations w/o any data behind it, but I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say that everyone hates this aspect of gear submissions. I'm pretty sure the Admins know we all hate it, too. I'm sure EB's architects have solid reasons, but yeah, it's frustrating to botch a submission, not catch it within-the-hour and then have it sit there forever... laughing at you. It's one of the most common things I find myself explaining and re-explaining to new users... regardless of the administrative necessities that dictate this current design, the fact that you have to let you failures sit there forever comes across as counter-intuitive to more than a few of us.

• I've reached out about becoming a moderator on the website and to potentially help facilitate some of these changes happening, or at the very least contribute in the ways moderators are capable of currently.

You've been a great contributor to this site since you joined. I think you show a lot of potential on this front, for whatever my opinion is worth.

On all of these topics (and presumably others I may be forgetting), I've gotten no response. This website is a great platform and has the potential to become much better, and it's unfortunate I've run into so many obstacles.

Well, I'm not the person you were hoping to get a response from, obviously, but I hate to see a good batch of bullet points go un-acknowledged. Thank you for all that you've done thus far to help make this place better.

Seems to me, one consequence of moderating all add requests is that there seems to be quite the backlog and no way of knowing if you item has been added except by checking every day via search...

my votes:

make it a bit easier to get to one's own page?

& have a simple way to invite friends, maybe?

`thanks for asking tho' i'm crazy late to the convo...

my votes:

make it a bit easier to get to one's own page?

& have a simple way to invite friends, maybe?

Agree strongly!

`glad to know i didn't just miss these options in plain sight... i'm admittedly real' good at pulling that kind of thing... 😅

I think it's been said before but mods should be able to move posts to appropriate forums or take a new topic where someone is trying to get attention for their new music and turn it into a reply to eyesee's artists if equipboard show us your music topic. And can someone sticky that so he doesn't have to bump it every year?

Since twitter has fallen from grace, can we have a Mastodon link box now please?

https://musicians.today/@Pol

Didn't flip through ever page of this thread, so forgive me if this has already been suggested. But an interface option in the settings to switch to night mode, so I can quit blinding my eyes on this page would be subtle experience upgrade!

EDIT: Scroll wheel or more accurate drop down menu. Gor example, I tried to add a TC Electronic Ditto+ pedal to my gear page. "TC Electronic Ditto+" is the complete name of the item on Equipboard. But when you type it in on any drop down menu box, it doesn't show up. Five different Ditto pedals appear. The way you have to add it to an artist or your own gear page, is look for it by using the search bar, then add artist, or save it to your gear/wishlist.

It's just a minor inconvenience to go through the extra step of leaving an artist page to look for the item itself.

Would be great if you can add a small text/description to items on the gearlist. To be used i.e. for notes of purchase year/price/conditon...

I have noticed on a few occasions my gear photos have been flipped in orientation for no apparent reason after uploading, other people seem to be having this issue too,i usually try editing and re-cropping until it uploads properly, is there a fix for this?

hi for improving equipboard i sugest to let people put their songs and say the hardware they used to do it as that :

maxtor song :

protools hd 10 tdm pci / mutools / guitar rig 5 rtas / rtas yamaha custom drum / eventide blackhole vst / eventide echannel vst / creamware pulsar 2

here the demo

https://www.reverbnation.com/weesch/song/33765105-maxtor

here the video of the studio for this project :

https://www.ayewind.com/use-native-plugin-without-in-realtime-without-latency

enjoy !

best regards weesch