Equipboard Improvement Ideas

Let's reverse the order of our Followings and Gear Pictures so that recent additions appear first instead of last.

That way our Equipboard profiles will be more dynamic and interesting. We would a gain a bit more control of what people see top of those lists because by removing an entry and resubmitting it again it would ideally reappear at the top of the first page instead of at the bottom of last.

I find it quite frustrating that when we look at another member's profile we're presented first with the dozen or so Pictures and Followings that they added when they first joined the site. For any later additions we're forced to scroll through to their later pages; the longer one is an active member the more pages an interested viewer has to negotiate in order to see what the person has contributed most recently.

At the moment, If I have a picture I'd like to have at the top of the list I would have to delete all my previous submissions and arrange my pictures from scratch. This is counter intuitive and doesn't make any sense to me at all!

As well as re-organising photographs so that they appear first I'd like it if, with people/artists I follow who are particularly significant to me, I could have the option of unfollowing and then refollowing them so that they too would appear at the top of my following list.

A more sophisticated option would be to be able to drag and drop entries into order but I'd be content to have some means to control what appears first. Sorting those pages to show most recent entries first seems to me the simplest solution.

Doe this make sense? What say you?

Let's reverse the order of our Followings and Gear Pictures so that recent additions appear first instead of last.

Whoa. Okay, why not... I feel like the site needs a full overhaul, but who would gave time to do it swiftly?

Hello, Am I the only one to experience a problem concerning gear pictures? I've tried to upload a few of them through Insta and not only it failed but to work but now I have 5 blank squares that I can't get rid of? Is there a way to fix this? Thanks!

Hello, Am I the only one to experience a problem concerning gear pictures? I've tried to upload a few of them through Insta and not only it failed but to work but now I have 5 blank squares that I can't get rid of? Is there a way to fix this? Thanks!

First I've heard of that but I'm too old to be into Instagram... the gear photos are the one thing on equipboard that worked great right from roll out... sorry for the late response. If you're issues not resolved.... michael @michael

That shouldn't be happening with Instagram posts and not for a month.

Probably obvious to anyone looking at the forum tonight, but it seems Equipboard could be improved by rate-limiting how quickly accounts (especially new accounts) can create new forum topics & post gear photos. There's 7 pages / 150 forum threads all with the topic of phone numbers for "lonely ladies" right now, to borrow a Nick Batt / Sonic Talk euphemism. They're filling up the Gear Photo links too. Considering how quickly they're being posted, more than 1 per minute, I think someone has targeted a bot at Equipboard. Couldn't see a way to flag a post or an account either.

Accounts involved so far:

banti_bauala roadddd0000 mithunkoishak dimple_sumit

Not sure if it would have helped here, but maybe take a look at AbuseIPDB? I've found it quite useful for attacks like this. If the AbuseIPDB score is anything above Zero, I flag / ban it from my sites. Though I'm sure my sites aren't getting anything like the attacks you must see on a site as popular as Equipboard.

I didn't scroll through all the "ideas" so forgive me if this is a repeat, but..

Give an incentive or IQ points for users to rate the quality of submissions. I've had one submission rated correct in the past year out of 55 submissions. I don't think rating something "correct" should give the same amount of points as the submission itself. Maybe all three quality reviews give the same points amount of points though? The other problem I could see is people just verifying submissions for the points without doing their due diligence.

Or make a badge system for people that review submission qualities?

I didn't scroll through all the "ideas" so forgive me if this is a repeat, but..

Give an incentive or IQ points for users to rate the quality of submissions. I've had one submission rated correct in the past year out of 55 submissions. I don't think rating something "correct" should give the same amount of points as the submission itself. Maybe all three quality reviews give the same points amount of points though? The other problem I could see is people just verifying submissions for the points without doing their due diligence.

Or make a badge system for people that review submission qualities?

Users making dozens, even hundred of submissions that just sit there for years is a problem here, for sure. As someone who has reviewed/approved hundreds and hundreds of submissions here, I support Correct submissions being worth more points, because there are a lot of lazy, half-assed, and just plain wrong submissions that come through everyday -- there needs to be incentive for users to strive to meet a certain quality standard.

I love the idea of rewarding people who review other's submissions, but if the incentive was enough to matter, there is the risk that users start reviewing and approving things without really reading/considering just to get the points. So I understand the apprehension to reward approval-labor with points... frustrating as that is.

I think your badge idea is great. :)

How many submissions of other community members have you reviewed? I find the best way to get my own stuff reviewed and rated is to invest time in rating submissions from other people here, especially the work of users who are currently active on the site that week. That said, I still have hundreds of submissions that have never been rated, and maybe never will... but there's definitely an unspoken quid pro quo effect amongst the active approvers.

Kenneth, you're onto something with a correct submission garnering more points than a half-assed one.

I also think we should return to unfettered gear additions but mods ssd should be able to delete garbage/duplicate gear at will which would doc the user points for adding clutter.

Let me know if you decide to part with your jupiter 6. Hint hint.

Kenneth, you're onto something with a correct submission garnering more points than a half-assed one.

I think you get quite a big points boost if your submission is rated "Correct". I was supporting what I thought the policy was already. But I appreciate the encouragement, regardless :)

I also think we should return to unfettered gear additions but mods ssd should be able to delete garbage/duplicate gear at will which would doc the user points for adding clutter.

I'd love to snuff dupes. I'd love it so much. There's some free labor I'd happily donate.

Let me know if you decide to part with your jupiter 6. Hint hint.

I just downloaded the trial for the new Cherry Audio JP6. Haven't fired it up yet, but I'm encouraged. Check out this talented MFer's patches for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBIzacXA6lg

It's about time the Jupe 6 finally got some emulation love. Now it's time for Roland to release a Boutique JP6 desktop DSP thing.

Need knobs and keys.

I don’t know if this has been asked, but what if we could be able to search for users?

I've never searched for a user, so I just searched your name and... nada. Seems like an omission.

Thanks for liking the gear porn of my old band... that theater is sadly gone, but that was a really fun record to make. Most of it is hosted on my soundcloud. Memorable times.

Hm, seems fair...

You used to be able to search for users here, for years. Then that ability went away when some big site changes were made. I used to use the user-search feature when we had it. I'd use it if it came back.

So you had this option once? When did it change, exactly?

So you this option once? When did it change, exactly?

Correct, this website had the user search feature you seek once upon a time. No idea exactly when it changed, exactly. it was there one day, gone the next.

Correct, this website had the user search feature you seek once upon a time. No idea exactly when it changed, exactly. it was there one day, gone the next.

No kidding. I've been here forever and had no idea. Well we should bring it back.

No offense intended to anyone, but it's odd to see the same 6 or 7 EDM heroes from the 2010s as the top "Artists Who Use This" for any synth-adjacent product that was first released in the 2010s or earlier (Ableton Live, Serum, FabFilter plugins, etc).

It seems Martin Garrix, Deadmau5, Skrillex and their contemporaries garnered so many followers 10 years ago, that none of the trending/popular artists of the moment seem to have a chance to touch those numbers. The incentives for users to Follow an Artist here may have been different 10 years ago, IDK.

Would it be possible to sort each "Artists Who Use This" section by the "Popular" ranking option used to determine trending Producers, Guitarists, etc?

Personally, it's more interesting to see who is getting the most page views and action at the moment, rather than who was hot during a certain high water mark for the Follow feature.

Apologies if this has been mentioned already: I'm a new user (only today I've started populating my board, which has been fun!) and I can't find a search feature for the forum. Anyway, I noticed that the product links to add new items only work for a selected few websites. Adding Thomann.de to that list would help, as it's the biggest music seller in Europe, and there's equipment I bought there that is not available on any of the existing websites. I'm sure many European users would benefit from that, and would be able to contribute more gear accordingly.

Apologies if this has been mentioned already: I'm a new user (only today I've started populating my board, which has been fun!) and I can't find a search feature for the forum. Anyway, I noticed that the product links to add new items only work for a selected few websites. Adding Thomann.de to that list would help, as it's the biggest music seller in Europe, and there's equipment I bought there that is not available on any of the existing websites. I'm sure many European users would benefit from that, and would be able to contribute more gear accordingly.

It has been mentioned many times, but it's worth repeating until we all know the reason why it isn't implemented yet. :D

I agree 100%; Thomann is so dominant in Europe. If I lived in the EU, I might feel a bit slighted to not see Thomann listed as an option, especially given the fact there isn't 100% overlap with the products Thomann offers vs. Sweetwater & GC in the states.

That said, I trust there is a good reason Thomann.de isn't supported yet.

My current guesses:

1. The specifics or structure of Thomann's affiliate program may not fit Equipboard's current business needs.

2. The way Equipboard aggregates pricing information may not be able to support euro-to-dollar conversion just yet.

3. If a product is only available in Europe, and can't also be found on Sweetwater, GC or Reverb, then the EB team may want the moderators to review the Add request before it gets added to the database. In theory, everyone here wants every piece of music gear ever made in the database, but there are many cases where it's better for the overall health of the database to not include every unique product SKU# ever.

E.g. it may not be in everyone's best interest (from a search & Artist analytics standpoint) to add yet another version of a product that already exists in the database, just because Thomann is offering a limited edition version in a red finish instead of the usual black.

Again, these are just guesses. But I encourage anyone who feels strongly about including Thomann.de to continue to speak up.