Equipboard Improvement Ideas

Welcome to Equipboard! We will start showing Thomann links soon. The issue is they do not provide a product feed by UPC (I've asked), so it is hard to match up with our current database of products. Having said that, I'll start thinking about the best way to start to display Thomann links.

... The issue is they do not provide a product feed by UPC (I've asked), so it is hard to match up with our current database of products. ...

Seriously? That's surprising. The way they bill their program, seemed like they were way out in front, technically-speaking.

That being the case, it makes sense that you guys have held off. Every mismatch is a duplicate waiting to happen.

Thank you all for the quick and exhaustive explanations, and apologies for bringing up yet again a question that was asked so many times :-D

Good news. I worked with Thomann to get a product feed in a way we can match up with our database. We should be able to start displaying Thomann links to people in the EU within a couple of weeks.

The first version will not have currency conversion (so price comparison will be less valid), but at least we can eliminate some friction by displaying a correct purchasing link.

Nice work, @Michael !

What are the odds they'll give EB a shoutout on their socials to announce the breakthrough?

Maybe you shift the dynamic and issue an old school press release welcoming them into the Equipboard family of affiliated partners? :D

#powerplay

Thanks, but I'll only accept congratulations when it's done. :)

That's a good idea. Can't hurt to ask. After all, they've shown some love to Equipboard before unsolicited.

That's fantastic news, thanks for sharing! Looking forward to give it a go when ready :-)

We have now added the ability to support Thomann links. This means that you can now add items to Equipboard with Thomann URLs here: https://equipboard.com/items/new

We have matched up what we can via the Thomann product feed and are working to add more manually. These will be displayed to everyone and prioritized if you are in the EU.

Hope that helps, and thank you all for helping make Equipboard better!

You guys are killing it in 24.

Joined at date is now on profiles.

https://imgur.com/a/MjGupDG

We now allow Gear Manuals on product pages. When you edit a product, you will see this option to upload a manual.

https://imgur.com/a/YESNfpO

Thanks for the suggestion!

RTFM! I'm getting so old many of my manuals are print and the companies are defunct... I guess I should scan some of this stuff as a public service but that smacks of effort.

Quick update:

You will now see product prices on the product category pages. It will display below the product image. Also, there is a field along the side to be able to filter by price.

https://imgur.com/a/WwVQqQv

You can also sort by price on product category pages.

https://imgur.com/a/hM0ddqg

Let us know what you think!

Update on recent Equipboard developments:

• We've made improvements to the way product reviews are sorted and displayed. We had an issue of 8-year-old reviews getting stuck to the top due to accruing many upvotes over time. Now our algorithm is more complex and takes into account review recency (giving newer ones the opportunity to shine), review length, as well as upvotes.

  • We've improved the Equipboard gear score. Our score was way too partial to items with a lot of professional artist usage. Now, it considers third-party ratings and reviews and gives items without any user-generated content a chance to get a good score while they accumulate professional artist usage and reviews on Equipboard. This should help surface new gear and give Equipboard reviewers more influence on the gear score.
  • We've added Musician's Friend to our price comparison. We are adding Musician's Friend as an option to purchase, review pricing information, and show rating and review info. This is to give people access to shop at their favorite store and continue to build out the best price comparison and availability information we can.
  • We've changed ad providers. This is to improve speed and reduce the Cummulative Layout Shift (CLS) issues we were having. You should now not have the annoying jumpiness as the page loads on both desktop and mobile devices.

• We've improved the Equipboard gear score. Our score was way too partial to items with a lot of professional artist usage. Now, it considers third-party ratings and reviews and gives items without any user-generated content a chance to get a good score while they accumulate professional artist usage and reviews on Equipboard. This should help surface new gear and give Equipboard reviewers more influence on the gear score.

very cool

It's great to see the site still developing and improving. I love the clean and spacious layout - everything from the colour pallet to the typeface is easy on the eye and it's always a pleasure to visit, unlike a lot of the other cramped and cluttered webspaces out there.

I'd love it if you could arrange it so that our own gear photos collection appears with our most recent uploads at the top of the list, or better still manually sortable like our gear lists. That way when we visit someones gear page we see their latest stuff or whichever photos they want to highlight first, without having to scroll through everything we've seen before.

I've wondered before whether the Forums might be promoted a bit more prominently on the front page as it does get a bit quiet in here sometimes. Maybe that's not a bad thing but it's the nice folks here in particular that keep me coming back.

I'd love it if you could arrange it so that our own gear photos collection appears with our most recent uploads at the top of the list, or better still manually sortable like our gear lists.

I'll add this to our to-do list.

I've wondered before whether the Forums might be promoted a bit more prominently on the front page as it does get a bit quiet in here sometimes.

I'll consider this as we redesign our homepage next month. I also want to add forum alerts to the notifications you get in your profile.

• We've improved the Equipboard gear score. Our score was way too partial to items with a lot of professional artist usage. Now, it considers third-party ratings and reviews and gives items without any user-generated content a chance to get a good score while they accumulate professional artist usage and reviews on Equipboard. This should help surface new gear and give Equipboard reviewers more influence on the gear score.

So what does gear score actually tell us, now?

https://equipboard.com/items/moog-minimoog-model-d

https://equipboard.com/items/behringer-model-d

Okay everyone, we just adjusted some things under the hood. I'm hoping Equipboard feels snappier and quicker than before.

Let me know if you notice an improvement or if things still feel slow.

Thanks!

Okay everyone, we just adjusted some things under the hood. I'm hoping Equipboard feels snappier and quicker than before.

Let me know if you notice an improvement or if things still feel slow.

Thanks!

Much improved! Nice work!