Last.fm Beta testing
Friday, July 4th, 2008
I have been using last.fm since December 12th, 2006 – scrobbling around 44,000 tracks in this time.
Yesterday morning I recieved an email invite to try out http://beta.last.fm, their development site for the next version of last.fm. This testing has so far only been open to subscribers to last.fm so I was pretty chuffed to get the invite.
I had a quick look through each of the different pages, which in my mind have a much better organisational structure in place – making it much easier to navigate through the new, uncluttered, pages. I left a few comments about a few design issues that I noticed (i.e. adverts not aligning with content).
In browsing through the new ‘Library’ feature I noticed that when viewed in alphabetical order, a number of letters/characters did not behave as the rest of them did. I also noted that the band Portishead was categorised under the letter ‘B’ rather than ‘P’.
After finding this for one letter, I decided I should really go through each letter in turn to see which ones were also affected. Once again I reported the bug and I am keen to see it being addressed and amended in future versions.
I took a few screen grabs to allow comparison of both layouts.
This is how my profile page currently looks:
This is the current Beta version of the same page:
Category : Geekiness
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