As you may have noticed, a few days ago we rolled out a new version of the website, with many changes and some new features. This kept us busy during the past couple of months, from now on you can expect more features being added regularly as before, and many small changes while we finish to polish the new layout.
As usual, any opinions and feedback are welcome, feel free to comment on this post.
Browse albums by subgenres
The navigation of albums by genre (rock, pop, electronica, etc) was too broad, and its utility limited with many albums often spanning many genres.
Now, you have available the grouping of albums by subgenre, descending of genres and providing a much more narrow and useful classification.
For example, now you have subgenres like industrial, grunge, punk, britpop inside "alternative rock"; disco, house, trip-hop, ambient, big beat inside "dance & electronica," and so on.
When browsing albums by genre, you'll see in the right a list of its subgenres. Click on any of it to narrow down the list of albums to those belonging to that classification.
Clicking in "All genres and subgenres" or in "Genres" in the top navigation bar will take you to a page with a full list of all genres and subgenres.
Also, in the album and artist details pages, now we show in the right the list of genres and subgenres where that album or artist belongs. You can click on them to see more albums in the same genre or subgenre, being a useful resource to discover new music you might like.
New layout
The most noticeable change is the new distribution of the page elements. We moved the navigation options from the right to a new navigation bar on the top, with some options in drop down menus identified by the arrow icon.
We do so in order to gain space in the right bar. The previous design was too tight and we no longer had space to allocate new features and show more information about the contents.
Ads
Well, we're not happy about putting ads in Coda, but as we continue growing, so are our costs, and I can't continue affording them from my pocket. If they work well enough, maybe I can work full-time in Coda and build all the new features we want to continue improving.
Sadly, it's hard to find an advertising network willing to work with torrent sites that pays well. We could use some advise about this, if you know a good network or represent one interested in work with Coda, please contact us.
Other changes
- Displayed more information about the uploaders in album and artist detail pages.
- Login box available in all pages, for easier and faster access.
- "Share this" box in all pages, to share contents in social networks.
- Redesigned footer, showing our partnerships and highlighting community features.
- More noticeable links to our RSS feeds.
- Many small design improvements.
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