September 9 site update

I see a blue and a white dropdown arrow on last.fm at the same time :P
Is it a bug? No it's a feature! ;)

namnatulco said:
fmera said:
...or just go directly to the master.css file and refresh that. i don't think the -moz-opacity property is the problem here - it's just one of several proprietary ones that firefox uses.I assume you mean that it's one of the properties Firefox doesn't use, since the error is 'unknown property'.Actually, no, it's proprietary to Firefox (actually to all Mozilla products, hence the "-moz-" prefix). If your Firefox isn't recognizing it, that sounds like there's something wrong with your Firefox.

It's actually a property that's only supposed to be used in Mozilla UIs (which are defined in an XML format), not in webpages. I don't think Last.FM's CSS uses it, so I'm not sure why LFM pages would be triggering that error. If they are using it, they're not supposed to.

flaneur said:
• New header. We've updated the look and layout of the Last.fm header. ...we've added ... space to post site messages and announcements...Ah, now i see. Very professional!

Well I've tried clearing my cache and forcing a reset, but that doesn't seem to help :(

fmera - when you say "go directly to the master.css file and refresh that", do you mean just following the link to view it in the browser, then refreshing the page?

It isn't just the 'moz-opacity' that's being flagged in the error console, there's also more generic sounding stuff like:

Warning: Error in parsing value for 'filter'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://cdn.last.fm/css/release-lastfm/140667/master.css
Line: 4061
Warning: Unknown property 'zoom'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://cdn.last.fm/css/release-lastfm/140667/master.css
Line: 4435

If others are using Firefox 3.5.3 without any problems, it's probably just me. Thanks for the suggestions guys, but it looks like i might just have to put up with it...

are we still doing Search feedback?

I just did a search for Spaghetti Western Orchestra. There didn't seem to be anything in the drop down, even after I completed typing the name. When I hit enter, I was surprised to see there was loads here after all. They have 11 listeners, 222 plays, is that not enough to appear in Search? Even after completely typing their name? Not sure if I've misunderstood anything.

http://www.last.fm/search?q=spaghetti+western+orchestra&from=ac

Babs_05 said:
are we still doing Search feedback?


I would still like unicode stuff.. like æ ø å. the band Gåte should absolutely show up when writing "Gåte": they have 700 000 plays..

I did a tag search for alternative industrial. I looked through all 3 pages of the results and found no tags with both words in them.

Then I tried alternative and industrial. Guess what the 8th result is on the first page: alternative industrial. Also, the 6th result was industrial alternative, the 13th was alternative - industrial which has 1 use, and industrial rock and alternative metal was the 9th result with 0 uses (and no recent activity). Many of the other tags include the word 'and'.

So it seems that the word 'and' acts as a Boolean operator (even though it is not all caps) and as a keyword at the same time. This is counterintuitive and confusing. Modern search engines have been giving priority to results with all keywords for plenty of years now. But it seems that you have to use 'and' in Last.fm search to find the less popular results.

fmera said:
underpangs said (here):
fmera said:
Microcycle said:
Yay found it :-) It was when I did a search and visited the full page search.
what the heck?! he's absolutely right! visiting the search page does trigger your "last seen" status.

bug.

Good catch. We're looking at this.it's still happening.actually, you don't even have to get to the search page. just typing something into the search box that will cause the dropdown to appear will update your "last seen" status.

why?

I've never been able to escape from 'last seen'. I know other people seem to have. I just have to breath and that's it, I'm 'last seen'. : /

JustSomeOldJoe said:
Which brings up a good feature request... allow anonymous login.

Add a checkbox beneath UID/PWD that states "don't show me as logged in."

If you hide real-time listening information then your 'last seen' is also hidden.

JustSomeOldJoe said:
acreature said:
JustSomeOldJoe said:
Which brings up a good feature request... allow anonymous login.

Add a checkbox beneath UID/PWD that states "don't show me as logged in."

If you hide real-time listening information then your 'last seen' is also hidden.

Yup, I hear ya... but some times I just want to log in and check messages w/out being "seen."

The "hide real-time" option is a good, brute force, option for cross-session anonymity. Would be nice to have a session specific option.E-mail notifcation also sends the message. That's not exactly what you're looking for but should allow you to do what you want to do.

thks for sidetracking the issue, guys ;)

however, underpangs' response here does suggest the updating of one's "last seen" status triggered by the use of the searchbox is not intended behavior. nor should it be.

i also don't understand why the "last seen" status has to even be paired with realtime listening info at all. the first is supposed to keep track of when i check in on my own profile page (and maybe any page whose url begins with "last.fm/user/fmera...", idk), while the other could be tracking my music played off the client when i'm elsewhere (which is almost always all the time, seeing as how the radio player is so unreliable when it comes to scrobbling). just how are they related exactly?