Discogs’ Collection Tool Is Primed for New Improvements

We’re excited to share that we just completed a few updates to the Collection tool that fixed its foundation and set us up to introduce faster, more efficient updates in the future.

The first thing you may notice when you visit your Collection is a streamlined design, including updated buttons, a more accessible layout, and an overall experience that is more consistent with what you’ll find on the rest of Discogs.

When we initially introduced these changes, you helped identify bugs and critical issues, particularly around sorting and filtering. Thanks to your input, we were able to roll back the initial update and pinpoint them immediately. First, we reached out here (Forum Thread #1083856) and ensured the community that these issues would be resolved with the highest priority. Then, we acted on your and made the necessary fixes before relaunching the page.

Thank you to everyone who shared their input. As we move forward, we remain committed to incorporating it into our development. You and the rest of the community will help us continue to refine and improve the Collection tool. We’re excited about the new phase, which focuses on giving you more control and customization of your Collection. You can learn more here.

This was all part of our effort to improve the technical infrastructure of the entire Discogs site. To bring you even better ways to catalog and organize your collection, we first had to modernize the code that makes this tool work. You may notice some modifications as we evolve to focus more on gradual improvements that are smaller, more frequent, and more tailored to your needs.

For now, you can share your thoughts in this Forum thread. We won’t be able to respond to every comment, but we will be actively monitoring and logging your input.

OfficialDiscogs
Thanks to your input, we were able to roll back the initial update and pinpoint them immediately. First, we reached out here (Forum Thread #1083856) and ensured the community that these issues would be resolved with the highest priority. Then, we acted on your and made the necessary fixes before relaunching the page.

Maybe you should consider that again
The forum is already exploding and there are still loads of bugs.

I.e.
"Something went wrong
Could not edit the collection note: No collection item with that ID and ID exists."
when trying to change a grade. And the column for the grades is to short to display them properly.

Using a quote from a fellow that sums this up really well:

XXX.
The enshitification continues

On the “Manage Collection Folders And Custom Fields”, you show an availability to edit or permanently remove the “Uncategorized” folder. Yet, neither option works. It just throws up an error message. It should actually be grayed out, indicating that editing or removal is not possible…or the functionality should actually implemented. The latter would be my preference.

‘The first thing you may notice when you visit your Collection is a streamlined design’

Quite the opposite. The page has bloated, release columns are stretched with a load of white space. You have to scroll down now to see the beginning of our collections.
It looks like absolute shit.

It's pretty slow.
The columns can't be resized or moved (but I suppose at least that means the moving won't reset every time).
Still can't sort by custom fields.
Still can't filter by any field (can't you put a search box or drop-down on each column header to filter by the data in that column?).
The value fields are not correct (which they had been in the previous reverted update).
Random item is still set at Collection page load, not at the server-side after button click, so when I want to open a random item in a new tab it's always the same one, unless I refresh the whole collection page (with all the server load that implies).

At least the horizontal scroll bar is visible all the time, and the page number is reflected in the URL parameters.

xceque
so when I want to open a random item in a new tab it's always the same one, unless I refresh the whole collection page

+1

When you say:
OLD SCHOOL IS BETTER THAN NEW SCHOOL

You say the changes improve the experience but it actually has become increasingly difficult and not very accessible at first glance. I have been on this site since 2009. It was a nice site, simple, immediate, with a clean, intuitive interface. Fun to use.
You are turning this site into the exact opposite.
I used to spend hours browsing this site, now it's increasingly frustrating.

the new layout of the Collection is really ugly and absolutely non-functional. I only see very few objects per screen (8 at most if I turn the smartphone screen) with too large covers and useless empty spaces. Everything is zoomed to the max and it is impossible to zoom out.
A collection of 2000 pieces is really boring and frustrating to look at like this.
Every time I go back to the previous page I have to select alphabetical order again because it automatically reorders based on the most recent additions. Everything is slower and more cumbersome. The desktop view feature is gone, and if so, it doesn't work well at all.
You can change the market, the sales rules, but the collection is a personal thing and these changes that are supposed to "improve the experience" are not welcome at all. Because they don't improve anything at all but make everything so difficult that take away my desire to browse. Really.
Give us back the old view.

Change it back. The new design is absolutely terrible

Is this a joke? I'm not normally one to bitch about every last change on here but this is objectively fucking awful.

OfficialDiscogs
We won’t be able to respond to every comment

I'm not having any of the problems noted above. Strange. Editing grading, notes, custom fields all okay. Sorts fine. Fields are all long enough. Keeps my settings (alphabetical) when changing pages. The design is basically the same, so no re-learning like when the masters were redone. Maybe because I'm on a desk top and the other s on phone? I give a big .. no HUGE thank you for not having to scroll to the bottom to page advance. It's also much faster - with a collection of over 13,000 it used to take a minute to load. I'm good.

goncalobcunha69
Using a quote from a fellow that sums this up really well:

XXX.The enshitification continues

Who made these changes is clearly not a collector. There were absolutely no needs to change the collection view. Revert them quickly, the "improved experience" sucks and make me nervous.

TopCats45s
I'm not having any of the problems noted above. Strange. Editing grading, notes, custom fields all okay. Sorts fine. Fields are all long enough. Keeps my settings (alphabetical) when changing pages. The design is basically the same, so no re-learning like when the masters were redone. Maybe because I'm on a desk top and the other s on phone? I give a big .. no HUGE thank you for not having to scroll to the bottom to page advance. It's also much faster - with a collection of over 13,000 it used to take a minute to load. I'm good.

You're right. If u use a desktop or a laptop the view is basically the same, but if u use a smartphone all is like the old useless "mobile view" can't switch to the desktop view, and it's a painful experience, not "improved" at all. Not satisfying, not funny.

How is it a "more accessible layout" when we can no longer navigate directly to a specific page of our collections?

Layout is horrible.

Also, when I reduce the width of my browser window now, there appears to be nothing limiting the minimum column width, so the values data gets crunched into an overlapping, unreadable mess until it disappears completely.

I cant be sure but I feel like the name of the release is now bigger than the name of the artist - which is annoying, and makes scanning for the artist in a scroll harder. the whole thing loads very slowly when asking it to re-order from A-z to Z-a, and my collection is only 500 things. I can imagine it being unbearable for larger ones.

All in all, do not like. Bad update.

Seederman
can no longer navigate directly to a specific page

Dang, you had to mention that. Yes, that was a very very handy thing and really should be put back. And while they are at it - put it back on the label pages too.

Problem I have is when I move a search result to a different result, it shows all the folders as zero size. Then after I move it, it switches to the update folder. So I have go manually go back and switch to all folders to search for the next record in my collection. Otherwise, it says not found (because it is only looking in the folder I moved the previous record to).

hey discogs how's everyone feeling tonight

on top of everything else they STILL haven't fixed the bug that stops collection values from showing up for items that have only been purchased once

I definitely despise the look of the new "collection tool" but kudos to whoever wrote the initial post in this thread. I think Discogs really communicated what they're doing well in this particular thread. This is the kind of communication needed to give some assurance that things will get better as we go. Though *it might have to get worse before it gets better.*

But for the benefit of almost everyone who has posted here, so far, I'll reiterate the really essential bits I think you may be missing

OfficialDiscogs
Discogs’ Collection Tool Is Primed for New Improvements

Primed is the key word. Not better, but laying the groundwork for improvements.

OfficialDiscogs
a few updates to the Collection tool that fixed its foundation and set us up to introduce faster, more efficient updates in the future.

OfficialDiscogs
This was all part of our effort to improve the technical infrastructure of the entire Discogs site.

Emphasis mine. Again, they're almost literally saying hey, it's not better yet, but we're making *necessary* adjustments to foundation so that things can be improved in the future.

Clear communication of intentions and what can be expected ( in other words, transparency ;) ) can go a long way in avoiding future misunderstandings and frustration. Good job on their part this time! Now we just need to improve the reading comprehension of every on the forum and we should be good. :)

Another change no one asked for that makes it harder for me to do the things I was doing and more difficult to see the info I should see without doing extra things.
I don’t need more drop-down menus, and all the relevant info has been visually removed for no reason. Can I no longer see market low/median/high on collection page without hitting a menu??

Still too much padding/ “white space” between elements and text.

Cover view looks like a hand of Pokemon cards instead of album covers. Irrelevant information presented on cover view. Why redundantly title the “Release” field on each item, just show the year and country data.

The new look (on phone) is absolutly terrible. A LOT more scrolling with no benefit (as far as I can see).

Just checked on my computer aswell and same there. Every release now takes up about 4 times as much space on the screen compared to the old layout.

I guess this is a improvement for people with bad eyesight but it should really be a option to have the old view as well (for us that want it).

This might work well if one have a smaller collection, but for me it makes browsing my collection almost impossible (especially as it don’t even load everything at once when chosing to display 250/page).

Edit: the ”covers-only view” is the only one that is even remotly usable (even if it don’t show only covers and don’t show value (something you said would improve with the update)). The text with vovers and text only view have way too much white space and are taking up exactly the same space on screen per release.

Please bring back the old text only view that showed everything on one or two lines instead of 5(+) lines with extra large titles.

Edit 2: For some reason it defaults back to Newest addition view every time i go to the collection. Please make it how I want to sort the collection. For me having it sorted by added date is absolutly useless if i'm trying to find a release

Silvermo
The new look (on phone) is absolutly terrible. A LOT more scrolling with no benefit (as far as I can see).

Just checked on my computer aswell and same there. Every release now takes up about 4 times as much space on the screen compared to the old layout.

I guess this is a improvement for people with bad eyesight but it should really be a option to have the old view as well (for us that want it).

This might work well if one have a smaller collection, but for me it makes browsing my collection almost impossible (especially as it don’t even load everything at once when chosing to display 250/page).

Yes, every release now takes up a giant box with tons of dead space for no reason. Can’t see data without clicking, can’t type in a page number. Anyone with more than a couple hundred items is fucked.

ProgressistiCancro
You can change the market, the sales rules, but the collection is a personal thing and these changes that are supposed to "improve the experience" are not welcome at all. Because they don't improve anything at all but make everything so difficult that take away my desire to browse.

Well said.

Not sure if I am the only one here who believes this way but, if I make a purchase on Discogs, I do not want to be alerted to every change that takes place with my new CD. Because of that, every time I get a change alert, I delete the item from my collection.

I would keep items in Collection if anyone wanted to talk about or have questions about the CD or want recommendations for similar CDs.

dmitrirex
Not sure if I am the only one here who believes this way but, if I make a purchase on Discogs, I do not want to be alerted to every change that takes place with my new CD. Because of that, every time I get a change alert, I delete the item from my collection.

I would keep items in Collection if anyone wanted to talk about or have questions about the CD or want recommendations for similar CDs.

If you don’t want notifications on changes on releases in your collection you can turn those off in your setings.

OfficialDiscogs
The first thing you may notice when you visit your Collection is a streamlined design, including updated buttons, a more accessible layout

Please get your UX team some laptops and have them test things on a standard laptop screen.

I'm on a Macbook. When I open the collection view the top 2/3rds of the screen is taken up by a bloated header.

I only see a total of two collection items visible on the screen. And the "table" is about twice as wide as my screen so I have to scroll horizontally to see everything. While I can appreciate that might be a necessity when one has a lot of custom fields, they all used to fit prior to this update. The main issue is that it appears columns are hard coded rather than adjusting to fit the content. I have more dead space that content on my screen because of that.

To be clear, I'm sure all markup and back end code updates are great and well worth the effort, but from a presentation standpoint, my layout is now twice as wide and twice as long. And it's the same information.

I appreciate that there were technical updates needed, so thanks for that, but none of us were really complaining about the LAYOUT of the collection, but rather the antiquated and limited feature set.

- Let us search custom fields. PLEASE.
- Consider adding a tagging system (as the single-folder system is relatively useless)
- etc.

As it is, A for effort. C for execution.

Page Jump List at both top and bottom of page, please

CODE113SECTION9
The page has bloated, release columns are stretched with a load of white space. You have to scroll down now to see the beginning of our collections.
It looks like absolute shit.

^This

Wow again, spending time and money to make cosmetic changes that are actually useless and looks awful, instead of fixing real issues that have been discussed so many times in forum. Forcing the same “change” again even though it was obvious from the previous community that it was wrong decision to do so…Typical for discogs when you think about it.

Edit: My connection is perfect, and loading time for collection is way too long, previous version loading time was immediate.
Now it first takes long to load the empty table, and then loading to fetch the items in collection.
Everything is lagging actually, just like with a change you did to artist profiles and label profiles, it takes forever to load data.
You focus on cosmetic changes instead on functionality and speed.

Also, on the previous version, you could see 10 items in collection without scrolling, now its 7 items and so much scrolling.
So much empty space added everywhere,
between [Title Artist Year Format Label] and [Min Med Max] is huge empty white space??? why? whats the point?
Instead of having data centered, most important data is moved to the left corner and then huge white gap, and then the rest of the columns. You have to move your head left to right to see what is in the personal notes of a release.

Everyone complained about order of information that you ignored completely again,
all of the sudden, in contrary to appearance of the info across the whole discogs,
you place album name first and artist name second in smaller font in a new row ?!?!?! WTF

Everywhere else on the site is: [artist] - [album],
and now only in collection its
[album]
[artist]

1. There is no jump to page button.
2. It seems it auto-shows 500 items but selected number is 25, and there is no option to click 500.
3. Rating column isn't wide enough to fit "very good plus", it gets cropped and shows "very good..."
Also simple thing as adding rating takes too long to be saved.
4. When going to next page, it again takes ages to load, everything is greyed out, i already received error "something went wrong"
5. Random item is always the same item if you open it in a new tab,
but if you click it directly, it goes to random item and when you click back to collection it again takes ages to load...
6. Search inside the collection is incredibly slow too.

I really dont understand how did you manage to add so much empty useless space and crop out important information?
Its like april fools day but its not april.

In addition;
There is a lot of releases i have in collection that are duplicates or more.
When you look at the release in "label profile" or "artist profile",
if release have multiple versions, green flag that shows number of how many copies i have in collection is wrong.
when you open dropdown window of a release, it will show how many copies of each version i have.

I have 2 copies of 1971 version, and 2 copies of 1972 version, which is 4 in total,
but on the master view of the release it shows i have 3....

I'm mostly fine with the update. Just a few remarks:
1) The Min/Med/Max columns aren't wide enough for values of 1000 or more.
2) You should be able to jump to any specific page.
3) Please add sorting and searching for custom fields. This is the perfect time to introduce those features :)
4) Loading is quite slow the first time you load a page, but lightning fast on subsequent loads.
5) Paging Dr.SultanAszazin to update the dark mode style :P

Why is it that every time something changes on this site it gets worse? The new look is terrible on my desktop Windows...loads of more or less empty white space across nearly half the screen, and less immediate clarity to the covers. Too many ranged horizontally. Please give me my old view back! If I switch to Wantslist, it's immediately more pleasing to the eye.

streetender
Why is it that every time something changes on this site it gets worse? The new look is terrible on my desktop Windows...loads of more or less empty white space across nearly half the screen, and less immediate clarity to the covers. Too many ranged horizontally. Please give me my old view back! If I switch to Wantslist, it's immediately more pleasing to the eye.

This. Just another case of ill thought change. Sure, improve functionality but why the new layout? I've seen more appealing hospital room walls

It's obvious to anyone who has had charge of a significant software development, especially one that spans the globe, that there is little or no consultation with stakeholders be they groups or in this case established Discogs communities, in order to understand and discuss essential change vs. 'oh, lets change this for no discernible reason'. I thought this after seeing the 'new' inventory management changes - wasn't there even a style-guide to adhere too? Yes, there may be genuine reasons for change 'behind the scenes' but not at the expense of the experience, most of whom live in the world outside the Discogs 'bubble' and can see first hand how professional development is conducted by the big tech players.

Discogs development, if you call it that, is far too inward looking and dangerously close to 'throwing-out-the-baby-with-the-bathwater'. It all seems somewhat amateur.

Earjerk...
I'll reiterate the really essential bits I think you may be missing

I'll say it again in case everyone missed it. Title of this is "Collection Tool Is Primed for New Improvements. In other words: The infrastructure is ready for improvements.

When checking the collection folders dropdown and "Manage custom fields and folders", one item in my collection is listed "Uncategorized":

- Trying to sort collection by folder "Uncategorized" → "Something went wrong in this section of the page"
- Trying to jump to the last collection page → "Something went wrong in this section of the page"

What's the use of a collection if you can't sort it properly?

Jesus Christ this is bad lmao
Surprised you didn’t have a third party do this “upgrade” too and call it “Collector”
Discogs gets worse everyday.

TopCats45s
I'll say it again in case everyone missed it. Title of this is "Collection Tool Is Primed for New Improvements. In other words: The infrastructure is ready for improvements.

Yes, people can read. They just don't believe those future 'improvements' will be the right ones.

You MUST add a button for s, so they can switch NEW to OLD collection style in desktop view!

the personel responsilbe for this change should be fired, this is an obvious downgrade! everything useful in the collection section takes more steps now eg. move to a diff folder. Visualy it looks even worse because it is not compact like before, you have to scroll a ton now. This is not how a development looks like. Pathetic design.

When sorting my collection by folder "Digital" (= file based formats), the page shows:

Estimated collection value
€12.59
Minimum
€16.29
Median
€16.59
Maximum

None of the 525 items contained in that folder has any Min/Med/Max prices listed.

While I’m not a fan of change, everything I have tried to do has worked just fine.

Good luck for your hopes.
I'm here from 2009.
And based on the subsequent app created - useless and pointless - and based on the recent changes on the labels section, the artists section, the inventory for sellers and also the useless "wantlister" (the "new fresh layout" in the collection section is the same of the previos adjustments) we can only expect an "improved experience" yes, but to the worse. And this is a common opinion.

Seederman
How is it a "more accessible layout" when we can no longer navigate directly to a specific page of our collections?

+1

dmitrirex
every time I get a change alert, I delete the item from my collection.

Bravo!

Again removing the comments that are too harsh for them to read. Sad wankers

CHANGE IT BACK

OfficialDiscogs
Then, we acted on your

The lies are becoming more open at least...

ZzzirK
OfficialDiscogsThen, we acted on your

The lies are becoming more open at least...

Well, they did act on your . They removed it.

If it's any consolation, it made me chuckle when I read it.

To not be totally negative…mobile view is really nice. I assume a lot of effort was out into that. Nice work.

(Desktop view needs a bit of help though)

xceque
If it's any consolation, it made me chuckle when I read it.

Yes, thanks ;)

DarreLP
To not be totally negative…mobile view is really nice. I assume a lot of effort was out into that. Nice work.

(Desktop view needs a bit of help though)

But i can't switch between mobile view and desktop view.

Now all is like the old mobile view, where you have to scroll a lot to browse your collection.
When you use the cover view, they are too big that only a very few are visible and it's impossible to reduce the size of the screen.

Now i'm on my desktop and, apart some operation that get slowly the view is basically the same. But on my phone it's a pain to browse the collection. Hope they will fix asap.

ZzzirK
Yes, thanks ;)

I don't find it's a massive difference for me, on desktop, in Firefox. A bit more pointless padding, and the columns don't fit the content very well (too big or too small), but everything else works about as well as it didn't before. It's the speed that's the real step backwards.

If you really hate it that much, there's still the old double-slash technique that works (for now, at least)
eg: https://discogs.librosgratis.biz//ZzzirK//collection

xceque

If you really hate it that much, there's still the old double-slash technique that works (for now, at least)
eg: https://discogs.librosgratis.biz//ZzzirK//collection

Lovely stuff, ta!

Fix the table so the "Label" column isn't 50% of the width causing a huge amount of white space to occur on a large screen. It looks terrible.

As long as the Format is getting it's own line, actually display every element of the format. It leaves off the Item Count part so box sets and file releases look incomplete.

Yea I ed the double slash, thanks. It's just annoying having to do that in every consecutive URL.
I use the web interface on my mobile mostly when digging through the collection and/or mixing, checking tracks and notes. It's just useless to get quick info, let alone edit stuff.

Let's hope they wake up, change it back to the way it was and chalk this up to a learning experience i.e. taking the loss on this failed project.

Aaaand of course got the well known underwater page just now clicking 'add message' smh

I understand this needs to be done to modernise the backend but the UI could be improved to (at least) make it as functional as before:

1. TEXT VIEW. It's too spacious on depth, please add a compact view where more items can be viewed without scrolling. Artist and Title were on the same line before, that made sense.

2. FOLDERS. Numbers of items and pages are shown from 'All folders' no matter which folder is selected.

3. RATING. Column too narrow, cuts off 'Plus' of Very Good Plus.

4. PAGES. Why has 'Jump To' page number box been removed?

BTW all these issues were mentioned 2 months ago when rollout originally commenced.

I wouldn't mind the new layout quite as much if there was an option to remove the Rating column so that the entries were closer together like before. I went from being able to see 11 releases one page to 6. I don't keep track of ratings at all so for me this is a total waste of space (along with having the artist and release on separate lines).

OfficialDiscogs
Wow awful redesign what has happened, looks like it was designed by a 4 year old web designer.

And looks worse and less usable on my phone than the old version.

overall I give this update a 0/10 score not even a good effort.

Why the fuck do I have to play Where's Waldo every single time I glance at my custom fields? I mean, just look at this visual atrocity.

You just know these devs' entire record collection consists of a couple of scratched up 45's nailed to their drywall and half a crate of mouldy Peter Frampton-era LPs they were given for cleaning out their neighbour's basement.

How is it even possible that the only filtering is using Folder….which is optional and not used by everyone?

Earlier, I mentioned that I do not want to receive notifications in my Collection.items but I forgot to tell you why.

I am both a seller and a customer. When I buy something for my personal collection, I am not interested in any updates.

As a seller, when I see an update, i try to react in a timely manner if need be and, when I find that an update is for an item that I have no intention of selling, it just takes time away from listing or correcting items in my inventory for sale. Hope that makes sense.
.

dmitrirex
I am both a seller and a customer. When I buy something for my personal collection, I am not interested in any updates.

Not really related to the redesign but FYI, you can already change this in settings->notifications

perhaps already mentioned, but didn't find it:
when viewing in 'all folders' mode, it is no longer possible to send an item to another folder
I now have to make a detour to the rls page, where it still is possible

marcelrecords
perhaps already mentioned, but didn't find it:
it is no longer possible to send an item to another folder
I now have to make a detour to the rls page, where it still is possible

Can you still tick the box next to an item and then the "Move to folder" button?

xceque
Can you still tick the box next to an item and then the "Move to folder" button?

ah, yes indeed, that works, thanks a lot!

To me it seems like the discussion of the basic layout is sort of blurred by the discussion about some more obscure features like the ability to add custom dropdown menu's. Why not create seperate threads for each of these subjects?

Or at least describe in more detail what the point is of changing the layout. It seems not clear (to me) at all. On the other hand it is generally clear what use the customizability of the collection tool is.

I think the average is much more concerned about parts of the layout that cannot be controlled and have much more influence the usability/visual impact of the site. It makes no sense now what advantages the could possibly experience when using the new basic design. I end up just getting tired by looking at the collection page, without even understanding for what reason I am looking at this design. While at the same time realizing I probably never appreciated the old design enough when I was still able to.

The new collection layout is really, really, really bad. Please change it back.

Please provide a "switch back to the old design" button at the bottom of the page, and I promise you've created the most useful, most loved and most useful tool on Discogs in the whole history of this website!

Nothing worse than getting back from a record hunting trip just to find out that the collection view is missing. Let's face it: recognisability is a thing. Please revert...

I thought maybe I was biased or possibly just knee-jerk rejecting any changes, but I’m sitting here trying to give the new collection system a shot on mobile, and it’s simply aggravating to no end. Set collection to Price 9-0, can’t see price unless you drop down. Drop down, the item’s info and white space take up the whole screen and a half underneath. Click a title, look at it, push Back, I’m at the top of the collection screen like I just started over. Things like this were the reason I always used Desktop mode on mobile, and now I can’t even do THAT. Can’t jump to a specific page so I guess I’ll edit the link manually, or click through 92 pages to get to the one that I want. Guess I’ll have to click Manage Custom Fields And Folders to try and fix this. So much dead space, I have to scroll 9 phone lengths just to get to what I wanna see because everything is chunky for no discernible reason. Oh good, I can change the drop-down into text! Only my custom fields though!! Not price!

This is a UI nightmare. I’m reading the staff posts and the tutorials but none of this feels like any improvement to what I was doing. It’s like one step forward and thirteen steps back.

Obviously needs reverting, just like the last time Discogs "improved" it.

Just do it now and stop us all moaning 🤷🏻‍♂️

Change it back, terrible!

As a reminder, title of the thread reads: "Discogs’ Collection Tool Is Primed for New Improvements"

vormloos
As a reminder, title of the thread reads: "Discogs’ Collection Tool Is Primed for New Improvements"

So what?
(2nd post cuz first try ‘connection was lost’)

Okay, so this "improvement" is... not that. Do you even have ANYONE working on this site that has any knowledge on UI and UX? Because it really seems you don't. First off, the top of the page is WAY too sparsely populated - "above the fold" on a regular laptop screen shows me maybe 1 or 2 entries in the collection - it's a collection page, the whole point is to see my collection, not the other things that I might want to use, but also not. And you still have not implemented a filter method on the collection for the desktop site, as you have on the phone app. Why not? At least let me select what type of release I want to see, like CDs, LPs or cassettes.

Also, your sorting options are... lackluster, for a collection. If I pick Artist - I usually don't want the releases listed alphabetically, I want them listed chronologically, which is pretty common, I feel. You NEED to make the sorting list into two dropdowns, which first sort by main criteria (like artist, release name, etc) and then a more fine sorting criteria like "alphabetical, chronological" etc. Also, make that menu smaller - you do NOT need a single option for A-Z and Z-A - just make the selection change if you select it again - first time, A-Z, second time Z-A (and update the text for the menu item for each time) - this is basic UI, guys.

PourTheRecord
So what?

I think the implication is that the new page is ready for improvements. It's new code, not old and unfixable code. It's been re-written on the new platform. From this point it's now possible to improve things.

Doesn't mean we can't point out where it's not working or what improvements should be, though.

Folks just saying "I hate it, revert it" will very likely just be ignored, because it's just not constructive. No company would revert something just because some people say "I don't like it". There needs to be good reasons to revert it; reasons that aren't also solved by "make the new thing better".

Of course, whether discogs will actually listen and "make the new thing better" is up for debate :/

PourTheRecord
So what?

More changes/improvements/whatever are to be expected. The collective aversion to this change is not different to almost any change Discogs made over the few years I've been lurking here. You should have seen the reaction when mandatory ASP was introduced. Forgive me if I'm unimpressed by the anguish on display here.

xceque
Doesn't mean we can't point out where it's not working or what improvements should be, though.

+1

xceque
Folks just saying "I hate it, revert it" will very likely just be ignored, because it's just not constructive.

+2

I LOVE IT!!!!

..the stones on that guy!

xceque
PourTheRecordSo what?

Folks just saying "I hate it, revert it" will very likely just be ignored/

It’s at their peril. So far I’ve seen a unanimous rejection.
I definitely don’t see one little bit of praise for the system, nor any response to the instant outcry.
So yeah they can ignore that sure.

OfficialDiscogs

vormloos
PourTheRecordSo what?
More changes/improvements/whatever are to be expected. The collective aversion to this change is not different to almost any change Discogs made over the few years I've been lurking here.

So are you a fan?

It took a disconnect and a moon man to see this reply.

I got frustrated with the new layout and made a little CSS hack to get by for now. At leaast until the next round of changes. FYI if anyone else wants to use it:

https://discogs.librosgratis.biz/forum/thread/1094049

PourTheRecord
So are you a fan?

Unaffected, the new design doesn't bother me. (a bit slow to load though, don't know if it's related).

Simply mentioned the thread title, in case folks missed it, that this isn't the finished product.

vormloos
Simply mentioned the thread title, in case folks missed it, that this isn't the finished product.

Well, they need to stop using us as beta testers.

vormloos
PourTheRecordSo are you a fan?
Unaffected, the new design doesn't bother me. (a bit slow to load though, don't know if it's related).

Simply mentioned the thread title, in case folks missed it, that this isn't the finished product.

OfficialDiscogs
For now, you can share your thoughts in this Forum thread. We won’t be able to respond to every comment, but we will be actively monitoring and logging your input.

Right. so. Here's the place to voice your displeasure as noted by staff.
It's not the finsihed product. Great. So... why do they keep rolling out unfinished products like this and the Wantlister before they are ready or reviewed?
Noting that it's not a finished product doesn't change any of the 52 'hate it' opinions

Observiance
Well, they need to stop using us as beta testers.

PourTheRecord
It's not the finsihed product. Great. So... why do they keep rolling out unfinished products like this and the Wantlister before they are ready or reviewed?

+1

deeman
2. FOLDERS. Numbers of items and pages are shown from 'All folders' no matter which folder is selected.

This now seems to be fixed, even when filtering by searching. Although, when searching, the total value fields don't update the way that they do when selecting a folder.

TopCats45s
I'm not having any of the problems noted above. Strange. Editing grading, notes, custom fields all okay. Sorts fine. Fields are all long enough. Keeps my settings (alphabetical) when changing pages. The design is basically the same, so no re-learning like when the masters were redone. Maybe because I'm on a desk top and the other s on phone? I give a big .. no HUGE thank you for not having to scroll to the bottom to page advance. It's also much faster - with a collection of over 13,000 it used to take a minute to load. I'm good.

+1
Easier to use IMO

I do actually like the new interface over the old one; with the exception of the two noted items (tons of dead space; no using the number items portion of the Format field) I find it over all more pleasing, easier to use, and generally modern.

The My Collection page is missing the field to search the database for releases and or artists. The field is totally gone missing. Can only search your collection but not the database itself. How can this possibly be? I tried searching for releases from the Submission page, but that is useless. I can hardly believe that such a huge omission has gone unnoticed! Too much blank spaces, the old layout was much better.

Never mind! I found the search field at the top of the My Collections page.

It works basically the same on my desktop and on my macbook, even i don't like so much the new layout, but on the phone it continues to be a total desaster. Forget Collection when you are on the phone. Useless.
Shall it be adjusted? Based on my previous experiences here with changes, it will not. Or it will probably take months to be fixed.
Sad.

Please give us the opportunity to use the old Collection page while you're fixing all the bugs. The new Collection page is not intuitive and is very hard to use. I can't see all the custom fields in my collection even when my browser window is full screen! The columns need to become narrower when resizing the window like they used to.

What worries me more then the new collection page is the new page for Manage custom fields and folders, now under https://discogs.librosgratis.biz/settings/collection
Only the first (alphabetical) 50 folders are visible on that page and can be changed. No way to handle big collections with way more then 50 folders.

I quite like the new collection page except defaults to recent additions view everytime I open it. Still unable to edit condition etc, can only do this on the release page.

The "jump to" field was a nice little feature of the original I'd like to see back. I can manipulate the url to manually jump to a page, but it's nicer through the gui.

Oh and possibly add a *real* compact display mode. No (or really small) images, 1 or 2 lines per release.

Good changes:
Editing custom folders is easier as you don't have to scroll to the bottom of the page to do it.

Everything else is terrible and makes me wonder if you even read the thread reporting bugs the last time it was changed.
Same bugs remain for example:
- custom folders above a certain number are simply not shown, no way to edit them
- default collection note fields can't be removed
In addition to terrible UI choices that have not been improved:
- way too much wasted space
- columns can't be resized, why is the label column taking up half my screen with empty space?
- release info is stacked on top of each other in the very left column but spaced out onto several columns on top, why?