You can now copy record numbers from the URL and use that to quickly look up records and albums when you're adding resources or adding records to albums in the autocomplete search box.

Some pretty big improvements to the basic hitRECord record card design are in the midst of being developed. Super excited for these!

• Simplified drawer


• Much better use of horizontal space


• More useful header with reduced portrait


• Works elegantly with and without descriptions


• Longer titles


• And, most importantly, BIGGER videos and images!

Posted for the people who were wondering about improvements to the drawer.

This is still in development and will take awhile to deploy, but here's a list of coming features, changes, and improvements.

• removed "re:" button – this was confusing and rarely used (remarks will be written in the conversation itself)


• icons records (for text, audio, video recs) show up and are linked


• full resource and result list (not just top six)


• now in list form with rec type icon rather than thumbnail (this will help speed the whole site up) and let you see at a glance the full resources and results without clicking through (though you can still click through to see the full thumbnail listing as before)


• ability to flag records that may not be original or are suspected of copyright infringement or other TOS violations for moderators to review


• list of albums and collaborations that the record appears in


• list of the author's tags (linked!) plus the ability for the community to add tags (the author can always remove community tags s/he doesn't approve of)

As I said, these are very big changes, particularly to the back-end coding, so don't exactly deprive yourself of oxygen while you wait. But I thought I'd share the design development work since people have been asking for a lot of these features and we've been listening!

One more teaser preview of the coming development work.

• The remark field is moved out of the drawer and to the top of the conversation window


• ability to subscribe (!) to threads [and then get notification badges of new messages on the Conversation page


• sorting toggles for comments


• ability to only view remarks (filter out results and recommendations) to just read the pure conversation.

Again, no breath-holding... but this stuff is indeed coming!

<3

HitRECord Pro Tip: You can drag the Random Record button up to your bookmarks toolbar and then you've got immediate access to a random RECord no matter where you are!

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This is live now – you can get to it by revising your info on your page.