Oh hi

while sharing botb's entries, which I do not happen to know how many people do, it's sort of confusing to have a first contact with the page with so many things going on around on the page: Icons, buttons, comments boxes, up and right menus, wild avatars...

It's actually not too filled with stuff, but at the same time it's filled with tons of stuff. I'm used to it by now, but I imagined a n00b getting a first contact with the page on a social sharing link...a bit rough if you asked me.

To display or share an entry, could it only be the java player (which we're all sort of used to the playback pause and stop buttons on cds players, and digital media) or visual entries (for gfx battles) ?

I don't know, what do you guys think of it, specially when linking to social sites.

well, the play or download is right in the middle of the page so it is hard to miss. if you just linked the player, you wouldnt get people actually checking out the site, for better or for worst.

I've been thinking of scrapping the interface again. The backend needs a little work still, having some weird double processing that breaks processes sometimes. I'd really like to move to an all AJAX interface. Working with js and non-js browsers in mind really slows me down. I've been at this BotB 2.0 for two years now. Besides the bugs, many speed issues are out of the way. But the whole interface is a crap.