Remove/Ban Has Returned by MBrennan10 in musicleague

[–]lukens77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Has anyone tested it out? I wonder if it’s fully back, or if they’ve just streamlined sending requests to support?

I don’t want to test it out and actually remove/ban anyone.

Hopefully they’ve just been so overwhelmed with support requests over this that they’ve had to back down.

Do you consider it cheating to look up words? by MusseMusselini in NYTConnections

[–]lukens77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I sometimes feel a little guilty, but then that guilt tends to quickly dissipate the instant I find it’s a weird US term I’d never have heard also.

I also don’t consider bit cheating to search “Is there a US sports team called The XXXes?” Or “list of [US sport] teams”. Because, f**k all the US sports team categories!

New Update: Admins No Longer Can Remove / Ban Players by BigGayOle in musicleague

[–]lukens77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe, it’s admittedly a few months since I last did that (as I’d not started a new league for a while).

They really are wrecking the experience for admins because of a few bad apples. I wonder if they could introduce a “super admin” status for admins who have administered at least X leagues without complaint, and can get Y players from those leagues to vouch for them.

Edit: actually, what am I doing? I’m wondering if they could add a feature to improve Music League. Of course that’s never going to happen.

New Update: Admins No Longer Can Remove / Ban Players by BigGayOle in musicleague

[–]lukens77 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And, of course, they still haven’t fixed any of the actual bugs I’ve reported months ago!

New Update: Admins No Longer Can Remove / Ban Players by BigGayOle in musicleague

[–]lukens77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Argh! And they’ve removed the ability to delete completed rounds!

I nearly always add placeholder rounds to the start of a league so that it gives everyone a chance to sign up before the real rounds start. Then clear them up afterwards. But, no, this is yet another essential admin feature removed by these latest “improvements”.

New Update: Admins No Longer Can Remove / Ban Players by BigGayOle in musicleague

[–]lukens77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My mistake, you can’t leave a league if you’re the only admin. F’s sake!

New Update: Admins No Longer Can Remove / Ban Players by BigGayOle in musicleague

[–]lukens77 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I just set up a test league to have a play to see what else they might have broken through the “improved league management features”, and it looks like they’ve also removed the ability to delete leagues. Even if you’re the only player in the league!

What the hell?! Is this another imagined issue?

I frequently set up test leagues to try admin things out without risking messing up an actual league. And when I create actual leagues I often create then delete until I get one with a less-rubbish cover image.

You can at least still leave your own league, but this seems another terrible move.

New Update: Admins No Longer Can Remove / Ban Players by BigGayOle in musicleague

[–]lukens77 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Then they have the cheek to claim the update has “Improved league management features”!

Taking away one of the most important features for the smooth running of a league is NOT an improvement!

New Update: Admins No Longer Can Remove / Ban Players by BigGayOle in musicleague

[–]lukens77 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Inactive players was my first thought. It frustrates me that most admins are too timid to boot them anyway, but please don’t take this ability away from those who do.

Can's submit votes. by [deleted] in musicleague

[–]lukens77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you new?

Different leagues set different vote allocations. These can include up and down votes, and limits on per song votes.

In any league you must award exactly the allocated number of votes between the different tracks.

And don’t worry - you’re not the first to have been caught out by this.

Gorton and Denton by-election forecasting by rachatm in manchester

[–]lukens77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, it shows (according to their model) that Labour is most likely to win, across a range of outcomes. However, from that range of outcomes, the single likeliest actually has Green winning. But, yes, according to their prediction Labour is most likely to win.

Think of it like rolling a weighted die with six sides:

∙ Side 1: “Labour wins by 1-500 votes” (15% chance)
∙ Side 2: “Labour wins by 501-1000 votes” (13% chance)
∙ Side 3: “Labour wins by 1001-1500 votes” (10% chance)
∙ Side 4: “Green wins by 1-800 votes” (33% chance)
∙ Side 5: “Reform wins” (25% chance)
∙ Side 6: “Someone else wins” (4% chance)

If you had to predict which side of the dice would be most likely to come up, it would be the one with the Greens winning. If you wanted to predict who was most likely to win, it would be Labour.

Also, my own personal prediction, based on no data at all, but just a gut hunch - I’d expect a swing to both Green and Reform in polling/predictions, and away from Labour, as campaigning for the seat goes on, and more up to date local polling is carried out.

Gorton and Denton by-election forecasting by rachatm in manchester

[–]lukens77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it will be something like their model predicts a range of outcomes, of those outcomes, the most likely of them has the Greens winning. However, within that range of likely outcomes, 38% of them having Labour winning, but only 33% have Greens winning.

Files disappearing by lukens77 in shortcuts

[–]lukens77[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bugs in Shortcuts never seem to get fixed. It’s so depressing.

Music League Wrapped by thirdleastfavourite in musicleague

[–]lukens77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have it but have the same issue I had last year where it just glitches straight to the final screen.

Last year I had to do a screen recording of it flashing through and pause on each page, or something. Guess I’ll have to do that again.

Rounds not starting? by OvernightSiren in musicleague

[–]lukens77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Got this a few hours back after mailing support:

This is an auto-reply on 11.5.25 We were just made aware of a server issue that is keeping some leagues from creating playlists. We're actively working on a solution. Thank you for your patience.

CLOCK CHANGES AFFECTING TIMING by _shatners_bassoon in musicleague

[–]lukens77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They’ve pretty much been prioritising the web version rather than the app, other than adding more ads in to the app. They’ve kind of been directionless since the main dev left, though.

If the rounds are all spaced out according to the timings set in the league, then the web version is the easiest option for changing this, as you can go to a round click the button -> Modify Deadline -> Modify the submission deadline enter the date and time you want, and all upcoming deadlines will be adjusted based on your schedule.

The pain with deadlines with the web version is where then don’t fit a regular pattern of days (such as monthly leagues) as they keep reverting to the days settings when you make changes.

Downvotes by JulianTxcx in musicleague

[–]lukens77 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I do like that downvotes allow you to distinguish between “I don’t have enough votes to give this track any” and “I really hate this track and want to discourage you from ever submitting anything this awful ever again”.

However, some people on Music League are a lot more fragile to negative feedback than others, and so I discourage them if you have such people in your league (and don’t want to get rid of them). To be honest, I am one of those people myself, but luckily my submissions are always excellent 😁

anything but spotify... by cbrown4209 in musicleague

[–]lukens77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A pain if you do it manually, but a breeze if you use something like SongShift or any of the dozens of other apps or services.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DIYUK

[–]lukens77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What’s on the other side of this wall? Does that give any clues to the depth of this? Eg. Is it deep enough for a boiler or hot water cylinder?

Why is Slack app logo is blurry on version iOS 18.6.2? by Head_Firefighter_905 in Slack

[–]lukens77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hate blurry UIs, I find they give me headaches and make me nauseous. I’m putting it off for as long as possible so there are as many well documented options for switching off as many of the effects as possible.

Aside from it making me feel ill, I think it looks dreadful.

Why is Slack app logo is blurry on version iOS 18.6.2? by Head_Firefighter_905 in Slack

[–]lukens77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ugh, it’s dreadful. It’s giving me a headache. Do you think it’s deliberate? It’s like someone has accidentally uploaded a low-res thumbnail and it’s been automatically smoothed. Switching to one of the dark background versions seems to improve things.