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Thread #130566   Message #2939971
Posted By: George Papavgeris
05-Jul-10 - 05:30 AM
Thread Name: The ultimate folk event listings site {{England!!}
Subject: RE: The ultimate folk event listings site {{England!!}
Good, friendly layout. Issues with it so far:

a)Anyone with an account can go in and edit any listing - listings don't appear to be "owned". I just edited one listing without any problem. This is a huge hole that needs to be filled to avoid abuse.

b)When adding artists' names, there is clearly a limit in the number of letters that can be used. This is not obvious - there should be a live counter to help with this, as there is in Facebook, Twitter etc.

c) I can't see how you can feed other event listing sites with the contents. You can give me an extract for my club website perhaps, but surely you couldn't feed MySpace, Ents24 and all these other sites without their permission.

d) Am I correct in thinking that this seems to be event-driven rather than artist-driven? Fair enough, if so - though it means that it is of no use to artists, and they still have to maintain their own gig lists on websites, MySpace etc. Therefore, if I want to see where my favourite artists appear, this listings site may be incomplete, and only the artists' own sites can guarantee me correct info. No real problem, as long as that is made clear to avoid setting wrong expectations (in a litigious world an artist might have a ligitimate grudge if this site claims to be giving "all the information on his/her appearances" when in fact it depends on all relevant clubs and venues participating here and keeping listings up to date). Not a huge problem, but it means that you should include a disclaimer to this effect, rather than advertising "see where your favourite artists are appearing"...