Comments on: The Tennessean’s Toast Of Music City Is Back For Another Crispy Year

By: Twitterite

Twitterite — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:46:53 +0000

Feel free to twitter your feedback on toast to @ToastMusicCity

that's what I did

By: Eric Shuff

Eric Shuff — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:57:00 +0000

Sorry about all the issues with Toast. The majority of the site is human run, thus there will be human error. We're doing our best to correct everything as quickly as possible.

About the problem with moving from category to category; we just added a new category link to the left navigation bar. It will take you to a new (but random) category. Due to odd database problems, we can't make it shift to the next category on the list, but we're trying to make it as pain-free as possible. (We're definitely learning for next years, at least.)

If you have any other crazy issues that you find, please feel free to contact me at eshuff@tennessean.com. I'll do my best to get them fixed.

By: Twitterite

Twitterite — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:46:53 +0000

Feel free to twitter your feedback on toast to @ToastMusicCity

that's what I did

By: Eric Shuff

Eric Shuff — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:57:00 +0000

By: morganlevy

morganlevy — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:55:46 +0000

You win, you win. After playing with it some more, it is pretty bad for the reasons you've listed (no way to skip categories unless you use the menus, multiple pages of nominees that are barely noticeable). But last year was worse, we promise.

I think the multiples/mispellings are user-submitted nominations. But they should still be weeding those out. I noticed that there were two entries for CREMA Coffee today (but none yesterday).

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:58:31 +0000

And I'll be shocked if the nominees on the first page of each category don't do mysteriously better than then nominees on the last page of their category.

And you'd think the Tennessean could find a proofreader to keep the same nominee from appearing multiple times under 4 or 5 different spellings.

Not that I'm being critical or anything ;)

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:54:45 +0000

Man.. I don't remember what the voting UI looked like last year, but if this is the greatly improved version, yikes. Unless you plan on voting in all 105 categories straight through, even the ones where you don't have a clue what you're voting on, be prepared for a nightmarish romp through opening and reopening the menus and submenus and re-clicking through multi pages of subcategories.

By: Christy Frink

Christy Frink — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:35:41 +0000

Aww. @tndotcom says that the server is down temporarily. Yay internet?

By: David Cintron

David Cintron — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:29:57 +0000

I then decided I would vote for Nashvillest.com because obviously it is the best local blog, but was greeted by a very unfriendly "Service Unavailable" error mesage.

By: David Cintron

David Cintron — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:28:43 +0000

There are too many categories to vote for so instead I'm not going to vote yet be appalled by the results of my uncultured and less hip Nashville neighbors.