Ratings And Comments And Links, Oh My!
Our 10th Anniversary Brings A Slew Of New Site Features
by Jason Warburg
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- Forum / Message Board
This feature went live in late November, offering Daily Vault readers the opportunity to interact directly with one another and our writing staff in a message board environment.
- User Ratings
Every one of our over 4,600 reviews now includes the opportunity for readers to submit their own ratings of the album under review. The cumulative average user rating is listed after the reviewer’s rating on every review.
- User Comments
Every review now includes an opportunity for readers to leave their own comments on the album, or the review, or both at the end of the review. Both the user ratings and the user comments system require login using the same username/password combo established by users of the Daily Vault Forum.
- Artist Links
We’ve added artist Web site links to the standard artist template, meaning all newly-added artists have a link to their Web site embedded in the header for all reviews of their albums. Over the next few weeks we will “catch up” the entire back catalog of over 2,000 artists represented in the Daily Vault’s database, including links for every one that maintains a site today.
These additions represent the site’s second major evolutionary leap in the past six months (our new site design debuted on
Thanks for your support during our first ten years... now, on to the next ten!