First off, i need to say kudos to whole community to pick up this site as fast as it happened. That said, i have few gripes i want to voice - mainly they are opinions so take them with a grain of salt =)
First off, website is overly "complicated". Im not computer illiterate so i know how to get things done so im not really put of by this but i have a feeling that average joe might not feel the same. File uploads for example, there are way too many options. While most of them are useful and there's no need to take them, it would make sense to have them as "advanced" options than to have all the options in one single page. This is more like usability feature than "bug". If thats not possible, atleast make the ajax help popup for all the fields, not just "toggle buttons".. For example, i dont have a clue what "song images" does .. And document the upload procedure - yesterday i uploaded a tune which didnt end up showing anywhere, because i didnt attach a picture to it. Also, it would make sense to have picture upload possibility in the same page or atleast a link to picture admin if user wants to upload a new picture with new tune.
Next issue is with forums:
While the same user/account already works with forums and the main site, would make sense to share the same login with both.. Most likely its just a matter of creating a forum login cookie when user logs into mainsite..
Also about forums, im kinda geared towards "less is more". There are *tons* of forums but most of them have only few messages. My personal opinion would be that first start with less forum categories and increase if the traffic gets bigger. While i can understand that some might prefer the way they are set up now, personally i just dont feel like going thru 30 different topics/subtopics just to see if there's anything interesting going on and thus i've skipped the forums allmost totally.
And last item about forums, template is quite nice but very generic. Would be nicer if it would use same kinda template than the main site.
Next, featured artists and singles.
Header says "todays" but seems that both are randomly selected on each pageload. While i dont mind the randomness, it would make sense to actually make it sticky so that when someone is actually a "featured artist", it would be so for a whole day.
Inbox.
When you get a mail, you see your inbox, clicking on small thumbnail image of a poster, it leads to profile page and name leads to new mail. Usability wise it would more sense to have both links lead to profile page and have a reply button.
Also, regarding mails, when someone reviews a tune, you get email notification saying that "you have received a new private note" - its a review, not a private note
Main page.
main dropdown menu goes *behind* the flashplayer object thats below the dropdown. Its is propably either problem in dropdown*menu's stylesheet or in the flash object's properties. Im not expert in this field so cant say for sure but afaik floating objects have ordering level which defines if they should be shown on top or in below certain items and this is propably not set or set incorrectly ?
Also that same topbar menu has problem with few of the menu entries missing right side of their container. Only All Music and Community entries seem to have that right side shown correctly.
Artist profile page has a box with header "members". Below the artist name there's a text link which says "Login to send message" but i've already logged in
Search page has multiple text input fields and multiple comboboxes and even worse, they are in very small column. I dont know what would be the optimal way but i dont feel its very usable this way.
And last the template this used in the website is not valid html in any standard. While fixing all the "bugs" is pointless, having over 650 issues in a single page is abit too much. Browsers can only do their best to make things look pretty but there would be still a need for improvements =)
Ok, thats all for now. And remember, im not complaining about how crappy this site is but trying to help you guys out to make things even better.
And i do know that this site is based on JamRoom software so things might not be very straight forward to fix but still, try to please your users ok ?