... also we have a new Lightbox on Module View that opens if you click on the module image.

User Block in Messages

It’s a bit sad, but we now have a user block list. If you receive a message you don’t like and don’t want to get any more from that user, you can block them. They won’t be able to send you new messages until you unblock them.

All blocked users are listed on your user page.

When we implemented the marketplace, we didn’t think it through very much - it was more of an impulse idea: “Let’s just add a used module marketplace.” That has now led to a large portion of the work revolving around it: chasing scammers, dealing with downvote drama.

I don't know of a direct solution to this problem, but I do think that it's important for users to know that purchase protection does not go both ways.

While this is a valid point in reality the vast majority of people who get scammed are buyers.

The disclaimer is meant to make it clear that transactions here are private deals between strangers. Whether you use PayPal or any other payment service is up to you - the point is simply to remind people that it’s a good idea to use a service that offers some form of insurance.

What this results in is a double standard where a seller's positive feedback is disregarded by the buyer, yet a buyer with zero feedfback expects the seller to trust them to not file a claim for whatever reason they may have.

The voting system, the other headache: it is far from perfect but better than nothing. And also as a seller you can look at the votes. Which, I am aware, give you another illusion of security :(

Maybe there are better solutions today, like embedding some type of escrow service. Will look into this and open to ideas.

What am I missing here?
-- wiggler55550

The exclusion currently only works on the description text not the manufacturer name or title

Exclude Search terms

You can now exclude terms from the free-text search using the “-” operator.
To find filters that are not Wasp, enter:

filter -wasp

In this specific case, I’m not sure why anyone would want to do that, though.

I'm wondering if it would be possible to expand this feature even more. If it's not too much to ask, I'm requesting the ability to also filter out certain text terms from the search results. For instance, I might want to search for low-pass filter modules, and exclude any results that contain the term "ladder" because I've already got all the ladder filters I need. AFAIK there's no way to do that currently.
-- aaaaaaaa

We have that now! Use it in the freetext search field with
low-pass -ladder

When I search for modules I no longer see if they're already in the active rack or not

Say I'm following a certain manufacturer for the rack.. I filter by their name.. their modules get sorted by newest.. but I can't quickly see where I am up to on their releases. The old site used to give a count by the search result of how many of these modules I have already in that rack
-- wagoo

Thanks for the report, that should work again.

Could it be that his account got occupied by someone else?
-- VONDENFUNKEN

No, very unlikely.

Others may have a different view, but my thinking is that anyone still waiting to hear back from sugarfreedaddy who used PayPal goods and servcies should consider opening a dispute and immediately escalating to a claim. Anyone who paid with F&F should see if they can initate a chargeback with their bank or credit card company.
-- wont

It's a diffuse situation, but at this point I recommend what @wont says.

intellijel OUTS 3U, After Later Audio Bartender V2 and Barback V2

-- TVhint

Those modules should now show up. Thanks for the feedback!

I like the new look, and the overall functionality seems to have improved, but some of the modules currently available no longer appear in the search results.

-- TVhint

Do you have an example?

Move Rows

We have Swap Rows in the Planner Edit Menu for some time. Now we also have Move Rows which makes a similar thing but without the swapping :)
This is a Unicorn feature.

I REALLY miss the Youtube links at the bottom. Any reason for removing them?
-- SwampRabbitMusicElectronics

They should be there on most module views. Sometime we run into YouTubes API limits but that resolves by itself after some time.

Also, alternative faceplates on a module's page are tiny now.
-- korhanerel

That's true and can be improved

@feva linked to the edit page. That won't work. This is the view page:

More Planner improvements

• Fixed a bug that prevented to scroll the rack on iPad when you dragged a Module
• 1U Modules cannot be dropped in 3U rows anymore
• you can no longer drop a module halfway between two rows—it will snap to one of them. In rare cases, this may trigger the Cat of Dread.
• minor CSS fixes. If you try to add a module to a locked rack, you will now see a more visible colored warning instead of the approval thumbs-up which was unintended kind of passive aggressive.

EDITED Mar 31st, 12:35

Thanks!
Yes. There are plenty. I hope to look into it soon.
-- KNYST

I already have assigned most of them!

Please add these as manufacturers on pedalgrid :)
-- KNYST

They are now all in, but if they have no pedals attached they will only show up in the pedel edit select menu.

Loading Indicators for Rack view

With a slow or unreliable internet connection, it could be hard to tell whether a large rack had fully loaded. Now, each module has its own loading indicator. The position where a module will appear is also shown with a dashed placeholder outline. Works also with pedals.
If you never see any of these indicators - congratulations, you have a great internet connection.

Rack Planner improved

• Improved module collision detection - fewer false positives.
• Enhanced “fuzzyswap”: when you drop a smaller module onto a larger one, the larger module is repositioned more intelligently around it.
• Improved module push behavior: clicking a double-arrow button pushes the module to the next adjacent module; clicking again pushes the entire block.
• Overall JS performance increased.
• fixed several other bugs and introduced new ones.

Same same, but different

Mar 19th - Facelift for the entire site

True, this will be improved soon.

I did some changes today however I am not sure if I did it right

• add a role of h2 to all the module titles in search results; this will make it faster to view.

module title h3 tags are now h2 tags

• When adding modules, it would be really helpful if there was a "row" combobox that was bounded from 1 to max rows, so if I click add and I'm on row 2, I can add it to row 2 (right now, I can only make one horribly long row)

I don't quite understand this request

• Can you add the module name to the alt text of a module? This would make it easy to view. Maybe even (hp) at the end so you know how many hp the module is?

modules in the planner now have module name and width in the alt

• The following won't change the appearance but will make this navigable by table:
  • The enclosing container is a div with id of restraint. Add role="table" to this.
  • The rows are a div with class grid-row. Add role="row" to this.
  • for cells, add role="cell".

I did all this but I am not sure if that is right and working. The #restrain is just the grid for the modules where they "snap in", the modules self are in div#modules which are positioned absolute on top.

• A switch in the module build to make modules focusable. This would add tabindex="0" to the module images. Then you can focus on it and use the keyboard commands.
• Some way to select a slot (if I have module A and B and move B to the right, I might want to add a blank panel here.

I have to look deeper in this.

• Where you have icons (like on the "add" links, for example, consider adding an aria-label like aria-label="add", which will announce the link as what it is. Right now they read as questionmarks.

I changed that on the module browser.

These would make this much more usable.
Thanks,

-- eroe

Check back what is improved and what is not, best, Knut

All great input. I am looking into it and will check back later.

hello, about that redesign, i am unable to reach the delete hover "btn-group-vertical module-edit-btns" on 1u rows, unless its the left-most module. i worked around via hotkeys but this is new since revamp. cheers
-- poepoe90

I have uploaded a change that willl hopefully fix the issue. Thanks for reporting!

but i cant delete modules from a rack on my phone at the moment
-- Lordkrud

Thanks for reporting, I have deployed a change that hopefully fixes the issue.

Same same, but different

We were dealing with 13-year-old JavaScript libraries - everything was creaking. Website relaunches often go wrong, but this one was necessary. With the old codebase, ModularGrid had become extremely difficult to maintain, making bug fixes and further development hard and, in some cases, impossible.

We’ve modernized the code and made some visual adjustments along the way. It’s no secret that ModularGrid is built on the Bootstrap framework, and we’ve continued to use it with the help of a designer who wishes to be called "the Ghost".

We fixed many bugs, but we’ve no doubt introduced some new ones. The good news is that they should now be much easier to fix.

There are also a few new features:
• the search now includes an exclude filter
• pedalboards can be converted from inches to centimeters

We tried to change everything without changing anything.

Here’s to the next 13 years!

Planned Maintenance

The site will be offline on Thursday, 19 March, from around 09:00 CET for approximately two hours, so plan your racks accordingly.

EDITED Mar 18th, 16:06

Hey modular nerds, here to report @Soundmonkey.
-- xeao

I have supended the user

It's not any error. The only thing I did yesterday was start this post. I did shut down my browser yesterday evening. Today I had to log in again.

-- SwampRabbitMusicElectronics

I see. Just to be sure: it sets a cookie called "ModularGrid[remember_me]"
That won't work in privacy mode of the browser and also there might be ad blocker browser extensions that block that cookie?

@ExitFields
-- Khimbo

I suspended the user

Could the Serge marketplace have a clean up please, there are several suspended accounts but listings are still there !
-- flipper16

I deleted every offer of suspended users

We changed the remember me function last year to a more secure implementation.
But if you set the "remember me" checkbox it should keep you online several weeks. If you still get logged out this might happen when an error on the server occurs. Do you get logged out when you do a specific action?

@Tyrion88 is a scammer
@modulargrid maybe suspend this account before more victims are made, I see another bad review already.
-- RoelW

@LeMecSousTonLit doesn't respond any more.
-- Labyrinth100

I suspended both. It's depressing.

Hi,
I got in contact with user @charlente yesterday about a good price Vhikk X. PayPal wouldn't let me make the F&F payment for some reason
-- blaaank

Profile did not look good indeed, I suspended the user and deleted the offers.

I am even slower but now discontinued them all (except the concepts)

i also left bad feedback by accident and feel extremely bad about it How can I undo this?
-- sleus

Click the voting thumb again

Shiny new User View

We have updated the user view. Everything should look nicer, load faster and we have some new functions like a stats panel and the possibillity to add your YouTube, Instagram and Soundcloud channels! How else would the world discover your next fire modular ambient track?

Look at you!

However the only two things that really allowed for that to happen were 1; bad account security by the user and 2; bad account security practises by MG.

We allowed weak passwords, that was the problem. That isn't the case anymore. Also login, password forget, etc are now way better protected against bot attacks.

It is beyond me why we do not yet have 2FA implemented on MG. A marketplace with this many users really needs more security features to keep their users' accounts safe,
-- toptier

Something like 2FA will come but it has to be done in a way that won't annoy anyone. For most people MG is just a database to dragdrop modules around, they won't like to give away their mobile phone numbers or fumble around with 3rd party authenticator apps.

They are in

Rack Stats Reset

Visits counter of racks resettet. See here

Keep me logged in! refactored

The Keep me logged in! function now uses a more modern, security-focused token workflow. In practice, this means that even if you checked that box on a computer that isn’t yours, you can now log out from any other device and instantly revoke that persistent login.
It isn’t compatible with the old system, so many people will have to log in manually over the next few days.

We’ve always had a counter on the rack pages that shows how many users have viewed a rack.

This counter also recorded visits from people who were not logged in. Over the years, most of those turned out to be bots, AI spiders, and web crawlers. The table grew to around 150 million rows. We had no reliable way to distinguish real traffic from automated traffic, so we now only count visits from logged-in MG users. All visit entries from non-logged-in users have been deleted. Which is a drastic 95% decrease for most racks.

We never considered this statistic particularly important, but unfortunately some people cared about it and are upset about the change. There was no bad intent behind this change!

That's a recent change right? Just checked and it indeed seems to work. Great, I used to literally always dismiss the manufacturer info.

-- MPCman

I looked it up, it was commited
29.08.2023 16:47 GMT :-)

But there is always the chance that it is not working right in some browser or a code regression, so report if you have issues.

Buchla a mess? Did recently someone looked in the pedals section?

2. Who is going to do the actual work? (Knut has a day job or two and can't be bothered)

Please bother me anytime, if I can fix stuff I do it. I just have little knowledge about Buchla.

3. What about DUPLICATEs? People are making very poor new module entries because they don't know how to use the Marketplace. Or do not care to.

Moderators can merge duplicates or what is even easier just unlist/hide them, so only the uploader can see them.

4. 'Manufacturer Approved' lock. Even if you know/mean better, you can't. https://modulargrid.net/e/forum/posts/index/13163)

Under the Approved stamp is a link where you can send a message to the manufacturer and tell him he should unlock or update the data.

I will unlock modules where the manufacturer is out of business. Someone has to tell me which manufactureres that are.

5. (Your gripe here)

sighh

-- wiggler55550

Show Blank Panels setting is stored in the DB

If you check/uncheck Show Blank Panels in the modules search form the change is saved in the database. Next time you log in this will be used as default value so you don't have to hide them every time.

Searched the forums but couldn't see anyone asking this - also didn't see in the settings either. Is there any way to turn off the blank panels by default?
-- Pilkafa

New feature: Show Blank Panels setting is stored in the DB

If you check/uncheck Show Blank Panels in the modules search form the change is saved in the database. Next time you log in this will be used as default value.
Edge Case: if someone messages you a link to a search result with blank panels that will override your setting, else you would not see the panels.

Similarly, I also wouldn't mind by default hiding the manufacturer info panel either ( which shows up above search results when the manufacturer is set in search criteria).
-- MPCman

This should already work. If you hide the manufacturer info panel it is saved in the user pref and should be restored even after a new login on a differen tcomputer.

For the search defaults: It's true that everyone prefers a different setting. Looking into it ...

There is a checkbox in the search form.

One feature request that could have a big impact on safety for negotiating modules not only here but everywhere: adding manufacturer serial numbers, actual pics [...]
-- torto

I see, but this all already possible without new technical functionality. You can put any text and any link into the offer and also upload a photo. Maybe we should change the default text and add some ideas there?

Buying a module carries much less responsibility than selling a module.

There are scam possibilities from both sides. I am dealing with lot's of requests to delete unjustified downvotes which is annoying because I don't want to interfere in private conversations so if someone comes up with a better, easy to implement idea I am all ears.

(On a side note, are these suggestions ever being read or considered? I have posted several suggestions and have yet to see anything come from it, be that a reply or implementation of some sort.)
-- toptier

Yes, I read them and most changes on the site come from suggestions, so thanks for every input.

As de titel says. Seeing there's more and more Precision Adders on the market it would be a lot easier to find them on this website.

Cheers!
-- Selten

We have that now. I have tagged two modules so the category is not empty and would be happy if you tag some more.

If something can be mounted in an Eurorack enclosure and runs with 12v it counts as Eurorack, more or less. Even more if it is unlisted. Meaning, users can upload stuff to use for their own racks.
But of course there is a huge gray zone. The database does not need to be clean but it should stay relevant and useful.
In that sense keep posting if something is totally off or spammy and we will take care.

Published Date for modules

In addition to the created field modules now also have a published field. Manufacturers could always upload a module as private and change later to public. Now, when they change the module to public the published field is written and the module will show up on first position in the module browser when sorted by new. This only works once, it's not possible to bump modules.
The change will make published modules more visible. Before the change depending on the upload date they were burried in the module list.

Small CSS changes

fixed narrow line heights in headlines in module description

I am here. I deleted some of his spam posts, added a new forum rule "no AI slop" and will ban him on further spam posts. The other mods look mainly for module db entry contributions.