Message User Filter

The message in- and outboxes now have a basic user filter. If you filter for a user and click through to the detail message, you can navigate prev and next in the user correspondence.

We’ve now introduced an allowlist of the most common websites that can be linked in private messages. As a result, it should no longer be possible to include links to phishing sites.

This is admittedly a rather drastic measure, as the allowlist certainly won’t cover every legitimate website. However, we believe it’s a better approach than trying to maintain a denylist, which can never keep up with newly created phishing domains.

Unicorn users are currently exempt from this restriction because their accounts are not anonymous.

If a URL is blocked that you think should be allowed, please let me know via PM or at info@modulargrid.net so I can add it to the allowlist.

Message Link Allow List

We are still being targeted by scammers who use the ModularGrid messenger to send phishing messages to users.

To reduce this problem, we’ve introduced an allowlist of the most common websites that can be linked in private messages. As a result, it should no longer be possible to include links to phishing sites.

This is admittedly a rather drastic measure, as the allowlist certainly won’t cover every legitimate website. However, we believe it’s a better approach than trying to maintain a denylist, which can never keep up with newly created phishing domains.

Unicorn users are currently exempt from this restriction because their accounts are not anonymous.

If a URL is blocked that you think should be allowed, please let me know via PM or at info@modulargrid.net so I can add it to the allowlist.

These are all scam phising attempts, don't fill anything into the forms!

We are fighting against it.

Rackommend

With the new Rackommend feature, you can view a breakdown of the functions in your rack - such as VCAs, oscillators, and filters - and get recommendations for modules that fill in missing functionality or that one empty slot.

Rackommend suggests suitable modules based on the ones already in your rack. Simply click a function tag to start a matching search. Most of the search settings are preserved, so you can, for example, limit recommendations to a specific manufacturer. The brave can skip straight to the Add a Module button.

To create the Meta ModularGrid Rack, we analyzed the distribution of module types across all ModularGrid racks. Rackommend compares your rack against this statistical meta rack and highlights which functions are over- or underrepresented. You can then add a suitable module that fills the gap while also fitting the available width.

Take it with a grain of salt, of course - and build whatever makes you happy.

No AI. Just statistics.

Because this feature is computationally expensive, it is available exclusively to Unicorn users.

EDITED Thursday July 09, 16:44

Better Phishing Protection

Following the recent phishing attemps, we have strengthened our anti-phishing measures.
It is no longer possible to register accounts with usernames such as “Support” or similar variations. In addition, private messages are now checked for suspicious links.

@Seemone , i got the same thing from same user, obviously phishing junk ...
-- ozwa12ld

It’s a scam!

I have:

• suspended the user and several related accounts
• renamed every existing username containing “support” to “scam”
• deleted all messages they sent
• blocked new registrations with “support” in the username

more pedalgrid manufacturers:
-- KNYST

They are in

Here har a few more pedal brands not yet added to the manufacturers list:

-- KNYST

Added and assigned most of them, keep them coming...

Module List

If you just want to see an easy to copy simple list of all modules in a rack click on Show -> Module List on your Rack view page.

Daily, but maybe the API is broken, will look into it...

OPFXS, Crazy Tube Circuits

-- KNYST

I added both

ive just had a message about an iyrm fro sale form a user 'support23" with a link yo end bank details, thr user has recently joined, no feedback, beware!
-- Gint

Currently someone is sending fishing mails from several new accounts like support, modulargridsupport and such. I suspend them all. Don't click on the links, obvious scam!

Hi Guys,

I sadly have to report I got scammed by user Rajkaiii
-- twinor

I have suspended the account and deleted the offer.

Just bumping this again. I can't use most of the features on this site, but would really just love a way to import my rack. Any updates/ideas?
-- eroe

You have a PM

I'm unable to save profile settings due to having a three-character username . I've used this name on this platform since the very beginning. Can the minimum username length be adjusted? I'd just like to save my settings.
-- jvt

This should be fixed now.

90° Module Rotation

You can now rotate Eurorack modules 90° so they will fit in a 1U row! This works only for modules up to 6 HP.
You can still drag them around and also Optimize Rack Space continues to work.
Use the Rotate Button in the planner action menu. If you don't see that button check, that it is activated in your user preferences or use keyboard shortcut f for flip.

I wish there was a way to add all modules of a rack to my collection or add them to my collection from the rack view.
-- paulstrohmeier

There is afunction in the edit menu?

I am there! If someone is wearing a modulargrid shirt, it's me. Always open for a beer and chat.

Hi,
the json export file is not ment to be edited by users to be imported again, because that would circumvent some security features, e.g. users importing Javascript code, or modules with wrong ids that potentially could mess up the database or 1000 modules to manipulate the Popular Modules statistics.
If you change the JSON file, the import will fail.

Otherwise, if you're adding modules to a rack, how do you tell it to add to the next row? For example Ihave my top row done, but there's still space.

Users can move modules around with keyboard shortcuts like enter key and cursor keys but that is done via Javascript and I think there are no web accessibillity features for that currently.
There is also a function Optimize Rack Space in the edit menu that will try to fill out all spots but will shuffle all modules inside the rack around.

... 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.