Beethoven symphonies

[Matthew Mugmon]

How many symphonies did Beethoven write? Can anyone in the AMS shed some light on this?

[Bob Judd]

Could I ask you to be more specific with your question please? Did you wish to specify a location (e.g. how many did he write while in Vienna)? Or a time period (e.g. how many did he write before 1800)? Or mode (major or minor)? Or key (F major, D minor, etc.)? Once I know exactly what you wish to know, I think I may be able to help further.

Thanks in advance.

(Yes, I’m kidding…)

[Matthew Mugmon]

@rjudd11 Thanks for the reply! No one knew music history could be so complicated. I’ll have to reformulate my question and get back to you.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by Matthew Mugmon.

[Matthew Mugmon]

This seems to be working pretty well. How are you finding the login process? It seems I have to click a few places to find my way to the discussion. There must be a way to make this easy for people.

[Matthew Mugmon]

Also, and it may be my Internet connection, but there seems to be some lag time in posting. Getting from clicking submit to seeing the post requires a lot of waiting.

[Bob Judd]

Yes, it isn’t perfect, re getting back to the discussion. I clicked “reply” on the email notice and couldn’t since I wasn’t logged in. Once logged in, it was hard to find my way back to the conversation. I just went back to the email and clicked reply again, and (since I was logged in) came straight here.

And even so, getting back to the relevant conversation should not be such a winding pathway. I.e. it won’t be easy to maintain a conversation if our impatient users can’t do this more quickly.

BTW I added tags to my pedantic reply above; did the tags show up in any meaningful way for you?

 

[Nicky Agate]

Hi there,

I hope you don’t mind me coming in here, but as the project manager for Humanities Commons, I’m super interested in your feedback! As you know, we’re in early beta, so we’re keen to find out what’s working and what’s not. If you haven’t logged out of the Commons, the e-mail notifications are great and take you right to the conversation, but if not, I agree that it’s a very winding route. One of the things we’re considering is the ability to conversations by e-mail. Is that something that might interest you? Or is being brought directly to the conversation after log-in more important?

Thanks so much for trying out Humanities Commons!

Best,

Nicky

[Bob Judd]

Thanks Nicky! I’m glad you hopped in, since we were thinking we might want to be in touch w/ you all on the project side.

I posted the note earlier this a.m., and here, 3 hrs later, I did have to log back in again, and yes, it’s not exactly straightforward to get back to the thread. For us, I do believe we’d like to be able to click on “reply” in the email notice and be taken directly to the reply area of the thread. If logging in is needed prior to that, we’d ask for the redirect to be automatic. Seems like this would be pretty easy to do, since the link in the email DOES go to the right spot if I’m logged in.

One site I use has a list with the heading “things you’ve recently viewed” that shows up when I log in. This would be nice at HC.

While searching for the thread I tried “Activity” (left menu) and was surprised to be shown ALL activity, not just my own. (Actually, none of my own appeared at a glance.) I didn’t find the recent activity useful, speaking personally. It sort of assumes a relatively narrow range of topics, perhaps?

You ask about email conversations. We are currently in a Listserv setup, which we’re finding less than satisfactory (Listserv is pretty outmoded, we felt). I suppose that having an email-based conversation might be useful for HC, but if so, we’d strongly advocate for it to mirror the HC web site forum-style presentation, i.e. we’d not wish for it to be a “sidebar conversation” that wasn’t shared on the thread.

Seems to me that if the connection between the email “reply” link and the website thread were made more direct/easy, we’d be fine with that.

Thanks again for asking!

Bob

 

• This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by Bob Judd.

[Nicky Agate]

Hi again, @rjudd11,

There is a favoriting option on Humanities Commons, but it’s a little hidden. If you click on the star below any activity record in hcommons-staging.org/activity, such as notifications of items being deposited in the repository, or on any item in the group’s activity tab (see image), you’re essentially bookmarking that item. You can access all favorited items by going to the dropdown menu below your avatar, hovering over Activity, and then clicking favorites.

The Activity item in that same dropdown will show you all your activity.

Finally, the Reply by Email option would, in fact, post the comment directly into the discussion thread. But yes, I agree that a redirect upon login is important too, and have added it to our development queue.
Thanks again!

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