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3 hours ago, Soul Shrews said: I've not read this whole thread so excuse me if it"s already been mentioned but I" m missing the "Back To The Top" arrow on threads.
Cheers Paul
ok have tracked this one down and should now be resolved fully
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38 minutes ago, Woodbutcher said: P.S. It would be nice to see the emoji list reversed as it's a mini ballache scrolling right through the stuff nobody uses to get to the 'nice' smileys which are right at the bottom ...
that's doable
just done, the classic/default ones are now at the top
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41 minutes ago, Woodbutcher said: Just noticed one little thing that's gone missing , before when you wanted to find your own 'Content' you would just hover the cursor over your user avatar top right and the options would drop down with a 'Find my content' box therein , you now have to click on the avatar to get the drop-down and the Find Content option is no longer there.
It's no great hassle but you now have to open your profile and hunt around that way but the previous set-up was nicer , has it gone forever ?
just checked and yep that hover menu has gone
the link took you to your activity page, that is the same place as the 'show me my activity " button/link on your profiles does now
so now 3 clicks 'open menu' , goto profile and then 'find my activity' instead of the 2 before
the amount of customisation needed to bring that hover menu or similar back is just not feasible
41 minutes ago, Woodbutcher said: And similarly if you hover over your avatar on the left in the activity feed there is just a blank grey box appears , but nothing in the box regarding content etc.
you should be seeing something like the below each time you hover
are you seeing it in other places?
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ok a catch up of the current state of the site
main features
Feedback feature - author of app says an alpha version be ready in a few days
Our online store should return in 48-72hrs
Site layout
Almost firm, just work on header outstanding
news feature, video feature
work needed on layouts/display
forum
minor tweaks to do
soul markt
once feedback is back can add the previous sale related links/info
events
working fine!
need to sort the return of the map view
front page
layout work needed
Misc
birthdays gone walkabout, now back
ok that's about it
thanks to most for the constructive feedback and suggestions
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On 24/05/2025 at 08:07, Mike said: Morning Tony
a quick one, as asked before, use our pm system to discuss the finer parts of any trading
no real need to clog the forums up with one to one chat, emails etc etc
thanks
the latest post containing emails etc etc dropped
topic locked
@Big Tony have asked you twice now in recent days, best start using pms or will take action
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2 hours ago, Martyn Pitt said: I am using Safari 17.6 ... if I change browser will that get rid of the annoying column of text on the right hand side?
the 'column of text' is a layout feature, which doesn't really depend on browser version
it was there before , its just now 'sticky' now, the text flows with the scrolling
did mention a temp work around of narrowing the browser window
as said before, can look at things like this later when things are solid
but it makes no sense whatsoever to start changing things at this moment based on one person requests/references
does appear in this topic at least, that members using non-current browsers on non-current operating systems may be having problems with the display/layout
will look into this deeper later and see what options are available, but suggest for now those using such try and use a more up to date browser
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19 minutes ago, Martyn Pitt said: To be honest Mike I am with Woodbutcher on this, there is a delay when typing into the message box, the text is smaller and not as clear, and navigation is delayed and jerky ... I am not seeing much evidence of an upgrade.
It may improve when you finish all the customisation.
If you are using older versions of browsers on older os's then you may hit such issues, can you let me know what version you are using, pm if rather
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13 hours ago, Zoomsoulblue said: July 3, 2017
By Matt A
When the story of how Britain fell in love with underground club culture is told, it tends to follow a familiar narrative. The initial focus naturally falls on the NS scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s, which effectively created the blueprint for modern club culture by promoting the idea of dancing all night to obscure music played by DJs whose reputation was built on their ability to champion records their rivals didn’t own.
The story then moves on to the rise of house music, ecstasy culture and the rave movement at the tail end of the 1980s. It was during this period that dance music became part of the fabric of British culture, in the process sparking the rise of the “superstar DJ,” colossal events and a boom in music production that continues to this day.
The problem with this story is that it doesn’t mention what came between the high point of Northern Soul and the mass movement of the late 1980s that cemented dance music’s place in the hearts of the British public. Yet it was during this decade that the roots of Britain’s underground dance music culture were strengthening at a rapid pace. This was the era of the soul all-dayer; sizeable events that initially attracted Northern Soul purists but would eventually draw in dancers from across the nation, often from very different social backgrounds.
Over the course of 11 years, the all-dayer scene gave Britain the cult of the DJ, the UK’s first dedicated dance music festival and served as a breeding ground for future pioneers of homegrown dance music. And, with little fanfare, these “all-dayers” turned dance music from a niche interest into something embraced by those in both the suburbs and inner cities, laying the foundations for all that followed.
It is a story in three distinctive parts, linked by a handful of groundbreaking DJs and promoters. It begins in the North West of England during the most fractious period in the Northern Soul story, shifts to London and the South East, and then returns to its northern heartlands on the eve of the rave revolution. This, then, is the previously untold story of Britain’s first underground dance music boom.
Putting on the Ritz
By the summer of 1975, the previously united Northern Soul scene was in the midst of an identity crisis. The patience of its obsessive disciples was first tested by the closure of two of its most iconic venues, Manchester’s pioneering Twisted Wheel Club and the Golden Torch in Stoke. The former was a victim of Britain’s then archaic licensing laws, while the latter had been shut down by police following histrionic media coverage of the amphetamines-fuelled antics of some of its dancers.
To compound these blows, a schism was beginning to open up between some of the scene’s leading DJs and a portion of the paying public. For a significant number of white, working class men who populated “all-nighters” at the world famous Wigan Casino, the Winter Gardens in Cleethorpes and other smaller venues dotted across the north of England, Northern Soul would always be very narrowly defined as a style. They wanted to hear DJs playing obscure, hard-to-find soul records – mostly from in and around Detroit – that boasted a stomping backbeat.
If they visited the Wigan Casino to hear KR or Richard Searling play, that’s exactly what they got. Yet if they ventured to the Highland Room at the Blackpool Mecca, another legendary Northern Soul venue, their stomping favourites would not always get an airing. There, DJs IL and CC had other ideas.
“From ’73 onwards, the music changed in America and it really gave us a fantastic armoury of records to play,” Colin Curtis says. “We’d decided that there were records that were as good, if not better, then the Northern Soul records we were playing at the time. Along was coming a new form of dancefloor music that we were very excited about.”
Curtis and Levine’s playlists included records from the emerging Philadelphia soul, jazz-funk and disco scenes, as well as more traditional “Northern” favourites. While some of the Mecca’s passionate regulars embraced the duo’s risk-taking record choices, others accused them of ruining the scene. As far as these dancers were concerned, the choice was between Northern Soul and “modern soul,” and anyone who embraced the latter was a traitor to the cause. As the sew-on badges screamed: “Keep the Faith.”
Away from the battlefield that was the Highland Room, something else was stirring. There had been occasional “all-dayers” since the turn of the decade, but the number and frequency of events was gradually increasing.
These events were usually run by veteran Northern Soul diehards and often took place in historic “ballrooms” – pre-war complexes with multiple dancing spaces, grandiose décor and capacities of between 1,500 and 2,000. Two such venues, Birmingham’s Locarno and the Palais in Nottingham, regularly played host to popular Northern Soul all-dayers.
A promoter barely into his 20s, Heart of England Soul Club co-founder Neil Rushton, revolutionized the northern all-dayer scene with a deliciously simple, but innovative idea: instead of appealing solely to “keep the faith” disciples, he would run events that featured DJs from both sides of the Northern Soul/modern soul divide.
After successfully testing the formula at events across the Midlands, he made a bold play by switching his all-dayers to the city that first spawned Northern Soul: Manchester. His chosen venue was the Ritz, a historic Mecca ballroon on Whitworth Street West. It was here that the future direction of the British all-dayer scene would begin to take shape. From the start, the days of Northern Soul were numbered.
“When I had the opportunity to promote the Ritz, there were a lot of great new records around,” Rushton told Bill Brewster in 1999. “I didn’t want it to be just the ’60s soul that I loved but I didn’t want it to be just the current stuff, either. The reason why it worked so well wasn’t because the battle lines were drawn, it was actually because it was the first place to combine everything. We were the first venue to take the blinkers off.”
Naturally, not all of the dancers at the early Ritz all-dayers shared Rushton’s enthusiasm for new American soul. To begin with, the schism within the Northern Soul scene was all too apparent.
“It all crystallized at those all-dayers,” IL explained to BB back in 1999. “All the Blackpool crowd came because me and Colin played and all the Wigan crowd came because Richard Searling DJed. It was like two football crowds: Manchester City and Manchester United. All of these Wiganites with their singlets and baggy pants were shouting, ‘F off Get off! Play some stompers!’ It was all getting quite nasty.”
Rushton has similar memories. “Eventually you did have a situation where there would be people from Wigan pilled out of their heads from the night before, barbed out at the Ritz, picking arguments,” he explained to Bill Brewster. “But it was never as bad as at the Mecca. At the Mecca you had a guy from Wolverhampton running a banner through the venue saying, ‘Ian Levine Must Go.’ There was never a fight at the Ritz all-dayers.”
Although the Ritz had competition from events in Bradford, Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham and Burnley, it quickly became the focal point of the northern all-dayer scene, both for stomper-seeking soul veterans and modern soul enthusiasts.
“At the Ritz you had a clash of cultures, a clash of people’s opinions and a very interesting dancefloor would result from that,” Colin Curtis says. “You’d have traditional Northern Soul dress versus Hawaiian shirts and plastic sandals. There was a definite visual change: the bowling shirt versus the Hawaiian shirt, if you will.”
Once Curtis finally quit the Blackpool Mecca, he found himself a weekly residency alongside John Grant at Rafters in Manchester. Here, as at the Ritz, he could champion new music; an approach that alienated some of the white, working class dancers that had been the bedrock of the Northern Soul scene. As a result, the racial make-up of his crowds changed.
“By the time I left Blackpool Mecca I would say that on an average Saturday night, there would be six black people in the Highland Room,” Curtis says. “On an all-dayer, at that particular time, there would be a dozen. Within six months of my Rafters residency I was playing to a 70% black crowd. That crowd started coming to venues like the Ritz, so from ’78 onwards the all-dayers had changed. The mixed race attendance increased dramatically.”
It wasn’t just at the Ritz where attendances were booming, either. By this point Rushton was able to book out the entire, 3,500 capacity Blackpool Mecca complex to host extra-large all-dayers. These would feature headline live acts, such as Brass Construction, joining Ian Levine and Colin Curtis in the main room, with Northern Soul selectors relegated to the smaller Highland Room.
The increased emphasis on contemporary soul, disco and jazz-funk records not only helped attract a younger, mixed race crowd, but also dancers from further afield. As their rave era successors would later do, enthusiastic young dancers thought little of travelling hundreds of miles to attend a hyped all-dayer.
One such dancer was Cleveland Anderson, a soul-mad Londoner who would later become a successful jazz-funk and house DJ. “The Ritz was really good – everyone would descend on Manchester,” he told Bill Brewster in 1998. “On the back of that, all-dayers started popping up everywhere. One week it would be Manchester, the next Birmingham, Nottingham or Leicester. There would always be some all-dayer to go to.”
It wasn’t just dancers who would travel, either. On rare occasions, DJs from down south, such as Goldmine, Canvey Island resident Chris Hill, would also be asked to take to the turntables. It was the shape of things to come. While the all-dayer circuit up north continued to bubble along, it would be down south that the scene moved to the next level.
here's the original source yep?
https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/07/all-dayer-featurelet us know if it needs editing as per the below
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13 minutes ago, Woodbutcher said: Very sad to hear , still it's your playground so your rules I guess.
Have fun with the infernal mess the 'upgrade's created , you're obviously happy with it which is all that matters I guess , it's been fun but ....
no worries, the site is actually now imo in its strongest state for years tech wise
like the new switch the future's bright/dark
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36 minutes ago, Woodbutcher said: I'm assuming we're stuck with this dreadful font and its terrible spacing forever now ?
It's really doing my head in to read , what was wrong with the existing font that meant it needed "upgrading" (and also shrinking) in such an awful way ?
The upgrade meant a complete reset of all the site customisation that has been carried out over the previous years, returning the site back to a default format
The current font is one of the default fonts that the system software now offer and was felt to be best suited after the reset of the site, the previous font family used wasn't offered as a choice and so was/is not available at this time
Your post is the first mention/feedback that have had about the new default font choice, yep sure could change or could offer other options in the future but it all needs to be done in a deliberate way when things are rock solid, which unfortunately they are not yet
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Pulp - New Single Video... Gone for a full on Wigan Casino footage thing
Say using 'This England' Wigan Casino footage seems a bit of a odd choice
As thought this sort of video has been done to death by now
Maybe its just me
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on an on it goes....
work is taking that bit longer than first thought, the time and effort needed to rewrite, rebuild and such all our custom features on here, has been a bit more than first anticipated
example is the events 'near me' map feature, which took a fair few hours to sort
anyway this is now open for members for final testing and all being well will open later today for all
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1 hour ago, Illusive said: Hi Mike,
You right, the delay in letters appearing only occurs when I'm using Safari on my iPad. Using Google browser to reply an the digits appear instantly.
I guess I'm just gonna have to live with the delay on my iPad.
Best
Gav
yep can't do much for older browser versions, maybe type elsewhere then use copy and paste for the longer posts
2 hours ago, Mick Holdsworth said: Strange -
I use Firefox normally, but I just tried it in Chrome and Opera and it's fine. I think the problem with Firefox is the distinction between bold and light text is lost, as if any styling is not happening.
For me at least using opera is an ok workaround.
Cheers
Mick
just checked on firefox here and it all seems ok from here, same as other browsers, maybe its a firefox settings thing?
have to smile as just thought that you can always use our brand new 'dark view'!
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Events
in Freebasing
a grab of home page
40 minutes ago, Source Team said: should be ok right now @Mac
if not give us a shout back, letting us know what you are viewing the site on and what browser if possible
cheers
mike
samsung browser/android
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the larger than large logo thing should be sorted now
there's a header height issue if you are using the pwa version in portrait view , that be resolved later
is the android layout ok now @Shinehead ?
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33 minutes ago, Illusive said: First impressions are good Mike.
Looks far more dynamic and brighter, but doesn’t seem as responsive yet.
As i’m typing this i’ve finished hitting the keyboard and the words seem to appear about 5 seconds after I’ve typed them.
Gav
Its ok here, maybe a browser issue, as some have had issues with the editor, can you try another one and see if the same?
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16 minutes ago, Scooterboy said: I am hopeful that the feedback scores, and comments, will soon be restored. I believe that members derive peace of mind when buying/selling if they can see feedback and scores (I know I do).
Hey Chris
did you not read my other posts regarding the feedback feature?
here's one a couple of posts ago
up to 2 weeks , as said waiting for the author of that app to update, if not available by then will look at an alternative version/setup - data is kept so hopefully wont be too much of a pain or too long
cheers
mike
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ok one feature that may be aware of already is the
Light/dark mode
Default colour scheme is System(auto)
easiest way to demo/explain is a video grab
note
As the video shows you can choose which setting light , dark or system you prefer
the default setting is now 'system' which means that the site will reflect the setting of your device
so if viewing on a phone in dark mode , the site will show in dark mode and same if phone is in light mode
to stop this you will need to select a setting as per the video
myself currently using light on the pc , use dark on my phone
dodgy adverts via google on soul source
in Freebasing
Posted
had reports of some members being taken in by' dodgy 'adverts , as in the 'activate your account' type ones
have blocked and reported once aware but some still have got through
If you do see any 'dodgy' adverts on here via google, then can you let us know asp via pm or our support forum and if needed will report, ban and such the offending adverts
cheers
mike