In some rare cases, when user interaction went unexpectedly wrong, our server used to return you weird messages that didn’t really tell you much … Well, we have improved that aspect of our website and we hope you will overcome all potential inconveniences easier now.
Have fun!
We have found and removed a couple of bugs that made the user-experience a little bit confusing from time to time, e.g. when commenting on someone’s performance. Besides that, we are thinking quite a lot about exciting new features for YourChords.com. Stay tuned!
Once again it’s time for a little bit more technical post …
You have probably noticed that from time to time you come across a song that has got some chords which don’t show you the pop-up diagram, when you put your mouse over it. Well, it’s what we call “chords detection flaw” and [...]
This post is going to be a little bit more technical once again …
You see, the program that you use to browse the web is called “internet browser”. There are a lot of different options out there and practically each of them displays websites a little bit differently. So, what we have to [...]
We are thinking about the possibility to keep track of the songs you have recently played. That list of recently played songs would be visible only to you and would really help you find the desired song faster if you have played it before.
Of course every user would be totally anonymous and those lists would [...]
We have improved pretty much all of the JavaScript functionality on the website, so those of you who are using modern browsers (Internet Explorer 6+, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome, …) will be able to experience a much faster user interface and a more stable functionality.
Now that we have our own server, we are able to optimize various database settings in various ways that were not available to us before.
This way we have succeeded to optimize our search engine in a way that it returns the search results 30% faster on average - in some cases even 100 times faster. [...]
Notice: This post might be interesting only to the tech-savvy visitors.
We have rewritten all the JavaScript code on the YourChords.com website so now it is much more elegant and should work even better (if possible). All of the JavaScript code now uses jQuery library.
What does that mean? You can expect the website’s user [...]
The old server really could not handle the load anymore and Google started getting really angry with us … so we had no choice but to move to a new server.
So, we have moved to a powerful ServInt VPS which should be more than capable of handling the load. We really hope we have solved [...]
Due to popularity of YourChords.com we have had some quite serious issues with our server in the last few days. Quite a lot of our visitors have gotten a message saying that our website is currently not available.
We have researched the possible causes and improved some aspects of our code. This way we have reduced [...]