If you select the next page it will require you to log in. Sucks, it was the only good feature on this otherwise shitty website full of lunatics, not gonna bother with that and use discogs instead. Looks like everything in the future will become paywalled so you won't be even able to do read only.
>>132079914Nobody cares about that troon website lil bro
>>132079922>I dont listen to music bro im a waifufag We know.
>>132079914>If you select the next page it will require you to log in.Just make an account. What's the issues? Who gives a fuck about lunatics? Just don't interact with them. Log the shit that you like and then sign off. Maybe learn self control.
It's probably because of scrapers, I doubt a paywall has anything to do with it. Sites are getting hammered by jeet AI scrapers nowadays and big ones are starting to require logins because of it.
the RYM charts are fucking dogshit lmaotheyre all full of the most surface tier entry level plebfodder imaginable
>>132080027You can find some interesting stuff in genre specific charts
>>132080020Is that why the site now requires endless verification?
>>132080045idk man it seems to me like its all the Same Old Stuff thats always brought up in online music discussion and if youve been listening to music for more than 5 minutes youll have heard of it alreadyif someones like 15 and taking their first steps past clicking algorithmic autoplay on Spotify or w/e fair enough but its not for grownups
>>132080086Try using esoteric charts or checking the albums with fewer ratings
>>132080086Not everyone is a terminally online autist who listened to over 10k albums
>>132080107>pleb pridefuck me we are through the looking glass now lads
>>132080020/thread
>>132080114Some people have life outside of musicUnless you listen to music everywhere
>>132080126>Some people have life outside of musicThat's retarded. There is nothing to this life except music.
>>132080114What's so great about scraping the bottom of the barrel?
>>132079914Obviously locked because the wanker scum here kept 'raiding' RYM with stupid reviews and references to Pepe.
>>132080195if youre happy with the Top40 and Queen's Greatest Hits, good for you. be happy that you like the exact same stuff as everyone else and youre easily pleased. grab a McDonalds on your way to the new Marvel movie.
>>132080226Dumb reply
>>132080250a highly cogent and obviously carefully considered argument you have there. the RYM top 50 will be right up your street.
>>132080020thisa mod already answers on the forumsblame musk and other techbro chuddies (t-thanks daddy DrumpF)
>>132080259Okay
The internet will be unusable in a few years.
>>132080431>in a few years
>>132080020>because of scrapersHelp a retard out, what does scrapers mean in this context?
>>132080027Unless it's your day 1 of getting into music no one uses the top charts. It's mostly for the weird or specific combinations, like the best post-punk albums from Czechoslovakia in 1980 or something like that
Browsing RYM has become a chore. Every fucking time you open a page it needs to check you're not a bot twice, and then half of time it fails to load the page for no good reason. It has to be the shittiest website on the internet in terms of functionality alone
>>132080858>short answerAI requires a massive amount of data to figure things out. That data gets "scraped" (collected, downloaded, etc.) from public websites all over the internet. Page loads aren't free: they put stress on servers and cost the host money, so web hosts are getting fed up with AI scraper traffic and looking for ways to block them.>long(er) answerNot all page loads are equal: pulling up a RYM chart certainly puts exponentially more stress on the servers than loading an album page because of how much data has to get pulled and compiled, so that's why they're specifically gating charts.There used to be ways of keeping bot traffic at bay. Search engine bots, for example, announce they're a search engine bot with a request header. This worked for decades because of a sort of social contract between (pre-AI) scrapers and web hosts, but there's a lot of money in feeding the best AI model, so loads of scrapers nowadays lie about who they are and ignore those rules to gather more data. It's one of the reasons you see Cloudflare pop ups everywhere nowadays. Gating data behind logins is another way to do it. A scraper could sign in and pretend to be a real person behind an account, but it's pretty obvious what's going on when you check logs and see one user requested 100,000 RYM charts in a 10 minute window.
>>132081257Oh I see, thanks for the explanation
>>132080001>Oh yes, the optimal way to go through life is not sharing anything about you with other people for fear of punishment. I love self control.
>>132081351red shirt was supposed to be a swastika as that's the /pol/tan shirt
>>132081351it's a music database and cataloguing/rating site. stop pretending it's a social media site.
>>132081543That's like saying "McDonalds is a job site, stop talking to your coworkers".
>>132081594except that you'd get fired for sexually harassing the underage employees you work with
>>132081630Damn.
>>132081543There is a forum feature, thoughbeit
>>132081891filled with the most inane threads posted by and replied to by non-entities
>>132080020This is the """excuse"""The real reason is they want you to be forced to log in so they can extract more information data to sell to advertisers. Many of the websites admit as such this is also why they also try to force you to download apps
>>132081950Then, dismiss the entire site because it's filled with inane releases that were added and rated/logged by non-entities
>>132082077ridiculous logic
if it stops random album pages from fucking 503'ing then it's an acceptable compromise. retarded fucking website
>>132085372>We enshittified our site on purpose so you accept more enshittification as the solution:^)
