Playing Here News

Playing Here currently has 578 registered users. You can see them all on the new user list. I’m not really sure why so many people have created accounts. There were previously only two advantages to having an account: you could leave comments and you could subscribe to email alerts. But less than 100 people have done either. So why did the other 400 odd people bother creating accounts?

In the near future, I intend to email them all and find out. But before then, I thought it would be good to add some more advantages to these accounts. If you look at the settings page, you’ll find you have a lot more settings now to set.

Most of them a focused on editing your profile page. See my freshly updated profile for an example. You can add your real name, show your email address to other users (though not to anyone else, as “anyone else” includes spammers, and enter whatever you want to describe yourself.

In addition to these profile features, you can also tell us you don’t want emails from us (such as that one I intend to send to find out why you all created accounts), or that you don’t want to see ads. Though we’d prefer you don’t do either (we’d like to be able to both communicate with you and make money), the choice is up to you.

To make any of these changes to your account, you need to first login. If you forgot your password, that may be difficult. So another new (and long overdue) feature is the ability to reset your password if you’ve forgotten it.

And of course, creating a Playing Here account still allows you to comment on individual shows and subscribe to email alerts for upcoming concerts in your area. So if you haven’t registered yet, now’s a good time.