If neither this “practice” nor the release editor changes it will drive editors away:
(why is the formatting messed up when quoting?)
The performance aspect is still one of the main reasons why I rarely bother with anything that has more than x countries. It takes extra time and energy. (and if my current device wasn’t fan-less it would also cause extra noise)
Surely it can’t be the goal to have 6 duplicate releases just because the encoding is different (or presentation of the tracklist for that matter).
Which revealed another detrimental effect of the long country list “spam” in the user interface.
Scroll wheel version (actually touchpad):
Arrow keys version:
(no video uploads in the forum allowed? not even a meager 40.8 KB one?)
Also, I’ve noticed the release duplicates tab in the release editor doesn’t collapse countries either:
BTW, I still have a pretty small screen (1366 x 768) which makes all of this even more of a nuisance. Are there any stats for screen resolution of MB editors/visitors?
Last but not least, even if all of this was somehow solved I’d probably still not be in favor of the country list “spam” as long as the manual labor of data maintenance burden remains.
If you long for accurate data MB might want to consider ingesting DDEX feeds:
Here is an example of the data a RIN file can supply (previously introduced on IRC):
It’s not possible to add equipment which is why I suggested adding Equipboard to the “other databases” whitelist quite a while ago: