Greetings, Everyone!
I am here to ask everyone about their best experiences scrolling through the MusicBrainz Web Page, their favorite features on the website and what changes would they vote to be added in terms of design in 2021.
We are open to any suggestions regarding the website but I would love to start off with the starting page on this topic.
This is the website right now, just for your reference.
Let us all begin with the thoughts now!
I for one think that we could use the cover arts from the recent additions a bit up on the page so that the page looks more appealing when the users visit the website.
Secondly, I think we have a good amount of content to be presented to the user and hence could do so in a better format with a few images.
The website can be made responsive in the coming future so that it is user-friendly on mobile devices as well.
I think a dark theme would be nice.
Thanks for the reply. I would say a dark theme would only become a priority once the major design has been dealt with. 
Not until recently when my eyes began to hurt (just kidding, not that serious) did I realize the font and text size of MB is not so pleasant for me, a desktop user. After replacing the default font and adjusting the size it becomes better now, really a relief for my eyes.
Seconding the font size, the default is ridiculously tiny. I do not have any vision problems but I always use the website at 130% zoom.
Makes sense. I am more conscious regarding this now!
General ideas for the starting page:
Some prominent statistics (e.g. number of artists/releases/recordings)
Making important links much more immediately visible and useful. Currently, useful links are shoved into sidebars or hidden at the bottom of the page (esp. the forum!), and there is an overload of options (e.g. the âQuick Startâ section contains 6 different links a beginner might want to read).
I could imagine having 4 large links, equally prominent:
To compensate for this, âadvancedâ topics like the developer documentation and possibly also the data download do not need to be mentioned as prominently as they currently are in my opinion, as these are generally useful to people who are already at least somewhat familiar with Musicbrainz.
This would be really handy. Took me three years to find there was an expanded search. It could be as simple as ADVANCED SEARCH link sitting under the constantly used Quick Search box.
Search will also drag more of those noobs in. Convert the casual searcher into a contributor.
Yeah, yeah, I know the menu option shouts SEARCH but amazing what the brain fails to see every day when it has been taught that search is in the corner.
As an editor, things I use a lot on the front page are:
*My Data menu (everything)
*My Profile menu
*Editing menu
*Quick Search box
*Forum link
*Blog news list
Talking of the top menu. It seems strange that About Us\Products are next to Editing\Search\Documentation. The first pair are for those who want to know what MusicBrainz is. The other three are in constant use by editors. Seem a strange fit side by side.
Also second most of what @elomatreb just said. Make the forum more findable as it is so helpful, friendly and plain darn useful. The site and Picard can be confusing to noobs and they need the forum.
It is also worth thinking of your slightly different groups. I came here as a tagger, stayed as a database editor. I doubt I am unique in that. Picard and Tagging drew me in. They need to be loud and prominent. That is how you get the noobs addicted 
Seconding this one. Just found that option LAST MONTH.
My thoughts
One question to ask is âwho/what is the home page for?â
The current home page functions largely as an introduction to the overall project. In that context, keeping the ârecent additionsâ at the bottom makes sense, theyâre more of a teaser (and adding a bit of color to a text-heavy page) rather than the main content. The primary question that the current page answers could be stated as âWhat the heck is Musicbrainz?â
Other questions that the home page answers to varying extents:
âHow can I contribute to Musicbrainz?â
âWhat can I do with Musicbrainz data?â
That last question is, I believe, the one that the home page does the worst job of answering. The âTag your Musicâ section addresses this question but not much else does. (The âDevelopersâ section does also address ways to use the data, but that speaks to a very small subset of overall data users.)
I, too, generally have MB zoomed to 130%.
I have just finished (I think) putting together a Stylus theme for a darker MB (it actually works for most MetaBrainz product sites). I suppose youâre going to break it now. 
The home page has always been kind of ânoisy.â The mission statement, important as it is, could probably go to an âAboutâ or âOur Missionâ page, with a prominent way of drawing attention to it.
Artist images are no longer allowed. There was a whole lawsuit situation about it, so it was just decided best not to allow artist images anymore. I donât have the link handy, but itâs quite detailed somewhere on the boards here. Not sure what you mean by release groups having links to the digital stores, but this is a bad idea as Iâve worked on some release groups that have up to 30 different digital releases!!! They are all unique in their own way (mostly barcodes, but can be different labels, artwork, etc.). Note: There is a script ( Display shortcut for relationships on MusicBrainz) that will displays many links. I think those should be updated to include the digital store links, but they have not.
We canât even get them from Wikidata? Wouldnât those be under a free license?
By the release group link thing I mean something like what is on Sonemic. I am not sure how they do it, but when you got a release groupâs page, they display a few big icons under the art that you can click on to go to the most recent pages for an album.
That is specifically what the lawsuit was about. We used to have the artist images that showed up on Wikipedia here under the âfreeâ license, but asshole photographer sued everyone. Fortunately, MB was able to get the lawsuit dropped, but it was decided then to drop that feature. Oh. Try the script called âFunky Illustrated Recordsâ as it shows the artwork at the top of the page like that. Yeah, maybe some of the features that are currently on scripts could be implemented without having to run them, or update that script to incorprate the linked digital stores, but I think it might get too cluttered for those who donât like all the script stuff.
