New Forum Feature: Introducing 8Tracks!

[DarkeSword 🎮]

Inspired by the old playlisting site, I dove into Invision's database tool and built out a fun new feature I like to call 8Tracks! Create a playlist of exactly 8 OC ReMixes by entering their OCR IDs (e.g. OCR01235) in the form and generate a player that you can listen to and share.

We've put together a couple of 8Tracks already, which you can find at the 8Tracks Index, but feel free to make your own! The link is also available at the top of the forum page in the main navigation next  to ReMix Submissions.

To premptively answer a few questions:

• Why can't I do more than 8?
  The forum software I'm using to build out these kinds of features are very limited, so I need to lean into these types of restrictions to make them work.
• Wouldn't it be easier to have an "Add to playlist" button on the actual ReMix pages?
  The main site and the forums are actually far more separated than it seems. It's almost impossible to develop user-specific features for the non-forum part of the site.
• Is this the playlist function you've been talking about for a long time?
  No. Eventually I want to build a proper, robust playlist function that hooks into the remix database and also ties to user accounts with no restrictions on playlist length; that will come as part of the full site rewrite that will happen eventually. However, building this feature (especially the JS stuff and how it interacts with the YouTube player API) has taught me a lot and I'll be able to apply these lessons to the eventual rewrite.

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy. Looking forward to queueing up some 8Tracks from you. :)

-- DarkeSword