Just re-reading some of my posts, and I would like to thank everyone for not nick-picking them apart for all the grammar and spelling mistakes I have. Coming over from Reddit, it's really nice not to go over a quick post more times than when submitting a resume.

For the leaders of Tildes, please remember to grow slowly. Your initial policies will somewhat determine the demographic of your early members, and future policy will determine changes in the demographic until a larger demographic and your growing body of policies are in a tug-of-war for the direction of this undertaking.

This means if you act to appease, say, green martian chess players, the site will eventually attract more and push your growth that way. This applies to gamers, trolls, yammerheads(like me), or any class of people you care to name. I only say this because right now I sense a narrow demographic of current members.

Right now, you the leaders have a great amount of control over direction. My hope is for a wider demographic, while retaining a direction that discourages trolling, pedantry, and general instability. A daunting challenge. I respect your initiative and resolve in making a true non-commercial community, one that I hope points the way out of the advertising driven system of funding. Good luck and thank you again.

End of brown-nosing post. /s

I've been using Solus for years now as my main driver, but I think I may be switching to Arch soon. Or at least, start using Arch on my laptop, and keep Solus on my desktop. The main reason I wanna give Arch a try is because of how minimal it can be. I don't need a lot of applications, and I like to have the least amount of software installed on my machine as I can. Plus, distro-hopping is a disease, and it's time I try something new, haha.

So, I was just curious what DE people are using with Arch. Ideally I want something very minimal, but not too ugly. I liked using Budgie with Solus, so I may very well just use Budgie with my Arch install, but I thought I would see if anyone has any recommendations first! Thanks!

I personally have been getting really into anime the last two years and Akira is by far one of the greatest movies I've seen!
Edit: Thanks for sharing all these great films! I've got a lot of good movies I gotta look into now :)

Hi everyone,

Each and every hobby has a start. I'm going to learn how to play the piano. For this, I'm planning to buy an electric piano. There's a regular grand piano I have access to, but they come without headphone jacks, and until I get better I want to limit the scope of audible torture to my own ears as much as possible. So, I could do with some of your advice.

This list of requirements is not meant to limit you in your advice, but serves more as a guideline, to give you an idea of what I'm looking for.

Hard requirements:

• Headphone jack
• The sound library must contain at least a 'normal' piano sound and an electric piano sound (the more it sounds like a dirty Rhodes, the better!)
• At least 128 voice-polyphony
• At least 76 keys, but preferably 88

Soft requirements:

• Weighted keys
• Simulated hammer action
• High repetition
• Ebony and ivory key feel (don't like the sensation of smooth plastic)
• MIDI support so I can hook it up to a computer to try out other sound libraries

Completely unnecessary but cool:

• USB port
• Bluetooth compatibility

If you've learned to play the piano, especially as an adult, any advice you may have for me would be more than welcome, too.

Thank you!

Didn't know if i should post this in talk or tech, but my focus is on advice, so i guess this is the place.

I am currently in the process of changing my career to be a web developer. Studied IT a few years ago, dropped out due to finances, and spent the last few years working crappy jobs.

I designated all my spare time towards learning the basics. I'm confident enough in my knowledge of HTML and CSS, know how to use Bootstrap and i'm currently learning the basics of JS. The Udemy course i'm taking will cover NodeJS, jQuery and some more backend next. After that i plan on learning Wordpress and a framework i guess (React/Vue/Angular). Have i missed something here?

My final goal is doing freelance web development. My question is, how plausible is this and what else do you suggest learning to have an easier time finding clients?

Also, how soon do you figure i could start doing some basic work with simple websites (even if it means using Bootstrap / altering Wordpress themes)? My country is rather cheap, so even 500$/month on simple projects will be enough of a reason for me to quit my 9-5.

Guess i'll need a portfolio too though.

Anyways, thanks for reading. Any web devs out there care to offer advice? I'm dedicated to achieving this goal, but i'm somewhat lost still.

There seems to be a solid community of Linux people growing here, so thought I might try asking...

I'm building a head unit for my car, using a Raspberry Pi to a 7" (and eventually 10-14") touch screen.

I'd like to have a fast-booting Linux distro with tiling windows that lets me set up a config file to launch a bunch of programs that are tiled perfectly edge to edge, with minimal border (a 1px line us OK), minimal header (just the name of the program? or none at all maybe), and have them all locked in place so I can't accidentally drag one or resize one when touching audio controls, for example.

The idea is to have a few windows, such as an audio player, a GPS map, 2 dash cam feeds, and an OBDII style sensor readouts, all on screen at the same time, each sized differently.

I've got each individual program working fine on Raspbian right now, but no idea how to go about the tiling-on-boot, locking them in place, etc.

Can I do it with Raspbian with some specific window manager? or do I need a different distro?

Thanks in advance.

Hi, first post - be gentle. I don't know whether this has been mentioned but I couldn't find it anywhere else.

I worked on a hierarchical tree before (for customer support scripts) and after a while the wealth of material became increasingly complex. One problem that presented itself was the difficulty of 'multiple points of entry'. There are many ways of approaching the same topic.

In the context of Tildes, I would give a simple example of music (since that was used already). If you have a top level called ~music, your next level may be .folk, then say .Macedonia. This is how you categorise the topic.

However, if I'm in ~Macedonia then I should be able to visit .music and then .folk but arrive at the same discussion group as above.

By default, any two groups with the same set of identifiers, whatever the order, should point to the same location. In fact, there should be an infinite number of ways to get to any group, in theory.

Do we want a group called ~history.Renaissance.artists.Italy.LeonardoDaVinci and also have a different group ~science.engineering.history.LeonardoDaVinci, along with 50 others about the same individual? An ability to merge disparate tildes might be useful.

In addition, I would imagine trying to perfectly map the world of ideas and discussion into a single hierarchy is a Quixotic task, that way madness lies - especially for the nitpicky Reddit crowd. I've seen plenty discussion on this already. If it was a bit looser, we'd get to the discussion quicker, without all the 'meetings to decide on a working group name'.

Just throwing it out there for discussion. Thanks.

Hey folks, so I've worked nights for the last two years and it sucked. flat out sucked. I would average 4-5 hours of sleep before and after a shift and now I've moved to afternoons (3pm-10pm) I find my body still thinks 5ish hours is great.
Often I wake in the middle of the night and then that's it. I'm up. it truly sucks. anyone got advice on how I can change this? I've been on afternoons for a little over a month now, so could it be more I'm still adjusting? appreciate any help and advice.

edit ** thank you all for the advice. I will have to work out a routine and make sure to sick to it, then just not get too down when only making small steps.

Most of my friends and my husband love board games- the more complicated, the better! My whole life, many board games have given me pretty bad anxiety to the point where I pretended I hated them rather than admit I was just scared.

Over the past few years, I have found a few games I don't mind playing- mostly cooperative (Sentinels of the Multiverse, Betrayal at House on the Hill) or anonymous ones (Cards Against Humanity, Jackbox Games). I still have a hard time playing strategy games like Catan or Ticket to Ride; games which involve guessing what others will do like Rook or The Resistance make me want to die.

A lot of times, my friends just want to sit around and play board games, and I'm trying to build up a list of games I like to play so I can join in. Any advice for getting used to them/learning to play in advance, or games that are fun for serious board gamers, but still sort of low pressure?

Thanks!

As the title says I got into my first relationship this past week (Im 22; male) and boy do I feel happy. Now I gotta be the best me I can be, any relationship tips for a dude? (I'll take advice from all genders).

Thank you!

1 week later edit: Thank you to everyone who offered advice based on their experience. I got a taste of different stories however the tl;dr seems to be:

• be honest, even if the truth is ugly
• constant open communication
• stay true to yourself
• dont rush things; let things happen naturally
• if things don't turn out well; then thats just life

Some suggestions I think would improve navigation a bit:

1.Comment votes. I think comment votes should appear at the bottom of the comment. The reason for that is is to avoid "copycat voting" (I'm sure there must be another term). I think it's a common effect: you see a comment, you see it has 5 votes while the rest you've been reading have 1 or 2, you start being predisposed to see it as a valuable comment even before reading it, you end up voting it too, etc. Similarly to why the top level reply box is at the end of the thread, I think having comment votes at the end of the comment (or even hidden under an expandable menu, but maybe that's too much) would help users reading comments more open-mindedly. I would even argue that putting the user name at the bottom would be a good idea as well, especially since the user base now is small is easy to adscribe more credibility to some user names than others, which is not bad by itself, but might push a type of "authoritative bias".

2.Top level comments count. If we understand top level comments as the main ideas discussed in a thread, maybe it would make sense to show that in the post. Right now, what we get in the submission listing is the title, username, the ~, the tags and the comment number. I wonder how important is having the total comment number shown here. I guess it's an indicator of activity, but maybe it'd be more interesting having the top level comment number, indicating the ramifications of the topic. Total comment count could be maintained as well, or not, or just when entering the submission, etc. New comments could still be shown in the listing. After all, if we are ordering by activity, we care that there is some activity, and total number of comments is not that relevant.

3.Cascading tags. Not so sure about this one, but I though I'd mention it. When marking a comment Off-topic... I think most usually all comments under that one will also be Off-topic. Maybe it'd make sense that from that point on all comments would be marked as off topic automatically, and possibly collapsed. Right now it seems when there is an off topic comment thread, you just keep seeing off topic tags down the line, which is a bit distracting and probably unnecessary since they are almost surely going to be off topic, so it's probably not necessary for user to try and judge that. Maybe, if it makes sense, this would better be done when the tags are more developed.

4.Parent link for context. Thank you for adding the parent link! Much needed. However, wouldnt it be better if when tapping a parent link, the end page would be the parent comment (obviously) plus the comment where you tapped the link? What I mean is, to provide better context, I think it'd be better to show the parent and the comment I was reading, with all other comments under the parent AND above the origin comment collapsed. I don't know if that's clear...

5. Reply - Tag - Vote. Probably a bit nitpicking here, but I think inverting the current order of the Reply and Vote buttons would be a better fit. Since most people are right handed, and the action of voting is (probably?) more common than replying, having the vote button on the right side might be a minor enhancement in usability.

6.Highlighting OP's comments. Right now, OP's comments are marked by "(OP)" next to the username. I think it'd be better to make the indication more evident. For example, displaying OP's username in a different color or marking the comment with a different color (as with new comments in orange or own comments in purple). I would prefer the username color since it's less invasive while still being easy to spot.

Anyway, just some ideas I've had in the last few days, hopefully not too ridiculous or confusingly worded.

EDIT: Sorry for the generic title, I forgot to edit it before sending...

#Edit: OK, I am terribly unaware of the "Mark as Read" option. Thank you to @Spel for pointing this out. I feel so dumb right now, so please accept my apology for being unaware. I just thought that reading the messages would mark them as read, so please forgive me. :( However, the other thing definitely doesn't work for me.

As the title suggests, no matter whether I come back to the site from desktop or mobile, every single time I have to login in again.. even if I had just been on the site five minutes prior. It's not too much of an inconvenience, but it's not working for me.

I don't know how to post my Chrome details, but I am on Win 10 with the latest Chrome build. As for mobile, I am accessing it from Android 7.0 through the latest Chrome on there.. I've already cleared my cache to see if maybe that would fix it, but sadly it did not.

I hope it doesn't come off as me complaining, but I just wanted to let your team know of the issue I've been having.

Hi guys!

I've always being curious about tabletop games, RPG, DnD and so on. The fantasy, creativity and engagement always interested me, but I've never met anyone who played it and never being involved with it (I'm in São Paulo, Brazil, btw).

So, to be direct, does anyone has any tips on how to start? I know there are "internet based" tabletop sites/communities, but I don't know how it works.

I'd appreciate any direction! Thanks!

Sorry, I skimmed the sidebar and announcement posts and whatsoever, but didn't find anything where to post.

Found a simple bug, which may also be a feature:p

If you delete a comment, you can't press reply on that same comment again, where you previously deleted your reply from. If I vote that comment after deleting my comment reply is again clickable.

Thanks for your attention. Have a great day. :P

€dit:
I'm using a phone, with webview browser. (Entering into Google search and using that view instead of a browser)

It's been an interesting couple of weeks while we all decompress post-reddit and think about the future of democratic online forums. Most of the relevant topics have already been discussed in multiple threads, and rather than having repeats, I'd like to invite everyone to comment on these threads themselves - and to read the comments that are already there. You'll find most of the solutions we've been thinking about explained in some detail, and we do want your feedback on these ideas to help make them better.

I suggest you bookmark this page. This thread is getting a bit lost in the shuffle, and it's really the best nexus of information about tildes we have at the moment. It'll take you quite a while to read all of this, so since we don't have 'save posts' here yet, a bookmark will have to do. We're also updating the links here as new discussions form. If you think a discussion should be added here, please reply to this thread with the link and I'll take care of editing it into the main post. When you see new users asking repeat questions, please link them to this post. Thanks for your patience while we work through all of this. :)

Let's get started.

• A group is its own worst enemy. This will help you think better about online community management. Also, if you haven't yet, play The Game Of Trust.

• Community Moderators? How do we moderate effectively, and fairly? Do we moderate at all? (everyone should read this monster) Also, see round two.

• How do we handle communities that get too big? It's a doozy, the inverse of reddit.

• Do we allow Fluff content? Just how do we select for quality instead of popularity, or even define quality, anyway?

• Do we allow for political content? How do we handle one of the most heated categories of discussion? Also see the followup.

• What do we do about "Fake News?" And you thought politics was hard? :D

• Can we create new ~groups? Will users be able to create them? Yes, eventually... but it's not that simple.

• How do we stop bots from wrecking the place? What about the bots that are useful?

• Why exactly is my comment box at the bottom, rather than the top? We have reasons. ;)

• Anonymous posting? You betcha. Privacy is not just a buzzword.

• Can we think of a better name than votes? Not really, not yet. Got any ideas?

• Funding - how do we pay for all of this? Nothing is free, after all. No ads, no pay to play, but what else could we do?

• Tildes Gold? No, something much better - the exemplary upvote, because you need a limited use vote to highlight the things you think are top quality. If we all use them together, it just might work.

• What changes need to be made to the comment tags before they are re-enabled? It's a tough problem.

• Should we make the site publicly visible? For users without accounts to read.

• Moving the vote count to the vote button. It's the little things.

And, of course, our first ban. In fact we're up to two now.

It's not all serious, though!

• Drop by and introduce yourself. Also see round two and round one.
• Where are you from? Quite the diversity in countries already!
• Our first Trump thread. Went better than expected.
• What about cultural exchanges? Great idea there.
• First impressions? Once you've slogged through all this, tell us what you think about the site. ;)
• Some simple user scripts. It's not RES, but it's a start.

Please do take some time to browse through everything in ~tildes. It's a cross between theoryofreddit, ideasfortheadmins, and announcements. That's where we talk turkey. There's a new discussion there every day.

I also want to make one important contrast about what this site intends to be.

Reddit and Voat: Democratic republic based on popularity. 'Free speech' forums.
Tidles: Democratic meritocracy based on quality. 'Civil speech' forum.

Enjoy yourselves, post some content, make some new friends. This sweet honeymoon phase won't last forever, and it's one of the best parts of a new site. Remember, as long as you're civil here, you are never going to have any problems.

There are no downvotes (which is a very good idea) and we are sorting by activity anyway. So what if we took the next logical step and got rid of the entire voting system? Please hear me out! :)

(1) Up-voting does not encourage quality postings (see, for instance, https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/data-mining-reveals-how-the-down-vote-leads-to-a-vicious-circle-of-negative-feedback-aad9d49da238 ; yes the article also covers the up-vote).

(2) Anecdotally, up-voting discourages quality postings. I have often been frustrated because well-thought-out comments (by me or by others) got one hundredth of the up-votes of a strategically placed "lol" or something similarly trivial. People upvote things that evoke an emotional response, not things that make them think. (Source lost, unfortunately.)

(3) Up-votes are time-critial. Being the first one to comment often assures getting the most up-votes, which can lead to (2), to "first" posts, and to quick posts instead of well though-out comments.

(4) (Edit!) Up-voting can create an echo-chamber, because quality if measured by popularity.

All in all, voting is just a social media habit without any benefit and with the possibility of a large detrimental effect on posting quality. Old-school Web fora and Usenet worked fine without it and quality was (arguably) superior.

Would you really miss the option to vote? Is it worth the detrimental effects?

Please discuss!

Edit: fixed the link to the article. Thanks!

I've seen a few remarks here and there that have implied sort of matter-of-factly that places like /r/The_Donald have no redeeming value, the community members are awful (and undesirable to have here), their ideas are all reprehensible, etc. I assume that this is mostly just due to the demographic coming primarily from popular reddit mod teams where being anti-Trump is sort of an unspoken requirement - but I don't really know for certain.

It reminds me a little of this woman in a class i had once, who spoke to me about atheists, assumed I was christian just as a matter of course. It's kind of an awkward situation to find yourself in. I don't identify as an atheist, but if someone is mildly insulting atheists, it's uncomfortable. You have to be a covert conservative (or covert center-right, or even left-leaning Trump voter) or else you risk being blasted/flamed/mocked/etc. in places like reddit.

Part of what attracted me to Tildes was the sales pitch that it is to be a community for civil conversation, no hate-speech/bigotry. I think that's a perfect environment for political discussion - far more than shit-flinging and nuclear downvoting on /r/politics. So even if I'm the only MAGA person here, maybe there's a chance we can actually have civil conversations on topics we might initially disagree on...?

Edit: wow! Really happy to have these conversations with folks. Sad that i haven't encountered any fellow (public) Trump voters/supporters yet but very pleased that things have been civil as advertised. ;) Apologies for slow responses, trying to give proper thought and consideration to all the comments!

Edit2: gotta head to bed. sorry to anyone i haven't responded to questions from. feeling a bit like a novelty "And here's our token Trump voter. ha ha, he sure is a quirky one, isn't he, that crazy dictator-enabler!" xP. I'll try to answer any questions I've missed tomorrow. Sleep well, all (well, all who are going to sleep before I get back).

Edit3: Thanks for the open engagement, all you people who live in a different reality!

Still a bit bummed there aren't any MAGA friends here yet, but I've been blown away by how cordial most of you have been (i hope we can retain this culture into the future of the site). For those who are just coming in and don't want to read everything, I'd say a tl;dr of the conversations I've had below is:

• most people here want to engage with others on important topics without the shit flinging,
• some people express disbelief that someone can not be a bigot or racist and vote for Donald Trump,
• I've been repeating in various conversations the Laurel and Yanny thing is a great metaphor for the polarized camps experiencing different realities, seeing different movies on the same screen.

I'm continuing to try to reply to questions, and in the spirit of not provoking heated emotions I have been trying not to argue any of my political beliefs except that both sides are seeing different realities.

Hey! I practice IP law with my brothers in Southern California. I primarily do trademark, copyright and litigation work. My brothers do patents and litigation.

I also moderate stuff on Reddit, like IAmA. Ideally, I'd like to host some AMAs here. This is kind of a test to see how it goes at an early stage.

Ask me stuff!

Proof with TruePic

Edit: This was fun. Thank you guys. I'm headed out for a bit. :)

Here's a nifty gallery with some examples that are text-heavy and straightforward, not unlike my new favorite site.

http://brutalistwebsites.com/

So is tilde brutalist? Or minimalist? Both? Something else? Whatever it is, I love it :)

Edit: So glad this generated some thoughtful discussion. Sincere thanks.

The "Black" theme looks pretty OK, but monochrome white/grey-on-black would be fantastic! Nothing against a few colored spots, as long as the text has a high contrast! All the vision-impaired users will thank you!

Hi there!

First things first, I just want to say thank you for the invite, but more importantly, thank you for taking the time to create this platform. I, as I imagine most people on here, have a love-hate relationship with reddit. Clearly the site has had a tremendous impact, in many ways positive, but with many things structurally and fundamentally holding it back. I've been a subscriber to /r/RedditAlternatives/ for a while, and there have been very few sites that have compelled me to learn more and actively take part in them, and yours is of course one of them. I just got done reading all of the articles on your docs page and was very pleased - "finally", I thought, someone who's taken into account all of the articles on the internet that have been written about designing and building communities, from both a social and technical perspective, and put it into practice. You've addressed many issues that are often ignored by the platforms themselves and done it in a brilliant way so as to ensure that our voices are heard first and foremost, and I think that's just awesome.

Okay, now that all the praise is out of the way... :P

I did notice something that was not addressed in the docs pages, so I'll be blunt and simply ask: how do you plan to address the filter bubble, or rather, do you plan to address it at all? Maximizing user freedom regarding which communities you want to see content from seems obvious, but that inevitably ends up with users being stuck in their own bubble. reddit already has an infamous reputation of being an echo chamber, and gives users tools to make it an even bigger echo chamber. A long time ago, there was a commonly held belief that the internet would bring us closer together because it would force us to expand our worldviews and interact with people as people, not knowing where they're from or who they are (the "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" saying about anonymity). As reddit moves more and more toward becoming a social network like Facebook and less like the pseudonymous and anonymous internet discussion forums of old, this problem has only gotten worse, to the point of having real-world political and social consequences (especially with the increasing deluge of so-called "fake news"). I'd really like to hear your take on it.

I do have other concerns, namely: scalability, and the stance on free speech. The donation model has worked well for Wikipedia, but, well, they're Wikipedia. They're an incredibly important resource and people have clearly valued their resource so as to have sustained their model, mass donation drives with Jimbo Wales' face plastered all over the site notwithstanding. If tildes becomes the Wikipedia of internet discussion platforms, I am sure many people will find it valuable enough to donate to, though I am still not sold on how sustainable it really is.

The stance on free speech in the announcement blog post also has me concerned. As you mentioned, it is a difficult topic; that much is clear. I am mostly just curious as to where the lines are drawn in regards to how "threats, harassment, and hate speech" are defined. With an absolutist position like "we are 100% pro-free speech", things are very clear and simple, whereas any other position, I believe, comes down to the whim of the moderators/admins. Certainly most people will generally follow the golden rule and abide by basic common sense and decency (i.e. "don't be a dick"), but when discussions get heated I think it's important to not have a reasonable fear that you're going to get permabanned because you hurt someone's feelings (just as an example).

All these issues aside, I am very excited about the development of tildes and hope you & the community can come up with excellent technical and social solutions to these difficult problems.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!

(p.s. apologies for not posting this in the daily discussion topic, thought it warranted its own topic)

edit: formatting

Welcome to the /r/ListenToThis Best Of 2017!

Here there are no scores, no judgments, and no opinions - just obscure music shared by redditors, collected and arranged for you over the course of several months by our dedicated mod team. This list is meant to complement other best of lists on the internet, many of which are linked in the sticky comment below for further discovery.

Set #1 includes everything - the best of the best tracks and a corresponding all-inclusive album playlist.
The other sets are the same content, broken up into genre groups so you can listen according to your tastes. There is a sampler (1 track per album) and a full-album (every track from every album) playlist for each group. We’ve also included a listing of the albums by set in this post as not everything is available on Spotify, Tidal, etc. We tried to prefer an artist’s Bandcamp or Soundcloud, but if nothing else was available, you may see Youtube, Spotify, and iTunes links. The final count this year is 226 artists out of more than a thousand submissions.

What did we miss? Share your favorites in the comments… and happy listening..

-- the /r/ListenToThis hipster facista

Set 1 - The Full Smash

Best Tracks on Spotify & All Albums on Spotify

And, on the other services:

• Best Tracks on Tidal & All Albums on Tidal

• Best Tracks on Google

• Best Tracks on Deezer & All Albums on Deezer

• Best Tracks on Youtube

• Spotify profile with listing of all playlists

• Google music profile with listing of all playlists

• Youtube profile with listing of all playlists

Set 2 - Pop, Indie & Related

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/suckitnewtabs)

• Kacey Johansing - The Hiding
• Walker Lukens - Tell It To The Judge
• MY BABY - Prehistoric Rhythm
• Phum Viphurit - Manchild
• Jonti - Tokorats
• Whitehorse - Panther In The Dollhouse
• HOTT MT - Au (Alternate Universe)
• Surf Dads - All Day Breakfast
• Skyway Man - Seen Comin' From A Mighty Eye
• Heaters - Matterhorn
• Girls Who Care - Light Sleeper
• SCALLER - Senses
• Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - High Visceral {Part 2}
• Elise Trouw - Unraveling
• Sunglasses Kid - Graduation
• Meatbodies - Alice
• The Marías - Superclean Vol. I
• Kelley Stoltz - Que Aura
• Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
• Kelly Dance - Wild Grass
• Starcadian - Midnight Signals
• Caleb Hawley - Love, Drugs, & Decisions
• The Mysterons - Meandering

Set 3 - Progressive & Related

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/BlueRoseImmortal)

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• Bent Knee - Land Animal
• Arch Echo - Arch Echo
• Arcane Roots - Melancholia Hymns
• Blumen - Mångata
• ichika - forn
• Chinese Football - Here Comes A New Challenger!!!
• Milco - Nerima
• I/O - Anyone, Anywhere
• Perihelion Ship - To Paint A Bird Of Fire
• Lör - In Forgotten Sleep
• Waclaw Zimpel, Kuba Ziolek - Zimpel/Ziolek
• The Physics House Band - Mercury Fountain
• Amplifier - Trippin' With Dr. Faustus
• Wobbler - From Silence To Somewhere
• Smalltape - The Ocean
• Pregnant Whale Pain - Blank
• Kettlespider - Kettlespider
• gP. - Destroy, So As To Build
• Dora The Destroyer - Dependent Secondary
• Glowbug - Fantasma Del Tropico
• O.R.k. - Soul Of An Octopus
• Aiming For Enrike - Las Napalmas
• Soup - Remedies
• Bader Nana - Devlover
• James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
• Grün - Manyana

Set 4 - Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop & Instrumentals

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/firewire_9000)

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• Awon & Dephlow (prod. Phoniks) - Sleep Is The Cousin Of Death
• Otis Junior & Dr.Dundiff - Hemispheres
• Figub Brazlevic - 4x4 Palestine Jeep Beats
• Deca - The Way Through
• Sweeps - tomorrow
• mister T. - The Return Of The Classic
• Sidewalk Chalk - An Orchid Is Born
• Has-Lo - The Paul Tape
• TheColorGrey - REBELATION
• Hex One - Words Worth A Thousand Pictures
• mtbrd - Smoovies
• Sampa The Great - Birds And The BEE9
• Dirty Art Club - Basement Seance
• Vanilla - Moonlight
• ETOAS - End Times Of A Sunshine
• Insight The Truncator & Damu The Fudgemunk - Ears Hear Spears
• Damu The Fudgemunk - Vignettes
• Damu The Fudgemunk - The Reflecting Sea (Welcome to a New Philosophy)
• elijah who - gentle boy
• Declaime - Young Spirit
• Abstract Orchestra - Dilla
• Stik Figa - Central Standard Time
• Mykele Deville - Peace, Fam
• Uncommon Nasa - Written At Night
• Armand Hammer - ROME

Set 5 - Punk & Related

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• ISS - Endless Pussyfooting (bandcamp exclusive)
• Onsind - We Wilt, We Bloom (bandcamp exclusive)
• IDLES - Brutalism
• The Dopamines - Tales Of Interest
• SINGLE MOTHERS - Our Pleasure
• Milk Teeth - Go Away EP
• Charly Bliss - Guppy
• UV-TV - Glass
• Scarboro - Here Comes The Hangover
• Hard Girls - Floating Now
• Just Say Nay - Logistical Nightmares
• Perspective, a lovely hand to hold - What Not To Do
• football, etc. - Corner
• Silver Shadows - Cold Plastic
• The World - FIRST WORLD RECORD
• Parlor Walls - Opposites
• Agent blå - Agent blå
• Telethon - The Grand Spontanean
• Ganglions - Thirsty
• pigeon pit - treehouse
• Harley Poe - Lost And Losing It

Set 6 - Electronic & Related

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• Primate - Simulated Reality
• Fearofdark - Exit Plan
• Lav & Purl - A State Of Becoming
• Prequell - The Future Comes Before
• Hades Of Spades - Dysphoria
• Edamame - Bask
• JASSS - Weightless
• Nym - Lilac Chaser
• Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
• Laurence Guy - Saw You For The First Time
• Dysphemic - Zeus
• Sally Dige - Holding On
• Basement Freaks - Freedom
• Zoogma - A Future In Blue
• TIANCI - Too Alien For Earth
• Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic
• Octo Octa - Where Are We Going?
• Anomalie - Métropole

Set 7 - Metal

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• Elder - Reflections Of A Floating World
• Dool - Here Now, There Then
• Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
• Archspire - Relentless Mutation
• Below - Upon A Pale Horse
• Mesarthim - The Great Filter / Type III
• Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
• The Hirsch Effekt - ESKAPIST
• Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine
• Satan's Hallow Band - Satan's Hallow
• Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen Act II
• Unleash The Archers - Apex
• Walpyrgus - Walpyrgus Nights
• Violet Cold - Anomie
• Havukruunu - Kelle Surut Soi
• The Ruins Of Beverast - Exuvia
• Mutoid Man - War Moans
• Voyager - Ghost Mile
• In The Company Of Serpents - Ain-Soph Aur
• Worry - A Celebration Of Suffering

Set 8 - Jazz, Soul, Funk & Related

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• MonoNeon - A Place Called Fantasy
• Ill Considered - Ill Considered
• The Comet Is Coming - Death To The Planet
• The Heliocentrics - A World Of Masks
• Don Bryant - Don't Give Up On Love
• Five Alarm Funk - SWEAT
• Tony Allen - A Tribute To Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
• Wildflower - Wildflower
• Alfa Mist - Antiphon
• The Babe Rainbow - The Babe Rainbow
• Charnett Moffett - Music From Our Soul
• Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
• Orlando le Fleming & Romantic Funk - Romantic Funk
• Collocutor - The Search
• Soil & "PIMP" Sessions - Music from and Inspired by Hello Harinezumi
• Yazz Ahmed - La Saboteuse
• Binker & Moses – Journey To The Mountain Of Forever
• Nubya Garcia - Nubya's 5ive
• Jaimie Branch - Fly Or Die
• Melanie De Biasio - Lilies
• Richard Spaven - The Self
• Kalu & The Electric Joint - Time Undone
• Voodoo Visionary - Off The Ground
• Sr. Langosta - El Experimento Caribeño
• Ambrose Akinmusire - A Rift in Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard
• Skinshape - Live & Love
• Braxton Cook - Somewhere In Between
• Mammal Hands - Shadow Work
• Chuck Johnson - Balsams
• Joey Defrancesco & The People - Project Freedom
• Superfluous Motor - Idiosyncrasies
• The Necks - Unfold
• Johnny Sketch & The Dirty Notes - Sketch
• Nate Smith - KINFOLK: Postcards From Everywhere
• Cameron Graves - Planetary Prince
• Jungle Fire - Jambu
• Baast - Bazzar

Set 9 - Afrobeat, World & Classical

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• Stinger - Hard Proof
• Luis Peixoto - Assimétrico
• Antibalas - Where The Gods Are In Peace
• The Seven Ups - Drinking Water
• The Scorpios - The Scorpios
• Ajate - Abrada
• Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet
• Danish String Quartet - Last Leaf
• Hear In Now - Not Living In Fear
• Tamikrest - Kidal
• Anouar Brahem - Blue Maqams
• Sebastião Antunes & Quadrilha - Singular
• Oumou Sangaré - Mogoya
• Ifriqiyya Electrique - Rûwâhîne
• ROSALÍA - Los Ángeles
• Songhoy Blues - Résistance
• Awa Poulo - Poulo Warali
• Jenna Moynihan & Mairi Chaimbeul - One Two
• Battle Of Santiago - La Migra
• Jeremy Danneman - Honey Wine
• Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Adiós Señor Pussycat
• Aldina Duarte - Quando Se Ama Loucamente
• Juniore - Ouh là là
• Isabella Bretz - Canções para Abreviar Distâncias
• Jenny Scheinman - Here On Earth
• Daymé Arocena - Cubafonía
• The Homesick - Youth Hunt
• Mondo Grosso - ???????????
• Blue Rose Code - The Water Of Leith
• Moses Hightower - Fjallaloft
• Litku Klemetti - Juna Kainuuseen
• Various Artists - Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa

Set 10 - Americana & Related

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• The Texas Gentlemen - TX Jelly
• Billy Strings - Turmoil & Tinfoil
• Kate Rhudy - Rock N' Roll Ain't For Me
• Norah Jane Struthers & The Party Line
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Honest Life
• Nicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda Lee
• Sherman Holmes - The Sherman Holmes Project: The Richmond Sessions
• Viper Central - The Spirit Of God And Madness
• Twisted Pine - Twisted Pine
• The Dawn Brothers - Stayin' Out Late
• Kitchen Dwellers - Ghost In The Bottle
• Bad Manion - Good Afternoon
• Trout Steak Revival - Spirit To The Sea
• The Trongone Band - Keys To The House
• The Railsplitters - Jump In
• My Terrible Friend - I Tried To Be Kind
• Sallie Ford - Soul Sick
• Lilly Hiatt - Trinity Lane
• EmiSunshine - Ragged Dreams
• Derek Hoke - Bring The Flood
• The Sons of the Palomino - Sons of the Palomino
• Thorpe Jenson - Odessa
• Pam Taylor - Steal Your Heart
• Samantha Fish - Belle of the West
• Jim Byrnes - Long Hot Summer Days
• Angaleena Presley - Wrangled
• Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins
• Natalie Hemby - Puxico
• Marty Stuart - Way Out West
• Whiskey Shivers - Some Part Of Something
• Sarah Shook & The Disarmers - Sidelong
• Split Lip Rayfield - On My Way

Disclaimer: The Spotify playlists are the masters. They were auto-replicated to all of the other services, and there will be some missing albums on those services. The Youtube playlists may also get a bit wonky. Unfortunately, we don’t have the resources needed to fix every hiccup or keep track of what’s missing on every service. Apple music doesn’t provide an easy import mechanism either, though if someone wants to create Apple lists, we’ll link them here. Also, Google Music and Youtube simply can’t handle the All Albums playlist, so they are omitted.

Links to Other Best Of Lists

• NPR's Top 50 Albums
• NPR's Top 100 Songs
• AOTY's Master List for 2017
• Rate Your Music's Top Albums of 2017
• Metacritic's Best Albums of 2017
• Pitchfork's Best Albums of 2017
• Pitchfork's Best Songs of 2017
• The Quietus' Best Albums of 2017
• The A.V. Club’s 20 Best Albums of 2017
• Amoeba Music’s 50 Best Albums of 2017
• Wire’s Top Releases 2017
• Fact Mag’s Top 50 of 2017
• XLR8R's Best of 2017: Releases
• XLR8R's Best of 2017: Albums
• XLR8R's Best of 2017: Tracks
• Complex’s Top 50 Albums of 2017
• Spin’s 50 Best Albums of 2017
• Fader’s 101 Best Songs of 2017
• The Guardian’s Best Albums of 2017
• Bleeps Albums Of The Year For 2017
• TheNeedleDrop’s Top 50 Albums of 2017
• NOISEY’s 100 Best Albums of 2017
• BestEverAlbum’s Best Albums of 2017
• Sputnikmusic's Best Albums of 2017
• SputnikMusic's Staff Top50 of 2017
• Resident Advisor's Best Albums of 2017
• Resident Advisor's Staff Picks of 2017

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