I've been grumbling about many of the things Tildes is trying to address for years. And I'm not alone. OTOH I have seen some sites that do some bits right, and some sites that almost got it right only to fall flat at the penultimate hurdle. Let's try to collect and enumerate what I think is good and bad, both here and elsewhere. I'm optimistic about here because Tildes is a work in progress and some of these are quite readily fixable.

Tildes, the good:

#1, a long way ahead of everything else: Non-profit.
I think Twitter and Reddit and Facebook all amply demonstrate why any general discussion forum that tries to make a profit is doomed to mediocrity and worse. Google+ is an edge case - the service may be free, but Google is watching and measuring your every move. And constantly optimising for their own performance metrics, of which fostering intelligent discussion totally is not on the list and is actually discouraged. See:
'The Algorithm' is Not an Idiot, It Is Actively Deceptive https://plus.google.com/104879277024913363852/posts/51mme29dSMy

#2 Markdown (also a coutny mile ahead of the alternatives) - elegantly simple markup; not too much, not too little. Even if you have technical quibbles with markdown's capabilities, the system is widely-enough known to outweigh them. I honestly can't think of a more appropriate choice.

#3 Clean simple UI (couple of grumbles though - see below)

#4 'Votes' rather than +1s, thumbs up, likes or or other cutesy shite. Elementary good UI practice - say what you mean.

Tildes, the bad including what I hope are readily fixable or just oversights:

#1 Poor display contrast. Don't use light grey text on white, you numpties, just because it's fashionable. If you want this site to be around long-term you'll have people of all ages posting, some with e.g. poor eyesight. There are well-known guidelines for the optimum contrast ratios for online text. Look 'em up and bloody stick within them. If you go for AAA that will be another point where you're ahead of the Google, Apple and other fashion-driven sites. Don't care if it's unfashionable, and if you want to be around in 20 years (as another successful discussion site I'll cite later has been) you should stick with what's usable, not what's currently cool. KTHXBAI. WebAIM: Colour Contrast Checker
https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

#2 Missed opportunity, fixable:

You can look at activity from the last hour, day, 3 days etc, or enter a flexible range. But you've only made the range one-ended!! So how are you supposed to find a post from 'about 6 months ago' without scrolling through thousands of entries? Again, if you're interested in longevity, you have to ensure that it's possible for humans to refind older posts, and to check back to a specific date range that may eventually be months or years back. My 'long-lived site' inserts markers with month and year so that you can tell where you are in the feed without having to peer at some tiny date in light grey on lighter grey.

#3 Vague datestamps

Use dates FFS. 'About 2 hours ago' is a moving target, duh. How are you supposed to refind a post timestamped 'about 2 hours ago' on a fast-moving thread that was left sitting unrefreshed on your laptop for half a day while you were disconnected from the internet? Useless. For short periods, yes, some users may prefer a vaguer indicator, but once a post is more than about 12-16 hours old, just use the date and time, OK? Vague timestamps, while superficially user-friendly, are a superb and subtle way to disrupt the serious discussions Tildes wants to foster. That's why Google+, for example, does it, and that's why you shouldn't. Also, if the date's in a predictable, stable form, you can search for it. Load a shit-ton of posts going back months, then try searching for a post made 'two months' ago; then search again in a couple of weeks and the same search will give different results!

#4 Preview and save button

Where's my post preview button? I would have like to preview this screed before posting it. And given how long it is maybe saving it as a work in progress would have been useful too!

Missing feature: effective filtering/killfiling
Long-term, if the site gets big, it will live or die on this. Seriously.
You need to be able to filter users, posts, and thread and groups temporarily or permanently.
That includes being able to temporarily hide people you follow and like just to get their posts out of the way. So, mute for an hour, mute for a day, mute for a week, mute for a month (maybe), mute permanently. Applicable to every possible category on the site you can think of. dredmorbius (who is also here) goes on about this a lot. The ability to filter stuff out is far more important than the ability to 'find' stuff. Just filtering out the stuff you don't want helps the stuff you do bubble to the surface!

Saveable filters (long term feature)

When I want to collect cat memes, non-cat memes are noise and I need to filter them out (see above). When I want to read about other sutff, the cat memes are noise and I need to filter them. I don';t want to have to keep creating and discarding filters. As soon as your filtering system is powerful enough to be useful, it will be too much work to keep redoing, so make 'em saveable and organisable. There's uses for all of whitelists, greylists and blacklists.

Post auto indexing (long term feature)

I have to manually write and maintain my own damn post indexes on G+, otherwise all my old posts just vanish into limbo, inaccessible unless you know a unique search phrase from that particular post or are prepared to scroll for hours. [But the Goodle internal servers can access and analyse them all just fine.] My post index, with some comments: https://plus.google.com/104879277024913363852/posts/XoWoRujTBun

Rapid browse mode, paginated

When you're reading in depth, it may be OK to have a Google+-like UI with only half a dozen posts on-screen at once. (Tildes is currently shopwing me ten at a time, which ain't enough of an improvement to be worthwhile.) But this is hair-tearingly inefficient if you want to scan a lot of posts rapidly. You need a dense display format that shows large numkbers of posts so people can skim and find things quickly. With thumnails for images and indicators for links. Paginated, with the pages staying at consistent points. That way you can keep track of you place when you're browsing back in the archives, and even bookmark old stuff. Sometimes you want leisurely mode, but sometimes you want to jump back a way before switching to leisurely. Having only a slow browsing route is very effective at killing access to older discussions. Anything older than a few days or a few dozens of posts is effectively lost.

Soft auto-lock for old posts
Posts should auto-lock after... about 3 months of inactivity is a good number IME. But ideally it should be a soft lock, which means people can resurrect them. If you post on a soft-locked thread, you get a warning, or the owner gets to decide whether to unlock the thread and let your post appear. So consequently you need a preference setting so that post owners can indicate whether they want a soft or a hard lock on a post, and the time till it triggers.

Per forum thread/post limits
If you've got a forum with 1,000 active threads, you haven't really got one forum. You've either got several, in which case they should be split up, or you've got one forum with a lot of noise. So there might be something to be said for limiting the number of discussion threads in proportion to the number of users; for example, if ~dogs.chihuahuas has 5 users, let them have the default of 20 threads. Of which they might only use six. Nothing says you have to use all 20. But if ~dogs.pugs had 40,000 followers, perhaps it should be permitted 70 threads. If 70 isn't enough, it's probably past time to split ~dogs.pugs up. There is an uppser and a lower limit to how many people you can have a sensible discussion with. The lower limit is 2, and for small forums or up to a couple of dozen regulars 20 threads should be ample. When you get to hundeds or regulars, the thread count does need to go up a bit. But when you get to 10,000s, the noise levels starts to go up and it's time to split the group into subgroups. A thread count is a decent way to enforce that - I'd say even the biggest forum isn't allowed more than 2-3 screenfuls of threads. So 30-60, maybe. If that's not enough, it's time to subdivide, because keeping communities from getting too large keeps discussion quality higher. You can always follow both groups even after the split. But if you dislike regular A in group X, you can switch to group Y where they don't post. If everything's lumps together without regard to community scaling, you never get away from regular A unless you unsubscribe from group X altogether.

Other sites

Google+

Circles (bad, it turns out) - seemed good at the time, but it turns out they're at the wrong end of the broadcast stream. The recipients have no way to filter what you post into the categories they want, and it's their preferences that matter at this point.

Collections (good, it turns out) - this was the better way to do it. If someone posts cat pics, politics, and astronomy, you can just follow the subset of their posts you're interested in. This is reasonably effective, implicit filtering.

Infinite scrolling windows (very bad) - [But excellent for Google's purposes of stifling anything but superficial conversations.] Finding anything older than a few hours may take literally hours of scrolling unless there's a search term you can enter. So tough shit if you wanted to find an image post with no associated text.

Awesomely atrocious search Google used to be good at search. You wouldn't think so from the comedy search tool they provide on G+.

Notifications (meh) - When you only have a few followers, it's nice to know you've been followed or mentioned or whatever. As your user count grows that becomes noise and then spam. Notifications have to scale intelligently, because a user with 240,000 followers has massivly different needs from a user with 12.

My own comments: Google Plus User Feedback Archive https://plus.google.com/104879277024913363852/posts/DUanxsc7ya1

Ello

I like the clean UI, and it's very good for image posting.
The discussions ain't too bad either, but it's maybe a bit too minimalist, and again, there was no way to find old posts,l so they're effectively lost.

Twitter

Well it would be good if people actually used it for short posts of up to 2xx characters or whatever the present limit is. But when you have people writing articles that need dozens of Tweets (and there's aggregator apps to collect them back into full articles FFS) then the system is clearly not being used in the way it was originally intended to be. I think this is what corporations would like the future of all discussion to be. Basically babble, where even the good stuff vanishes without trace after, well, potentially a few tens of minutes if you follow a lot of people. It's like drinking at a firehose. Jeez. You harldy need to exert effort to bury stuff. Just wait a while.

Usenet

Good for: killfiles, threaded discussions, clue, and asynchronous discussions spanning weeks, months or longer.
Bad for: trolls, spam. Especially spam.

I sincerely hope there are some Tilders who are thoroughly familiar with the dynamics, successes and failures of Usenet. It does a lot of things right that you'll also need to get right. And now all the morons are on the web, I'm not sure if Usenet is reverting to clued people only, or if the spammers are killing it off completely. TBH I'm not sure there's much point spamming Usenet these days; next to no-one goes there, and those that do are tech-savvy and exceptionally spam-hostile. Haven't been on myself for years. A very good example of a private usenet area that works well is the Povray news hierarchy. Another demonstration that focus on a single subject (the PoVRay raytracer) does a good job of keeping site/forum/whatever clue levels high. news.povray.org http://news.povray.org/groups/

Web Forums

Good for: focussed discussions on a single subject. In general, the more focussed the higher the quality. The Wesnoth forums, for example, are all about the Wesnoth computer game. So it's easy to tell what's off-topic and remove it. But the Giant in the Playground forums, which also include general roleplaying, are not as focussed and the clue level of the posters, while not atrocious, is noticeably lower, and a much greater degree of moderation is needed. But the GiantITP forums are much bigger than Wesnoth, so there a lot of just scaling effects going on there too. You also see this on, I guess, the Steam forums and Reddit groups, where the small niche communities (e.d. OpenTTD on Reddit) tend to be much more pleasant places to visit than the forums for mega-games like, I dunno, World of Warcraft.

Reddit

Good for: Actually handling collossal volums of posts on all sorts of subjects without collapsing into chaos.
I'm not a big Reddit fan, but I have to give them credit for working at all, given their traffic volume.

Also good for: Reddit Gold isn't a terrible way to fund a commercial-ish site. Aspects of that could be stolen.

Wikis

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Suspect there may be some things that could be learned from how Wikis do things, but nothing comes to mind at present. May revisit later.

Email lists

Good for: digests?

Digests might be a useful feature when you're following a long-running discussion?
Google+ almost got this right - you can opt to recieve an email whenever someone comments after you, but you can't get G+_ to send you emails fo your own posts, or to send you a summary/digest of the full discussion. So you can have a partial email archive of threads you've been involved in, but you can't have an email record of your own contributions. So, half of a useful feature there. Nice one, guys.

Mornington Crescent

These sites have been running for decades. They're basically text databases plus a bit of Perl glue code. A decent developer could (and has, more than once) knock out a fully functioning Mornington Crescent site in a matter of a few afternoons.

Good for: longevity, stability, simplicity, 'weak user IDs', asynchronous discussions which can become realtime if you're online at the same time as your correspondent.

Probably bad for: scaling, security
The Crescent sites have a couple of dozen game threads each, and you post a comment wherever you feel like. Then the next person does the same, and so on. Some of the long-running games (e.g. the genral chat thread) have 30,000+ posts spanning years. But becuase it's paginated rather than an infinite scrolling window, you can jump back e.g. 1,000 posts (a few months) with relative ease.

These sites all predate markdown, so they let you use basic HTML instead. A feature which has been horribly abused, most notably in the bad HTML game, and Acre Street (don't ask). A modern MC site, you'd use markdown.

They still work on any browser - even Lynx - they don't even depend on Javascript. It's a web form with two or three fields. You type on your comment, click submit, and your comment is inserted into the page. Then the next person does the same, over and over for years, and the page grows as you do. As simple as a a web forum can possibly be, I suspect. And if bandwidth/performance becomes a problem, you can auto-split it into year-sized or 1000-post-sized chunks. Yes, people mostly only browse the last few tens of posts, but a paginated system lets you jump back further on occasion without placing an undue burden on the servers. (I go on about pagination a lot. I think it's a make-or-break feature, and it's only out of favour at the moment due to the whims of fashion and the web-corps' desires to make and keep online conversations at a superficial level. The black hats are doing it intentionally, and others are emulating them because they wrongly think they're following good - rather than evil - practice.
Speaking of evil practice - check out Dark Patterns in Design for some of the ways we're manipulated: https://darkpatterns.org/

'Weak User ID' - there's a text box you type your name in. Most people use the same name every time, because it establishes reputation. But it's just a text box so you could type in anything. That bit probably wouldn't scale, but for us, given that between us we all know everyone who posts except for the occasional random who shows up, it works fine.

'Non-persistent chat' - one of the sites, which has since shut down, had a rolling chat page that was only transient. Chat posts older than about a week and more than 100 posts ago just disappeared off the bottom of the chat page and were lost for good, unless someone saved the chat. For some discussions - e.g. things like cat memes, this kind of transient chat is probably ideal. You could even implement an infinite scroller, because you know the end of the chat is never going to be more than 5-10 screens away. That wouldn't be so good for 50-100 screen. As a yardstick my G+ posts would probably go back about 1200 screens. Who the hell would ever scroll through that? If Tildes becomes successful, it will quickly hit to same point. Pagination, chaps. It's not sexy, but it's the only reasonable way to manage long data streams.

OK, initial data dump done. This is more complete than I epxcted to get for a first go, but more typos too :-)

Am likely to revist.

Me and my friend arrive at an arbitrary place, we have access to a network from there. Now, we want to share a file and the network connection is all we have. The challenge: make the file go from my device to my friends device in a pure p2p setting. If you know, for sure, that incoming connections are allowed this is very simple but here i want to explore which solutions exist that do not assume this.

Assumptions:

• Same network altough possibly different access points (one might be wired and the other wireless)
• We have no prior knowledge about the network, incoming traffic might be blocked (outgoing isn't for sure)
• No extra machines can aid in the transaction (no hole punching etc)
• Should work reliably for any kind of device that you have free -- as in freedom -- control over. that is PCs, android phones/tablets and macs. most of Apple's other hardware can be excluded because they don't allow for anything anyway.
• hard mode: We are both digitally illiterate

Goal:

• Send a file, p2p, from one party to another.

Me (MSc cs) and my friend (PhD cs) tried to do this last week. And it appears to be among the hardest problems in CS. I would like to discuss this and hear which solutions you might have for this problem.

Edits:

1. this is not an assignment
2. Added some specifics to the assumption set
3. we're looking for practical solutions here.
4. more specs

I am putting on a fair amount stomach fat. I am not really gaining weight, but my stomach is noticeably bigger and I am getting chubby. I am uncomfortable all the time at work sitting at my desk because of it. I'll be 30 in December so I need to get ahead of this. My body is tight all over. When I walk I can feel how tight my hamstrings are.. My diet is garbage. I just want to start getting this under control and also working on developing routines.

What are some good resources on meal plans and what foods / combinations of foods and hat quantity is however many calories?

I am a very simple person. I look these up and it says stuff like

Breakfast: 1 cup Oatmeal, 2 tablespoons Almond butter, mixed in, top with cinnamon, 1/2 cup Blueberries

Lunch: Tomato hummus artichoke salad

Dinner: Veggie Chili - 1/2 cup black bean, 3/4 cup canned tomatoes and liquid, 1/2 cup sliced zucchini.........

I like basic things. I like plain oatmeal and a banana, salad that is basically lettuce carrots tomatoes and no dressing. Some times I just want a few boiled potatoes for dinner (usually about 2 -3 halved making 4 - 6 halves) with nothing on them or an apple and some few carrots for lunch.. That's what I like.

I really don't like to eat a big lunch at work because I sit at a desk all day and I have no way to burn the calories I take in. So I tend to skip eating at lunch since I don't get very hungry anyway..

I am not currently vegan. I want to transition and I just need simple meal plan ideas for about 2000 calories so I can start exercising again and be able to burn more than I take in. I'd like to develop a routine of eating breakfast, lunch and dinner and being conscious of what I am taking in. Even if lunch is an apple and some carrots.

Thanks.

As we've seen, Apple has shown it's willingness to agree with the Chinese government's wishes several times. First by not allowing users of it's Chinese app store to download VPNs, then taking Skype off the Mainland China app store, as well as handing over control of Chinese iCloud operations to a Chinese firm, and also by removing apps with call kit in them from the Chinese app store.

Now, we should also note that Apple makes quite a bit of money from China. According to Apple's latest earnings call [PDF] for Q1 2018, they made $17.956 billion from China. So, this strategy seems to be working.

Discussion Questions

In what ways are Apple accommodating the Chinese government a necessity?

In this case, or others, when should Apple take into consideration the desires of their customers over their investors?

What problems can be had from accommodating China, but not being so accommodating to other governments?

What can other companies learn from Apple's dealing with the Chinese government?

Hi there everyone. I gave up on smart watches after Pebble sold out to fitbit and my OG Pebble started having screen issues (again). I never watched to spend hundreds on a smart watch or switch to the iOS ecosystem to use an Apple watch.

I was wondering if anyone here has had success with any other watches after having to give up their Pebble, something with a great battery life and good notification features without resorting to terrible china-watches.

Hope you have a great day!

Wouldn't it be great if you could schedule your watch face by the time of day? If I am at work I want certain complications and if I exercise after work it would be great if another watch face for that purpose appears.

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

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• 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

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

• 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

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/BlueRoseImmortal)

• 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

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

• 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

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• 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

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

• 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

Please share other noteworthy lists you've found online in the replies to this comment.