A pop-up used to show up while hovering over an album, showing one's own rating of the album. That's disappeared. Why?
Please put it back or, even better: display one's own rating next to the 'user rating'!
If there's not enough space, then I would suggest, just discard of the 'Allmusic Rating'. I never, NEVER! take that into consideration as the 'user rating' much more often reflects my own (dis)liking of an album.
We always called these little hover boxes "Tooltips" and when researching this redesign, we found that the vast majority of other sites have done away with this kind of pop-up on their sites. Some users did like them, but others found them to be a nuisance when just moving their mouse cursor across the page.
In addition, they were a bit of a technical headache to maintain (the widget that we were using to have the info pop in was no longer being supported). Hover-over tooltips also aren't able to be implemented in mobile (where the majority of our traffic is).
We opted to not implement them, and wanted to wait for user feedback to see if anyone was using them. If there is a massive public outcry we may try to see if we can work them back into the site using new code or a new tool. If most users didn't use them or are glad to see them gone then they will likely remain retired.
