Site improvement suggestions

#1 - That is strange; it's actually possible to have it 24 hours, but you have to manually enter it in.

#2 - I believe it's already meant to do that; the << and >> signifies that it carries on past that time (beforehand and afterwards respectively)

#4 - Yeah, the formatting needs some work, sometimes it does't do it properly; if you want there to be a gap, but it doesn't do it properly, try holding Shift then press Enter.

gazza911 wrote:
#1 - That is strange; it's actually possible to have it 24 hours, but you have to manually enter it in.
#2 - I believe it's already meant to do that; the << and >> signifies that it carries on past that time (beforehand and afterwards respectively)
#4 - Yeah, the formatting needs some work, sometimes it does't do it properly; if you want there to be a gap, but it doesn't do it properly, try holding Shift then press Enter.

1. The daily schedule runs from 17:00 to 20:00 then 20:00 to 23:00 and then 23:00 to 02:00 and I do not see any way to make it show 24 Hours?

2. Yes << >> does show "but only Sometimes" but not all shows will show the overlap and I cannot determine why some do and why some don't there is no rhyme or reason that it only works about 50% of the time? Look up my example “The Doug Gottlieb Show” that airs weekdays from 15:00 to 18:00 on CBSSN it never shows up on the schedule

JAGUARDOG wrote:

1. The daily schedule runs from 17:00 to 20:00 then 20:00 to 23:00 and then 23:00 to 02:00 and I do not see any way to make it show 24 Hours?
2. Yes << >> does show "but only Sometimes" but not all shows will show the overlap and I cannot determine why some do and why some don't there is no rhyme or reason that it only works about 50% of the time? Look up my example “The Doug Gottlieb Show” that airs weekdays from 15:00 to 18:00 on CBSSN it never shows up on the schedule

Yeah, as I was saying, if you manually change the numbers in the URL you can see that it is actually 24 hours, they just make it skip to those time slots.

http://www.tvmaze.com/schedule?country=GB&sort=1&stamp=1475505000

http://www.tvmaze.com/schedule?country=GB&sort=1&stamp=1475492400

Have a play around with it, you'll see.

P.S I'm not saying this is a solution, I'm just saying it surprises me

gazza911 wrote:
Yeah, as I was saying, if you manually change the numbers in the URL you can see that it is actually 24 hours, they just make it skip to those time slots.
http://www.tvmaze.com/schedule?country=GB&sort=1&stamp=1475505000
http://www.tvmaze.com/schedule?country=GB&sort=1&stamp=1475492400
Have a play around with it, you'll see.
P.S I'm not saying this is a solution, I'm just saying it surprises me

OK, thanks I never knew that (backdoor) existed however you are showing the UK schedule does it work that same way for US shows as well?

JAGUARDOG wrote:

OK, thanks I never knew that (backdoor) existed however you are showing the UK schedule does it work that same way for US shows as well?

Yes, it will work for any country.

gazza911 wrote:
Yes, it will work for any country.

Well I changed GB to US and it worked so I will be saving that URL for future use, thanks for everything friend, I owe you!

#1: As gazza demonstrated, the schedule technically supports 24 hours a day, but the navigation skips the hours between 2AM and 5PM because hardly anything airs there. I'm open to making those timeframes more accessible while still keeping them hidden to the average user, but I don't have any ideas just yet.

#2: Not sure about this, will look into it!

#3: This won't happen, it's just not technically possible.

#4: It's high up on our list to improve the site's text editor and we've spent a large amount of time looking for alternatives already. Unfortunately, every other option out there is even more broken than the current one. To be continued..

david wrote:
#1: As gazza demonstrated, the schedule technically supports 24 hours a day, but the navigation skips the hours between 2AM and 5PM because hardly anything airs there. I'm open to making those timeframes more accessible while still keeping them hidden to the average user, but I don't have any ideas just yet.
#2: Not sure about this, will look into it!
#3: This won't happen, it's just not technically possible.
#4: It's high up on our list to improve the site's text editor and we've spent a large amount of time looking for alternatives already. Unfortunately, every other option out there is even more broken than the current one. To be continued..

I don't understand this response - #3: This won't happen, it's just not technically possible.

Why can every other TV site do it but it can't be done here?

They chose a different kind of layout system from the start.

Ours uses a hardcoded amount of 12 columns. Since the schedule displays a total of 3 hours, the smallest possible value for a single column is 3 hours/12 = 15 minutes. There's nothing we can do about that limitation without rewriting everything from scratch.

@david - If you decide you want to change from using hardcoded column base, you can do it like this:

style="width:calc(100% / 180 * runtime)"

Or for more browser support, do the calculation in PHP; style="width:' . (100 / 180 * $runtime) . '%"

P.S This will work as long as the width makes is more than the padding (~22px) as when width is below padding, it becomes the padding; reducing the padding when using this method would mean you can show smaller runtimes

Hi Gazza, thanks for the suggestion. We are planning on updating the schedule. Just not right now. :)

gazza911 wrote:
@david - If you decide you want to change from using hardcoded column base, you can do it like this:
style="width:calc(100% / 180 * runtime)"
Or for more browser support, do the calculation in PHP; style="width:' . (100 / 180 * $runtime) . '%"
P.S This will work as long as the width makes is more than the padding (~22px) as when width is below padding, it becomes the padding; reducing the padding when using this method would mean you can show smaller runtimes

This is gibberish to me, haha :)

David on #2 - #2: Not sure about this, will look into it!

Here is another show that never appears on the daily schedule either but should show at least partially "Weather Center Live" airs daily from 09:00 to 18:00 it is 540 minutes in length the last hour from 17:00 to 18:00 should show with arrows showing it begins earlier << this is one of many shows that never shows the overlap but should. - http://www.tvmaze.com/shows/16428/weather-center-live

Please look into this one as well and if you need me to provide a list of shows that fail to show overlap I can gladly make a list up for you?

gazza911 wrote:
@david - If you decide you want to change from using hardcoded column base, you can do it like this:
style="width:calc(100% / 180 * runtime)"
Or for more browser support, do the calculation in PHP; style="width:' . (100 / 180 * $runtime) . '%"
P.S This will work as long as the width makes is more than the padding (~22px) as when width is below padding, it becomes the padding; reducing the padding when using this method would mean you can show smaller runtimes

This was indeed the first thing I thought about for making the schedule compatible with shows that are only 5mins long. :-)