Give us back ol' last.fm!

I really love the new site, just some small things that could be better and where mentioned before in the beta-forum and elsewhere:

- option for "painting it black" (is already confirmed and only a matter of time
- notice for new PMs (like the one on the old site showing "Inbox 0"
- option to change color of those horrible blue bars on the charts (hopefully they'll change to another color with the black style)
- option to disable the ugly black in-page player (global and on user sites only)
- option to set shoutbox length and option to disable allowing everybody browsing it
- shotcut/link on the main-profilepage for the old-style 7-days snapshot weekly charts
- option to change and customize chart style (e.g. make the top-artists the "rolling 7 days" or "weekly charts" and "top-tracks" to "top artists" or whatever combination you like)

and one more thing: I so much love the new library feature!
Thanks you guys at last.fm for all the effort

all the glory of listening music faints away without last.fm.


Agreee totally.
I'll be VERY sad if I can never get the old version back

and I don't care if anyone says I will begin to like it
Because I know it will never be as good as the old version

Yuck. I hate it. Yuck once again.

DFA1979 said:
Metalhead4lyfe said:
man this sucks, my whole profile looks like crap, I cant use black anymore, this should have remained an option, but could you guys at least bring back the black option, and have less white space? it blinds me!!!:(
There are one or two features still to come which have been confirmed by staff members, a 'paint it black' option is one of those :)

edit: to answer the post above mine, yes. I like the new layout.

Give it two weeks and most of the people complaining right now will have gotten used to it and realised that actually it's not the death of the site, and the new layout's perfectly fine. I'm speaking from experience, this has happened every time the site's been upgraded since I joined (and it wasn't even called last.fm when I joined, there've been a few upgrades since then) and will happen every time it ever changes in future.

There has NEVER been a backlash this strong before. Never. So don't lie. Sorry to sound like a bastard but there's no justification for keeping tbe layout when 99% of your members hate it.

Wow! logged in this morning and everything was fine. Come back an hour later and everything is F'd! Embedded player won't work, site is insanely slow, looks like crap.

Whatever you did I would suggest a hasty retreat.

The old version is better! PLEASE GO BACK

the library is friggin sweet, but why is the site so slow?

Perhaps we are reacting a bit dramatically too soon though, ladies and gents. My immediate reaction was a dropped jaw and mild cry when I refreshed the page to see this, but we are prone to resist change. I will probably grow (in time, lots of time) to accept and embrace the new look, truth be told, just as most of most likely will.

One thing I really, honestly don't see my opinion changing on though, is the shoutbox location. I HATE, no INDESCRIBABLY DESPISE the fact that I have to scroll all the damn way down to the very bottom to see my shouts. That scroll is even more lengthened if you up the number of displayed artists/songs on your profile. The first thing I do when visiting last.fm is look to side to check my shouts. It becomes an easy thing to forget when it's all the way down there. And please, please, please do not tell us that some sort of notice will be given to us when we receive new shouts/messages, because you know what I am going to say. You also know it will be negative. Major negative.

The bottom line and my main concern at this point, is, is there any way possible whatsoever to change to shoutbox location? It would please me immensely.

Hm, i mentioned that now you can see only top 200 of tracks/artists not 500 like earlier. That might be important for people with great count of scrobbled songs.

The only thing I don't like about the new version, is that country pages barely don't exist and there isn't a shoutbox on country pages either.

I miss my country's shoutbox ;____;

Also, this site could be a little faster (or my internet connection is just slow).

But I think that I'll get used to the new version. Although if for some odd reason the "change back to old version" thingie becomes available, I'll probably switch back to the old version.

DFA1979 said:
There are one or two features still to come, a 'paint it black' option is one of those :)
That won't help unless it paints the entire screen black. This conglomerate of Web 2.0 design trends is making my eyes hurt. There is no uniformity whatsoever.

Suggestions: get rid of the excessive white space, lose the childish paint stroke-style navigation and headings, and redo the layout of profiles (if not everything).

I do like the tab-based charts, but I would gladly give those up for a more elegant design (such as the previous one).