Idea on Those Who Dislike the New Look Very Vehemently

It's a bit over the top. I reckon many of them are having a knee jerk reaction to the dramatically different look. Most should come around the others will either live with it or move one. Best of luck to all of them.

Quoth somethinggood:
it seems that most of the people complaining are running really low resolutions so they're experiencing a lot of overlapping. it looks perfect at 1600x1200 :D

Hell, it looks fine at 1024x768. 800x600 may still be an industry standard, but it's the LOWEST standard.

It looks absolutely terrible on my old 800x laptop. Everything mish mashing with each other. But it does look very nice on my 1280x res. User selectable themes and custom css for each user would be awesome and not too difficult to implement.

The design is lovely. The utility of it is still a bit awkward. There is too much scrolling involved, EVEN at 1280 X 1024. The quirky yet attracive rounded bars contribute to this somewhat. The decisions for a linear up-down data presentation contributes to this. Will we get used to it? No doubt. But not all complaints are invalid.

Of course people are welcome to their own opinions on things. With any big change, there will always be those that have a problem. And constructive, well-meaning criticism on how to improve things is no doubt appreciated by the dev team.

However, I think it's disgraceful the level of respect many people are showing. Whether or not you like the new site, all AS users should recognize that an enormous amount of hard work went into creating the new site. If you have some criticism, you should at the very least acknowledge that.

To complain like spoiled brats without giving props to the team for providing us with what is one of the coolest websites out there is, I'm sure, really disappointing to them. Imagine you work your ass off on something you love, for people you think appreciate what you're doing, and then you get shat on. When you add this to the fact that many of the complainers do not even donate, it is too much to believe.

I hope the AS developers know that there are many who do appreciate your hard work. As for me, I love the new site. Sure there are issues, but I know you'll work on getting them fixed. Thanks much for coming up with an excellent new site, I will definitely start my monthly donation back up.

~ dikon

I for one welcome our new insect overlords.

I feel like I am the only one who likes the new system better.

Quoth dikonstrukt:
Of course people are welcome to their own opinions on things. With any big change, there will always be those that have a problem. And constructive, well-meaning criticism on how to improve things is no doubt appreciated by the dev team.

However, I think it's disgraceful the level of respect many people are showing. Whether or not you like the new site, all AS users should recognize that an enormous amount of hard work went into creating the new site. If you have some criticism, you should at the very least acknowledge that.

To complain like spoiled brats without giving props to the team for providing us with what is one of the coolest websites out there is, I'm sure, really disappointing to them. Imagine you work your ass off on something you love, for people you think appreciate what you're doing, and then you get shat on. When you add this to the fact that many of the complainers do not even donate, it is too much to believe.

I hope the AS developers know that there are many who do appreciate your hard work. As for me, I love the new site. Sure there are issues, but I know you'll work on getting them fixed. Thanks much for coming up with an excellent new site, I will definitely start my monthly donation back up.

~ dikon



No what is disgraceful is dissing everyone who has any sort of complaint like you have done all over the map. Having worked on open source projects on my own time I know full well how people can be jerks. However, that is the nature of the beast if one cannot accept that people will be people then you should NOT be working on a public project like Audioscrobbler/Last.fm.

Despite the crap developers go through they should never get so tainted as to treat any and all criticism as a personal afront. Even some of the biggest jackasses can have really good suggestion or points you just have to pick through the comments to find them.

I have seen lots and lots of complaints and many are getting listened to but other common complaints are getting blown off or turned into veiled personal attacks and that is just not right. The common attack is to say that people are afraid of change ... I wasn't I was looking forward to it but ultimately I was disappointed in many ways. Most of them are cosmetic and oddly this seems to evoke the most venomous attacks.

Frankly I think the functionality is great but the cosmetics are not to my liking. I made suggestions in another thread and comments about why I do not like the layout. Unfortunately they were not recieved well at all and that is unfortunate but I can live with it.

This is the internet, it's by definition an impersonal medium, please don't take things I say personally, because they are certainly not meant as such.

i don't mind it .. but i think custom colors or 'styles' would be awesome that way we can have a little more individuality among the different users and switch up our pages a bit.. and i don't like that the 10 most listened to tracks is now gone .. i kinda liked that update each week. i think i preferred the two columns too .. like for the weekly updates ..

OH and another idea .. the people we have listed as friends, maybe have their name change color or something when they're online .. i mean yeah we can check if they're online but just going to their page and see if they're listening to anything .. but it might be kind of cool if their names just glowed or changed color .. i'm just talking out my ass now. :D