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Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

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Post by ghshephard » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 10:54 PM UTC

lordlarm wrote: post #48

As a computer scientist and an Opera user this actually insults me: http://i.imgur.com/7k0bN.png Ironically Opera was the one who proposed the -tag which this site uses for it's rotating LP, in 2007. [1] Way to exclude users. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#History_of_.3Cvideo...

Seems like they are overlooking a market as well by excluding them.

From: http://www.opera.com/press/faq/

"How many people are using Opera? Today, more than 275 million people are using Opera every month."

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

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Post by artursapek » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 10:54 PM UTC

ghshephard wrote: post #71

lordlarm wrote: post #48

As a computer scientist and an Opera user this actually insults me: http://i.imgur.com/7k0bN.png Ironically Opera was the one who proposed the -tag which this site uses for it's rotating LP, in 2007. [1] Way to exclude users. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#History_of_.3Cvideo...

Seems like they are overlooking a market as well by excluding them. From: http://www.opera.com/press/faq/ "How many people are using Opera? Today, more than 275 million people are using Opera every month."

Every month? I wonder how many of those are developers testing their stuff ;)

I'd rather see a number of users who have set it as their default browser.

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

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Post by iamben » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 10:55 PM UTC

anjc wrote: post #55

iamben wrote: post #8

The preview looks great. I just don't understand why anyone would come back to something they've already moved on from to do things they're already doing elsewhere. That said, I genuinely wish them the best of luck! :-)

It seems to me that this might strike a very relevant and "on trend" balance between the needs of the average person, hip circles, and creative circles. Furthermore, the redesign makes Facebook's recentish redesign look very clunky and amateurish; this design is very very fresh. I think it's a fairly interesting development.

I think pushing hip will be tough whilst still under the myspace banner, Timberlake or not. Perhaps a complete rebrand would have helped.

Trouble is, often big pictures and slick graphics isn't what the average person wants - they just want it to work, and work well - it's why everyone moved from MySpace to fb in the first place.

It looks really pretty, though!

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

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Post by joshryandavis » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 10:56 PM UTC

artursapek wrote: post #52

lordlarm wrote: post #48

As a computer scientist and an Opera user this actually insults me: http://i.imgur.com/7k0bN.png Ironically Opera was the one who proposed the -tag which this site uses for it's rotating LP, in 2007. [1] Way to exclude users. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#History_of_.3Cvideo...

I hate it when design agencies try this hard to be cool.

Their audience is people who still use Myspace.

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

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Post by rationalbeats » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 10:57 PM UTC

chrisacky wrote: post #13

Just watched the video [1] in entirety. One point, you can tell this is a total work in progress/concept, and that the UI is also most likely staged at this point. (I make this observation based on the fact that every post had "12 Connects", "3 Comments" and "2 Shares". Surely if you put this much effort into production of a video you would change these numbers?) Anyway, features which I picked up from the video... -…

"But, I just fail to see how they are going to get a strong user base"

Why not some integration with Pandora, where you can create user specific radio stations based off of the band's Myspace profile, that is also linked to their tour schedule etc etc?

Then all Pandora users who have a station created from that band can be notified either though a push notification or e-mail when they are playing a club within a 30 mi radius?

Integrating with the current Pandora userbase would fix the "how will they build a userbase?" and then Pandora would have another venue to access unsigned bands that they can promote through their Music Genome Project.

Just a thought off the top of my head.

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

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Post by warfangle » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 10:57 PM UTC

jitl wrote: post #53

binarysolo wrote: post #37

Reminds me of similar design sensibilities to Microsoft Windows 8 (Metro). Is this kinda stuff in vogue these days?

Yeah. I'm a UI Designer and I really like the aesthetics of this sort of interface, although I'm not totally on-board on reducing the total content on-screen in favor of endless scrolling GIGANTIC TEXT and images.

The big thing about it is the horizontal scrolling.. that works really well on an ipad, but not so well on the screen. This is definitely a tablet-oriented design ...

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

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Post by epidemian » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 10:57 PM UTC

lordlarm wrote: post #48

As a computer scientist and an Opera user this actually insults me: http://i.imgur.com/7k0bN.png Ironically Opera was the one who proposed the -tag which this site uses for it's rotating LP, in 2007. [1] Way to exclude users. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#History_of_.3Cvideo...

Totally agreed. What annoys me the most it that they are doing browser sniffing on the server side based on the user-agent, instead of feature detection on the client side. Talk about being updated.

  $ curl -i --user-agent 'Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.02' https://new.myspace.com/
  HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
  X-Powered-By: Express
  Vary: Accept-Encoding
  Content-Type: text/html
  Location: https://new.myspace.com/browser
  X-Response-Time: 1ms
  Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:53:34 GMT
  Connection: keep-alive
  Transfer-Encoding: chunked

  Moved Temporarily. Redirecting to https://new.myspace.com/browser

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

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Post by htmltablesrules » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 10:59 PM UTC

canistr wrote: post #35

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a desktop browser? I can believe it. It's the Pinterest interface except horizontal. I see gradients, html5 video, opacity, position fixed. The only unbelievable thing about this video is the lack of loading time to load any content.

Pinterest for Windows 8 Metro?

Exactly what I was thinking.

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

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Post by mratzloff » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 11:00 PM UTC

They've been working on this for awhile. I interviewed at Myspace about 3 years ago (mostly for the hell of it) and they were talking about the foundation for this interface. Their back end, from what I could tell, was a mess: C#, Ruby, Java, PHP, some ColdFusion still around...

These poor guys were working long hours. There were hundreds of employees, but they couldn't turn Myspace into something that 5 talented guys could make in 6 months. It was clear to me that there were a lot of politics lurking just beneath the surface.

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

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Post by ceejayoz » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 11:03 PM UTC

ghshephard wrote: post #71

lordlarm wrote: post #48

As a computer scientist and an Opera user this actually insults me: http://i.imgur.com/7k0bN.png Ironically Opera was the one who proposed the -tag which this site uses for it's rotating LP, in 2007. [1] Way to exclude users. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#History_of_.3Cvideo...

Seems like they are overlooking a market as well by excluding them. From: http://www.opera.com/press/faq/ "How many people are using Opera? Today, more than 275 million people are using Opera every month."

And yet, 0.14% of the folks hitting our servers are using it.

If 10% of the world's Internet users are on Opera, where are they?