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Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

#121

Post by at-fates-hands »

The Opera landing page is not just disappointing, it's downright offensive.

As someone who never used MySpace and is a fleeting Facebook user, I would've been interested in seeing the new product and willing to sign up and see if it's improved at all.

As it stands right now, not only am I not going to use it based on this stupidity, I'm going to make sure none of the people I could've brought over from Facebook don't either.

Way to alienate people before you even finish the new design. Bravo. JT must be so proud.

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

#122

Post by dboat »

reddiric wrote: post #105
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...

About to post the exact same thing http://i.imgur.com/DO5Kb.png And what's with the condescending list? Excuse my vulgarity but the page managed to be insulting, clueless, and factually inaccurate all at the same time. Here's how it reads to me: a) Fuck you. b) Fuck you. c) Yes I do, a big technology company where I can install whatever software I need working on harder technical problems than getting Myspace working…

I think you and others are really being overly sensitive about this. Yes, they probably shouldn't have called your favourite browser outdated, but it's obvious that it was an oversight, and consequence of taking an informal tone with giving a message. A message necessitated by choosing not to support the major browser with the smallest market share in their "preview" release.

I like it when larger, more corporate sites go for an informal tone, even if they don't completely nail the humour they might have been striving for. It's a better direction overall than a stuffy PR-speak message, and getting bent out of shape about it just seems like an overreaction.

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

#123

Post by ryanmolden »

reddiric wrote: post #105
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...

About to post the exact same thing http://i.imgur.com/DO5Kb.png And what's with the condescending list? Excuse my vulgarity but the page managed to be insulting, clueless, and factually inaccurate all at the same time. Here's how it reads to me: a) Fuck you. b) Fuck you. c) Yes I do, a big technology company where I can install whatever software I need working on harder technical problems than getting Myspace working…

Yeah, I always take snarky lists like this as an attempt to be hip or edgy, it fails both attempts here and just makes me think the developer, or whoever came up with that copy, an idiot. One thing is certain, they're not in possession of any ability in the comedy realm.

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

#124

Post by ryanmolden »

dboat wrote: post #122
reddiric wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

About to post the exact same thing http://i.imgur.com/DO5Kb.png And what's with the condescending list? Excuse my vulgarity but the page managed to be insulting, clueless, and factually inaccurate all at the same time. Here's how it reads to me: a) Fuck you. b) Fuck you. c) Yes I do, a big technology company where I can install whatever software I need working on harder technical problems than getting Myspace working…

I think you and others are really being overly sensitive about this. Yes, they probably shouldn't have called your favourite browser outdated, but it's obvious that it was an oversight, and consequence of taking an informal tone with giving a message. A message necessitated by choosing not to support the major browser with the smallest market share in their "preview" release. I like it when larger, more corporate sit…

There is a middle ground, it is called a simple, straight forward message, something like "We don't support your browser". No shark needed, no suggestions that the user "doesn't use the internet much" or are "at their parent's house". Though the idea of MySpace trying to put on a hipster front is hilarious in the irony. Really? MySpace still exists as an actual thing?

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

#125

Post by chewxy »

DigitalSea wrote: post #93
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... -…

The company I work for (Josephmark) was hired by MySpace to redesign the site and create something radically different. The interface you see was created by a few talented designers, the video you say was staged is definitely not staged. What you are seeing is what the new MySpace will look like when it's ready to launch. Yes, the site is focusing music - the new MySpace is going to be a social music platform because…

Tell Ben I said hi :D Good job mate.

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

#126

Post by [deleted] »

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...

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Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

#127

Post by Zimahl »

mratzloff wrote: post #79

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 guy…

Yikes, 3 years? From scratch is where they needed to start from and it sounds like they couldn't pull the trigger until recently.

FWIW, I think the interface looks great. However, I'm definitely not the target audience - I'm not young, nor hip, nor am all that into music. I have however done my share of user interaction and development and it seems cool AND functional, which is quite a feat in itself.

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

#128

Post by skeletonjelly »

astrodust wrote: post #70
wmeredith wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bullshit. Go ask a twelve year old who's going to start creating their online persona this year what Myspace is. They won't know what you're talking about.

Then their eighteen year old brother will flick them in the ear and call them a loser and a noob and they'll quickly learn.

Lucky teenagers don't revolt anything their older peers tell them as fact ;)

Re: Myspace previews complete redesign

#129

Post by robryan »

mratzloff wrote: post #79

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 guy…

3 years back would have been before the last redesign, which didn't do a lot to improve their fortunes.
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