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wheedwacker · 19-06-2008, 01:29

MySpace

It's about time.

Still, it's not that good. You'd think with how much money they make they could hire excellent designers.

emil · 19-06-2008, 02:13

Burning building in the background. Clever.

joey · 19-06-2008, 02:26

They made some aesthetic changes. Still looks like crap. But the functionality and usability and readability (and so on) of interior pages are still terrible.

bjzaba · 19-06-2008, 02:29

Wow - I thought I'd never see the day...

But the profile pages are still a mess.

cam · 19-06-2008, 04:48

adaptive path » blog » Ryan Freitas » MySpace and Adaptive Path

hawken · 19-06-2008, 04:51

still a big stinky shit though isn't it?

Dusteh · 19-06-2008, 04:53

Can't polish a turd.

pgo · 19-06-2008, 10:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dusteh

Can't polish a turd.

Yep. It looks better, but it's still MySpace. Another putrid claw in the Murdoch right-wing empire. It sickens me that 3 of my best friends still don't have Facebook accounts.

CharmingMan · 19-06-2008, 10:24

that looks a lot better to be fair to them...

just tking baby steps, still got a whole mountain to climb with that site though.

Don't mid the whole customisation idea, think if they had done it with restraint and allowed users to pick from a proffesional set of themes it would have been a lot less messy.

Giving the user too much control has been their undoing in a way

Paddy · 19-06-2008, 10:36

Not giving the user enough control more like.

Give them some control and they will use it and generally be happy. (see Bebo)

Don't give them any customisation tools, a la MySpace, and they hack it with shitty html and css so it looks like a pile of dog sick peppered with glittery images.

bjzaba · 19-06-2008, 10:38

I dont think it helps that the profile pages are built out of nested tables. If they did it properly and used divs instead, maybe we might see some marginally better designs...

Narate · 19-06-2008, 12:15

I dont have a Facebook page. I'll keep it that way too.

Hunch · 19-06-2008, 12:58

You'd have to drag me kicking and screaming to get me anywhere near Facebook.

Rik · 19-06-2008, 13:01

it's kool for kats

pgo · 19-06-2008, 13:32

I like Facebook.

Only useful if you have friends, though. So you guys might not benefit.

joey · 19-06-2008, 14:29

R1gM · 19-06-2008, 17:33

VIRB° is the best and far more useful in terms of having decent editorial content along with social networking but then again I do dig the big noobs

seen.to · 19-06-2008, 18:27

A comedian who was asking people their names and professions then taking the piss out of each mentioned his myspace page at the end of the show and since I'd told him I was a Web designer asked me if I had one. I said no since I've already reached puberty.

bazzle · 19-06-2008, 19:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by seen.to

A comedian who was asking people their names and professions then taking the piss out of each mentioned his myspace page at the end of the show and since I'd told him I was a Web designer asked me if I had one. I said no since I've already reached puberty.

lol

Don't know what to say about the redesign, it's a vast improvement but still not that great.

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bjzaba Design Student Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 1,193	Wow - I thought I'd never see the day... But the profile pages are still a mess.

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CharmingMan I'll do it tomorrow. Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 5,122	that looks a lot better to be fair to them... just tking baby steps, still got a whole mountain to climb with that site though. Don't mid the whole customisation idea, think if they had done it with restraint and allowed users to pick from a proffesional set of themes it would have been a lot less messy. Giving the user too much control has been their undoing in a way __________________ —Freelancer for hire

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bjzaba Design Student Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 1,193	I dont think it helps that the profile pages are built out of nested tables. If they did it properly and used divs instead, maybe we might see some marginally better designs...

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Narate Royalty™ Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Manchester (UK) Posts: 3,345	I dont have a Facebook page. I'll keep it that way too.

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Hunch Grumpy old man Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: North Japan Posts: 2,320	You'd have to drag me kicking and screaming to get me anywhere near Facebook.

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pgo Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 12,339	I like Facebook. Only useful if you have friends, though. So you guys might not benefit.

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R1gM Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 276	VIRB° is the best and far more useful in terms of having decent editorial content along with social networking but then again I do dig the big noobs

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