This is not a well planned, elaborate artikel on accepting change and what we can do to make it better. This is a series of thoughts, pertanyaan and sarcastic komentar taken mostly from messages between link and link about why we are not fan of the Facepop Makeover of July 2010. If anda would like to read an artikel about accepting the change, exploring some of the finer parts of the makeover and moving on, please read link artikel oleh Fanpop's amazing link. Actually, anda should probably read that anyway if you’re at all concerned about the makeover.
A BRIEF HISTORY LESSON.
One of the things Missy and I have always loved about fanpop is that it was… well, Fanpop. (Most of) the people were great, lots of cool content, the creators were down to earth guys who actually talked to the users and cared about what they had to say (I still cinta anda guys even though I hate this new layout with a fiery passion!). It had a nice, simple, clean layout. It was original, not like most of the up-and-coming sites that are essentially ripoffs of lebih populer sites like MySpace and Facebook.
We’ve been here since 2007. Some call us “the old people”. We are not normally fan of change. But before anda write this off with a “Oh great, it’s just Missy & Dasm bitching about the smallest change again,” please at least skim this article. I may be a bit biased, ‘cause I helped write it, but I believe there are some interesting points below.
LADIES & GENTS, I GIVE YOU... FACEPOP. (Or: THE WALL)
There was a repeat pick in the fanpop spot the other hari about whether fanpop atau facebook was better. fanpop has won every one of those picks! There is a message in that.
Aside from the fact that walls are thought of as a facebook thing, this is going to open up a world of pain, as trolls and spammers can now abuse whole spots and individuals much lebih easily now.
I think almost everyone can agree that the dinding box is ridiculously large. Downsize, please.
Why didn't the site test the feature on a small group first, so that issues like expanding komentar and the laporan function could already work before releasing it to everyone?
Yes, it has been asked in the past and the slight majority wanted something similar to a wall. One thing that needs to be taken into account is that the people who wanted "comment walls" and such were the same people who wanted personalized backgrounds for their profiles etc. Those were the same kind of users who just wanted it to be all sparkles and hearts like their MySpace accounts.
THE LAYOUT.
Despite hiding half the features & content, the new layout makes the pages look so much lebih cluttered. rongsokan, sampah like populer content and the mind-blowing four update are all on the right side while everything else is overlapped on the left.
No link on the main page of a spot? And artikel way down the bottom of the page where no one will look? Great.
forum were already ignored, now they're basically useless. Older users will still know their purpose, and hopefully where to find them, but why would a n00b post a forum for discussion when there's a gigantic dinding they can write on, right on the spot's halaman awal page?
This screws over quizzes, too - forget that whole 'I'm here for a purpose, but ooh, I know the answer to that kuis 'cause it's right there where I can see it!' thing. This was one of Fanpop’s coolest features and now it’s hidden just like video and forums.
...but oleh all means, put the jawaban section right where everyone can see it, it's not abused oleh 98% of the site atau anything.
After trying for ages to get it drilled into the heads of uploaders, even putting a note on the upload page itself, about adding gambar with link, guess what? Image names don't tampil up on a spot's halaman awal page.
THREE SEARCHBARS in a spot?! THREE searchbars for people to ignore?! The placement of the new cari bar commands lebih attention, so I can accept that. But THREE searchbars per spot?! (Black Bar of Doom for site-wide searching, Grey Bar for spot, and now another spot cari in spots that don’t have dinding posts yet.)
What determines populer content? Personally, I've never paid any attention to it and now it's taking up half my page.
It seems that most of the spots I checked that have no kuiz have the 'quizzes' tab shown in default instead of the 'picks'. What determines which tab is shown on individual pages?
Putting artikel all the way down at the bottom and the "wall" up the puncak, atas functions to totally devalue article-writing while promoting Twitter like "Oh LOlz i ? FanPOp!!!!!!!1" contributions. It will also probably scare off potential new users over the age of 12. Nobody loves a crazed fangirl.
USER profil CHANGES.
"Club Activity" is a pain in the pantat, keledai to navigate through. With the old system, once anda were in a user's activities, it only took a click to get where anda wanted. Why did that get lebih complicated?
The link to pujian on the profil header is gone, now the only way to get to them is to click the prop icon atau go through the wall.
...but there is a link to "photos" which leads to -waitforit- the user's gallery. Which can also be accessed oleh clicking "more photos" selanjutnya to the user's icon, the icon itself, atau the tiny thumbnails of other icon in the user’s gallery.
In order to get to the picks a person has made, anda now have to go through the picks section in the "my club activity" menu (instead of being able to see it from the 'activity' section).
As of now, I haven't found out how to find the kuis pertanyaan a user has made through navigation (other than just typing it in the link bar). The kuis page allows anda to sort the kuiz the user has taken, but nothing on the ones they made.
Each user now has link on their page for "updates" which only leads to the halaman awal page. The status bar looks like it's going to take anda to the update for the spots the users is a part of (fanpop.com/fans/username/updates/filtered), but last I checked, anda could only see your own updates. Which would be why it's redirecting to the halaman awal page. Also, why would anda need to see the update for someone else's spots?
THE BURNING QUESTIONS.
Why has this kind of "makeover" been diberikan priority over other issues such as the repeated failures of the reporting system, the pertanyaan yang paling sering diajukan that hasn’t been updated in ages, the insanity of the duplicate spots issue, and the tons of worthwhile suggestions in Dave’s link?
A BRIEF HISTORY LESSON.
One of the things Missy and I have always loved about fanpop is that it was… well, Fanpop. (Most of) the people were great, lots of cool content, the creators were down to earth guys who actually talked to the users and cared about what they had to say (I still cinta anda guys even though I hate this new layout with a fiery passion!). It had a nice, simple, clean layout. It was original, not like most of the up-and-coming sites that are essentially ripoffs of lebih populer sites like MySpace and Facebook.
We’ve been here since 2007. Some call us “the old people”. We are not normally fan of change. But before anda write this off with a “Oh great, it’s just Missy & Dasm bitching about the smallest change again,” please at least skim this article. I may be a bit biased, ‘cause I helped write it, but I believe there are some interesting points below.
LADIES & GENTS, I GIVE YOU... FACEPOP. (Or: THE WALL)
There was a repeat pick in the fanpop spot the other hari about whether fanpop atau facebook was better. fanpop has won every one of those picks! There is a message in that.
Aside from the fact that walls are thought of as a facebook thing, this is going to open up a world of pain, as trolls and spammers can now abuse whole spots and individuals much lebih easily now.
I think almost everyone can agree that the dinding box is ridiculously large. Downsize, please.
Why didn't the site test the feature on a small group first, so that issues like expanding komentar and the laporan function could already work before releasing it to everyone?
Yes, it has been asked in the past and the slight majority wanted something similar to a wall. One thing that needs to be taken into account is that the people who wanted "comment walls" and such were the same people who wanted personalized backgrounds for their profiles etc. Those were the same kind of users who just wanted it to be all sparkles and hearts like their MySpace accounts.
THE LAYOUT.
Despite hiding half the features & content, the new layout makes the pages look so much lebih cluttered. rongsokan, sampah like populer content and the mind-blowing four update are all on the right side while everything else is overlapped on the left.
No link on the main page of a spot? And artikel way down the bottom of the page where no one will look? Great.
forum were already ignored, now they're basically useless. Older users will still know their purpose, and hopefully where to find them, but why would a n00b post a forum for discussion when there's a gigantic dinding they can write on, right on the spot's halaman awal page?
This screws over quizzes, too - forget that whole 'I'm here for a purpose, but ooh, I know the answer to that kuis 'cause it's right there where I can see it!' thing. This was one of Fanpop’s coolest features and now it’s hidden just like video and forums.
...but oleh all means, put the jawaban section right where everyone can see it, it's not abused oleh 98% of the site atau anything.
After trying for ages to get it drilled into the heads of uploaders, even putting a note on the upload page itself, about adding gambar with link, guess what? Image names don't tampil up on a spot's halaman awal page.
THREE SEARCHBARS in a spot?! THREE searchbars for people to ignore?! The placement of the new cari bar commands lebih attention, so I can accept that. But THREE searchbars per spot?! (Black Bar of Doom for site-wide searching, Grey Bar for spot, and now another spot cari in spots that don’t have dinding posts yet.)
What determines populer content? Personally, I've never paid any attention to it and now it's taking up half my page.
It seems that most of the spots I checked that have no kuiz have the 'quizzes' tab shown in default instead of the 'picks'. What determines which tab is shown on individual pages?
Putting artikel all the way down at the bottom and the "wall" up the puncak, atas functions to totally devalue article-writing while promoting Twitter like "Oh LOlz i ? FanPOp!!!!!!!1" contributions. It will also probably scare off potential new users over the age of 12. Nobody loves a crazed fangirl.
USER profil CHANGES.
"Club Activity" is a pain in the pantat, keledai to navigate through. With the old system, once anda were in a user's activities, it only took a click to get where anda wanted. Why did that get lebih complicated?
The link to pujian on the profil header is gone, now the only way to get to them is to click the prop icon atau go through the wall.
...but there is a link to "photos" which leads to -waitforit- the user's gallery. Which can also be accessed oleh clicking "more photos" selanjutnya to the user's icon, the icon itself, atau the tiny thumbnails of other icon in the user’s gallery.
In order to get to the picks a person has made, anda now have to go through the picks section in the "my club activity" menu (instead of being able to see it from the 'activity' section).
As of now, I haven't found out how to find the kuis pertanyaan a user has made through navigation (other than just typing it in the link bar). The kuis page allows anda to sort the kuiz the user has taken, but nothing on the ones they made.
Each user now has link on their page for "updates" which only leads to the halaman awal page. The status bar looks like it's going to take anda to the update for the spots the users is a part of (fanpop.com/fans/username/updates/filtered), but last I checked, anda could only see your own updates. Which would be why it's redirecting to the halaman awal page. Also, why would anda need to see the update for someone else's spots?
THE BURNING QUESTIONS.
Why has this kind of "makeover" been diberikan priority over other issues such as the repeated failures of the reporting system, the pertanyaan yang paling sering diajukan that hasn’t been updated in ages, the insanity of the duplicate spots issue, and the tons of worthwhile suggestions in Dave’s link?