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Post by defiant1 on Jan 5, 2014 7:08:30 GMT -5
For most people, the changes are just aesthetic. I was doing some unusual tweaks. I added a third party chat function, roll out menus, customized video script for multiple sites. I even considered embedding my galleries into a forum page. To me that made their service cool. To restrict customization like that makes it far more boring. df1 I have seen a lot of those changes you are referring to. The current configuration is easy to figure out how to go about things and add things you desire. All you really needed was the desire and you could find a way to get it done. The avenues to attempt to go about it was kind of intuitive. The board allowed for customization. I haven't studied the new site editor but I did look once or twice quickly at it and I wasn't impressed. It seems to want to wow you with a user interface that has visuals, but the intuitiveness wasn't apparent to me. I leave myself open to figuring things out but the way it looked, it didn't look like I would want to tinker with it. A few years ago I used to want to do a whole lot with my site and I had dreams to get a lot of things done. For awhile there, I did do some things and I was learning about other things and then my life got in the way and I stopped tinkering with my site. Before this I had seen some of the things you were doing and some of it appealed to me. I seen the site as having a lot of potential. At the same time I had opened up a billboard site on GoDaddy and I found their editor to be like sticking needles in my eyes. Everything I accomplished happened by me doing it over and over and over until I finally got something minor done. I'm pretty sure Proboards will be easier than that, but the new configuration editor looked like useless bells and whistles. The difference seems to be a simple interface now that lends itself to easy customization, compared to a much flashier interface that looked like you would spend more time figuring out what did what then you would actually accomplishing anything. All I want going forward is a site to keep posting on. I think I will be hard pressed to want to tinker with it much. I'm actually hoping that once everyone has been upgraded they suffer a backlash or a lot of people leave them because they enjoyed things the way they are now. It reminds me of how Myspace used to be good until Facebook was catching on so they changed their format and then Myspace completely sucked and everyone left. Most times new formats just destroy what was already great about it. I kind of doubt Proboards will ever be as good as version 4 again. You are exactly right. Myspace was popular and interesting until they redesigned the user pages and rolled out the dynamic content that I hate. I'm seeing more people say Facebook sucks. I thought it always sucked. df1
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Post by G on Jan 6, 2014 0:02:36 GMT -5
You are exactly right. Myspace was popular and interesting until they redesigned the user pages and rolled out the dynamic content that I hate. I'm seeing more people say Facebook sucks. I thought it always sucked. df1 I used to love Myspace when their pages was customizable. It seemed like a great place to express your personality. I had a couple of pages. 1 personal and 1 personal interest page. I ended up pouring a lot into my personal interest page and I had a lot friends, posts and additions to it. It was extremely well visited. It was sort of a precurser of what I did here. And then Facebook got popular and everybody left Myspace in a mass exodus, although I did keep a reliable core until Myspace decided to revamp their stuff and then everything went to shit. Myspace is a joke now. They have since revamped once or twice since then and all my hard work has been wiped out by their updates. I used to come back from time to time to see what I could do when there was still scraps of what I had, but now there is nothing but a friends list and all my material gone. Myspace is like a what not to do example and I feel like Proboards if following suit. Facebook has 1 advantage that I find and that is to me, more people on that than there ever was on Myspace. People act like Facebook will never go away. I'm not sure. It's more of a habit now than anything and a way to keep check on people and what they are doing. But a lot of what is happening on Facebook is growing tired. Feel like something new can come along and take over the latter half of this decade but I dont know what that could be. It's just starting to feel like what is next???
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Post by defiant1 on Jan 6, 2014 6:39:30 GMT -5
You are exactly right. Myspace was popular and interesting until they redesigned the user pages and rolled out the dynamic content that I hate. I'm seeing more people say Facebook sucks. I thought it always sucked. df1 I used to love Myspace when their pages was customizable. It seemed like a great place to express your personality. I had a couple of pages. 1 personal and 1 personal interest page. I ended up pouring a lot into my personal interest page and I had a lot friends, posts and additions to it. It was extremely well visited. It was sort of a precurser of what I did here. And then Facebook got popular and everybody left Myspace in a mass exodus, although I did keep a reliable core until Myspace decided to revamp their stuff and then everything went to shit. Myspace is a joke now. They have since revamped once or twice since then and all my hard work has been wiped out by their updates. I used to come back from time to time to see what I could do when there was still scraps of what I had, but now there is nothing but a friends list and all my material gone. Myspace is like a what not to do example and I feel like Proboards if following suit. Facebook has 1 advantage that I find and that is to me, more people on that than there ever was on Myspace. People act like Facebook will never go away. I'm not sure. It's more of a habit now than anything and a way to keep check on people and what they are doing. But a lot of what is happening on Facebook is growing tired. Feel like something new can come along and take over the latter half of this decade but I dont know what that could be. It's just starting to feel like what is next??? Exactly. You could express your personality with Myspace. When they got rid of that it was useless. Facebook always seemed like a trimmed down and restrictive version of Myspace. I think the exodus from Myspace occurred because of the changes Myspace was making. I think Myspace was struggling because it wasn't as compatible with mobile devices. I think Myspace's attempt at being compatible is what killed them. It was too late and it annoyed anyone not on a mobile device. df1
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