freyfaxi62 posted at 3:02PM Sun, 15 April 2018 - #4328333

I can never figure out why this endless need to change things ? It seems to be a change purely for the sake of change..never mind actually IMPROVING functionality? It's like the sort of thing that happens in an office/govt environment..someone new takes over a position and the very first thing they do is to re-arrange all the proceedures..purely to put their stamp on things to "justify" their elevation to the job :( This change seems to fall into that category..change purely for the sake of things :( Has it actually IMPROVED things..finding anything now seems actually SLOWER than previously ?

well i guess somewhere the point of any site updating its UI is some kind of technical improvement, or the wish to appear more trendy, or both. the problem is, the bigger and complex the site is, the crazier the work load and intrications are. you can't just meddle a bit here and there, otherwise you get a pathetic patchwork where the parts don't work together properly any more, and/or it looks like crap. and if you overhaul the whole thing in one go, even if you manage a feat about the design, there's no guarantee everything will work and there will be bugs up to total failure of the functionality.

_while i can't comment about technical modifications because i have no clue - save for the fact that they need to be tested, tested, and tested again maybe, which i wonder if it is really done enough, i can have an opinion about design generally, also user friendliness.

not sure if it's related to bootstrap (know the name, but not really what it is) or some other recent-ish trend in dynamic webdesign/programming, but since maybe 2010, a ton of sites have totally changed their look and UI for this whitish eye-blending backgrounds, sterile designs, meek colors like grey, middle blue (yup, the new color of the search button!) and general boring vibe. not to mention more icons for social media (and their f*ing trackbacks!) that my blocker can store, and so many ads that i would just stop surfing the net if there weren't any ad/content blockers. i have loathed pretty much every total site overhaul on my fav sites, not because i can't adapt to change, but because the change.. made all sites alike, and not in a good way. also, i don't give a rat's ass about what appears to be trendy design-wise. if a site's owner modifies a good looking & working site just to mimic new trends, i'm sorry for them and their lack of confidence in their brand and products. you can't fake quality and efficiency with new looks, either you already rock with what you offer.. or you suck anyways.

what i'm trying to say is that webdesign is an art, and if you can't produce anything pleasant to look at, FORGET IT, go work in a bank or a diner._

now here, no idea what triggered this change nor what its point is - but besides those horrible unpractical horizontal white-greyish/blue navigation menus that spring out of top nav originally meant to trigger vertical menus, the colors don't fit (the black is too harsh, the blue reminds of windows 50 years ago, there are random patches of almost similar green for feedback, deals, thread, search = wtf), you have all kind of shapes for the new elements... and i notice top icons missing, i don't remember which, but there were more i'm sure (which means more clicking to find the equivalent through a menu). all in all, without going more into details, looking at it is just eeeew. an unpleasant, annoying, bothersome, grating experience. the old version up to a few days ago was way better.

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