This is not a well planned, elaborate लेख on accepting change and what we can do to make it better. This is a series of thoughts, सवालों and sarcastic टिप्पणियाँ taken mostly from messages between link and link about why we are not प्रशंसकों of the Facepop Makeover of July 2010. If आप would like to read an लेख about accepting the change, exploring some of the finer parts of the makeover and moving on, please read link लेख द्वारा Fanpop's amazing link. Actually, आप 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 फैन्पॉप 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 प्यार आप 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 और लोकप्रिय sites like MySpace and Facebook.
We’ve been here since 2007. Some call us “the old people”. We are not normally प्रशंसकों of change. But before आप 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 फैन्पॉप spot the other दिन about whether फैन्पॉप या फेसबुक was better. फैन्पॉप has won every one of those picks! There is a message in that.
Aside from the fact that walls are thought of as a फेसबुक thing, this is going to open up a world of pain, as trolls and spammers can now abuse whole spots and individuals much और easily now.
I think almost everyone can agree that the दीवार box is ridiculously large. Downsize, please.
Why didn't the site test the feature on a small group first, so that issues like expanding टिप्पणियाँ and the रिपोर्ट 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 और cluttered. कचरा, जंक, रद्दी like लोकप्रिय content and the mind-blowing four अपडेट्स are all on the right side while everything else is overlapped on the left.
No लिंक्स on the main page of a spot? And लेखाए way down the bottom of the page where no one will look? Great.
मंचों 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 मंच for discussion when there's a gigantic दीवार they can write on, right on the spot's घर page?
This screws over quizzes, too - forget that whole 'I'm here for a purpose, but ooh, I know the answer to that क्विज़ '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 वीडियो and forums.
...but द्वारा all means, put the जवाब section right where everyone can see it, it's not abused द्वारा 98% of the site या anything.
After trying for ages to get it drilled into the heads of uploaders, even putting a note on the अपलोड page itself, about adding तस्वीरें with link, guess what? Image names don't दिखाना up on a spot's घर page.
THREE SEARCHBARS in a spot?! THREE searchbars for people to ignore?! The placement of the new खोजिए bar commands और 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 खोजिए in spots that don’t have दीवार posts yet.)
What determines लोकप्रिय 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 क्विज़ have the 'quizzes' tab shown in default instead of the 'picks'. What determines which tab is shown on individual pages?
Putting लेखाए all the way down at the bottom and the "wall" up the चोटी, शीर्ष 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 प्रोफ़ाइल CHANGES.
"Club Activity" is a pain in the नितंब, गधा to navigate through. With the old system, once आप were in a user's activities, it only took a click to get where आप wanted. Why did that get और complicated?
The link to प्रॉप्स on the प्रोफ़ाइल header is gone, now the only way to get to them is to click the प्रॉप आइकनों या go through the wall.
...but there is a link to "photos" which leads to -waitforit- the user's gallery. Which can also be accessed द्वारा clicking "more photos" अगला to the user's icon, the आइकन itself, या the tiny thumbnails of other आइकनों in the user’s gallery.
In order to get to the picks a person has made, आप 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 क्विज़ सवालों a user has made through navigation (other than just typing it in the यू. आर्. एल bar). The क्विज़ page allows आप to sort the क्विज़ 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 घर page. The status bar looks like it's going to take आप to the अपडेट्स for the spots the users is a part of (fanpop.com/fans/username/updates/filtered), but last I checked, आप could only see your own updates. Which would be why it's redirecting to the घर page. Also, why would आप need to see the अपडेट्स for someone else's spots?
THE BURNING QUESTIONS.
Why has this kind of "makeover" been दिया priority over other issues such as the repeated failures of the reporting system, the एफ ए क्यू 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 फैन्पॉप 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 प्यार आप 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 और लोकप्रिय sites like MySpace and Facebook.
We’ve been here since 2007. Some call us “the old people”. We are not normally प्रशंसकों of change. But before आप 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 फैन्पॉप spot the other दिन about whether फैन्पॉप या फेसबुक was better. फैन्पॉप has won every one of those picks! There is a message in that.
Aside from the fact that walls are thought of as a फेसबुक thing, this is going to open up a world of pain, as trolls and spammers can now abuse whole spots and individuals much और easily now.
I think almost everyone can agree that the दीवार box is ridiculously large. Downsize, please.
Why didn't the site test the feature on a small group first, so that issues like expanding टिप्पणियाँ and the रिपोर्ट 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 और cluttered. कचरा, जंक, रद्दी like लोकप्रिय content and the mind-blowing four अपडेट्स are all on the right side while everything else is overlapped on the left.
No लिंक्स on the main page of a spot? And लेखाए way down the bottom of the page where no one will look? Great.
मंचों 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 मंच for discussion when there's a gigantic दीवार they can write on, right on the spot's घर page?
This screws over quizzes, too - forget that whole 'I'm here for a purpose, but ooh, I know the answer to that क्विज़ '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 वीडियो and forums.
...but द्वारा all means, put the जवाब section right where everyone can see it, it's not abused द्वारा 98% of the site या anything.
After trying for ages to get it drilled into the heads of uploaders, even putting a note on the अपलोड page itself, about adding तस्वीरें with link, guess what? Image names don't दिखाना up on a spot's घर page.
THREE SEARCHBARS in a spot?! THREE searchbars for people to ignore?! The placement of the new खोजिए bar commands और 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 खोजिए in spots that don’t have दीवार posts yet.)
What determines लोकप्रिय 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 क्विज़ have the 'quizzes' tab shown in default instead of the 'picks'. What determines which tab is shown on individual pages?
Putting लेखाए all the way down at the bottom and the "wall" up the चोटी, शीर्ष 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 प्रोफ़ाइल CHANGES.
"Club Activity" is a pain in the नितंब, गधा to navigate through. With the old system, once आप were in a user's activities, it only took a click to get where आप wanted. Why did that get और complicated?
The link to प्रॉप्स on the प्रोफ़ाइल header is gone, now the only way to get to them is to click the प्रॉप आइकनों या go through the wall.
...but there is a link to "photos" which leads to -waitforit- the user's gallery. Which can also be accessed द्वारा clicking "more photos" अगला to the user's icon, the आइकन itself, या the tiny thumbnails of other आइकनों in the user’s gallery.
In order to get to the picks a person has made, आप 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 क्विज़ सवालों a user has made through navigation (other than just typing it in the यू. आर्. एल bar). The क्विज़ page allows आप to sort the क्विज़ 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 घर page. The status bar looks like it's going to take आप to the अपडेट्स for the spots the users is a part of (fanpop.com/fans/username/updates/filtered), but last I checked, आप could only see your own updates. Which would be why it's redirecting to the घर page. Also, why would आप need to see the अपडेट्स for someone else's spots?
THE BURNING QUESTIONS.
Why has this kind of "makeover" been दिया priority over other issues such as the repeated failures of the reporting system, the एफ ए क्यू that hasn’t been updated in ages, the insanity of the duplicate spots issue, and the tons of worthwhile suggestions in Dave’s link?
this week, फैन्पॉप reach the of unffair:
so, i शामिल होइए to fp, like a साल ago, but i only start to contribute in janurary +- . for a long time my only contibutuons were for the Brtieny Spears Spot.
Here's My Contributions:
Links- 18
Videos- 600
Images- 3574
Comments- 49
Forums- 7
Picks- 110
Quizzes- 36
Articles- 5
Until last week i was the #1 प्रशंसक on the spot, and i still have a "Die-Hard Medal", but now in #2. So i check the profile, of the new #1 fan- shopialover, and she have a "Fanatic Medal", now see what she contribued:
Links- 1
Videos- 467
Images- 805
Comments- 51
Forums- 0
Picks- 2
Quizzes- 0
Articles- 0
I Was Like, are आप kidding me?, this is so unffair, i लॉस्ट a lot of time uploading pictures and add video and thinkin in original picks! Could this be और unffair?
ANYONE WITH ME?
so, i शामिल होइए to fp, like a साल ago, but i only start to contribute in janurary +- . for a long time my only contibutuons were for the Brtieny Spears Spot.
Here's My Contributions:
Links- 18
Videos- 600
Images- 3574
Comments- 49
Forums- 7
Picks- 110
Quizzes- 36
Articles- 5
Until last week i was the #1 प्रशंसक on the spot, and i still have a "Die-Hard Medal", but now in #2. So i check the profile, of the new #1 fan- shopialover, and she have a "Fanatic Medal", now see what she contribued:
Links- 1
Videos- 467
Images- 805
Comments- 51
Forums- 0
Picks- 2
Quizzes- 0
Articles- 0
I Was Like, are आप kidding me?, this is so unffair, i लॉस्ट a lot of time uploading pictures and add video and thinkin in original picks! Could this be और unffair?
ANYONE WITH ME?