So initially, I thought, what the fuck is this.. (mostly because it was SOOO slow and images kept timing out.. etc).
So I have thought about it a little longer.
Some good things:
3. shiny?
2. neighbors&friends on ONE PAGE!!!
1. ???
My main complaints are:
3. The design isn't really consistent.. weird layout for recent tracks.. the edges of the artist images on the user pages are up agains the border of the main content window.. the %username looks out of place.. as does the search box. Not sure when I'm going to get boxes on either side or just one side.. etc. Making the top a gradient was probably a bad mood. I don't mind the other title bars so much.
2. Left aligned text? Do the developers only have access to screens that are 800*600? It's such a waste of space to have things wrapped so small. This is what css bounding boxes are for. (Speaking of which, to the right of this text entry window is a dialog box with text running outside its bounds.)
1. You moved everything around. I understand this is going to happen wtih a new design.. but I can't find things! Maybe you should have added a guide like "where did all the features I use go?"
So everyone complaing is pretty rude about the whole thing. I think this probably stems from the fact that last.fm is supposed to be a social music site, and users feel really disconnected from the staff. Staff doesn't really socilict our opinions on things.. (maybe a poll for things??) and if they do, it doesn't really feel like they listen. They have also become increasingly hostile/rude, but with the large number of users complaining constantly... I can understand.
I suppose we'll all get used to it. I haven't really cared about the tracks updating.. they'll update eventually, but the site look is kinda hard on my eyes.
So staff, can we get some polls so we can at least pretend like the staff understands the prevailing opinion of the users?