What else can you expect, when those site redesigns are usually driven by the desire for increased ad revenue. Even idiots who don't know why, will know it somehow sucks more than it used to. Other times it's just a blatant removal of loved features. Funny skit aside, the simpler explanation is enshittification.
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mikeyBoy14@lemmy.world 11 months ago
To be fair, this is how people tend to react to change, generally. I remember every time Facebook or YouTube did a site redesign in the early 2010s people were always up in arms. Jake and Amir even had an episode called Facebook Redesign that I’ll try to add a link to later today.
H_Interlinked@kbin.social 11 months ago
dreadedsemi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah I left yahoo when they changed their design. Never went back. Though rebranding Twitter seems a waste of money. He paid 44 billionm, a lot of it for the brand.
claymedia@lemm.ee 11 months ago
He paid for a platform and a brand. Immediately guts the platform’s staff and begins removing features. Loses half its advertising revenue. Then throws out the brand. Probably cuts revenue in half again.
What would you do with $44 billion?
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
that’s because the changes are usually for the worse, not even joking. I use Facebook for a part of my job and their tools are so garbage.
epenance@lemmy.dosh.dk 11 months ago
I’ve also works on countless of Ecommerce sites and every time we needed to rebrand or redesign something we would do it in many small iterations as major changes would always get blow backs
sparky678348@lemm.ee 11 months ago
ChrisFhey@kbin.social 11 months ago
Same goes for the Reddit redesign. People have been up in arms about new Reddit ever since it's been introduced.
I'm pretty sure they'd be much less up in arms if the new version didn't suck as much as it does, though. Same probably holds true for the redesigns that were introduced for Youtube and Facebook.
sixtyshilling@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Most people have knee-jerk reactions to site redesigns, and then begrudgingly accept it sometime after.
The reddit redesign is different, in that most power users, mods, and long-time redditors are still using old.reddit 5+ years later.
ChrisFhey@kbin.social 11 months ago
That's not an entirely valid comparison in that the other platforms that got redesigned don't give the end-user the option to still use the old design. Chances are that if they did, a lot of people would stick to the old design there as well.
Zeeroover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
The Reddit redesign is so bad, they themselves recommend using their app!
Andrenikous@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s by design. It’s in Reddits bestinterest to drive usage towards their invasive app.
Zeeroover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I know that. That’s why people complain about it.