This is not a well planned, elaborate makala on accepting change and what we can do to make it better. This is a series of thoughts, maswali and sarcastic maoni taken mostly from messages between link and link about why we are not mashabiki of the Facepop Makeover of July 2010. If wewe would like to read an makala about accepting the change, exploring some of the finer parts of the makeover and moving on, please read link makala kwa Fanpop's amazing link. Actually, wewe 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 fanpop 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 upendo wewe 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 zaidi maarufu sites like MySpace and Facebook.
We’ve been here since 2007. Some call us “the old people”. We are not normally mashabiki of change. But before wewe 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 fanpop spot the other siku about whether fanpop au Facebook was better. fanpop has won every one of those picks! There is a message in that.
Aside from the fact that walls are thought of as a Facebook thing, this is going to open up a world of pain, as trolls and spammers can now abuse whole spots and individuals much zaidi easily now.
I think almost everyone can agree that the ukuta box is ridiculously large. Downsize, please.
Why didn't the site test the feature on a small group first, so that issues like expanding maoni and the ripoti 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 zaidi cluttered. junk, taka like maarufu content and the mind-blowing four sasisho are all on the right side while everything else is overlapped on the left.
No viungo on the main page of a spot? And makala way down the bottom of the page where no one will look? Great.
foramu 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 foramu for discussion when there's a gigantic ukuta they can write on, right on the spot's nyumbani page?
This screws over quizzes, too - forget that whole 'I'm here for a purpose, but ooh, I know the answer to that chemsha bongo '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 video and forums.
...but kwa all means, put the majibu section right where everyone can see it, it's not abused kwa 98% of the site au anything.
After trying for ages to get it drilled into the heads of uploaders, even putting a note on the pakia page itself, about adding picha with link, guess what? Image names don't onyesha up on a spot's nyumbani page.
THREE SEARCHBARS in a spot?! THREE searchbars for people to ignore?! The placement of the new tafuta bar commands zaidi 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 tafuta in spots that don’t have ukuta posts yet.)
What determines maarufu 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 chemsha bongo have the 'quizzes' tab shown in default instead of the 'picks'. What determines which tab is shown on individual pages?
Putting makala all the way down at the bottom and the "wall" up the juu 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 profaili CHANGES.
"Club Activity" is a pain in the punda to navigate through. With the old system, once wewe were in a user's activities, it only took a click to get where wewe wanted. Why did that get zaidi complicated?
The link to heshima on the profaili header is gone, now the only way to get to them is to click the heshima ikoni au go through the wall.
...but there is a link to "photos" which leads to -waitforit- the user's gallery. Which can also be accessed kwa clicking "more photos" inayofuata to the user's icon, the ikoni itself, au the tiny thumbnails of other ikoni in the user’s gallery.
In order to get to the picks a person has made, wewe 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 chemsha bongo maswali a user has made through navigation (other than just typing it in the URL bar). The chemsha bongo page allows wewe to sort the chemsha bongo 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 nyumbani page. The status bar looks like it's going to take wewe to the sasisho for the spots the users is a part of (fanpop.com/fans/username/updates/filtered), but last I checked, wewe could only see your own updates. Which would be why it's redirecting to the nyumbani page. Also, why would wewe need to see the sasisho for someone else's spots?
THE BURNING QUESTIONS.
Why has this kind of "makeover" been aliyopewa priority over other issues such as the repeated failures of the reporting system, the Maswali yanayoulizwa 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 fanpop 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 upendo wewe 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 zaidi maarufu sites like MySpace and Facebook.
We’ve been here since 2007. Some call us “the old people”. We are not normally mashabiki of change. But before wewe 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 fanpop spot the other siku about whether fanpop au Facebook was better. fanpop has won every one of those picks! There is a message in that.
Aside from the fact that walls are thought of as a Facebook thing, this is going to open up a world of pain, as trolls and spammers can now abuse whole spots and individuals much zaidi easily now.
I think almost everyone can agree that the ukuta box is ridiculously large. Downsize, please.
Why didn't the site test the feature on a small group first, so that issues like expanding maoni and the ripoti 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 zaidi cluttered. junk, taka like maarufu content and the mind-blowing four sasisho are all on the right side while everything else is overlapped on the left.
No viungo on the main page of a spot? And makala way down the bottom of the page where no one will look? Great.
foramu 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 foramu for discussion when there's a gigantic ukuta they can write on, right on the spot's nyumbani page?
This screws over quizzes, too - forget that whole 'I'm here for a purpose, but ooh, I know the answer to that chemsha bongo '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 video and forums.
...but kwa all means, put the majibu section right where everyone can see it, it's not abused kwa 98% of the site au anything.
After trying for ages to get it drilled into the heads of uploaders, even putting a note on the pakia page itself, about adding picha with link, guess what? Image names don't onyesha up on a spot's nyumbani page.
THREE SEARCHBARS in a spot?! THREE searchbars for people to ignore?! The placement of the new tafuta bar commands zaidi 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 tafuta in spots that don’t have ukuta posts yet.)
What determines maarufu 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 chemsha bongo have the 'quizzes' tab shown in default instead of the 'picks'. What determines which tab is shown on individual pages?
Putting makala all the way down at the bottom and the "wall" up the juu 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 profaili CHANGES.
"Club Activity" is a pain in the punda to navigate through. With the old system, once wewe were in a user's activities, it only took a click to get where wewe wanted. Why did that get zaidi complicated?
The link to heshima on the profaili header is gone, now the only way to get to them is to click the heshima ikoni au go through the wall.
...but there is a link to "photos" which leads to -waitforit- the user's gallery. Which can also be accessed kwa clicking "more photos" inayofuata to the user's icon, the ikoni itself, au the tiny thumbnails of other ikoni in the user’s gallery.
In order to get to the picks a person has made, wewe 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 chemsha bongo maswali a user has made through navigation (other than just typing it in the URL bar). The chemsha bongo page allows wewe to sort the chemsha bongo 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 nyumbani page. The status bar looks like it's going to take wewe to the sasisho for the spots the users is a part of (fanpop.com/fans/username/updates/filtered), but last I checked, wewe could only see your own updates. Which would be why it's redirecting to the nyumbani page. Also, why would wewe need to see the sasisho for someone else's spots?
THE BURNING QUESTIONS.
Why has this kind of "makeover" been aliyopewa priority over other issues such as the repeated failures of the reporting system, the Maswali yanayoulizwa 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, fanpop reach the of unffair:
so, i jiunge to fp, like a mwaka 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 shabiki 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 wewe kidding me?, this is so unffair, i Lost a lot of time uploading pictures and add video and thinkin in original picks! Could this be zaidi unffair?
ANYONE WITH ME?
so, i jiunge to fp, like a mwaka 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 shabiki 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 wewe kidding me?, this is so unffair, i Lost a lot of time uploading pictures and add video and thinkin in original picks! Could this be zaidi unffair?
ANYONE WITH ME?