vale[ blog ] diary of the last hollow soul

I'm lagging behind the great ones… But i'm not interested (i think i'm becoming somewhat of a nihilist, seeing my attitude towards most matters)—or rather say i am, but no way would i hurry to catch up just so that i'd be up to date. Especially since the sites i'm talking about, the ones having had a redesign nowadays are really giants: deviantArt, last.fm and Facebook. In my opinion last.fm changed the most… Not only did they switch to a new layout, but also changed lots on the system itself. There's a lot of debate going on whether or not the new layout is better than the previous one—it's very different for sure. Those who used the old layout for a long time will need a bit of time to get used to this new one—and what's strange, it seems that new users too, which i think indicates that something's not really alright with this new design. Skip (this reminds me of Mother's telegram in the Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4: ADRIAN STOP COMING HOME STOP, and the poor boy starts wondering why should he stop coming home). There is a new (?) feature called Library, which is a great idea in my opinion, instead of (but not replacing) all those relatively ugly charts with much more usable, good-looking mosaic. The event handling didn't change much, only it's not always that evident where and what should i click. (Summary.) Though the layout's not the best choice ever made, i think the new version worth it. I at least like it and will go on using last.fm as long as it's there and free. (Yeah, i haven't written about dA and Facebook, those are coming in a later post.)