This is not a well planned, elaborate artikel on accepting change and what we can do to make it better. This is a series of thoughts, vragen and sarcastic commentaren taken mostly from messages between link and link about why we are not fans of the Facepop Makeover of July 2010. If u would like to read an artikel about accepting the change, exploring some of the finer parts of the makeover and moving on, please read link artikel door Fanpop's amazing link. Actually, u 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 love u 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 meer populair sites like MySpace and Facebook.
We’ve been here since 2007. Some call us “the old people”. We are not normally fans of change. But before u 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 dag about whether Fanpop of 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 meer easily now.
I think almost everyone can agree that the uithangbord box is ridiculously large. Downsize, please.
Why didn't the site test the feature on a small group first, so that issues like expanding commentaren and the meld 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 meer cluttered. rommel, ongewenste like populair content and the mind-blowing four updates are all on the right side while everything else is overlapped on the left.
No linken on the main page of a spot? And artikels way down the bottom of the page where no one will look? Great.
forums 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 forum for discussion when there's a gigantic uithangbord they can write on, right on the spot's home pagina page?
This screws over quizzes, too - forget that whole 'I'm here for a purpose, but ooh, I know the answer to that kwis '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 videos and forums.
...but door all means, put the antwoorden section right where everyone can see it, it's not abused door 98% of the site of anything.
After trying for ages to get it drilled into the heads of uploaders, even putting a note on the uploaden page itself, about adding afbeeldingen with link, guess what? Image names don't toon up on a spot's home pagina page.
THREE SEARCHBARS in a spot?! THREE searchbars for people to ignore?! The placement of the new zoek bar commands meer 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 zoek in spots that don’t have uithangbord posts yet.)
What determines populair 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 kwissen have the 'quizzes' tab shown in default instead of the 'picks'. What determines which tab is shown on individual pages?
Putting artikels all the way down at the bottom and the "wall" up the top, boven 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 profiel CHANGES.
"Club Activity" is a pain in the ezel to navigate through. With the old system, once u were in a user's activities, it only took a click to get where u wanted. Why did that get meer complicated?
The link to complimenten on the profiel header is gone, now the only way to get to them is to click the compliment iconen of go through the wall.
...but there is a link to "photos" which leads to -waitforit- the user's gallery. Which can also be accessed door clicking "more photos" volgende to the user's icon, the icoon itself, of the tiny thumbnails of other iconen in the user’s gallery.
In order to get to the picks a person has made, u 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 kwis vragen a user has made through navigation (other than just typing it in the url bar). The kwis page allows u to sort the kwissen 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 home pagina page. The status bar looks like it's going to take u to the updates for the spots the users is a part of (fanpop.com/fans/username/updates/filtered), but last I checked, u could only see your own updates. Which would be why it's redirecting to the home pagina page. Also, why would u need to see the updates for someone else's spots?
THE BURNING QUESTIONS.
Why has this kind of "makeover" been gegeven priority over other issues such as the repeated failures of the reporting system, the veelgestelde vragen 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 love u 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 meer populair sites like MySpace and Facebook.
We’ve been here since 2007. Some call us “the old people”. We are not normally fans of change. But before u 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 dag about whether Fanpop of 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 meer easily now.
I think almost everyone can agree that the uithangbord box is ridiculously large. Downsize, please.
Why didn't the site test the feature on a small group first, so that issues like expanding commentaren and the meld 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 meer cluttered. rommel, ongewenste like populair content and the mind-blowing four updates are all on the right side while everything else is overlapped on the left.
No linken on the main page of a spot? And artikels way down the bottom of the page where no one will look? Great.
forums 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 forum for discussion when there's a gigantic uithangbord they can write on, right on the spot's home pagina page?
This screws over quizzes, too - forget that whole 'I'm here for a purpose, but ooh, I know the answer to that kwis '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 videos and forums.
...but door all means, put the antwoorden section right where everyone can see it, it's not abused door 98% of the site of anything.
After trying for ages to get it drilled into the heads of uploaders, even putting a note on the uploaden page itself, about adding afbeeldingen with link, guess what? Image names don't toon up on a spot's home pagina page.
THREE SEARCHBARS in a spot?! THREE searchbars for people to ignore?! The placement of the new zoek bar commands meer 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 zoek in spots that don’t have uithangbord posts yet.)
What determines populair 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 kwissen have the 'quizzes' tab shown in default instead of the 'picks'. What determines which tab is shown on individual pages?
Putting artikels all the way down at the bottom and the "wall" up the top, boven 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 profiel CHANGES.
"Club Activity" is a pain in the ezel to navigate through. With the old system, once u were in a user's activities, it only took a click to get where u wanted. Why did that get meer complicated?
The link to complimenten on the profiel header is gone, now the only way to get to them is to click the compliment iconen of go through the wall.
...but there is a link to "photos" which leads to -waitforit- the user's gallery. Which can also be accessed door clicking "more photos" volgende to the user's icon, the icoon itself, of the tiny thumbnails of other iconen in the user’s gallery.
In order to get to the picks a person has made, u 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 kwis vragen a user has made through navigation (other than just typing it in the url bar). The kwis page allows u to sort the kwissen 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 home pagina page. The status bar looks like it's going to take u to the updates for the spots the users is a part of (fanpop.com/fans/username/updates/filtered), but last I checked, u could only see your own updates. Which would be why it's redirecting to the home pagina page. Also, why would u need to see the updates for someone else's spots?
THE BURNING QUESTIONS.
Why has this kind of "makeover" been gegeven priority over other issues such as the repeated failures of the reporting system, the veelgestelde vragen 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 kom bij to fp, like a jaar 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 fan 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 u 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 meer unffair?
ANYONE WITH ME?
so, i kom bij to fp, like a jaar 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 fan 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 u 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 meer unffair?
ANYONE WITH ME?