knowschad Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 While surely decisions made by someone at Groundspeak are behind this poorly implimented upgrade, and I'm sure there will be some rather unpleasant meetings behind closed doors once this is done, I do want to say that I sure do appreciate the help of all you lackeys and volunteers that are taking the reports, checking them, reporting them to the developers, and those developers that I'm certain are working some serious overtime trying to straighten things out! Hang in there, guys & gals! (and I do hope that those behind the decisions that caused this do learn from your pain!) PS: All this "Your stuff"/"My Stuff" um... stuff... in my opinion is ridiculous. (Just because Yahoo came out with "My Yahoo" so many years ago that few can remember doesn't mean that "Your Yahoo" is somehow wrong!) Link to comment
+Torgut Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 PS: All this "Your stuff"/"My Stuff" um... stuff... in my opinion is ridiculous. (Just because Yahoo came out with "My Yahoo" so many years ago that few can remember doesn't mean that "Your Yahoo" is somehow wrong!) Sorry to bring it again, considering it has been thoroughly discussed in other topics, but I couldn't resist... I would say what is truly ridiculous is someone waking up one morning and deciding: "I will issue an order to change from "My" to "Your" in the website. Question is: Why? Nothing better to do or think about? Why people in charge tend to change things which OK, running smoothly and with no complains, is a big mystery for me. Why risking the (bad) reaction at all? That is the ridiculous thing in the process. Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Oh, sorry, I didn't notice that there was already a positive thread posted. Maybe together we can be stronger than strong steel. Link to comment
K!nder Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Oh, sorry, I didn't notice that there was already a positive thread posted. Maybe together we can be stronger than strong steel. i wat the copyrights earnings for that Link to comment
+ePeterso2 Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 I like the subject of this thread, reminding us all that before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes because then you're a mile away and you've got their shoes. -eP Link to comment
+frinklabs Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Why not get rid of my/your altogether and put the login name there? Geocaches (frinklabs's) | Trackable Items (frinklabs's) Link to comment
knowschad Posted January 14, 2010 Author Share Posted January 14, 2010 PS: All this "Your stuff"/"My Stuff" um... stuff... in my opinion is ridiculous. (Just because Yahoo came out with "My Yahoo" so many years ago that few can remember doesn't mean that "Your Yahoo" is somehow wrong!) Sorry to bring it again, considering it has been thoroughly discussed in other topics, but I couldn't resist... I would say what is truly ridiculous is someone waking up one morning and deciding: "I will issue an order to change from "My" to "Your" in the website. Question is: Why? Nothing better to do or think about? Why people in charge tend to change things which OK, running smoothly and with no complains, is a big mystery for me. Why risking the (bad) reaction at all? That is the ridiculous thing in the process. I dunno... why don't you ask Frinklabs? Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Maybe Groundspeak is trying to pull a New Coke here. I dunno... personally, I don't care for the new changes, but I have to question myself how much of it is just the human desire to cling on to the old and familiar, so I'm giving it some time. I'm more worried about the slew of new bugs. I haven't been here long, obviously. This is the first major UI change I encountered. How did previous changes go down with the community? Link to comment
+Castle Mischief Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 I don't know, after the changes I'm not sure if "your" shoes are the ones that I put on every day or if they are somebody else's. My/Yours isn't exactly keeping me up at night. The inconsistent usage across the website (on a single page) is a little bit of a confidence shaker, however. I'm pretty sure that all things will work out in the coming days. The people working on this are much better at it than most. Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 I really don't mind the layout changes to the site. I think it could use a few tweaks but overall looks ok to me. Thanks for all the long hours guys!! Link to comment
knowschad Posted January 14, 2010 Author Share Posted January 14, 2010 (edited) Maybe Groundspeak is trying to pull a New Coke here. I dunno... personally, I don't care for the new changes, but I have to question myself how much of it is just the human desire to cling on to the old and familiar, so I'm giving it some time. I'm more worried about the slew of new bugs.I haven't been here long, obviously. This is the first major UI change I encountered. How did previous changes go down with the community? Were you around when they switched to the geocaching.com Google maps? May not have been quite as much of an uproar as this, but it wasn't very pretty. I can just imagine the uproar we'd have if instead of all this whitespace, they had redesigned the site to look like this: http://web.archive.org/web/20050118083704/...geocaching.com/ Edited January 14, 2010 by knowschad Link to comment
+TheBeanTeam Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 I really don't mind the layout changes to the site. I think it could use a few tweaks but overall looks ok to me. Thanks for all the long hours guys!! Yes, thank you. I also don't mind the changes.... that much. I can just imagine the uproar we'd have if instead of all this whitespace, they had redesigned the site to look like this: http://web.archive.org/web/20050118083704/...geocaching.com/ Ahh. Looking at that familiar old page was like a stroll along the street of my hometown. Fun, but I am glad I don't live there anymore. Link to comment
knowschad Posted January 15, 2010 Author Share Posted January 15, 2010 Ahh. Looking at that familiar old page was like a stroll along the street of my hometown. Fun, but I am glad I don't live there anymore. Actually, your particular hometown looked even bleaker back when you were a kid: http://web.archive.org/web/20030124110717/...geocaching.com/ Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 I'm sorry, but 200 people don't like the name of this thread. Please rename it to "My Shoes" Link to comment
knowschad Posted January 15, 2010 Author Share Posted January 15, 2010 I'm sorry, but 200 people don't like the name of this thread. Please rename it to "My Shoes" 200? OMG! Yes. Right away. Would a moderator please change the name of this thread from "Your Shoes" to "Lil Devil's Shoes"? Thanks. Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 (edited) Maybe Groundspeak is trying to pull a New Coke here. I dunno... personally, I don't care for the new changes, but I have to question myself how much of it is just the human desire to cling on to the old and familiar, so I'm giving it some time. I'm more worried about the slew of new bugs.I haven't been here long, obviously. This is the first major UI change I encountered. How did previous changes go down with the community? Were you around when they switched to the geocaching.com Google maps? May not have been quite as much of an uproar as this, but it wasn't very pretty. I can just imagine the uproar we'd have if instead of all this whitespace, they had redesigned the site to look like this: http://web.archive.org/web/20050118083704/...geocaching.com/ Ahh. Looking at that familiar old page was like a stroll along the street of my hometown. Fun, but I am glad I don't live there anymore. Actually, your particular hometown looked even bleaker back when you were a kid: http://web.archive.org/web/20030124110717/...geocaching.com/ Woah, dude! There's that neon kelly green background! Aaah, good times, good times. Edited January 15, 2010 by Ambrosia Link to comment
+The Campers Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 (edited) I wish I could look at the old site but I guess GS does not want me to, can't get them to load. or is it they Edited January 15, 2010 by Camper Guy Link to comment
+TheBeanTeam Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 (edited) Woah, dude! There's that neon kelly green background! Aaah, good times, good times. Just look at all that green space. You could get lost wandering around in there. I wish I could look at the old site but I guess GS does not want me to, can't get them to load. or is it they Well the old site is at the Internet Archive. Wayback Machine. See if you can look at the GS home pages using these links. Wonder why you cannot see them. Edited January 15, 2010 by TheBeanTeam Link to comment
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