Not a fan

I'd agree that the new format is terrible and didn't see what was wrong with the old one. It's problematic on a template also so am logging in less frequently and won't renew my subscription sadly.

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I am a GUI and UX designer myself and I find the new site horrible - very unintuitive to say the least. From the top of my head the whole newsfeed section is appaling. Huge visitors thumbnails taking half of the screen and you can't even click on one of your pictures to see the activity there. Back then I could see on the whole screen ~50 or so visitors activity, all nicely assorted in different cathegories like "votes" "comments" etc. Now I can't even see that because it's all chaotic and the only way I found out someone commented on my pics (which got lost in all the other newsfeed stream) was purely by mistake...a few days later. Sorry but whoever designed this new site must have little to none experience in what he is doing. I've seen 50$ worth of templates that are light years ahead of this.... monstrosity

Agreed! This version is terrible - bring back the old site!

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since my last thread got deleted i have to give my feedback here: even i am always open for new things and eager to try them i gave up on using the new site now after a few month. i use only the old site now. the new one is not user friendly, doenst show much content as everything is too big. and if you read this here mister moderator: you should not delete comments and negative feedback like this you will loose your base and your content. i will delete my profile and all pictures if that happens again. shame on you

Hi, thanks for your post. I have to admit I was a little frustrated and shouldn't have deleted it. I appreciate that change is always difficult if one feels that the old way was fine but for the site to have another 10 years of life it needed to become mobile friendly and less amateurish so that it can grow. Of course, our valued members are why I made and continue to work on the site and your feedback is welcomed. That's why there is a "?" button which enables you to report specific feedback or bugs so that we can continually improve the site. We have made lots of changes over the last couple of weeks in response to feedback. The old site will be retired in the next few months so if there are things that you can point to that are not working on the new site for you then reporting them using the "?" button will create a ticket which we can respond to. I will also respond to you personally. Mike

Having just found how how to log into the old site, what a pleasure it was to see everything the way it should be and how much easier and user friendly the old site is. So much more information is presented on the home screen. I hope you will listen to your long term paying members and make the new site more user friendly like the old.

good morning mike and thanks for the answer. as i wrote in the deleted thread i feel sorry for those who put so much time and effort in the new site but you must also understand the frustration of the users that have to "work" with the new site daily. its like somebody takes away something old that worked for somethong shiny new that simply doesnt do what it did for you before. in fact i use the site less than before. it starts with clicking on users in mails which doesnt work like it should and then you somehow manage to open the user from the mail but you get a screen telling you you have to pay but i only wanted to see a user profile. or the newsfeed page: i used to see 20 ppl in one go and now i see one person that visited my profile. so before i had lots of informations on a single screen now i have nearly nothing. next are the menues. i feel like on an android phone where all menues are symbols that explain nothing unless you tried all buttons and can remember their function next time (that got better already). before i simply clicked on "my guys" or "inbox" and those menues explained everything without the need to find out what it is good for. it was simple and intuitive. and if you read my deleted thread i wrote that i used the new site for month and that i like new things. i am a tech-guy and my job is "to advance" "to improve" "to redo" "to change" things everyday. so its not like i am a guy sticking to old stuff rather than trying something new. i work for a CMS (content management system) company so this topic is not new for me. my wish would be if the old site must die: simplicity and content. AND let people add content for free because this is what this site is about: CONTENT. why the hell should people that bring you content pay for it ? the stream of new content should not be throttled down because that what brings you more users and more traffic and paying users. people are willing to pay to use premium functions and see lots of new content but they dont want to pay to add new content because everybody knows thats what keeps the site running and popular. you already loose lots of content because people put it on tumblr or other services because its free. adding content is free -> using the content beyond a certain point costs money. maybe thats why there is a backdoor to add new content for free ???? or am i the only one that found this backdoor ? if you want i ll do some screenshots of my screen so you can see how little content i see per screen and next to it some screens of the old site and you will see its a no-go. i am pretty sure the SP community has lots of people that would be happy to help SP with their knowledge and profession to make SP a great site in exchange for something. i read there is an UX-Designer here in this thread and i am sure he would like to help if you give him for instance a few month membership for free. such a designer starts with ideas and brings them to "paper" or to PSD :) and you could make votes for those ideas and let the community decide what they want and then you get a community driven design and functionality. i think that would be a more promising approach than throwing in a new site and rework it afterwards. use your community content whise and knowledge whise is my last suggestion for today :) spandexparty was never a design-/functionality award winning site but it worked and was super easy to use (also very fast). thats what users want again. nobody wants less than he was used to have. cheers michael PS: i love how much content i see in this forum, if you know what i mean :)

And please tell me how to log in to the old site? This is just awful! thanks