QuixoticNeurotic

Music site TheSixtyOne overhauls design, now even cooler! (Download Squad)

Jan 21st 2010 10:28PM I think the reason you're so fond of this is that you don't seem to have been too terribly involved in the community aspect of the place. You say you've been on for years, yet you're only level 14 (not trying to be elitist here, it just shows you probably haven't been super active on the site, I got to level 15 in just a few months). The new design removes most of the community features, I was excited when they said they were working on private messaging, but I wouldn't have been if I had known that user walls were going to disappear. The group discussion pages have become hard to find and hard to read, just generally hard to use.

If you only want music then I can understand liking the redesign, but if you were involved in the community, you're going to be pissed. They're killing it.

As a daily user of this place since I joined (I have only missed maybe 5 days of use since joining, simply because I didn't have internet access), I do not want to subject myself to the new design on even a limited basis (I did spend about 30 minutes trying to familiarize myself with it, it's not very fun). This is the first time I'm seriously contemplating leaving. I'll miss the friends I had there, but I can use sound cloud or something instead, still get good music and good community.