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I find the new site to be one of the most beautiful, and innovative sites I have yet to seen. Unfortunately they gave up a site with fantastic usability, and many users are up in arms about this. So up in arms they're spreading the word about how much they detest the new layout which is having the effect of bringing in record number of listeners.

The entire scenario is extremely interesting.

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I agree. Wow. What a site! What's wrong with it? (are my thoughts)

Only a few minor issues with usability though, like "what does this button do" how do I "find a different category of music" that was solved by clicking a couple of buttons.

If it's your first time on the site, nothing is wrong with it. It looks awesome.

But if you've been using it for a year or two, you'll find that all of the social interaction between fans and artists is gone. The group interaction is gone. Your saved songs are gone.

It's a very pretty shell of what it used to be.

i thought my saved songs were gone too. they're not, they're just in "history."

and if you use your keyboard to tap next, it should persist on that window and not switch album covers. at least it was for me.

In my history it is the history of hearted songs not my saved songs which before I stopped using thesixtyone I used as a playlist on shuffle (I never really liked tagging songs).

i think the new site is about discovery. if you like the music, stick it on your iphone or listen to it in itunes--it probably consumes a lot of bandwidth to constantly replay the same music. use the site to find new music. that's just my opinion on it.

The old site was about discovery. I found more new music through the old T61 than any other way I've tried. New t61 doesn't provide a very good method of discovery. It's hard to see which artists are related.

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