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Comment by artursapek | Hacker News Reader

I hate it when design agencies try this hard to be cool.

I'll pass on your humbling words to the design team, I'm sure they'll appreciate your words. They put a lot of hard work into the redesign, they're not trying to be anything. What you see is a refreshing take on a social site and although I am biased because I work for the agency that designed (as a developer) it doesn't take a designer to see this is the best MySpace has ever looked.

It's condescending comments like these that give HN a bad name. Let me know when you redesign a large social site like MySpace and then we'll talk.

I didn't say anything about the main design. Look at that browser message and tell me it isn't stupid.

Looks pretty harmless to me. I dunno why people are getting so worked up over it.

Wait, the guy's complaining about condescending browser-fail messages and you have a go at him for writing something condescending? That's entirely independent of the design (which I like).

Oh, my apologies. HN didn't show me the context in which the comment was said, so it just appeared to be a general fact-less stab. Please ignore my comment.

Not so fast!

a) You don't really use HN that often b) You're accessing HN from your grandpa's computer on IE3 c) You work for a REALLY big corporation

If you chose a) or b), there's still hope! Just smile ( :-) ) and you'll soon be enjoying HN like it's '96

Their audience is people who still use Myspace.

Isn't that the complement (in the maths/logic sense) of their target audience for the redesign? Surely they're trying to attract new users or those who've drifted/moved/run away from MySpace.

And that worked great for digg. Three times.

Or just try. Go do something else if you're not.

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