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Lost On New Myspace. Can’t Escape Justin. Send Help.

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33 pointsMarlonPro22 comments

I have been on the new Myspace for a few weeks now, and I will say that based on my experiences, and my friends who have also been beta-testing, this article is by-and-large inaccurate. I feel that the intention is to make some comedy out of a criticism, but it reads like the author is going in with a closed mind and has no intention of liking the site- which, I will add, is actually quite simple to navigate, if it does need a bit of feathering on the edges. The author, for example, interacts with the Myspace logo button twice before she learns that it is not her profile page. But she states it as though it was a sudden discovery after years of searching ("Oooh, PROFILE. I get it. Justin is not hanging out on my profile, just the Myspace homepage. ") Perhaps I, too, am a little biased as well, but I must mention that of my friends who have used the site so far, not a one has had a negative response.

After browsing the site today upon signing up, I listened to a bit of music and didn't have any problems.

My first impression was that is was quite similar to Grooveshark, only with a bit more polish on certain aspects. I'm going to give it a whirl over the next few weeks to see how it compares.

Both of your comments on this new account are about Myspace. Are you affiliated with Myspace somehow?

Oh, no, sorry. That's probably because it's been on my mind as of late, I doubt Myspace would send a representative to compliment them on something as far from their demographic as HackerNews.

This article may actually be doing Myspace a favor. I for one actually checked out Myspace because of it, and I probably wouldn't had the headline said something more positive but mundane, "New Myspace Better than Old Myspace".

Same with the recent CES trainwreck, I would have completely ignored it otherwise, but instead it was a sight to behold, and now I know Qualcomm took over sponsorship from Microsoft for the first time in many years.

Never underestimate the power of rubbernecking news.

This article sounds very biased to me. Most things he describes as weird, such as going to the homepage by clicking the logo, seem totally normal to me. Personal preference perhaps, but the tone is subjectively negative.

Social sites like Github and Facebook take you to a page that is customized for you when you click their logo. It takes you to their main functionality so to speak. I don't think it's even possible to go to the real homepage when you're logged in to those sites.

Maybe MySpace doesn't do that?

Those are their home pages. The home page just changes depending on whether you're logged in.

No, it takes you exactly where you'd expect... back to the first page you see after logging in, so the "home" page. The left side right now is Justin Timberlake, the right side is your newsfeed with posts from whoever you're following.

When trying it out I thought that I would be impressed but end up not using it. I left annoyed.

They did do a great job making it clear and easy to delete your account though. Kudos for that.

I've been in the Myspace beta for a while, these were my initial impressions on it. I'm meaning to write a follow up to it. http://hasablog.tumblr.com/post/37090712393/the-new-myspace

Heads up -- your blog is very difficult to read in Chrome for Windows, due to the custom @font-face. Nothing says "Built on a Mac" like jagged fonts in Windows...

More info:

"Using Web fonts in your design requires thorough testing on as many different browsers and platforms as possible, with a close look at various options for rendering text. If the screen display is of poor quality and lacks subpixel rendering, then opt for graceful degradation by serving system fonts to older browsers and OS. Conditional comments are the easiest way to exclude older browsers and operating systems from style sheets with Web fonts. Of course, JavaScript is a more elegant way to detect whether a client’s subpixel rendering is turned on."

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/02/the-font-face-rul...

Also useful:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/24/a-closer-look-at-...

Thanks for the tips, I'm actually currently redesigning the whole thing so I'll make sure to keep this in mind. Much obliged.

> Wait, how does Myspace know I would like these?

> Is everyone seeing the same ones? Did Justin pick them out for me? Are my friends listening to these guys? I have no context here. I don’t understand why they’re recommended. I decide to move on.

Does it still surprise people when they are getting personalized-recommendations when they use Facebook Connect sites? To use the new myspace--

> THIS APP WILL RECEIVE:

> Your basic info

> Your email address (____@____.com)

> Your profile info: description, birthday, likes and location

> Your music activity

> Your video activity

It's like you didn't even read the sentences you quoted.

The author's point was that these recommendations were not personalized.

Could have been personalized when she signed in via Facebook

That's the point. They COULD have, but they WEREN'T.

They probably were "personalized" but just missed the mark badly, which wouldn't surprise me. Like the post says, there was "no context".

Well, I doubt they were. Especially since I signed up myself and like anything Metal/rock but got nothing but Beyonces and Timberlakes suggested for myself as well.

That's also what I took from the article; it doesn't take into account FB likes.

Maybe it was the author's point, maybe it wasn't.

All I read is questions about why and context, like the author expect some kind of explanation. She doesn't comment about the content itself, which is part of the whole closed-mind attitude of the article.

I enjoyed reading this, but then again - I recognize it as a humour piece.

This thing is just a Payolla machine, I'm actually a bit insulted.

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