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This is going to sound strange, but I miss the cool (big) pufferfish in their normal page: http://6.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/pufferfish360.jpg http
by wickedchicken 14y ago
This is going to sound strange, but I miss the cool (big) pufferfish in their normal page: http://6.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/pufferfish360.jpg http://6.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/pufferfish360...
That image told me that real people were behind the site, and strangely won my loyalty in a sea of identical clones. The new site removes that and feels pretty but boring and forgettable. Even their twitter icon gives me the "generic social media company feel": https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/2260560652/twitter-avatar_reasonably_small.png https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/2260560652/twit....
This is a phenomenon I've seen with a lot of sites as they get big and overhaul their site with a "real" designer who wants things "to be cleaner". Things usually come out more bland...