OK not YOUR website but websites you liked to visit regularly
My question is what websites did you love to go to and read only to have the owner re-work them and turn the websites into garbage.
To me, the king of ruined websites is JumpTheShark.
Back in the day, as they say, it was simple, the HTML was elementary, you’d post a comment a few days later it would appear, there was no spam, a lot of fun misinformation, but it was really a great site.
Now it is just SO bad. Let’s face it JumpTheShark.Com has indeed “jumped the shark,” itself.
So what other sites did you love at once, but when they “fixed” them made them worse or unuseable.
Wow. I haven’t been to that site in quite a while, but it’s absolutely nothing like it was before. In fact, the link you posted (without the www) doesn’t even take you to that page any more - it just takes you to the plain tvguide.com page.
That’s a shame. Wonder how much they got paid to sell out.
cnn.com. It used to have news on it that you could read. Now more than half the stories are idiotic, slow-loading video clips that don’t play right, have ads before each of them, and are generally just randomly-selected local news reporters demonstrating why they’re still local news reporters.
It’s almost enough to make me go back to paper newspapers – video is a lousy format for this, guys.
Not my favorite web site, but it was one I used to use often.
I used to go to the yahoo tv listings to see what was on. Then they made it “better”. The feedback on the new site was overwhelmingly negative. Did yahoo listen? No, of course not. They kept the new format. Admittedly, it was a bit more stylish, but it was also significantly harder to navigate and didn’t display much information at once, making it much more difficult to look down through the listings and see what was on (which was the whole point of the site).
I waited for a bit, considering how much negative feedback there was. I was certain Yahoo would see the light and would change it back. They didn’t. So, I went elsewhere, and haven’t been back since.
I used to love Soemthing Awful until they did something awful. The website used to be easy to navigate and had a lot of fun stuff in clearly delineated sub-sections.
Then they pulled a Tim Burton and “re-imagined” it into a fucking mess of a website with 10,000 things on the front page. Its so unbelievably ugly and so impersonal that I never bother going there anymore.
Shame, too. I used to love Cliff Yablonski, Your Band Sucks, and reading about Kyanka’s lawsuits.
God, how I miss the Fametracker forums. sigh Anyway, the site’s founders are focussing their attention on the extremely successful TelevisionWithoutPity (formerly known as MightyBigTV.com).
The most recently “improved” site on my bookmarks is comedian Larry Miller’s. I used to read his blog posts (he had stopped for a while and was back). Then they flashed it all up (slow loading) and made it tab and medium-sized screen unfriendly.
I have no idea what goes thru some web designers heads.
Snopes had pop-ups years ago. I haven’t cared about that in recent years since I got a browser that blocked them. And of course people have complained and complained but the operators pay no attention.
Speaking of: Tivo has changed it’s already brain damaged search/record pages. So now there’s pop-up confirmations (which you need to get things to function) and something much, much worse. For the old search function if you typed in, say, John Wayne for actor search you got any program that had a John and a Wayne in it. That was bad enough. Now they’ve change the return results to either a John or a Wayne. What the dead cow? (They also can’t handle names with punctuation in them, like dashes or apostrophes. Even if you give html & codes.)
