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Pastimes : SI Beta Site Launch - 7/01/99 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1112)	7/31/1999 4:06:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2340

Michelle, you could very well be right about all the technical stuff. I'm not a techie, and as I have said before, I don't really care what the site looks like. As for technical innovations, I don't care about them either, unless they make things too complicated for me. <g> At the same time, I do pay a lot of attention to content, as opposed to style. And I have absolutely no idea why the team in charge of developing the Beta version chose to emasculate the messaging system. Why did they think it necessary? And if they just dropped useful features by accident, then what were their priorities? That's what puzzles me... Joan

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1112)	7/31/1999 4:57:00 PM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2340

Peripherally related to this is the issue that some people can't make up their mind on what they want, and then some things have the user community divided. The "ignore" option is like that, also the vertical bars and left v. right menus... oh tons of stuff. Unless there is a consistent voice about some technical direction, you can't do much of anything. Options for every little thing that people can turn off and on are problems technically, you never want to do that. You wind up with a whole bunch of branches on your tree when it comes to upgrades etc, not maintainable I don't think its too much to ask for a consistent request from the user community and if they can't come together, what can you do? I disagree completely with the idea that we have to come together to make meaningful change. The ability for each SI member to configure SI more to their liking would be a great thing, and it isn't too hard to maintain. A little harder, yes, but not that much. And compared to the benefits, it's a nit.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1112)	8/3/1999 2:02:00 PM
From: Daniel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2340

> I believe most UI people would say the old site looks old. That sounds like a core part of the problem right there: "UI people" keep wanting to change things just because _they_ think it looks old, even if the users are happy with it. (By "UI people," I don't mean to insult any real HCI people who pay attention to what really makes things useful; I'm referring only to apparently typical web-page designers who want to clutter up a page with all sorts of things users don't really want.) Daniel