Ever heard people talking about how fast time flies? I certainly have. My life's been ten times fuller of stuff compared to "most" other folks I meet, but at 26 years of age now I have really started to acknowledge time. My first twenty years of life felt like 40, but these past six have been like two years or so.
So, I'm not going into this because I'm experiencing a life crisis or whatever. No. It's because I just realized how long it's already been since LAST.FM changed their website's layout. Well above 1,5 years as of today, possibly even two years since the beta version was released. Anyway, guess what?! It's still shitty as fuck!
In the early summer of 2015 I did a post on this blog about my opinions on their new layout. It was not positive, and nor did a great majority of their users think it was a good change either. I don't really know what's going on at the LAST.FM HQ, but they certainly have not listened to their users/customers. The activity dropped noticably after the layout change. I mean, the site had been notably on a decline for several years up till 2015, hence why I suppose they did the layout change, but they kind of shot themselves in their foot with that one.
Except for a few old school die-hard scrobblers including myself still active on the site, it's completely died. There might be some minor activity going on if you head into Metallica's or Slayer's page, but it's still nothing compared to a few years ago. Anywhere else; any underground to minor to average metal band: their pages are dead.
You know, I really sincerely miss the early days of LAST.FM. I joined up in late 2007 and it was a great music community at that time. Lots of people scrobbling and interacting on the band's pages, the site's forums and whatnot. Great times. The layout was good as well. I spent most of my time online on LAST.FM because of all the fun it was back then. I guess it lasted to around 2011 or so. In 2012 I had a break from the site and when I returned in 2013, it was not quite as alive anymore.
As a dedicated user of theirs for ten years this year, I feel "cheated" by their current shitty layout. They killed what little community they had left on there. Whoever thought the current layout was a good idea should be fired asap. The fact that they scrapped the forum and personal aspects of your profile further shows what a stupid movie the makeover was. What did you think there, honestly?
What's even more odd, however, is why they proceeded with launching the layout when they got such a massive negative feedback on the beta and during the early period post-launch. As if this wasn't enough though, people also cancelled their subscribtions to their radio-stuff and deleted their accounts permanently just to show their disappointment. Not even the shoutbox trolls stayed. You know, all of this, I think it speaks for itself. LAST.FM just ignores it which is a real shame.
These days it honestly feels like I'm one of, like, five old users still hangin' around there...
Truth be told, I quite don't understand why I'm still hangin' on LAST.FM either. I'm not exactly hangin' around like I used to - obviously there's no use for it - but I look up my personal scrobbles and such.
You know, the saddest part about LAST.FM is how much potential they've still got but don't see. With Spotify and all those streaming services massively available and used out there today, they could have had more people joining up these days.
I personally believe there are a lot more people interacting with Spotify these days than there were people with local music files back in 2008. So maybe LAST.FM wouldn't get their own subscribers back, unless they join in and battle the market, but they could still achieve revenue from adds and whatnot. But now ... their site's just dead.
NO ONE LIKES THE CURRENT LAST.FM
OPEN YOUR EYES AND REALIZE
YOU LOST WHAT YOU ONCE HAD
BUT STILL YOU'RE TOO BLIND TO SEE IT YOURSELVES...
So... Why am I still using the service then? Old habits die hard, I guess. I invested so many years in scrobbling my music onto their site. It feels sad to just quit that because their layout sucks nowadays.
And then I guess there's some hope, somewhere, that someday someone will make LAST.FM great again.
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September 2015: The new LAST.FM sucks!
Hello everyone.
I don't know how many of you use Last.fm or have used it in the past, but I've been a member since late 2007. I have a lot of scrobbles (played tracks) on there. I dropped out of school at 16 and was sittin' around at home for a few years and didn't really have anything better to do, than to listen to my music. I found out about Last.fm in late 2007 and I liked the idea of it being like a social media network for music.
The years passed by and I've been an almost daily user since my registration. The site has done a few minor facelifts over the years, which the site benefited from more rather than was hurt by. However, as some of you might now, Last.fm has done a total remake of their whole website, and let me tell you, it is not for the better!
I don't know if I am alone in thinking this on the Internet, I know my friends think the same as me, but social media sites like Facebook has really played out its games these days. I mean, sure, people still have Facebook accounts, but none are really active on there anymore. Why? Because it's sterile, it's old, it's boring, it's out. Times pass by, and change with it. We've had different social media sites throughout the last 15 years. In Sweden we had all kinds of shit where old dudes hit on teenage girls, then we got MySpace which totally died out, then we got Facebook, which also is dead these days.
Last.fm's new website design feels very uninspired. It has taken a lot of influence from Facebook and the Windows 8 system, and that is just a bad idea. I mean, everybody know the demise of Facebook is at large. It has been a dying social media platform for a few years now. As I said before, people I know still have accounts, but none are active anymore - it's dead, pointless. This fact seems to have passed by the Last.fm staff completely.
This modern and minimalistic style present on the newer Windows systems, and ever-present on Facebook, are already dated as it hits the consumers. It looks cheap, boring and childish. I mean, it's not like Apple which always have had a classy minimalism to their design. This is the children's daycare colorful-styled shit they design everything in.
If we put aside the new website design, Facebook and all that shit for now, and instead focus on the actual website content, well then I've got more complaints. First off, the whole personal touch to the personal profile pages are completely gone. What made Last.fm so good and fun to be a part of was the HTML-customization everybody could have. Now everybody's personal profiles all look the same (and sterile). They totally terminated all point in even being able to visit each others profiles, apart from the scrobbles.
If we can't have a nice profile page, and meet other people who put forth their own styles and favorite bands, well then it takes away all the fun of even trying to start a conversation. The scrobbles are no fun to have either, as you don't have a nice profile to go with it.
On top of it all, they have also destroyed the search engine and band profiles, as well. I mean, just everything about the new Last.fm is destroyed or gone. There no longer any need of having it, it's not pleasant or practical to use it for finding new people or music.
Last.fm made a very poor choice by redesigning their website to this. I have not seen one single user who's happy about the new design. The opposite, in fact. Users rage on them and are all saying "R.I.P." and they they're leaving if the new design sticks around. I cannot say that I personally don't agree with them all.
R.I.P. Last.fm (...?)
I don't know how many of you use Last.fm or have used it in the past, but I've been a member since late 2007. I have a lot of scrobbles (played tracks) on there. I dropped out of school at 16 and was sittin' around at home for a few years and didn't really have anything better to do, than to listen to my music. I found out about Last.fm in late 2007 and I liked the idea of it being like a social media network for music.
The years passed by and I've been an almost daily user since my registration. The site has done a few minor facelifts over the years, which the site benefited from more rather than was hurt by. However, as some of you might now, Last.fm has done a total remake of their whole website, and let me tell you, it is not for the better!
I don't know if I am alone in thinking this on the Internet, I know my friends think the same as me, but social media sites like Facebook has really played out its games these days. I mean, sure, people still have Facebook accounts, but none are really active on there anymore. Why? Because it's sterile, it's old, it's boring, it's out. Times pass by, and change with it. We've had different social media sites throughout the last 15 years. In Sweden we had all kinds of shit where old dudes hit on teenage girls, then we got MySpace which totally died out, then we got Facebook, which also is dead these days.
Last.fm's new website design feels very uninspired. It has taken a lot of influence from Facebook and the Windows 8 system, and that is just a bad idea. I mean, everybody know the demise of Facebook is at large. It has been a dying social media platform for a few years now. As I said before, people I know still have accounts, but none are active anymore - it's dead, pointless. This fact seems to have passed by the Last.fm staff completely.
This modern and minimalistic style present on the newer Windows systems, and ever-present on Facebook, are already dated as it hits the consumers. It looks cheap, boring and childish. I mean, it's not like Apple which always have had a classy minimalism to their design. This is the children's daycare colorful-styled shit they design everything in.
If we put aside the new website design, Facebook and all that shit for now, and instead focus on the actual website content, well then I've got more complaints. First off, the whole personal touch to the personal profile pages are completely gone. What made Last.fm so good and fun to be a part of was the HTML-customization everybody could have. Now everybody's personal profiles all look the same (and sterile). They totally terminated all point in even being able to visit each others profiles, apart from the scrobbles.
If we can't have a nice profile page, and meet other people who put forth their own styles and favorite bands, well then it takes away all the fun of even trying to start a conversation. The scrobbles are no fun to have either, as you don't have a nice profile to go with it.
On top of it all, they have also destroyed the search engine and band profiles, as well. I mean, just everything about the new Last.fm is destroyed or gone. There no longer any need of having it, it's not pleasant or practical to use it for finding new people or music.
Last.fm made a very poor choice by redesigning their website to this. I have not seen one single user who's happy about the new design. The opposite, in fact. Users rage on them and are all saying "R.I.P." and they they're leaving if the new design sticks around. I cannot say that I personally don't agree with them all.
R.I.P. Last.fm (...?)
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