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Vox - first impressions
2006-Jul-30, Sunday 20:50OK, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lithium_doll sent me an invite, so I thought I'd spend the evening playing around. Make that less than an hour playing around.
First impressions? It sucks. Supposedly, it's easy to use ("turnkey" in the ad blurb, aimed exclusively at a US audience obviously). Well, maybe it is.
( Making the layout look not-ugly (pretty isn't an option) )
I then tried to make a post. Now, this appears to be easy, and idiot proof. Except it's rich text only, using clunky icons that are similar to standards but, well, look wrong.
( Making posts - idiot proof, but only good for idiots )
( Six apart remain rubbish, but there are some good points )
But, overall, for a company that owns a succesful platform that could easily have a turnkey interface bolted on to set up a different, competing, inferior platform is just daft. If they implemented the good bits from Vox into LJ, then they'd be spending less money and making a better product. Ah well.
Guess what I did this weekend? That's right, I did nothing. Wonderful. I need to get some energy back and break the apathy attack
lithium_doll sent me an invite, so I thought I'd spend the evening playing around. Make that less than an hour playing around.First impressions? It sucks. Supposedly, it's easy to use ("turnkey" in the ad blurb, aimed exclusively at a US audience obviously). Well, maybe it is.
( Making the layout look not-ugly (pretty isn't an option) )
I then tried to make a post. Now, this appears to be easy, and idiot proof. Except it's rich text only, using clunky icons that are similar to standards but, well, look wrong.
( Making posts - idiot proof, but only good for idiots )
( Six apart remain rubbish, but there are some good points )
But, overall, for a company that owns a succesful platform that could easily have a turnkey interface bolted on to set up a different, competing, inferior platform is just daft. If they implemented the good bits from Vox into LJ, then they'd be spending less money and making a better product. Ah well.
Guess what I did this weekend? That's right, I did nothing. Wonderful. I need to get some energy back and break the apathy attack
