Sunday April 20, 2008
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Sunday April 20, 2008 | New Dilbert.com = Web 2.0 FAIL! | Entertainment |
Dilbert.com was relaunched last week and it's terrible. The pointy-haired boss has won. They tried for Web 2.0 but ended up with Web 2.Oh No!
Now that I've gotten the one-liners out of the way, here are the specifics. With a plethora of new features that might have sounded good on paper, the new site looks like a MySpace page with hemorrhoids. It's loud, obnoxious, filled with Flash 9, and causes an itching sensation. Tim Bray said it best:
OMG dilbert.com is full of heavyweight flashturbation and doesn't work in Camino. Bad, *bad* Scott Adams.
Tim's not the only one who doesn't like the new site. Venky also doesn't like the new site, but the most negative comments come from Dilbert's own readers:
The new site SUCKS. Not only can I not access the full strip for Sunday
on any computer, I don't get the strip at all on one of my
computers--it must be missing a component.
Go back to the old format until the new one is debugged.
This is !$%*!$% Dilbert stuff: replace a simple format that works for nearly everyone with a complex format that excludes many users.
Try remembering the KISS principle: KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID!
Go back to the old format until the new one is debugged.
This is !$%*!$% Dilbert stuff: replace a simple format that works for nearly everyone with a complex format that excludes many users.
Try remembering the KISS principle: KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID!
New design==BAD
old design==GOOD
While there is a good deal of irony about Dilbert itself being released on a site that's in beta and seems to suffer from poor QA, this just doesn't work.
Someone needs to make a decision to change this back ASAP. You just need to get all of the department heads together and set up Tiger teams, oh drat.
old design==GOOD
While there is a good deal of irony about Dilbert itself being released on a site that's in beta and seems to suffer from poor QA, this just doesn't work.
Someone needs to make a decision to change this back ASAP. You just need to get all of the department heads together and set up Tiger teams, oh drat.
G,damn. Why did you change the format?
For a brief instant I can see both rows of today's strip then it goes to the first row. I am too dim to figure out why I can get a glimpse but yet not be able to read the whole thing.
As an aside I have been working with computers long before they were personal and I fancy myself to be rather quick. Now you've blown that little illusion.
What so I have left without a punch line and with no illusions?
Also the animations tend to vacuum. I like the voices in my head much better.
For a brief instant I can see both rows of today's strip then it goes to the first row. I am too dim to figure out why I can get a glimpse but yet not be able to read the whole thing.
As an aside I have been working with computers long before they were personal and I fancy myself to be rather quick. Now you've blown that little illusion.
What so I have left without a punch line and with no illusions?
Also the animations tend to vacuum. I like the voices in my head much better.
Today's Sunday strip was particularly bad as the Flash application didn't even display the entire strip all at once. I needed to page through the Sunday strip to see it all. Whatever humor there was in the strip was lost as I had to deal with the navigation. I'm lucky that the Flash even worked for me since many of the comments show that Flash 9 doesn't work on many platforms, including Solaris and some PDAs.
Perhaps Scott Adams needs to buy his own copy of How To Make Webcomics from the guys at halfpixel.com [1 2 3 4] who really know how to make a web site for comics.
Update [04/25/2008]: Scott Adams has revealed the "secret" back door page with just the comic.
Tags: comics dilbert fail halfpixel web2.0 webcomics
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