MetaChat - Wonders Never Cease

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07 November 2007

Wonders Never Cease First, MySpace got their shit together (by which, I mean they ripped off facebook) and now Yahoo! Mail has revamped their creaky old interface. Even the blue looks a different these days. Who's next? Which popular site is most in need of a makeover?

post by: chuckdarwin at: 05:40 | 15 comments

Hotmail was revamped recently, and is somewhat less horrible than it was before. (I just realised I've had that account for ten years now.)

posted by misteraitch 07 November | 06:54

Hotmail... now there's a name I haven't thought of in a while. Kind of like Compuserve or Prodigy.

posted by chuckdarwin 07 November | 06:57

Yeah, except not an ISP.

Sooo... are you trying to say something about MetaChat in this post?

posted by Eideteker 07 November | 07:20

Yeah, except not an ISP.

Yeah, just kind of a forgotten name (to me). I probably still have a hotmail address and I cannot remember the login details.

*tries*

Nope. All gone.

**************

I wasn't planning on dissing this site, Eideteker. Why do you ask?

posted by chuckdarwin 07 November | 07:27

Gmail totally rewrote their site recently but it doesn't look any different. The Yahoo pseudo-outlook revamp was why I moved to gmail earlier this year, I'm glad that gmail didn't try to copy that.

posted by octothorpe 07 November | 07:46

The gmail rewrite does have one winner - from the compose screen, tab-enter will send the message. This always worked on Windows, but now also works on the mac. Thank god. I hate reaching for the mouse.

posted by These Premises Are Alarmed 07 November | 08:22

Um, I think we could lose the Halloween theme now, even though it was nice to see zombiebunny.

posted by WolfDaddy 07 November | 08:22

I hate reaching for the mouse.

It's certainly not a good thing, this mouse. I try and hotkey everything. Mousing makes my shoulder hurt.

posted by chuckdarwin 07 November | 09:18

AOL e-mail could use a makeover. And yes, I know I know, who uses AOL mail, blah blah blah, but I do- it's my spam catcher address, and it's an address I've had forever, so I want to keep it in case old friends want to reach me.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 07 November | 10:19

Amazon has done a major look-and-feel overhaul lately. Not so sure I care for it, though they do now resemble another favorite of mine, NewEgg.

The MySpace overhaul is not nearly enough to convince me that it is still anything other than GeoCities mixed with a stack of CraigsList "encounters" listings.

posted by grabbingsand 07 November | 11:08

I never found anything good that came from GeoCities.

I've had my Hotmail account for almost ten years now too and I hate hate hate the new version. Even the 'original' version of the new version sucks, IMO. The only thing I do like is the option to auto-complete addresses. That was one thing I used to envy about Yahoo when I still thought Hotmail was cool.

posted by youngergirl44 07 November | 11:37

Wow, NewMefi is weird, especially in the white-background skin.

posted by muddgirl 07 November | 13:36

WFMU could sure use one. The entire year's entries seem to be loading and it freezes my computer, in both Firefox and Explorer.

posted by mischief 07 November | 15:02

eBay really needs a makeover.

posted by bkudria 07 November | 23:18

eBay really needs a makeover.
Now, that is the sort of thing I was after, bkudria.

What should eBay look like?

posted by chuckdarwin 08 November | 04:45

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