Comments on: Welcome to the new Lists of Bests and the All Consuming! http://blog.robotcoop.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/ makers of 43 Things, 43 Places and a few other things Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:05:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Glen Engel-Cox http://blog.robotcoop.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-713 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://therobotcoop.wordpress.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-713 Hmm, I’m still getting the “leave your email here” notice for letting us know when you guys were going to release List of Bests. DNS switch problem?

]]> By: Josh Petersen http://blog.robotcoop.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-714 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://therobotcoop.wordpress.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-714 Sorry for the trouble Glen – all should be good now. Half our team is down in Austin for SXSW so we are making things up here on our own.

]]> By: Jay http://blog.robotcoop.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-715 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://therobotcoop.wordpress.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-715 The All Consuming site redesign looks great, but I can’t find the option to add tags to something. If it already has a tag, I can add another, but if I add something I’m consuming, it looks like there isn’t an option to add a tag for it. Am I missing something?

]]> By: David http://blog.robotcoop.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-716 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://therobotcoop.wordpress.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-716 Love it! It’s cool.

]]> By: nofi http://blog.robotcoop.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-717 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://therobotcoop.wordpress.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-717 I find the new layout very unattractive. I’m all for progress through redesigns, but I don’t think the new look helps at all. I’d like to be able to keep the clean-lines of the old style sheet without these new pseudo-retro kitsch and grunge-y graphics.

]]> By: david mikula http://blog.robotcoop.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-718 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://therobotcoop.wordpress.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-718 $10 says allconsuming is going to receive much less traffic after the redesign; or people will be spending less time on it.

I definitely think you guys could have done much better.

]]> By: nofi http://blog.robotcoop.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-719 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://therobotcoop.wordpress.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-719 Take a cue from 37signals and go back to your less-is-better design; the new best-of list functionality are a nice addition, but the new graphics are embarassing.

]]> By: Josh+Petersen http://blog.robotcoop.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-720 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://therobotcoop.wordpress.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-720 We understand not everyone loves the new design, but the compliments have been 20:1 compared to the haters.

We take a cue from our pals at 37S (they designed 43 Things for us) when it comes to building products that people feel stongly about and that we are passionate about. You wouldn’t believe how many people thought (or still think) 43 Things was the stupidest idea they have ever heard of. Whatever. We don’t follow try to appeal to the fanboys – and we didn’t want our new sites to look like every other pastel colored rounded corner halo effect web2.0 knock off. So if that is what you are looking for, sorry!

If you are embarassed by the web site you don’t have to use it!

]]> By: Chuq http://blog.robotcoop.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-721 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://therobotcoop.wordpress.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-721 I thought 43 Things was the stupidest idea I’d ever heard of, but I suppose that I hadn’t even given it a chance. Now, as I guess is pretty obvious, I’m addicted and I love the site. I now think the idea is incredibly original and the site has matured so much since the “olden” (yeah like a year ago) days.

I’m continually impressed with the advancements and additions to the site.

A few other points that I’d like to make really quickly:
* The integration of all the sites is awesome
* I don’t like the new design of allconsuming, but I think I’ll get used to it.
* Variety is nice (see above).
* Keep up the good work Robot-coop.

]]> By: Josh Petersen http://blog.robotcoop.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-722 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://therobotcoop.wordpress.com/2006/03/10/welcome-to-the-new-lists-of-bests-and-the-all-consuming/#comment-722 Thanks Chuq! Your post makes me think about all the changes in the last year on our sites.

I’m sure the same will happen with All Consuming over the next 12 months. I don’t want to sound like I think we’ve nailed the site design – it is still a work in progress – but pretty much whenever we try something new, you can pretty much count on a chorus of folks asking to leave it as it was.

Of course the “old” all consuming was “new” a few months ago – the orignal site was 4 years old – and lots of people complained about those changes when they happened. We do listen to folks and when people can point out what isn’t working for them, we are eager to fix it – but when people say make it look like it use to or just in general slag the design- well listening to that sort of criticism is just a recipe for “design by committee”, letting people who got comfortable with a certain look dictate the design. I think it’s better to have a vision for the site and move forward. If folks don’t want to come along for the ride – the internet is full of other options.

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