I wake up this morning and the time has finally come, this site is a mess. Thankfully it seems some of the overall performance issues have been fixed so it doesn't lag so bad, but it's still noticeably slower than the original site. The main thing that really hits and saddens me with the shift here is just how...cold the site feels. Just last night I was flipping through user's pages, going back and forth on my own page as the hub of my activity on the site, and it really felt alive and individualized and interesting. Now everything is..uniform, cold, empty, rigid. My desire to browse the site and look at other people's pages feels diminished, this place just feels so empty now. Even checking notifications feels weird and wrong, they've taken out all the bright colors and made all the icons smaller and half faded and hidden, it's like they really just tried their damndest to remove all color from the site.
As of now I don't plan on leaving necessarily, but let's just say I suddenly now feel like I should look into instagram and consider making an account there. I'll really miss the old site, it was warm and alive and filled with art and individualism....this feels like a graveyard.