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Myspace, that ancient social networking dinosaur, is back with a new coat of paint. And get ready for this: it looks kind of neat. The new format has some pretty clear Pinterest and Tumblr influence, and also looks like it’ll be doubling down on the music aspect of the Myspace world, maybe giving Spotify’s social aspects a little competition. Maybe.
The redesign isn’t live yet, but you can put in for early access over at new.Myspace page. I did. What do you think? Are you ready to give Myspace another go, or is this just a pointless stunt by a permanently irrelevant network? [Vimeo, thanks Ryan!]
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What I can’t find information on is if all the functionality shown will be available at launch or if this is just a slick advert for how they want it to look. given how image heavy it is you are going to need a lot of bandwidth to use it and a mobile app will really struggle.
I’m a frequent Opera user on my work PC and when I visit new.myspace.com I get the following:
“Not so fast!
Our superpowers have detected you’re using an outdated browser. That must mean:
a
You don’t use the Internet very often.
b
You’re at your parents’ place on the PC they bought in 1996.
c
You work for the government or a big corporation.
There’s still hope. If you answered a or b, all you need to do is click on one of the beautiful icons below, follow the instructions and you’ll be enjoying the new Myspace in a jiffy.”
Or maybe MySpace should design a site which works in all major browsers, not just three! I’m sure Opera would handle the site fine but no go, for a website which lost most of its users to Facebook I’m surprised it won’t work in all modern browsers because I now have a choice:
1. Stay with Opera and carry on using Facebook without any problems
2. Switch browser just to use a refreshed social network.
I can see which one I’ll go for. Well done MySpace.
They should have turned Myspace into an aggregate social network years ago.
Or just levelled it and turned it into aggregate.
Is this a website or a Windows 8 app? If the former, they’ve clearly been taking design tips.
I second that. It’s looking rather ‘the design language formerly known as Metro’
owned by News Corp aka no go for anyone interested in social justice. :@
Nope, they sold it at a massive loss. Rejoice good sir!
Specifically at the massive loss!
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