What is it with hatred towards any kind of change of design on a website. Take this weeks rollout of the new design on facebook, development of a site, even a social network is an on going thing. The developers see the things going on at the server side and investigate what is causing the problem. Some decide to fix the problem there and then, some if they have 400million users like facebook think its a lot easier to roll the changes out all at once, due to the fact that rolling out small updates would probably mean some people have it and some don’t.
Not everyone seems to think this way. They would prefer a site to go stale and lame and slow. Or at least that’s what it seems. Take my game, I changed the menu system around and moved a few options off the headers. Why? Well it really reduced the amount of hits on the database just from the header. The header was being used in everything displayed, so any reduction in hits would have had an amazing effect on speed.
I’m not seeing facebooks cpu load or logs and none of the complainers are either, they see them and they act upon them, with 400million users saving a few cpu cycles here and there is enough to make a significant difference to the speed and efficiency of the whole site.
Personally I like change, I like learning new things, and if a site doesn’t get updated on a regular basis I consider it dead, I’m sure a lot of other people think the same way, if there are no updates then the owners are giving up on the site, that’s how it works I think.
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