To anyone in the games industry, this should be a cause for weeping and decrying the Godless universe:
http://www.thechaosengine.com/forum/
(I’m guessing it’s just Network Solutions being typically crap and screwing-up the domain renewal)
To anyone in the games industry, this should be a cause for weeping and decrying the Godless universe:
http://www.thechaosengine.com/forum/
(I’m guessing it’s just Network Solutions being typically crap and screwing-up the domain renewal)
Noticed something new tonight…
EDIT: incidentally, this is why it makes me so sad when Google Engineers say: “the web is so great! We can remotely nuke every version of Google products, force all users to lose everything and MAKE them have our latest version! They have no choice – it’s perfect!” … because it so often – even with Google – translates to: “we can force them to lose our decent, quality, working code, and force them to move to our buggiest, broken, badly designed, crappy versions – and give them zero power over their own computers!”
Meanwhile, for the first time ever:
Going to any video on YouTube now automatically logs my gmail email account against that youtube video, even though the two things are completely unrelated
WTF? #signs_that_the_google-pocalypse_is_nigh
I guess the big G is seriously hurting for money at the moment… crappy “in your face” advertising, plus some creepy “steal your data, screw the user for all they’ve got” privacy-violation … I’m disappointed; I thought they’d hold out longer than this.
This is so deliberate and in-your-face bad UX design – from a world leader in stats-lead-design, no less – that I’m hard pressed to explain it as anything but black-hat (i.e. deliberately designed to fool the user).
e.g. The link to “manage” the YouTube integration … doesn’t work, it just takes you to youtube.com. And the link to complain – “Send Feedback” – is a dead link that doesn’t do anything when clicked.
The “edit [services]” link (which is carefully hidden, to prevent the user from exercising control) doesn’t work either – it redirects to a lo-fi version of the page you came from previously.
It’s almost as if they didn’t want you to fight back! :)