review

The fresh new UstreamTV

Apparently, the “fresh new ustream” isn’t all that fresh. It smells like a big pile of shit that any competent developer would be embarrassed to implement. I mean really, what were those people thinking?

About the only thing that was done correctly was cleaning up the front page. But the lack of testing and a resource for any documentation for the “new look” is abysmal. The release of this mess was not thought out AT ALL. Merely tossing it up on the web for all to scoff at seems to be the order of the day. Remember the Facebook remodel? I thought you did. But the devs at ustream didn’t.

The comments on the blog post are overwhelmingly against the “fresh new”. The forum posts are similar.

Since the shit was shoved down the throats of the Ustream users, there has not been a peep from anyone of consequence. I can only hope that they have taken the comments to heart and are working to reverse this trend of releasing untested and unwanted web crapplications to the public.

I’m not going into what’s broken because the list is too long.  Please sign the petition to get Ustream to back out of this silliness.

Get the message UstreamTV, you fucked up.

Note: The API is broken. LOLOLOLOL MORONS!!!!

WordPress 2.7

The latest release of WordPress 2.7 really should be 3.0. The changes to the dashboard alone would warrant a major release, IMHO. With the amount of plugin breakage, I don’t know why the plugin developers have not as of yet, released new versions of their plugins. The betas and RC’s have been out long enough for them to either issue a warning or an update.

The good thing is Chris Pirillo’s Wicketpixie Social Media Theme is unaffected, so far.

Breakage:

WPtouch iPhone theme
CSS greyscape
Ozh Admin Management Menus
WP ustream

Thanks for the headsup people. All in all, a nice update. As the dashboard now has a drag and drop arrangement and the ability to remove anything you don’t need to have on it. In fact, even the post page has it. Nice touch. Again, the plugin people need to update their plugins to take advantage of this. I still haven’t seen a way to remove the drafts that are auto saved. Since the database is where they are stored, I really would like an easy way to remove them in bulk. If you know, if, where this ability is, let me know.

Update: The WicketPixie Theme Faves and Sources no longer work.  It’s reading the db tables, just won’t write to them.  Weird.