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I think the actual version is better and more readable and beatiful, i beg you, it's my favorite site i don't want it to change ever ((((((

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Indeed. I Agree with mexmito.

Actual version is better and more readable.
I experience the new structure of the page as very cluttered.

Major changes are not always improvements.

thank you klankbeeld <3

Yeah, I don't see that it improves my ability to find what I'm looking for.

The only change I would wish for (in either version) is having the "bookmark" button change colour or something to indicate that you already have an item in your Bookmarks.
Currently you have to click on it to see "This sound is already in your bookmarks under the categories: xyz".
You don't get to see that when you're skimming down a page of search results, and it's a nuisance when many of them have similar titles.

I tried beta, its less readable it will drive more people out then in. People are here to find sounds, with new UI its more difficult. It is using screen inefficiently on desktop, everything takes too much space. Better to have more sounds on home page then large text.

if you play one sound and then press play on another first sound doesn't stop playing.

I hope beta will fix high pitch blips in preview because its so annoying on loud studio speakers. Volume normalisation for preview would not hurt either.

I don't like the minimalist look. Keep Nightingale.

that makes alot of sense. I hate it when sites do this but that's time I guess

Prefer the current version, too. Perhaps you can integrate a "classic design" option?

Knowing how much love and effort the Team put into freesound it's very uncomfortable for me to have to agree with all these criticisms.

It's as if the trusty reliable and economic to run family car is being replaced with one that only goes at less than half the speed(page navigation), uses (more than)twice the fuel(mental energy/focus/stress), has uncomfortable seats(tiredness aches and pains on long journeys) all to impress the neighbours with a slick modern appearance.

I am glad, and sad, that all critical observations I've raised in previous posts have also been expressed by many other loyal and credible voices.

I'm sure it's solvable, mainly the visual skin. The core can be kept. Just throw out the acres of bland useless space and the obsession with hiding everything I want to in the name of "de-cluttering" then re-cluttering the screen with stuff I'm really not interested in in huge buttons and letters..

My Goodness! There was a time, 1960-70s when UK planning rules banned fences and hedges trees and shrubs around garden plots - Open Planning. It made every Housing Estate a monotonous clone of every other characterless Housing Estate. It was mile after mile of souless disaster. Please don't make Freesound a monotonous clone of the rest of the web.

Back to the car analogy, I'm sure the changes very much appeal to "boy racers" but they are a pain in the butt for the serious working or family driver whose car is a utility. Decide which custom you most want to attract.

I am now a little irritated. This is no longer the complete thread, only a rudiment. A not yet noticed oversight or what concrete background has this?

Greetings

Seelengold

agree with first message

i think the new layout looks good, and may be more attractive to new users, but i much prefer the older layout.

maybe once the new layout is established, there could be an option to switch to the old layout? kind of like Reddit does with their old.reddit links.

They have already announced that there will be no option to go back. The old UI can still be accessed but is already nonfunctional.

Hi,

As strangehorizon is pointing out, there will be no option to switch back to the old UI once the new one is in place. However, we'll continue hearing your feedback and making further improvements and adjustments once it is released.

The old UI should be fully functional for now, if something is broken it is not intentional.

Try the old UI. All the sound-related UI elements are replaced with a series of text links - one to mp3, one to ogg, and one to the waveform image. The links do still work but are crammed into such small cells that you often can't target or use them. So, everyone who shows up and doesn't know to switch UI will probably just think the site is broken. It's been like that for a couple of days. In practice, only the new UI is usable at present.