Friday Q&A

Questionable Organization

Greetings, crickets and trolls. Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Q&A. Each week, I decide which issues are currently the most important to Fark's Photoshop community, and then proceed to ignore them whilst blindly attacking TheSniperZERO. Why? He knows why. This time, however, I'll be taking a brief respite from mocking our erstwhile Critic friend. You might recall that I recently blogged about some upcoming changes to Fark. It seems we're only just now seeing the first of them.

Q: Should we be prepared to get over it?

A: The most recent changes are actually pretty thoughtful. The My Profile section received a serious overhaul, and is now sub-divided into different categories. I find this preferable to the old style, which involved dumping all the info into one huge page. After years of Farking, I've acquired enough favorited articles and users to keep me scrolling for most of the day.

Q: How are the new changes being accepted?

A: I honestly don't care what anyone else thinks. It doesn't seem to have been bad enough to trigger a mass exodus of users, so I will chalk it up as a success for the powers that be. I'm glad that Drew and company have learned from past mistakes, and are taking this redesign one element at a time.

Q: Why not just update everything at once?

A: There's bad history of success when it comes to taking that particular tack. Fark was lucky to survive the disastrous 2007 remake. If something like that happened today, there are many more competitors that would be glad for the extra users. The ruination of Digg and the subsequent mass exodus of that site's user base sent a clear message that the era of "you'll get over it" is officially dead.

That's all for this time, gentle reader. Thanks again for stopping by. Hopefully, the rest of the new changes to Fark will be put into place without a hitch. The site has worked well all these years, and I'm glad they seem to be taking special care to preserve what works.

Stay tuned for more guarded optimism from the Doctor!