It's amazing how much effort SC put in making UI more sleek yet degrading UX thoroughly.
Stream is useless in its current form. It's much inferior to Dashboard (which wasn't perfect in the first place, but was quite usable, contrary to that one). For people taking SC activities seriously, like trying to listen most of the tracks coming from people they follow, there must be a way to hide/collapse tracks that were already listened to (like removing in dashboard). What about favorites of people I follow? I maybe not use it extensively, but it's a great way to discover new tracks. Dashboard provides it all and has a few tabs with different filtering and independent hiding (removing) and I would fix only this independence - removing entry in one tab should be enough and work for the other ones too - and improve the "More" button, to load at once everything that is left.
What should be clearly told is that new UI is definitely against any more thorough comments. Come on, showing only a few words? It's like you encourage SCers to leave these useless comments. And there is no place for discussion at all. Personally I like to discuss things. Yet I understand others that don't like comments at all on SC (because well, they are in fact often completely useless, as lot of SC users can express only praises or nothing), so they should be able to easily hide them.
Where are the features that everyone hoped for? Where are the marks next to the tracks that I already commented on them (and how many comments that were)? Where are the marks next to tracks that I already listened to? SoundCloud Next that was turned to be default is still more of a disaster than improvement. And it's sad.
Somehow this I-don't-care-about-UX-but-let's-make-it-look-sexier-at-least attitude is becoming quite popular in internet, which is a paradox, because nowadays the opposite mind should be predominant. GitHub did in the last few years similar changes (they had a few good ones too, though) and had to disable comments in their blog to stop the never ending complaints... Another thing: less is more, but too less isn't more at all. You have to preserve some basic functionality, otherwise removing features is like slapping users in the face. Here I can give Minus as an example - file sharing site that turned back into media sharing site w/ most of the features removed.
I think about doing some sane front-end using their API, but I always lack time to do stuff after hours...
If being bought by Twitter will help SC crew work better on UX, then I really hope it will happen. Otherwise it won't really change anything.
Stream is useless in its current form. It's much inferior to Dashboard (which wasn't perfect in the first place, but was quite usable, contrary to that one). For people taking SC activities seriously, like trying to listen most of the tracks coming from people they follow, there must be a way to hide/collapse tracks that were already listened to (like removing in dashboard). What about favorites of people I follow? I maybe not use it extensively, but it's a great way to discover new tracks. Dashboard provides it all and has a few tabs with different filtering and independent hiding (removing) and I would fix only this independence - removing entry in one tab should be enough and work for the other ones too - and improve the "More" button, to load at once everything that is left.
What should be clearly told is that new UI is definitely against any more thorough comments. Come on, showing only a few words? It's like you encourage SCers to leave these useless comments. And there is no place for discussion at all. Personally I like to discuss things. Yet I understand others that don't like comments at all on SC (because well, they are in fact often completely useless, as lot of SC users can express only praises or nothing), so they should be able to easily hide them.
Where are the features that everyone hoped for? Where are the marks next to the tracks that I already commented on them (and how many comments that were)? Where are the marks next to tracks that I already listened to? SoundCloud Next that was turned to be default is still more of a disaster than improvement. And it's sad.
Somehow this I-don't-care-about-UX-but-let's-make-it-look-sexier-at-least attitude is becoming quite popular in internet, which is a paradox, because nowadays the opposite mind should be predominant. GitHub did in the last few years similar changes (they had a few good ones too, though) and had to disable comments in their blog to stop the never ending complaints... Another thing: less is more, but too less isn't more at all. You have to preserve some basic functionality, otherwise removing features is like slapping users in the face. Here I can give Minus as an example - file sharing site that turned back into media sharing site w/ most of the features removed.
I think about doing some sane front-end using their API, but I always lack time to do stuff after hours...
If being bought by Twitter will help SC crew work better on UX, then I really hope it will happen. Otherwise it won't really change anything.