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Re: Latest Ravelry kerfuffle
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I know quite a few people who like the new design. One always has to keep in mind that people don't like change, no matter what they ask for. I know I hated it the first day but in a couple of days, it was way better as I made some adjustments on my end and Rav made a few adjustments on theirs.? It is apparently a lot nicer on mobile but I rarely use mobile. I even use the desktop view on my phone.? I don't believe anyone needs to rush to download all their patterns but it may be a good thing to do at some point. Just so as not to have to rush to do it. I have heard some people do this all the time - when they buy or get a free pattern, they download it immediately. Some print it and others just keep it on a drive or cloud.? Now on to my speculation: I think the new design is cutesy and a part of me wonders if this is Cassidy's new personal aesthetic. The first home page post she wrote after the change (or when it was rolled out), said that she had been in despair?over the look/feel and other things about the site last year. The innards of Ravelry probably did need refreshing. Software grows old as you keep making changes to it. However, some Ravelers who are familiar with Ruby on Rails, which is what Ravelry is written in, say that this is not an issue with Ruby. But it might be true of the CSS - the style sheets that define the look/feel. These are not areas I am familiar with so I don't know. Just guessing and reading between the lines. Both Jess and Cassidy have alluded to internal changes that make it easier to maintain/enhance.? Livia was definitely not qualified as a UX designer. Just the way the project was run, and my long experience and friendship with a really good UX designer (who has worked in the area through three name changes of the area) tell me that she didn't have the skills to do UX design. This is borne out by Ravelers who claim to have experience. My friend would NEVER do a UX design without an ever increasing (or carefully selected random sample) set of users providing feedback regularly through the project. Some Ravelers who claim to have been beta testers liked the new design, others didn't. Some admitted to not liking it and going back to classic but never bothered to provide feedback because there was no deadline and no followup to see that all provided input. With only about 100 or so, losing even 25% significantly reduces your feedback.? And lastly, my speculation that Cassidy is going through a spell of mental illness along with the stress of current events AND the stress of a major project, and the defensiveness of not having one's baby loved, is probably why she got so nasty and accused people of lying. I'm willing to cut her some?slack as long as things get better in terms of user relationships. I spend a good bit of time in the Rav forums and have found some excellent online friends there that I don't want to lose.? The rest of the site is meh for me as I rarely buy patterns and almost never buy yarn any more. I'd probably want to download my project pages and the patterns i've bought and I may look into doing that some time.? On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 7:22 AM mary_007usa via <sewgood5=[email protected]> wrote: Whatever you decide to do will probably be fine.? Just because we bulk download, the site is not impacted at all.? The only difference is that I have a copy of each pattern in Dropbox, my hard drive, or an external drive. Everything is still in my Rav Library.? I probably had most of them in Dropbox anyway b/c most were placed there so I'd have access to them on KnitCompanion. --
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