On Vox: Music from the Cube: What Am I Listening To Today?

[liz_marcs]

James Hunter, People Gonna Talk Rating=$$$$$[Support the Artist]How I Got This CD: Bought on the spur of the moment while standing at the counter in the local Starbucks.Note: To stream the sample tracks, click on the thumbnail image in this...

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Sooooo. This is what a cross-post from Vox looks like. Mein gott, that is really freakin' ugly. The formatting is not only non-existent, it isn't even the whole Vox post.

Bleh.

Although access to the streaming music is nice (and certainly more legal than the downloads I've been doing), I still dislike Vox too much to do something like this on a regular basis.

And by the way, you can't "go backwards" and cross-post from El Jay to Vox. I've already checked.

God forbid they allow us to cross-post from El Jay to Vox, hunh?

Comments

[invisionary.livejournal.com]

You know, I used to think LJ wasn't very user-friendly, but then I took a look around some of the other networking sites out there, and by comparison, I have to say that LJ looks pretty good. But that's just me.

[matgb]

Depends on how you measure it, compared to MySpace, LJ is better in many ways but people switching give up on LJ a bit. Compared to Vox, there are strengths and weaknesses. Don't use other 'network' sites except Librarything.

But compared to other blogging platforms, specifically Wordpress (both .org and .com) and blogger, LJ is confusing.

More importantly, new users find it confusing, and without new users the site dies. It's already dying.

Also, I have my own little metric of 'how easy is it for me to do what I want', and while it's got easier (Horizon and the NavBar), I still need to have links on my sidebar to get me to a few places, and even then I forget which bit of which place I need for certain tasks.

One thing Vox has got that LJ hasn't is an easy, workable search function, including by tag. I can find Vox posts about, for example, Torchwood, really easily, but LJ is a pain. Yes, they're working on it, and have a new staffer for the purpose, but it should've been done years ago.

Um, sorry, ranting a bit, apologies, I'll stop now...