in which I am bitter, again

[nigeltde]

Oh my lord, what the hell has happened to my beautiful tvtome.com? It's turned into a huge, wanky monstrosity that takes ages to load, especially on my slow computer, fucks up with firefox and tries to be all cool and space-age but is really just all-around LAME. A window popped up and asked if I wanted to take a survey--"your contribution is important to us", it said--so I thought hey, feedback! I can tell them what an how tvtome was such a great, convenient, quick resource just chock full of data and how all the bells and whistles are obfuscating that. But no. It was just a demographics survey for advertising. Goddamn!

First allmusic.com, then tvtome.com, if imdb goes the same route I will cancel the internet!

(OK, I'll admit I like the extra pictures. But they could have included that without fucking up the rest!)

Comments

[chameleongirl79]

::joins you in the rantage::
I was so suprised by the change that I had to re-load the page just to make sure I was at the right site.
What was wrong with the old version?!

[nigeltde]

I suspect that it wasn't COOL or HIP enough to attract the advertisers they wanted >:-/

[nigeltde]

also it's been subsumed into something called CNET Games and Entertainment, which is where I suppose the new cool image in order to attract advertisers comes from.

[frostmourne.livejournal.com]

Argh! Its fucking terrible!
I go to check one day to see what the next Dr Who episode coming up is and I'm greeted by this mind numbing eye raping horrible site. I hate commercialisation >:(

Rargh!

[nigeltde]

I say we get someone in to exterminate it. Any ideas?

/lameness

[frostmourne.livejournal.com]

Bahahaha that might of been lame but it was unbelievably adorable and also made me hurt myself laughing :P

Anyway, from the yabberings from my fellow geeks it would appear that the guy who owned tvtome.com sold the site to Cnet and was then employed by them to keep it running. This results in them completely redo'ing the whole damn thing and making it awful :(

Next thing you know there'll be jamster adds popping up all over it >_<

[nigeltde]

if jamster ads start appearing I'm going to give up. If I can't even visit dictionary.com without being hit over the head by jamster I'm certainly not going to endure the new tvtome.com. I'll set up a wiki with the same fuction as tvtome, or something. Fucking jamster!