Latest Comments are back too!
Something that I (and I am sure many more users) were badly missing was a way to browse all comments made in the last day or so. That was one of the cool things in the old design. Not anymore .. the last comments section is back on the music tab .. check out the screenshot below
The ability to follow the comments made in your groups right from your home page (once you login) still remains and I think that totally rocks, because that way I can see all that I care for (my groups) in one go. I will talk more about this in another blog post. Till then happy comments browsing … again 
Favorites player is back!
In the excitement of launching the design, we had forgotten to include the favorites player in the “my account page” (actually home page now) and that was the first thing that most people found missing .. well its back now and I am sure it will make everyone happy!
Have fun!
New Muziboo Design: Day 1
Finally after a couple of months of brainstorming and work, rolled out our new design last night. Its fun to see how your months of work can change the look of the site completely in just a few minutes. I guess Abhinav was the first user to see the fresh new Muziboo look and also the first few bugs
The day was quite interesting as lots of people told me what they felt about the new design. A large number of people actually liked the design and a few users did not. There were a good number of replies to my posts in lounge and questions on muziboo. Some folks even wrote to me in my scribble block expressing what they feel about this new design.
It was also quite interesting to see some of the decisions we made having the desired effect .. things like more users searching for their kind of music and discovering music by tags etc. These were some of the things we surely want picking up in Muziboo so that everyone can find the music they would wanna listen to. Same holds good for the way we feel groups should work. Nithya has already written about it here
I spent most of the evening today fixing some issues with the new design. The “remember me” bug has been fixed and you can now stay logged in for two weeks if you want to. There were a couple of other bug fixes that should make a few more things consistent and more usable. As I said in the discussions, next few weeks, we will be fixing a lot of stuff and improving the flow and usability to make this design a really cool one. If you have any feedback or issues, please do let me know and I will make sure its fixed quickly
Have fun
Prateek
Muziboo redesign-Not just cosmetic…
There have been lots of feedbacks till now, on how the redesign is. We would like to share our thoughts on what the redesign is all about and what promted us to attempt it.
For one, with a growing user base, the previous design could not contain all the buzz. The place was getting a little too noisy right on the main page. And another was usability. Navigating to content across the website was getting clumsier. We started off keeping these two in mind. Hence we wanted
1)to let each group function like an independent muziboo, with latest songs and comments and discussions figuring in the main page of the group.
2) to let users decide which groups to join based on relevance and interest and give updates on those groups right in the home page after logging in.
3)And to make sure, everybody did everything sitting right on their home page-An access to content across without navigating too much!!
With reference to look and feel, we wanted to use colours and fonts that made viewing easier. That was one main reason for us to avoid flashy colours, which might look attractive but end up hurting if viewed for a long time.
Please share your thoughts.
Regards,
Nithya
Old Muziboo is retiring
If you were trying to reach Muziboo.com and have landed here then it means that we are retiring old Muziboo .. don’t worry we will be back in less than an hour with a fresh new Muziboo
Happy Waiting
Muziboo Team
Goodbye Mussawer!
Today Nithya and I went to a few colleges to participate in the NEN Eweek 08 celebrations. When we came back and checked Muziboo we read the post by Aka Ali about Mussawer leaving us all. He died today. We were shocked. We simply could not believe what we read. Mussawer was one of our early users and I had exchanged quite a few scribbles and many orkut scraps with him. He would always signoff his messages with the line “Always Stay Happy” and I found it very very sweet. I feel it is unfair that young men like him should die but we can’t help but accept God’s decisions ….Here is a song from him that I really liked
The song is called Tou Mila and Mussawer had uploaded it about a month back … suddenly feels so long back … Please join me in praying for him and wishing that his soul rests in peace … may he live long through his music
Prateek & Nithya
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