This morning TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington uses the word ‘dead’ in two titles (dead fetish day, Mike?), one of them pondering: Didn’t someone tell Feedster they were dead? My first thought looking over the next iteration of Feedster was the design is amateurish. I’m not some design pro or anything, but even I know not to use something that looks like it was rolled off a conveyor belt.

And this is coming from someone who has a soft spot for Feedster. They ranked this blog #7 in 2005 and you’d think I’d be biased toward them — and I am, somewhat — but the design reminded me of a FrontPage theme circa 2000. Either that or some sort of celebration page (party on the patio at 4pm?!)

Ick.

On the Feedster blog they explain:

To start with the obvious, the site looks completely different. When comparing the old with the new, it’s quite apparent that we decided to keep only the name from the old design. Everything else we set aside, in favor of our newer, shinier self.

I’m glad to see Feedster isn’t dead, but the design doesn’t do it for me at all. What about you? Also, I don’t like how their blog is pointing to a form page to leave feedback. Is there something wrong with comments on the blog? Wait, I get it. No time to moderate comments or allow trackbacks on a blog search engine?

(rolls eyes)

Maybe Arrington is right and the dead is walking among us. It’s in beta, so maybe they’ll kill the shiny look in favor of something less polished.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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