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Meta Morphosis
(I'm feeling contemplative)
So yet another day of tinkering and poking at the new features of LV. I've noticed a few things that seem to have come of it all...
On a techical side, some CSS elements that don't seem to have ever been used in the profiles before are now coming into play - and showing their flaws. Groups seem to use only one class - profilePod1 - for basically all their fields. This is fine if you define things in solid colors or repeatable patterns, but many of the LV templates are not made like that. Some of the new dialogs are vastly wider, so it's a little hard to make the old template content work at all. Other matters, like the profilePod4 class' tendency to be misshapen relative to it's header are also becoming more obvious, because the players for Music, Slideshows, and your profile's Default Video all use them. That's most of your channel pages impacted. There's a huge void at the moment in documentation of features, and despite the many very effective videos offered there are still matters that are left without answers.
In the LiveTV rooms and Chat rooms, there's still issues of connectivity and lag. If you've been in a LiveTV room that's remotely busy you've seen "waiting for resync" or "waiting for video" or seen an automatic playlist convulse wildly. You know how Picasso would paint you. It's been an adventure. Things are showing improvement though, and we've been seeing admins in rooms asking us for feedback and answering questions. (It took a long time before Stickam's staff ever appeared in their rooms to deal with issues far worse than just software bugs.)
We all knew when things launched there would probably be hitches. There would be bugs. If not, LiveVideo would be no less than stunning in the world of websites. In perspective there's actually not that many bugs considering how many features just went live at once. This is what led me to another thought though...
If you've noticed, many people aren't putting up as many videos. The overall level of activity doesn't seem as high as it has been - but I think the reason is that with all those new features, people are getting lost trying to assymilate it all. There's a lot to learn, and I think everyone is still just coping. I would bet for every admin you've seen in a room there's 3 people working on fixing things. For every video you see go up, there's 3 people editing their profiles, creating and configuring a group, etc. This is also about the same time things were dying down at LV and other such sites last year, and that's probably why this time was chosen for launch. In a month, how many bugs will be a memory? How many of us will have mastered all the new things? How many new faces will arrive to see LiveVideo in this new iteration?
Are you ready for the real changes?
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