Project Petaling Street In Your Face

As usual, out of the blue something is thrown right in your face without intention of harm. However, though as much I’d like to be happy for PPS, Aizuddin, and others who’ve worked hard in making it better..I am honestly not very happy.

There isn’t any harm throwing a huge surprise to the audience. But when it concerns the user interface which in return will reflect heavily on the usability of a website, I can’t rest at ease to see something I looked highly upon has somehow lost its touch.

Yes, I’m dead serious in what I’m speaking about. I think PPS might’ve taken this project too quickly and assumed people wouldn’t mind such a leap in change.

I’m sure there’ll still be fans of PPS shouting w00t! and cheering on the new move but I’m still not convinced that this bold move was smart or done out of haste.

If you’ve followed PPS recent development, you would have noticed that they’ve brought us the PPS Blog, the PPS RSS, the PPS Wiki and now the PPS Directory along with its new homepage.

It looks like PPS still wanted to stick to its plain looking interface from before but I think they took it a step further by losing all elements of usable interface. Right now, there are no borders that used to act as simplified graphics, there are no tab designs and in on my own words, the homepage doesn’t look like it knows where it is going.

Sigh, it pains me to not be able to appreciate PPS as much anymore and I can understand that what I say here might be personal preferences. However, I do understand usability to a certain extent and if we’re really a blogtal who cares about bloggers, shouldn’t we be catering to the new bloggers too?

If I were a new blogger, what am I suppose to do? where am I suppose to go? how am I suppose to do this? is this what I’m suppose to do? These are just few of the questions on the top of my head that I could visualize a new blogger to PPS asking themselves.

PPS blogtal is regarded as ‘the’ place to learn about blogging and expand their blog-fu from there. So I hope this won’t be taken away from them. There’s much to the art of blogging that everyone wishes to learn so we should be encouraging and not frightening them away.

Therefore, if any of the PPS members of the team happen to read this. Please..oh..please do something about the interface. At least just announce that something is in the works of finding a solution so people would still have the old faith in PPS.

Well, I’m certainly hoping for a revamp later.

And I apologize to anyone who feels that I shouldn’t be that harsh towards the PPS team since they’ve been working hard behind the curtains. So kudos to the team for accomplishing so much in so little time.

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