This! So much this!
I’ve been here since the very start and I remember the first big “makeover”, it got even more backlash than this, so you would think that you learned from it…
Personally I went straight to settings, hoping it would just be the default theme that was changed, surely they wouldn’t change the look this much without having the option to change it back? Guess I was wrong and seeing how many people have the same opinion, I’m glad I’m not the only one feeling like this.
I love you guy and all the hard work you put into the site, but sadly this was a big miss. And I’m sad that nothing will probably change your opinion and make you change it back and I’m pretty sure you won’t even bother giving the option to change back the color theme for us that prefer the old colors.
Either way, instead of just complaining, here are my two cents on why it’s a miss:
- The purple color makes the focus on the wrong things, stuff like dates and “x people watching” stands out more and makes it hard to see what you really care about.
- The purple color is sometimes way too dark, I’m not color blind or generally have issues with sight, but I need to focus to see some texts, especially if I have mouse over them.
- Even if you would change the above to brighter/darker purple, it wouldn’t change the fact that purple in general just stands out more and will always have that issue. It makes the site look “childish” for lack of a better word, red is more of a natural color and gives more of a “serious” look.
- The logo, how do I put this nicely? It reminds me of when you’re learning to set up a website and you have an exercise to set up a todo-list website/app and that icon is what you get to use for the project. It’s generic and look like a logo for a todo-app is what I’m trying to say. The old logo had more “soul”, was unique and made a clearer connection with the brand, “T” → “Trakt”.
I know that you put a lot of effort and time into this, just like the last rebrand, I’m also guessing that you’re thinking “everyone is gonna bash on it because people don’t like changes”, so our input asking you to change it back is not really gonna have an effect on you.
But please, please, at least consider the option for us to change the color theme of the website back to the old, even if you don’t want to change your new “brand” with the logo. Worst case you can always make it a VIP-setting or something, just so people like us that’s been supporting the site for so long don’t feel like you don’t care about us at all.
I hope that I didn’t come off as rude, I just really want you to understand that this can be a big deal for some of us.