Dear dooyoo (The dooyoo Redesign)

Member Name: Ric!

Product:	The dooyoo Redesign
Date:	01/09/02 (67 review reads)
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Advantages: none, none, none

Disadvantages: everything, everything, everything

Dear dooyoo,

Thank you for helping me do something that I thought I'd never do. You see, I always thought that there was no point in me joining ciao. After all, dooyoo paid more, had a good community feel, and for someone like me who just wants to write the occasional opinion, it met all my needs.

However, because of this unusable, excuse for a web-site that you've 'upgraded' to, you convinced me to try ciao. And, do you know what? I don't care about your lousy 3p-per-read anymore. Ciao has so much more to offer, but that's probably irrelevant to this topic.

The reasons you forced me to join the other side? You need me to tell you? Just read alkaliguru's op for the language we'd like to use to describe the new dooyoo.

The new site is:

S low loading,
H orrendously full of bugs,
I ncomplete,
T iresomely difficult to navigate.


Why have you taken away the drop down menu to get to the latest ops, either cross-site or category related?

Why have you taken away our profile details from the top right hand corner, meaning we can't see our reads going up after posting an op?

Why does the new site teasingly jump back to the old version in certain places, only to prevent rating an op in the old format? Didn't you test the site?

Sure you'll sort out the rating and posting bugs that a lot of members are experiencing. But all you've done by launching this unfinished, diabolical mess, is lose the trust of many of your formerly loyal members.

If you aren't careful, people will:

J ump ship,
O rganise a boycott of dooyoo,
I nscribe their opinions elsewhere, or even,
N ot post any more opinions on dooyoo.

C ash out, when you finally put that link back on the site,
I mpede your future plans for dooyoo by,
A voiding clicking on any advert banners and,
O ccupying their time at a
different consumer site.


A site that depends upon it's members to survive, should at least be user-friendly. Have a rethink, before it's too late.

Yours truly,
A disgruntled dooyoo member

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