They took £8 million, wiped their bums with it, and flushed it down the toilet! (The dooyoo Redesign)

Member Name: jesika_jay

Product:	The dooyoo Redesign
Date:	02/09/02 (46 review reads)
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Excuse me if I sound a little dumb, but I logged into my Dooyoo account today for the first time since "the big change" and I am totally confused.

For a start, WHY? Why aren't people intelligent to recognise that when they have a good thing, LEAVE IT ALONE!? I for one really used to enjoy my regular Dooyooing sessions; they were times to unwind, let off steam or a time when I could let everyone know about my feelings on a particular topic. As I already lead quite a stressful life, I used to be thankful for sites such as this one to give me the chance to chill out and calm down. Now- thanks to the redesign- they are just another time to be infuriated by the stupidity of people in businesses these days- always looking for ways to make improvements and generate more business, more money. This would be fine if they knew what they were doing! But they obviously don't! I have read some of the comments on the redesign and can see nothing but frustration and anger!

Dooyoo have completely ruined an excellent site. It's members feel let down and are probably going to be using the site a lot less in the future if no changes are made. Sorry to state the obvious, but Dooyoo is a site that relies upon people's opinions to generate sales, so it seems rather ironic that they would redesign a site so badly that everyone is writing negative opinions on it.

Anyway, let me just go over some of the problems I've had so far, which are fast putting me off Dooyooing:

1. I spent about 40 minutes writing an opinion this morning only to find that it didn't post and it is lost for good (silly me forgot to copy and paste, but that's besides the point!)

2. I've had to log in three times already today whilst I've been trying to leave comments on people's ops; before leaving a comment, a page flashes up saying that I have to be logged in before I can leave a comment. Well, excuse me, but didn'
t I just log in about three times already?

3. MORE page refreshes! As if the site wasn't slow enough already when you had to wait for the pages to change! Now there is yet another page refresh for logging in etc. etc. I just cannot be bothered to waste time waiting for these pages to change- I simply don't have the time or the patience!!

4. I can't find anything! For example, I tried to find the category for the Dooyoo redesign and I just couldn't find it! I looked under the 'Internet' category but was greeted with page after page of listings- there were about 50 pages to browse through in order to find it! The old Dooyoo would've just come up with a list of subjects under each category all ON ONE PAGE!! Needless to say, I didn't bother looking through! Only found the category by looking under latest opinions!

5. Sorry if I have read anyone's opinions but not rated. This is because the majority of times I have tried to rate, I have been greeted with a "This page cannot be displayed". I despair! Every single time I try to rate, I get this! And it's not my connection- I never had any problems with the old Dooyoo!

6. I have only been a member for under two months and was just starting to really get to know the site, and really starting to like my Dooyooing time. Now, I don't know it at all, I will have to learn all over again. I wouldn't mind if I felt that it was worth it, but it just isn't!

The site is now completely user-UNfriendly, the sense of community is now not so apparent, I am scared to write an op in case all my hard work goes down the toilet! The site is slow, sluggish, and the addictiveness has been taken away.

An animal could probably design the website better than this! Not that it needed to be redesigned in the first place! There were a few very minor problems before, but nothing major, now the whole site is just one big problem! A total
mess! An outrage! These people don't have any business sense at all- surely their business will suffer as a result? Haven't they already spent £8 million doing this? Stupidity at it's worst!

It's like: I have £8 million and a thriving business. So what do I do? I throw away the £8 million and make everyone dislike my business. Duuuuuhh?

Well, I've said my piece, just like everyone else. Let's hope our opinions are taken into account. It would be rather hypocritical if they didn't; this is an OPINIONS site after all!

FINAL MESSAGE: SORT IT OUT DOOYOO!!!

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