Head Fi update, full blown advertisement site

Lol, let me guess, prof from the extreme North campus?

 

Oh man, he had an A:\ and B:\ ? that's a high roller right there

I thought I was quite state of the art when I could transfer my 5.25" disks to the 3.5" that I juryrigged into high density with a hole punch and hammer. I could fit at least four games onto one!

 

This killed me.

 

Killed me too. I really didn't believe the developer at first!

(This was the same developer who told me a piece of wisdom I try not to forget: Do no try to teach a hippopotamus to sing. It is a waste of time and only annoys the hippopotamus)

Which, somehow, possibly, maybe... brings us back to the new Headfi site?

 

Well hello my new home, HF would have achieve a better result if they simply shot themselves in the face. This has to be the worst "update" in the history of update there is. Reminds me of Windows Vista but at least Windows Vista worked and didn't keep asking me to re-enter my access key.

 

I gotta say that huge ads for Russian brides on the homepage is not a good look for any website that wants to be taken seriously....

 

I think it's google powered... you know... tuned to your search history.

 

No need to share your search history then...

 

Back in the '80s I was sitting at the console of an IBM mainframe working on a performance issues. Guy next to me gets a call:

"You say you aren't getting any response on your terminal?"
...many back and forth questions...
"Ok, well, give me your terminal number; it's on the label on the front of your terminal..."
"You say you can't read the label? Why not?"
"It's too dark? When did your power go out?"

Rob

 

Yep!

 

Adagio Teas for me. Boring!

 

You need to watch more internet porno.

 

...I need to pay closer attention to my 19yo son's browsing history.

 

Yes, evidently (sips tea).

 

Early to mid 90's, I was working as a consultant for a food distribution company. They hired a few new guys straight out of college: a new Jr. AS400 admin, and a few new tier 1 help desk guys.

Someone called in and reported an issue with data locking up from the mainframe, they couldn't access what they needed, etc... The new Jr. AS400 guy asks his boss - I can't get the records to unlock, it's just unresponsive, what do I do? Boss said "Call support".

Shortly after that, one of the new tier 1 help desk guys gets a call. "Hi, part of the system is locked and unresponsive, I can't get it to do anything, what should I do?" Help desk guy - "Just reboot it." AS400 guy - "holy crap, are you sure?" Help desk guy - "oh yeah, sure. We do that all the time." AS400 guy - "ok..."

2 minutes later IT is flooded with calls. Finance - down. Distribution - down. Shipping - down. Sales and order management - down. Company ground to a halt. Millions of $ of lost revenue seeping away for each hour the system was crushed. 2 new plebs and a former AS400 Sr. Manager in the unemployment line.

Moral of the story - Don't reboot mainframes. When you're a mainframe admin, and the boss tells you to call support, he doesn't mean your tier 1 help-desk - he means IBM.

 

Didn't use head-fi too much, 350 posts in 7 years.
I always read people here go thru the usual low energy tropes for head-fi. Although as some have said if you kept to select threads, certain things were useful.
It's about selectivity.

Now,
I can say I'll never use the site unless they completely rework it. If feels like the aborted fetus of designs.

Apart from the ads even, I know people are bitching about that. Just from a basic design level (if it had no ads) feels like a college students project.

 

I'm thinking Jude may need to get some tips from Audio GD's site on user-friendliness.