Nothing more interesting than being deeply involved in a conversation with people on a service, then having that service suddenly change their layout, look, feel, and going from Beta to full Production, without a word or a coordination effort. Although they did point to a blog entry after the change, like anyone reads blogs anymore. Note to people doing this, plan, let people know when you are going to swap out a systems look and feel and make sure you put a dead line on it. Nothing more annoying than the “big surprise shift”.

In the mean time, people are fumbling all over FriendFeeds newly released interface, with the usual whining and complaining that accompanies any shift in the UI. There are still a lot of issues that people are noting in the comment thread for the change right here.

Otherwise, if you are using FriendFeed, might as well get used to the new UI, it looks like it is here to stay, not too sure about some of the users who got to doing things the old way, but then that would be about par for the course when things change.

They just really should have coordinated this rather than springing it on everyone. Off to learn the new UI that I studiously avoided during its beta when I learned I really hated it.

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