@Juicybeatz:
Maybe the Personal Information and Member Information should have remained on the right side. And all that Activity stuff should be put into its own page amongst Wallpapers, Favorites, Journal and so on.

nyce!!

Wow this is nice, it is much faster there was quite a few times before when pages were not loading and just freezing, what a big undertaking this must have been.
But it looks very good,very well organized

Oh, I got it now and already created an entry. Hopefully I will be creative enough to type something of use into it.

@Jimmy121:
It seems you have expected more of customization. Yeah, I miss my dark metal background and the italic fonts, too. But that activity tracking is kinda cool. Now it will be much easier for me to understand people's mental pattern.

its ok! just wish i cud customize my background and put a music player on!

@Jimmy121:
Well, about that spying thing. I'm afraid it's not enough to take over the world.

No, seriously. Some things about others may be too "open" now. But I guess it is simply required in order to be able to do some socialization here. But I like it how it is so far. There is just a Forum Topic Subscription missing. But that maybe will come in the future, too.

As I've said already, the music player had to be disabled for legal reasons (we would owe royalties to record labels if they remained).

The custom styling was disabled because that much freedom lead to users obscuring the page with such disarray that on many profiles you couldn't read the text, it scrolled far beyond what a standard monitor could view, it broke the navigation where visiting users couldn't get back to the homepage or anywhere else on the site and end up closing the window, abandoning DN all-together, etc. I do plan on introducing backgrounds again at a later date, but managed by Desktop Nexus's systems, so things are still clean and the site remains usable.

Consider Facebook vs MySpace. MySpace lets users do whatever they want with their profiles, while Facebook maintains strict control of the design, colors, and layout. For that reason, MySpace has developed a widely-held opinion that the pages are trashed out and out of control. Over the past few years, the masses have left MySpace to Facebook by the millions, wishing to maintain order over the site.

I understand your wish to customize your profiles, but what did you do before that loophole was discovered? Desktop Nexus has been around for almost three years, and the ability to customize your backgrounds was only discovered a number of months ago.

I will look into adding custom backgrounds to the pages, but I don't feel it would be appropriate to open up free range on the styles again. As I said previously, there are over 60,000 members on Desktop Nexus, and only 74 had modified their profile styles with custom backgrounds, etc.

Don't get me wrong though, I am open to suggestions for clean ways of personalizing the profiles... but give this new system a chance. Jimmy, you were talking about leaving Desktop Nexus... stick around for another week or two. I have a feeling the new parts of the site will grow on you.