Cha-cha-cha-cha-Changes
Apr. 1st, 2019 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quipxoticBig Finish launched their redesigned website today, although why anyone would launch anything on April 1st is beyond me. The company may be regretting it now too as it seems the change broke the connection with their app, Paypal, and a whole bunch of other things needed to make their business run. I bet they're really glad they put on hold their pricing changes for international customers; fans are irritated enough without adding price hikes into the mix. And again, I can't understand why they thought doing both on the same day was a good idea. Does no one at Big Finish have any experience with change management?
Even as annoying as the situation is, I feel for them. You can test sites on development servers all you want, but there's nothing quite like going live to bring all your underlying issues to light. Not to mention that everyone hates change, even if it's change for the better in the long run. Me? I don't hate the new site. If it isn't Drupal then it's very Drupal-esque, which means that most things are in logical locations and the site should be more accessible. My biggest frustration is that it's now more difficult to find the older audios. Plus, the difference between what they call "collections" vs the series they list under the "audiobooks" top menu navigation isn't really clear. They obviously aren't the same thing because selecting the "Eighth Doctor Adventures" under audiobooks doesn't give you the same results as "The Eighth Doctor Collection." Anyway, I'm sure they'll get it all sorted out. In the meanwhile, I don't envy their social media or web development staff.
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On the fan fiction front, the drabbles for the audiodrama version of the Seventh Doctor story "Love and War" are now online. I've also added a drabble each for the Seventh Doctor Short Trip "Doctors and Dragons" and the Sixth Doctor story "Loud and Proud."
Even as annoying as the situation is, I feel for them. You can test sites on development servers all you want, but there's nothing quite like going live to bring all your underlying issues to light. Not to mention that everyone hates change, even if it's change for the better in the long run. Me? I don't hate the new site. If it isn't Drupal then it's very Drupal-esque, which means that most things are in logical locations and the site should be more accessible. My biggest frustration is that it's now more difficult to find the older audios. Plus, the difference between what they call "collections" vs the series they list under the "audiobooks" top menu navigation isn't really clear. They obviously aren't the same thing because selecting the "Eighth Doctor Adventures" under audiobooks doesn't give you the same results as "The Eighth Doctor Collection." Anyway, I'm sure they'll get it all sorted out. In the meanwhile, I don't envy their social media or web development staff.
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On the fan fiction front, the drabbles for the audiodrama version of the Seventh Doctor story "Love and War" are now online. I've also added a drabble each for the Seventh Doctor Short Trip "Doctors and Dragons" and the Sixth Doctor story "Loud and Proud."
