My opinion.
After fooling around with this Vox thing for awhile I kinda changed my original opinion.
Being a cynical bastard who always sees the downside- "Its another 'community' following the MySpace business model, make me sign in, show me adverts, give me a sad default page knowing that I will fix it up while looking at more adverts..."
But the MySpace comparison is unfair, the adverts here are a lot less obtrusive, the interface a lot less obnoxious.
And hey, even San Francisco hippies got to eat.
Once past the learning curve the ease of importing video and photos is sweet.
The privacy settings, which I hadn't really noticed at first, are sweet, very helpful when I finally get around to uploading that video of me as a rodeo-clown porn-star.
Really wish I had a bit more control, c'mon, at least let me control header colors and line-height.
This thing is a nice improvement, a step in the right direction, but not far enough.
What I'd really like to see is the SixApart hippies take on MySpace's core business, the band blog. Musicians all hate MySpace, for all the usual reasons (MySpace blows), but a MySpace page is almost obligatory for a struggling band. Vox needs to incorporate a music player like xsfp_player, create some themes with a bigger sidebar, get music friendly.
Update: Mie points out a link. Looks like I'm either very intelligent or way behind the curve.
Comments
For the time-being, did you see this?
http://team.vox.com/library/post/congrats-to-columbia-rca-uk.html
Pretty cool!