thesixtyone.com did a major redesign pretty much out of the blue. The inter­face went through a com­plete rehaul and some extens­ive con­cep­tual changes are under way. Their fans at Face­book are not happy.

First thing that struck me was that you can no longer leave com­ments on pro­file pages. From now on com­ment­ing is reserved for songs only. This is unfor­tu­nate, since t61 users were refresh­ingly act­ive in leav­ing feed­back and com­ments. It seems likely that from now on there will be sig­ni­fic­antly less com­mu­nic­a­tion between artists and fans. I hope I’m wrong.

Below are screen­shots of my artist page before and after the design. The new design is just a non-interactive album cover where you don’t see any com­ments or listen­ers. Luck­ily, my photo works pretty well on the new ver­sion. I’ll try to keep an optim­istic out­look on the new version.

Before:

After: