A few days have passed since thesix­ty­one did their rad­ical redesign and made some major ideo­lo­gical changes. The site now feels like a lonely place, as they removed all vis­ible signs of human inter­ac­tion; neither com­ments nor recent hearts are to be seen. They also did away with the abil­ity to down­load songs, and – I believe – buy, as one per­son at least com­men­ted that their 5–6 aver­age daily song sales has dropped to zero.

In the midst of all the hate-filled com­ments at t61’s Face­book page, I noticed a link to uvumi.com. It seems to have a lot in com­mon with the old t61. Like the old t61, Uvumi con­tin­ues to play songs even when you nav­ig­ate around the site, which is nice, and I don’t under­stand why t61 removed that fea­ture as well. Cre­at­ing your pro­file and upload­ing songs was a really pleas­ant exper­i­ence as the inter­face has loads of pol­ished AJAX details.

One thing I dis­agree with, in both uvumi and the new t61, is that you have to click a link to see a band’s songs. I con­sider the songs to be primary con­tent, and pro­file inform­a­tion sec­ond­ary. Let the songs speak for themselves.

Oh, and almost for­got to link to my uvumi page.