January 09, 2007

Why Windows Live Spaces sucks

So I was using Windows Live Spaces (formerly Msn Spaces) to write my old blogs, and I was incredibly frustrated by just how rubbish it was. So here's my top 5 reasons why Spaces sucks (there are so many, believe me!)
  1. The blog editor is rubbish. Like, it won't even let you put pictures in blog entries easily, and it cuts out most HTML.
  2. The photo galleries are rubbish. It takes forever to load, sometimes didn't work properly, and the photos themselves are tiny and poor quality. There's plenty of alternatives out there.
  3. No friends? Any rational human being would have thought "hey, I know. Why don't we make their contact list as their friends list?" Of course, Microsoft aren't rational human beings.
  4. The themes are rubbish. On sites like MySpace, you can use whatever background you want, from whichever site. On Spaces though, you only a handful of backgrounds to choose from - and almost all of them were boring.
  5. The blog editor is rubbish. I know I've covered this already, but I need to rant about it a little more. You couldn't even post YouTube videos! Like this clip from Scrubs of the amazing Knife-Wrench.


Oh, I've run out of room. And I still had how horrible it looked and how useless the lists feature was. And how slow it loaded.

The only good thing I can say about Windows Live Spaces is this: the fact that it bugs people on Messenger every time you post a new blog entry gets a lot of people reading it.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes yes oh YES! *dances* I have waited for this day *wipes away tear* ...and you mentioned Scrubs too ^_^ (maybe you could have a clip of the Drill Fork (partly drill... mainly fork) in the next one??)

Anyway, yes. You see? One post and I'm rambling. ONE post! This is what your blog does to me: fills me with undue excitement in exam time. Keep it up, baby :) --Nic

Anonymous said...

scrubs is the best thing ever! (hence my msn screen name!)
good clip btw!
and well done!
itl be popular b4 u kno it...ur blog i mean!

keep up the good work (and i can work out how to use this! im such a genius!)

N1l0c said...

Well anything pertaining to the name Windows is condemned to a life of bugs, viruses, suckyness, and A DISGUSTING LURID GREEN START BUTTON


Macs for ever! lol

Unknown said...

Wow, 3 comments and not one of them is insulting you - I guess this is a change from your old blog :P

Also, I agree with you about MSN Spaces. They suck. Well, to be more accurate, you agree with me. Finally. :P

theafroguy said...

I've always hated Msn Spaces. But Msn Messenger's annoying intergration with it encouraged people to read my blog, and informed them when it'd been updated - that's why I used it.

Anonymous said...

I want a knife-wrench! They're so lovely and cool!

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