Random Rants with my Characters - Rant Five: Gaia Online

Kadis: Well, everyone after a brief hiatus, we're back! This time the topic is about GaiaOnline.com.

Himuro: Oh, here we go...

Kadis: -glares- Shut it... Anyways, Gaia has been doing a ton of layout changes recently but this time Kaddy thinks they've gone way too far.

Nate: Hm...? How so?

Kadis: Well, since they first started all these changes, Kaddy's been skeptical. But now it's obvious. Gaia isn't even trying to be Gaia anymore. At least, that's how Kaddy figures it.

Hime: -tilts head- Sis...um...I think you should explain a bit about the site first...so all those people that don't know about it know exactly what it is...

Kadis: ...oh. OH! Right. Eh heh heh...^^"

Himuro: -.-"

Kadis: Um...Gaia Online is an online community like most others...or so it has gotten to be. There are forums and games and other fun stuff. There are even avatars you can dress up and play with and such. Events are held for some special occasions too. Is that good enough?

Akaru: Seems okay to me...^^

Kadis: Good! -nods- Now, lately Gaia Online has been doing some layout changes that are "meant to make the sites easier for noobs to understand and navigate." Yeah...right. What they've done is made it terribly ANNOYING to navigate.

Shiro: -mutters- Kaddy...this isn't even a rant that has anything that we can really put into...

Kadis: ^^" Sorry, hun. Anyways. First, they implemented a chat feature. And that was okay...not too bad. But kind of annoying. Next big thing that Kaddy hated was the new shop fronts. They aren't badly done, no, but they removed the Shop list from the old navigation bar. And, of course, they leave in the stuff that will get them REAL money. Like the Cash Shop and things like that. Soon after that came the new navigation bar. She loved the old one. Easy to navigate and find places. But they went and changed it. And everything else came crashing down after that. Everyone hated it. I'm sure a ton of people still do. They took out ALL of the links that people used daily and replaced them with links that are annoying to find what people needed to get to. And of course they used the "easy for noobs to understand" excuse. Hello? What about all the old users? We're all super confused and annoyed by it!

Manako: ...we've lost her...

Everyone else: -nods-

Kadis: >.> Shut up... Anyways...the thing that has sent Kaddy completely over the edge now? The new header and footer things. Annoying as Hell. The footer is customizable, yes, and I like that. But it's annoying and overlays over everything, even when it's minimized. I mean, really. And the color scheme? Gaia has lost it completely. They've made that new navbar a sickly blue. And the new footer is brown, of all colors. Those two don't go with purple! Gaia needed to stick with the purple theme!

Nate: Earth to Kaddy...

Kadis: I'm almost done, hush! >.<" All I'm saying is, Gaia isn't even Gaia anymore! What happened to the community that was run by the users? It was even said before by the creator of the site, Lanzer! "Gaia's biggest sponsors are Gaians themselves supporting the site." What happened to that? Gaia isn't about the users anymore, is it? All Gaia seems to care about is getting money and becoming like every other social networking site out there. What happened to you Gaia? I want the old Gaia back!

Himuro: A-and, that's it everyone! Tune in next time!

Kadis: Hey, wait that's my job!"