On jul 17. last.fm released new version of their interface to general audience.
It looks like there are moving from music oriented service to social network kinda service.

Comments(shoutbox), Recent activity list (new?) and friends are now almost main feature of the site. Sure, charts are still there, but now it shows only 15 entries by default in top artists and top tracks section.

Also, ajax tabs are charts are really useful (prototype ftw!),and I like that they did not go wild with ajax features and that kept thing nice and minimalistic.

Only thing i hated from on first sight is the player, damn what is with that brushed metal texture?
It looks like some ancient photoshop tutorial from 5-6 years ago
Old player was like 10 times better. :/

Don't get me wrong, design it self is pretty good, and i even like the but there is an obvious intention to make last.fm more social, and i don't know is that good thing or bad, i always have doubts in radical changes like this one.
For one you will always get a ton of angry users (scroll down) when you make this kind of changes. Also i think they should include dark theme like in old version, i didn't use it but i know many people that did.

But anyway, there is nothing else that we can do, but to (try to) enjoy the brand new last.fm

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