On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Amanda Walker <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Do websites provide users with previous versions after overhauling their
>> UX?  Some do (gmail seems to), but most do not.  You just get to surf the
>> latest.  Hopefully, the website changes for the better.  That's our burden
>> to bear.
>
>
> And other browsers are just a double-click away :-).  One difference
> between the NTP and a random website is that users think of the NTP as their
> content (see for example the wording in the complaint from Mike's sister at
> the start of this thread).  Web sites that show user-generated (or in this
> case, user-arranged) content tend to get more complaints about large visual
> changes than more passive or static sites (example: see all of the uproar
> whenever Facebook changes their UI).
>
> Personally, I like the latest version of the NTP, but I would be wary of
> lumping it in with websites in general when we're trying to understand user
> expectations.
>
> --Amanda
>
>

My comment applied to the entire browser.  We silently update it just like
websites are silently updated.
-Darin

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