Posted by: becks on: March 17, 2006
I was browsing around my own StumbleUpon account (which you can find here if you’re interested: WTFBitca @ StumbleUpon) and came across Pixelfx.org. If you haven’t had your head in a hole you’ll know this site. It’s one of the crappiest tutorial sites on the net. I say that in all seriousness, it is one of the crappiest tutorial sites on the net. Don’t believe me? Read Jem’s review of it, Review: Pixelfx.org. I saw that it was updated and the owner had more some more promises of revamping it. Me being the evil little devil I am I had to comment and ask some pressing questions.
When you start revamping are you going to bring the tutorials up to an acceptable standard? There are many deprecated codes and such in the tutorials. Also will you be removing the scripts and that you did not write for download? If you hire staffers are you going to make sure that their standards are above those that this site has set?
I’m only asking because this site is foremost on a lot of lists for quality tutorial sites. I completely disagree with that and see this site as a place perpetuating bad ideas. However I’d like to see it redone in a better way so that those who use it can actually learn as opposed to… well I’m not really sure what to call the opposite. Either that or have the place closed down, after all there have been promises of revamping before and nothing has come of it.
Of course I had to spaz and mess up the URL to this place, I put .org instead of .com. In the interest of not being anonymous and admitting to my mistake I posted another comment explaining it and hopefully it won’t be jumped upon in order to forget, and not address, my original comment.
Now the biggest question of all: Will it be deleted or will it be replied to? Until she sees it no one knows. I’m leaning towards the former instead of the latter though. She seems like the kind of person who would delete a comment just because it wasn’t what she wanted.
Hoorah. She’ll probably ignore you though. Or accuse you of hating on her like she did in her last blog entry about my review. Yes, because criticising a site automatically makes you a hater. *roll eyes*
oh dear, dear – i’d love to laugh if/when she deletes it. Keep us updated!
[...] More on ‘A Letter to Pixelfx’ I think I may have gotten a response to my query on Pixelfx. I say I think because I’m not entirely sure that it’s a response, if anything it’s a subtle, poorly written comment on the Pixelfx site written by a third-party. Hi Emily, hey I know how your life has been more than anyone, and I know how limited your time is. So it’s good to see you at least let people know your around, I can vouch for you when you say you plan on revamping, I am as excited as everyone else, with the changes that have been happening with coding and all I know your eager to get it all up to standards, oh btw check your email too As you told me many many times take care of your ‘real’ life before you worry about the net and what anyone on it has to say. We all look forward to the many changes this site will have, and hopefully it will be appreciated more once it is completed. I’ll talk to you later take care bye for now *wink* [...]
Well done. Let us know if anything happens! ^^
March 17, 2006 at 10:32 pm
Well done Becksterz! (.. um!)
I can’t wait to see what happens to it, you pretty much said all what I think about the site. I can remember being DIRECTED to it and I was pretty much like “LOL. WTF?” at it.