Reviews for Old Mix Extension
Old Mix Extension by Mix
Review by Jivix fromwc3
Rated 1 out of 5
by Jivix fromwc3, 7 years agoMix is alright, but not good enough to keep me from missing Stumbleupon. Correct some of the major issues below and I'll happily bump this to 3-star. Add hotkeys so I don't have to wear out my right hand clicking through your website and your add-on, and I'll give you a 4-star review. Add a button to randomly pick a "For You" page, and I'll bump it to 5 stars. It's not even about the actual content at the moment since it is so difficult to actually view it when compared to SU. I mean the old version, it's not quite as bad as the newer WebExtensions version of the Stumbleupon Toolbar, which is a nearly unusable mess.
_TWO knocks for having no way to adjust what content I want to browse after account creation. So you're saying I have to make a new account if my tastes change? IF there is a way to do this, it's extremely unclear to the average user.
_Knock because even though it said I could completely import my Stumbleupon account, the only thing it seems to do is add all my favorited sites to a private collection.
_Another knock for not being able to get to the Mix website using the addon, which seems to have the lions share of the features at the moment (I can only add stuff to my collections and click links on "For You" using the addon).
_Another knock for having ALL email options on by default.
_Another knock for your main feature being able to choose from a series of "For You" websites, but the interface only showing 6 links on a 1440p monitor. Absolutely massive waste of space! If someone is interested enough in Mix to actually install and use it in their browser, you can bet they are VERY INTERESTED in seeing a ton of juicy websites they can visit. 400+ pixel wide tiles is totally unnecessary unless you're on a 4k monitor, and I can't find any way to increase their size or the number of columns. It feels like a phone app stretched to a full monitor, completely wasteful. Changing the scaling of the page is not a good workaround, and the columns don't dynamically fill the space so you end up with a narrow bar in the middle 1/5th of the screen with 12-15 tiles depending on how good your eyesight is. I can't imagine how comical the website would look when viewed on a 1080p screen. Your clients are incredibly important stakeholders, please be aware of ergonomics when designing the website & addon.
What are we at now? -6 stars? Ok, I'll give you 6 stars for actually functioning unlike many other addons in the new [utterly terrible] Firefox add-on schema, another star for the cool drooling logo, and 1 star for trying really hard to improve on Stumbleupon. I see the potential, I really do, but feature wise we're pretty far off right now, and I can't give you more than 2 stars due to the frustrating nature of browsing. And it reminds me too much of Pinterest which is a form of cancer for Google. Simplistic does not mean simple, and unfortunately Mix is simplistic.
Update: Clearing my browser history signs me out of Mix. Also, when I sign back in and try to start using the addon, it kicks off the whole account creation process all over again. Just nope. -1 star.
_TWO knocks for having no way to adjust what content I want to browse after account creation. So you're saying I have to make a new account if my tastes change? IF there is a way to do this, it's extremely unclear to the average user.
_Knock because even though it said I could completely import my Stumbleupon account, the only thing it seems to do is add all my favorited sites to a private collection.
_Another knock for not being able to get to the Mix website using the addon, which seems to have the lions share of the features at the moment (I can only add stuff to my collections and click links on "For You" using the addon).
_Another knock for having ALL email options on by default.
_Another knock for your main feature being able to choose from a series of "For You" websites, but the interface only showing 6 links on a 1440p monitor. Absolutely massive waste of space! If someone is interested enough in Mix to actually install and use it in their browser, you can bet they are VERY INTERESTED in seeing a ton of juicy websites they can visit. 400+ pixel wide tiles is totally unnecessary unless you're on a 4k monitor, and I can't find any way to increase their size or the number of columns. It feels like a phone app stretched to a full monitor, completely wasteful. Changing the scaling of the page is not a good workaround, and the columns don't dynamically fill the space so you end up with a narrow bar in the middle 1/5th of the screen with 12-15 tiles depending on how good your eyesight is. I can't imagine how comical the website would look when viewed on a 1080p screen. Your clients are incredibly important stakeholders, please be aware of ergonomics when designing the website & addon.
What are we at now? -6 stars? Ok, I'll give you 6 stars for actually functioning unlike many other addons in the new [utterly terrible] Firefox add-on schema, another star for the cool drooling logo, and 1 star for trying really hard to improve on Stumbleupon. I see the potential, I really do, but feature wise we're pretty far off right now, and I can't give you more than 2 stars due to the frustrating nature of browsing. And it reminds me too much of Pinterest which is a form of cancer for Google. Simplistic does not mean simple, and unfortunately Mix is simplistic.
Update: Clearing my browser history signs me out of Mix. Also, when I sign back in and try to start using the addon, it kicks off the whole account creation process all over again. Just nope. -1 star.
56 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14745082, 6 years agoThis is like replacing Wikipedia with Fox News. Utter shit.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14708252, 6 years agoYep. It's gone. Everything. SU was the perfect way to find new and relevant sites on the web. Now? Mix. Just another Facecrook. Useless...
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14071331, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by stjr64, 6 years agoAlong with many other reviewers, I was a long-time StumbleUpon user with over 1200 submissions and 17k likes. It is an insult to those of us who used, enjoyed, and helped build SU to invite us to use such a meaningless and empty "replacement".
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14563044, 6 years agoWTF I discovered more than 5000 website on stumbleupon, I had a whole library of humor that I will never find, everything is erased: /
Sincerely MIX is really a daube.
or we should be able to sync our old stumbleupon account ...
I am really disappointed ... RIP stumbleupon - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14197965, 6 years agoi wish i could give it zero stars. it sucks and offers nothing interesting. SU was soooo much better.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14547476, 6 years agoI"m not enjoying Mix as well as I did Stumble upon. I used to like the random pages I could go to with Stumble upon...this is just like an Instagram of web sites...not very original.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 2805206, 6 years agoThis is just boring. I prefer the madness/randomness of the previous product.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14530363, 6 years agoStumbleupon was a portal to the most amazing websites on the planet. The folks who created MIX destroyed this. Now it's little more than a poorly contrived data collection website. Everything the user searches on is tied to other accounts like Facebook and we can only assume is being sold to the highest bidder.
This is a great example of corporate morons who have little understanding of their market crapping on an amazing product.
It's a shame this review section doesn't offer negative stars because what was done to the amazing Stumbleupon website is a technological crime.
We can only hope they go bankrupt and someone restores Stumbleupon. - Rated 3 out of 5by smartpshere, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14511285, 6 years agoI can't even figure out how to get this to work. I was a big fan of StumbleUpon and this is NOT satisfactory.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14503943, 6 years agoThis is nothing compared to the site and application they replaced, they annihilated ages of good content and finds for an interface that makes Pintrest look organized by comparison. The only difference here is that at least Pintrest has better cataloguing and searching. They could've done the smart thing and simply did a name and brand change while keeping the interface and data the same but all they did was throw a wrench in a finely tuned machine for the sake of looking "More Modern"
If this new Mix dies, I will not waste tears nor the piss to wet down its tombstone - Rated 5 out of 5by Marcus, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14455562, 6 years agoI have been with StumbleUpon since day one. StumbleUpon has been murdered by stupid, assholic maggots. Special place in hell for you nutsacks.
Why are you even alive? This MIX site should die !!! The only reason there are four 5 STARS is there are only 4 employees. Their mothers, if they have any, would only give them 4, 3 or 2 STARS. It isn't bad enough we have a F*****G ignoramus destroying the Country and the rest of the world we have you nutsacks playing with your own brains and destroying something you were never smart enough to use or even understand. Probably is the same group F***ing up both. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14433828, 6 years ago"We're taking over StumbeUpon"
Deletes the entire database compiled of millions of users over more than a decade.
My 400+ favorited pages with hundreds of followers disappeared overnight. I'll never be able to find those pages again.
I e-mailed support and asked if they kept anything and they replied "All of StumbleUpons data has been deleted". I asked them whats the point of "taking over" a site if you're going to delete everything?
Their reply: "Yes, all StumbleUpon data has been completely deleted and there is no way to retrieve it."
If I could give zero stars I would. Completely ruined a loved site for no reason. Please do not use this site. - Rated 5 out of 5by lmichel1, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alberto T. Gomez, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Sivaditya, 6 years agoWhere is my old data which is on StumbleUpon... You killed stumbleupon
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13297188, 6 years agowe at https://mikiguru.com have reviewed this extension and therefore rate it 5star and it is very simple to use and flexible. Thumbs up MIX
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14350720, 6 years agoSo.. let me get this straight, I have been working on my SU page since the beginning of SU. I made a huge database with the music i love, i gathered some people arround me, made a couple of friends, it was al good and fun until the messing arround with the interface started and with that the SU dying proces started.
I was loyal until the end even when you removed blogging options, silencing me. But now. after you fucked up everything on SU. EVERYTHING!!. you want me to start over again and do the same shit all over again with the knowledge you took all my music and some unique connections from me. FUCK YOU. I loved SU, i truly did. but now, now i am just sad. what have you done. :(
Uninstalling this.
will check in again in the future when the feeling of loss is not present anymore.
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results." (A.E.) - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13577838, 6 years agoHard to believe, but Mix managed to throw the SU baby out and kept the bathwater.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14268314, 6 years agoYou dumped Stumbleupon to invent another bookmark tab on the 21st century internet? F**k me! What a pile of dross. I was with SU from the beginning and its brief glory days as a fantastic blog/images international community platform with some of the greatest people, real friends, I've ever met online. Sadly it's been downhill all the way, starting with when they deleted all image, video content and features and returned to bare bones stumbling. But even in its final form it was pretty good and I had more than 2000 followers. All gone now, plus my content. F**k you Mix, you spineless, featureless, useless imposter. I hope you die soon. The one star is only because there's no -10 star, which is what you deserve.
- Rated 1 out of 5by ntek, 6 years agocompared to stumble upon this is a joke. barely any functionality when you first login you have to select 3 from like 15 categories with no way to change it that i have found. you cant even specify if you liked something or not.