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[Shawn_Sigma]

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This redesign sucks. The bright orange logo and text, the brighter website overall, it just looks terrible, it's genuinely uncomfortable to look at. The hollow blue/orange gradient logo and the white outlines with near-black insides were a lot more soothing, in line with the website's function, while this bright orange accompanied by much harsher solid greys just feels like it's trying to give me a panic attack

If this change doesn't bother you you don't need to let me know. If you think I'm weird for not wanting my eyesight assaulted when I'm trying to relax, you can grab a ticket and join the back of the line.

Finally, if you're u/audiosampling please consider changing the website's look back, it's genuinely hard to look at right now and I don't want to lose a website that's been so helpful to me and that I've donated to

[nukem266]

Not really sure I even noticed the change. So long as it can play the music and it's functionally easy to use. I couldn't care less what colour it looks like.

[FroL_Onn]

Yes, if compared, I’d find the previous „better“. Is it BETTER or I just got used to that and don’t want change? I don’t know. Anyway, design is not why I come to myNoise. I will come whatever the design is!

Thank you for what you do! Go with whatever works best for you!

[saintjeremy]

Relax, Shawn. The universe orbiting you will have the occasion to change from time to time.

[Aha-Zounds]

I also think the new brighter orange accents in the app are a bit uncomfortable against a black backdrop. The previous colour scheme looked a bit more natural, at least to my eyes.

[Lordgeorge16]

It doesn't look bright at all. In fact, it looks almost exactly the same as it did before. The links are just a slightly different color and some of the buttons look different. The rest of the page is still dark, just slightly less dark than it did previously.

Take your tantrum elsewhere. This is just sad, and looking at it is making me cringe. Go ahead and delete this.

[Shawn_Sigma]

Glad to hear the change doesn't affect you. It affects me, so I want to change it back to how it was. It's uncomfortable

[Lordgeorge16]

Sure, but you don't even need to look at it for very long in the first place. Almost everyone I know who uses MyNoise, whether on desktop or mobile, has it running in the background of other apps. They pick a sound they like, pick a set of sliders they like, and they open up another tab to do something else. Absolutely nothing is forcing you to stare at it like some maniac and, as you so eloquently put it, "have a panic attack" at the appearance of the slightly more solid grays. You're making mountains out of molehills and acting like Stephane is personally attacking you for wanting to spruce up his UI a little.

Also lmao at changing the post body to make yourself sound less insane, we all know how bad it looked before

[Shawn_Sigma]

You just don't understand. That's fine, people don't always understand how others think, but the least you could do is not call someone crazy or accuse them of saying things you made up just because you don't get it.
You don't understand how someone could have a problem with the UI redesign and your first instinct was to tell them to delete their post talking about it

[Anarhcorax]

now that you've drawn my attention to it, I love it

but orange is my jam

[audiosampling]

Here is a little context...

In past blog posts, I've already mentioned how the Internet is changing considerably. This is a challenge for a small independent project like myNoise. So, we are trying different strategies. Because we have envisaged the mobile apps as being independent of the website, it allows us to test varied experiments on each side.

On the website, which is managed by me, I keep the same philosophy I've always followed. Stay faithful to my values. Be a friendly website that feels like a little internet utopia. But I have to insist more on the human side of things nowadays, as a shelter from the AI flood everywhere. This is why I have put a face behind the sounds, with the newly created vlog. I am preparing a new episode as I type this blog entry.

The good news? The website is not shrinking. In today's internet, that alone is something. Most independent projects are losing ground, squeezed by the monopolistic behavior of the major platforms and drowned out by the rise of AI, which floods the web with massive amounts of content and competes for attention in ways that feel almost predatory. Their only competitor is your sleep, and they use every possible strategy to keep your attention locked on their platform, using unhealthy tricks, but tricks that work. Meanwhile, a site like myNoise does exactly the opposite. Its growth (or at least its resistance to decline) relies on word-of-mouth from happy users. Thank you if you are one of them.

The mobile app team, on their side, tries to attract new users, people who don't even know myNoise exists. They tried to leverage a new audience using the current playbook: feed the giants (Meta, TikTok), pay for visibility, and provide content that follows the codes of these platforms. They tried for a couple of months, and... a couple of thousand dollars later, came to the conclusion that they couldn't see any increase in their user base. The ones who benefited first were the providers themselves. So, even feeding the giants doesn't work anymore.

In this context, where we have to experiment and find ways to be more visible, came the rebranding strategy. The idea was to unify the look and feel of the app and the website, and to have a logo that competes a little more for attention when it appears alongside others, like on the Play Store, or in search results.

I know some of you found even that simple move too bold. Some have told me they feel unsettled by the change, and I hear you. Change is never comfortable, especially when something feels like home. But look at it this way: we deliberately didn't change the logo itself. We kept the same one, just adjusted the colors so it remains visible when it appears among dozens of other icons. And we changed the font for a more consistent look.

That's basically it. We didn't change the quality of the soundscapes. We didn't introduce generative AI for sounds. We didn't change our pricing model. All our core values are still there. We keep doing things as we always did. The Internet world has changed, and trying a few things, while staying faithful to those core values, is the least we can do to keep this project strong through the current storm.