Gaiapedia:Sandbox/Criticisms of Gaia Online

Some events happened at Gaia Online has sparked some criticisms such as the new layout and naked avatars.

Naked Avatars
Recently events such as "naked avatar glitches" and a third party survey have caused some controversy over the respectability of the administrators with the Gaian public. The Naked avatar glitch created many users to want naked avatars for artistic and non-vulgar purposes. Some even pointing to the MPAA PG13 rating as a comparision to it allowing nudity and the self claimed PG13 website not allowing it. NOTE: The administrators have been working to fix glitches like this and warn people who have them.

Premium Feature?
The Survey released by a third party company included a question in which it mentioned the addition of a paid "Premium" feature. This along with the releasing of items the administrators promised not to release lead many to believe that they are going against their word and are going to make Gaia more for money and not for the people.

Layout Criticisms
The recent release of a new layout has created an uproar among some longtime users. Several users dislike the new layout, believing that Gaia should revert to the old one. In addition, a new homepage change has caused confusion for some. A few users are questioning if Gaia is attempting to make things easier or look "cooler"; others have no objection to the new layout or actually prefer it. The new layout includes: a shop system in which the user can browse each shop according to newest items, different categories of items, and price; the menu at the top of the window implements either Flash or HTML, and allows access to almost everything on the site; a new profile page which shows a user's friends, comments, journals, multimedia, signature, equipped items, and wishlist items.

No RSS Feature
RSS is Really Simple Syndication which is found in many blogs, newsites, and etc. Gaia still up to this day do not provide any RSS feeds for it's journals and news made in the annoucements forum.

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