My previous post(s) here and here I vented a litttle about the new spaces.msn.com site.
Mike Torres was kind enough to respond to my last post with a clarification and notice that they were looking into alternatives. Its nice to know that the spaces team is actively listening to the community. I think I would be remise in not pointing out a few more things about the new spaces site
I setup a blog there and am actively using it
I have recommended it to friends and family
I've yet to experience an error using the site
The very same people who complained about not being able to comment also said "cool. I should get one of those"
I really like the ability to do slide shows with pictures (though a few more meg would be nice) and I really like how customizable the entire site is, though if you bothered to look you would notice I haven't actually done much to mine... yet. I won't do a "review" of spaces because a lot of other people have already done that (better than I could no doubt). There are a lot of blogs out there these days and lot of them are free for the taking. MS has created a blog with a lot of value add. Whether or not the public will latch on to that I can't say, but a few complaints aside I must say I'm impressed with what was done, especially given the timeframes involved. The spaces team obviously did a lot of work to get this thing out the door and it could have been a real black eye had it been riddled with bugs or just been completely unusable. I find it to be neither and will continue to use it. It will only get better with future enhancements.