Flash components SHOW OFF the problems of user experience?

                 
 I was really disappointed with Stickam these weeks. As its typical registered user in 2005, I have saved some mp3 songs and more personal videos on their website for several years. Unfortunately, they added more new features but to get the important functions of uploading into touble. I want to say: Most of time flash components are really troublesome in online applications! Obviously, they always trigger different USER EXPERIENCE problems.

I tried many times to upload local mp3 files through the new style of uploading pages on Stickam. All is constituted by Flash component now and the BUG never stops! I tested it FireFox, the latest version, the previous version…IE 6 as well…Everytime it shows different errors. The uploading table can’t appear properly in FireFox 3.0.5, the new released version. In the outdated IE 6, local Chinese Tecent TT explorer, it has popup error window in Flash or displays nothing in the section of uploading. That’s really crazy for me!

Stickam was kicked off by Facebook last year. Certainly they have the most important reason now! They are doing crashed work! They decide to release a new feature every time, on the contrary, there’s a problem instead of fixing the problem.

Remember: Flash components can’t represent everything on Internet world. It should obey the basic guildline of user experience! To be simple functions, we don’t need stylish format and unnecessary decoration.