Last.fm has unveiled its first site redesign for years this week. Yes, if you didn't realise, Last.fm is still a thing with hundreds of thousands of users.

As a user for over 10 years, this is very exciting news. Last.fm has seemed like a bit of a ghost town on the updates front in recent years. But is it any good?



For those who have no idea what Last.fm is, it is a website that specialises in finding music recommendations for you, by the use of 'scrobbling' everything you listen to via a plugin in your music players like iTunes. It can also scrobble via your tablet or smartphone and various other places.



For music lovers and list geeks, it has provided a treasure trove of charts and stats about your music taste and where to find other artists and songs you may like, as well as connecting you to other people.

However, since being bought by CBS in 2007, the site has had few updates despite a large user base, and it has shifted into trying to break into the music streaming market with little success.



The new site looks vastly different to the classic old one, which is always necessary, but it's such a big leap that it has put off a lot of users. However, it has made users' listening history available in full for the first time, rather than just the top 500 artists and so on, so this is a hugely welcome change.



On the Last.fm forums, the reaction appears to be universally negative, with many users bemoaning the changes and even setting up a petition to get it changed back.

One user wrote: "this is unironically the worst thing that has EVER happened", while another went so far as to describe it as "a cross between late-period Myspace and 9/11".



The new design is certainly nowhere near as bad as some users are making out, but change is always tricky to get used to, and Last.fm definitely needed to try something new to stay relevant.



Are you a Last.fm user? Let us know your thoughts on the new site in the comments below.

This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io