– again this comment has no point what so ever :)

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It’s because of it’s nature in that it’s always changing and evolving due to your own and other people’s actions that it makes it a compelling and perhaps emotional experience.

But you’re right – you can’t physically hold a website. But if you had an object you could touch and manipulate in a physical way wouldn’t it be disconcerting that other people could manipulate that same object as you held it like a website?

I disagree that a website can never be perfect. A website can be perfect – or at least it has the potential to be so. This is an ephemeral state, however, and a site can lapse out of perfection through some change in technology, or perhaps through something as simple as the site owner deciding it needs improving!

As for sustainability, isn’t that what CSS-only redesigns are?

Flickr is a very different kind of site, but I like the way that it essentially feels the same. That said, inevitably that shifts, mutates, improves, adds features.

We should at least sometimes aspire to creating things that are classic.

No point to this comment either.

As for ownership, there’s a good example in websites like flickr. Even though it’s not as costumizable as others (myspace, etc), it seems to me that the (more active) flickr users feel like it’s their own personal space. I’ve also had that feeling about deviant art users. Twitter is also an example, but in a different way (which I can’t properly explain). I believe twitter users see their twitter page as “theirs” but in a different way of flickr users.

But, as you point out, there’s the problem of the website evolution, either on a functionality level or something else. I remember when flickr users decided to abandon the website because of things like the yahoo id unification process or when video was added. Change exists, and is not always welcome, and at that time people lose the ilusion of ownership they had all that time.

So yeah, I think we should care about these points. Will they influence the way we do things ? Maybe not. I think the things we do about these questions are already so defined that it’s really hard to change how we (or the users) handle them, and even if we try, we have to remember that we are dealing with users, which can always be unpredictable.