[2353] A request to the Department of Statistics Malaysia

Dear Stats Department,

I would like to request that you revert to your immediate previous design for your website. I find that that particular design as particularly friendly. It gave a no-frill experience for a majority of your visitors, whom I believe are there for the valuable statistics that you provide. Your department and your website play an important role in providing statistics to critical community.

The new design is awkward, cumbersome and noisy. Yes, noisy. My ears hurt. Your corporate song that is on autoplay is distracting and annoying. I want stats, not music.

I also do not want to know about your internal events and pictures of you awarding something to somebody. I do not want to listen to your director being interviewed in television.

I want numbers and graphs instead, and probably some analyses as well.

The only consolation I get is that you have removed the truly ugly 1Malaysia symbol from your banner. But hell, I will tolerate that if you just revert to your old design.

Please, please, at least switch off the autoplay for your music. This is the year 2011, not 1995. Having music on autoplay is so, so, last century, anyway.

Regards,

Your friendly libertarian.