Welcome to Consumerist Widescreen. Gone is the sea of black, replaced with a lake of purity.
We’ve tweaked things here and there, everything from headlines to dates to blockquotes. The site should load faster, too. Big props to our techs and designers for doing such a great job.
Overall, pretty simple and clean, letting us focus on the most important things in life: kicking ass.
Let us know in the comments or tips at consumerist dot com what you think, and if you find any bugs. — BEN POPKEN
Ooo shiny!
I like it.
It doesn’t look too bright to me. Perhaps in those cases it’s an issue of a monitor screen being set too bright.
Both designs have their own distinct look, but I like the new one. Nice job. Looks great.
bug
It looks like the comment numbers on the front pages don’t match the actual number of comments shown in the article itself. This is easier to see on the items with fewer comments than ones like this where there are lots.
I’m one of the very few who actually loves the redesign. It’s not too bright for me, but I’m approximately half the age of the average commenter.
It’s very clean, easy to read, overall I would say “well done.”
The one exception I would make to that comment is I find it a bit, just a bit, hard to make out your icons under the articles (black on burgundy isn’t very easy to differentiate to me).
Nice job though, well done.
Almost as pink as my eyeballs. I personally liked the black better, but it does look a lot less like a porn site now.
Almost forgot…who’s that in the upper left corner with a fedora? Matt Drudge?
I love the new clean look! I’m a big fan of black backgrounds but for many people, especially folks with older eyes, it can be tough to read. About a week ago, my site when through a similar change – from black to white background and with a cleaner overall layout in order to focus more on content. Nice work!
I definitely prefer the white background. The only sites using black are (let’s face it) pr0n sites so I used to feel weird reading Consumerist at work.
Let us say that it’s a good thing I’m not coming here for the site design, rather coming for the content.
I don’t care for the look of any of the Gawker blogs. Denton needs a kick to the nuts for approving this.
I can see wanting some brand recognition across all of the Gawker blogs, but it’s too uniform. LH, Gizmodo, Consumerist, &c all look too much alike.
I appreciate the effort and I’m sure it will grow on me. I will say that it’s not as organized looking as the previous skin.
I like it, but you may want to add borders to each story to make it easier on the brain.
prognosis: negative.
Well, at least it’s polarizing. People either love it or hate it.
I love it. Nice job.
Ouch. A sea of fugly, more like.
Almost as bad as Valleywag.
(Though in the Gawker sphere, Valleywag is the universal constant of ugly which can be approached but never exceeded — much like the speed of light).
If you check out http://www.mentallyincontinent.com, and sign up for a free membership/accoun, you can change your style settings to view the site in “grey, (retina searing) orange, or Classic” do something like that, where a user can set it to the old style if they’d prefer it that way. I know I miss the old design, dearly.