It's just so ... bright.

Its got a very "Dick Tracey" feel to it now.
Though so far it only seems like the background color and font have changed. I'm not seeing much in the way of widescreen. The right side is still empty and the left now has all the same stuff every other gawker site has.

Neato.

meh... don't like it. I'm sure it took a lot of work and all, but I like the old version better. What can I say? I fear change... change is bad...

love it. love.

This new theme seems to fit in more with the other Gawker blogs (LifeHacker, Gizmodo, etc). Overall, I like it, all though the lighter theme is quite a departure from the black one.

I can finally access it on my small cellphone.

much better!

Holy Crap! I thought something was wrong with my browser at first!

Love the new look!

I like the dark screen better, draws less attention around the office... uses less energy for the monitor... etc etc

I liked the black background better...seemed easier on the eyes. Otherwise, it's pretty nice.

I've got to echo, preferred the black screen. But hey I'll give it a chance, given what it costs me to read. :)

Is that guy wearing one of those commie caps (See http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00097I99S?v... and http://www.gnomestyle.com/shop.html)? Suddenly I feel very unamerican visiting this site.

Too much white space on the side. My eyes get lost. Some contrast please!

Love the wild-eyed John Wayne/Dick Tracy guy in the corner.

Agree that with all the white space running around, you need some borders or something to deliniate things better.

The e-mail/digg/permalink icons, however, are impossible to discern. They just look like little brown rectangles.

I too preferred the old look. But hey, as long as the RSS feed to my phone still works...

I like P.I.-type mug in the upper-left. It's the best Gawker head-logo yet, easily outshining the apropos-of-nothing Lifehacker stewardess and the late Screenhead's hideous eye-bulge guy.

Looks great overall, too. Nice job, Gawker web geeks.

I think Borat said it best:

This website is black not.

I preferred the black...white backgrounds are so 2006.

do not want

left column can use a different color

Like it but it looks like Wonkette, less a little pink.

This is the first Gawker redesign I've liked immediately (although I grew to like the others as well). Nice job, love the header image and the stencil typeface.

I definitely like the faster loading. With the black background, my browser would load black background first, all the black text second, and finally after it had worked on the ads for a while, it would place white behind the words. Annoying. Though this is shockingly bright on my eyes, I think it a good trade.

Beautiful! I'd give it three thumbs up, but I sadly lack a third arm.

I like it... kudos to Ben and our girlfriend. I kind of prefer the sans serif font, too. I'm crossing my fingers that the site's flaky posting/updating behavior will work better.

Much easier on the eyes. Good work.

Well, ix nae on that last thought... after I posted my message above, the page refreshed and all I saw was one comment: "Justin McElroy says: It's just so ... bright." I don't know what blogging software is being used but if I find out I'll be wanting to avoid it.

Too bright! It hurts my eyes. :-(

I too preferred the black background, but I am also typically resistant to change. I'll try to get over it.

I like!

At first I thought my bookmarks were messed up, and the Consumerist bookmark was pointing to a different site. I really like this newfangled design!

I like it, but I don't like the lack of delineation between articles. Love the noir thing going on with the graphic.

Commenting seems to be a bit weird. When you submit, it only shows the first comment on refresh, even if there's a thread of like 30. I'm using FF on a Mac.

Woohoo! I like as well. Kind of miss the black a little bit, but not all the red. This is a lot better. I really thought so much red was ugly.

Eh, a white background? Because consumer issues are bright and cheery? Take it back to black, and keep the Mike Hammer-lookin' guy.

Hey, I found an error... look at the January 4-8 entries here:

http://tags.consumerist.com/consumer/united/

In the headlines it appears that images for the calendar dates "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", and "09" are not being generated.

A bit on the bright side, but now I can at least see the text on my sidekick. Geez!

It is initially harder on the eyes, but I'm not hating it. My suggestion is to balance out the white space on the comments page. My eyes get lost and everything blends in.

The page doesn't have as much gravitas as before and is a little "lighter" in feeling.

Gah - I'm always confused by change. (I'll get used to it, but it's a little jolting at first.)

Like the newness, but you could have warned us it was coming... Loads much more better.

it's almost impossible to read your tip email address in the upper left corner. also, the graphic is very similar to that of defamer. other than that, it's okay. is there any semantics to a stencil-like font, though? It's not like this site is about making things or painting things or cyberpunk (that would be a pretty cool blog though). I'm not dissing on it, I'm just wondering what the motivation behind it was

whoa, also, when i submitted that last comment, suddenly i only saw the first comment in the list. before the redesign, i sometimes had to reload to see my comments, but otherwise things worked normally (mac os 10.4.8, firefox 2.0 w/ adblock)

Black is better. More 'tude.

THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION:

Where are the damn kitties?

I like the black better. Now it's too bright and there is nothing to break up the content.

I'm ok with plain but barren is a little much.

I love it. Biggest problem I had was one of your tables sometimes never loaded and I would get stuck with black on black txt. Problem solved!

Logo is good, but fully one-half of my screen is now wasted white space. I'm not suggesting you take the common route and fill that space with AdSense, but I don't really feel like you're using the available space very well.

listen dude.

you can't just "kick ass." you can either kick ass and take names or you can kick ass and chew bubble gum.

the only way you can just kick ass is if you run out of bubble gum.

oh and the relaunch is a 100 fold improvement.

I gotta agree with those who think it's too bright. Even replacing it with a light grey wouldn't be too bad. That's my only negative comment, though. I too thought I'd clicked on the wrong bookmark or something, but once it sank in that I wasn't _that_ stupid (right this moment) I decided I liked it.

I'm jumping on the "white is too bright" bandwagon. Other than that a-ok.

Oooo... I love what you've done with your place! It's easier to read, more professional looking, and no longer looks so home-grown, roll-your-own.

But I think a Wal-mart Nazi t-shirt skull might help spruce the place a little.