Changing up the layout around here. There may be some little wackiness as it fully comes into being. Let us know what you think of the new look and whether there’s something that needs fixing. P.S. The next button will be coming back sometime later.
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New design is nice, except for the list on the bottom. I’m less inclined to read posts if I have to judge them by their title and click through. Much rather see the entire posts (save for long “after the jump” click-through ones).
Same goes for the rest of the Gawker blogs that have adopted this design. Gizmodo in particular, since there’re so many damn posts there.
The new design is easy on the eyes–TOO easy on the eyes. You’re wandering dangerously close into Digg/Fark/RSS/”Big Impersonal List o’ Stuff” territory. As others have mentioned, I preferred being able to read a large part (if not all) of each article without having to hit “More”. Plus the different sized fonts for various post titles is confusing. I’m looking at it now and I’m getting annoyed.
Also, I run AdBlockPlus, and now that the commenter info is in a separate column, the layout looks wonky. And I really don’t like to disable my ABP. Surely The Consumerist can empathize!
I’ll say that the one thing I do actually like is the headlines of archives on the bottom of the main page. Overall, however, this new design is so much less appealing to visit (i.e.- I kind of hate it).
ACK!!! One more thing: Make the “Consumerist” logo in the top corner bigger! I just want to get to the main page, and it’s frustratingly tiny!
(Poll, please…?)
I hate it! Hate it! Hate! Hate! Hate! Hate! Hate!
Please go back to the consumerist design it used to was. I hate how this site is screwy and looks exactly like gizmodo (I hate their layout as well).
The old site was a lot easier to read and use.
Bah, me no likey, too much clicky too read short stories.
All the Gawker sites with this format are now very hard to read. Hard to tell what’s an ad and what’s a story. Overall wonky with the small pictures and font. It makes me feel a little bit dead inside.
It’d be great if you could allow logged in users to choose the format they wanted. Because I sure don’t like this layout.