So far, I'm not impressed. I miss my old layout! Will have to see when you are finished, though.

Bleah. I liked the previous one better.

Me likey. It seems more content is able to fit on one page and the information is more uniformly placed i.e. author of article, etc. The login at the top seems more intuitive also.

I like it. Seems more streamlined and easier to follow.

-Lack of the ability to go back to stories other than what's on the front page is a big one, I'd say. You know, the old "next / previous" buttons that were on the bottom of the home page. Am I missing something where that is now?

-I liked "last comment by". This let us serial F5'ers know if a topic had been updated without having to remember comment counts. Some of us are having a slow work day.

-In general (and this was the old design), I think the linking to internal tags instead of the relevant mentioned websites in articles is a mistake. The tags should be separate, at the bottom of the article - links within the article, say to a dell site or mentioning a new site (such as the Zafu article) should link to that site, not a tag for "jeans". (I find site tags pretty useless in general, IMHO. That's what search is for.)

Everything is horizontal...

Heh, I saw the new design about half an hour ago but no post or comments about it, so I wondered if I was hallucinating.

@tcp100: A few of the articles on the main page indicate "last comment by," and it even gives a snippet of their comment itself. For some reason it doesn't do that for every article, though...

I like it. My laptop runs on 1600x1200, so I always had wasted white space on the right hand side. Thanks for fixing it. Although now my Treo will have fits trying to display it. Any plans for a mobile.consumerist.com?

I like how the site looks more structured. I also like how, as was mentioned by Faust, the front page seems to fit more content.

Listing a snippet of the last comment is an interesting idea.

Don't like it.

The it seems like front page segments have less text.

@tcp100: I totally agree with you. I dont like purely internal links.

WOW! you're changing up the layout?! For a second when I logged on there, I thought I was Jesus!

People don't like change. They want things to stay the same but somehow get better!

Personally I think the redesign is pretty nice though I'll have to play around with it some and get used to it

Uh...maybe it's just me, but I'm not seeing a link to the next page anywhere on the main page...

This is fine for home, but when I'm at work during the day, I don't have a widescreen monitor, which means that I have to do a lot of scrolling back and forth. Also, things aren't rendering right in Firefox; I've got an overlap between the headline and the right-side info box (dateline, byline, comments, etc.) on the Dell story, for example.

I like the more condensed look.

I liked the old design better myself.

I like it. Nice, streamlined, clean.

Uh, how do I get to the next page to catch up on older stories I missed???

Otherwise, I like it so far.

When you last changed the design (biggest change being black to white background), I hated it. But then I got used to it. Guess I'll get used to this too.

@ribex: The next button will take a little while to show up, but it should be there by tomorrow morning.

But now I can't tell whether I'm reading Consumerist or Jezebel.

@etinterrapax: That was my thought exactly!

I do like the layout, even if it is apparently using much Jezebel's CSS.

Why does everything have to change? It made Gizmodo much harder to read when they did it last week, and its not gonna help any here.

Gizmodo screwed their site up to the point where I only read the RSS feed now - and now you guys are doing it too?

Come ON. Can't you leave a good thing alone?

same shit, different shade.

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You know what all the gawker sites needs? Some way to mark where you last read up to, and then on the next visit start from that point and read from oldest to newest again.

Blog format always puts newest at top and often results in reading updates or follow up articles before the original ones if oyu havent been reading every other hour

I sort of like it and sort of don't. I like that I can now see the author of the article without having to click the read more link you guys like to put after one sentence but I don't like how sometimes can't see the seperation between posts. Other than that it's alright but the photos appear smaller.

I said it last time, and I'll say it again... I fear change...

Ugh. It's ugly, and just too "table-y" looking - make it's kind of difficult to read. IE, column for content, column for title/time stamp. Meh. Plus it looks like the new Gizmodo site - which isn't a good thing. I already found myself steering clear of Gizmodo the past few days, guess I'll do the same here - or just look at it all in Netvibes. Blech.

Meh. It's harder to read -- the print and pics look smaller and I have to squint to read it.

I agree with TCP 100 - it would be nice to be able to go back to previous day's stories. Even before the redesign, I often wished for some type of "calendar" archive, where I could select a certain day and view all posts. Great site anyway, just would like to see more of it.

I don't like the smaller headlines. Big headlines work much better with me and my ADHD...

@@conformco: Yeah, Gizmodo lost me forever last week when they thought that showing a squirrel catapult was funny and/or a cool gadget

Note to Gawker:
Next time you take a whole wrecking ball to your UI, do some usability testing before launching.

This is really jarring, and the constant tweaking isn't helping me adjust any.

Change is scary. I need my binky...

In all seriousness, though, I don't dig on the new smaller headlines...Are you slowly inching toward Fark/Digg postings? Seriously, if you're not going to ramp up your editorial staff by 1000% and post about 10x more content immediately you should roll it back.

You broke the nifty Nested Comments greasemonkey script. Good work. Now they'll have to rewrite it. Why doesn't Gawker support nested comments, anyways?

People frequently have a negative response to change and I'm no different. That being said, the new font is difficult to read. Also, I'm not a fan of how the commenters' names are off to the side. Also, comment nesting is gone?

Not you guys too! The new Gawker look sux! Lifehacker did it first, thank God Defamer's holding out.

Much easier to breeze by articles and not read them. I read exponentially less on Lifehacker since the change.

Tighter on the page does not = better.

Fie! Fie! and Feh!

Put me down with the "new headlines and photos too small" group. Also I think that the comment data (poster, time, reply button) should be aligned to the top of each comment section, not the bottom.

This new layout is worse than the previous. Who ever is doing the layout/CSS for the Gawker sites needs to go back to school.

I'm with the majority here: I don't like the change. It may take some time to get used to but the columns for stories are extremely uneven and appear very odd. I'd recommend Gawker to read the comments in this post, as they are all very helpful. We're the readers, and I think our opinions are just as important.

Sorry, my initial reaction wasn't very specific (but it was very honest!) The page looks too cluttered now - I liked the bigger headlines. Also, I know this is really petty, but the commenters' names are in all caps now, which makes them look all shouty. And apparently I'm Very Old and Easily Confused, because I get confused by the internal links in the text - when I see a link in the front-page text, I kind of expect it to go to an outside site that has more information.

I like it. Even on my bog-standard laptop, with bookmarks sidebar, I don't lose anything except the end of the longest (over 12-15 chars) logins. (This, in contrast to an earlier design where ends of _articles_ were not visible.) It's a more efficient use of space overall, and still quite readable. I agree that aligning comment data with the top would be an improvement.

Can you toss up a vote or something? I really liked the old design myself. I even prefered the old design for Gizmodo and hoped it wouldn't make it's way here :/

I'M SCROOGE MCNASTY, YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE READER.

Gotta say, love the redesign... fits a lot more stuff on the front page!

:P

Aesthetically, I prefer the old layout.

However, I'm really happy that I can actually see the comments without having to do that whole reload-stop-before-it-fully-reloads thing I've been doing. So thumbs up on that part.

The new design really doesn't do anything for me one way or the other. (The old black layout was my favorite)
Re: the (now missing) next button.
since you guys are messing with it, is there any way to clarify that 'next' means chronologically earlier entries, and 'previous' means chronologically later entries? Every single time I get to the bottom of the page I have to think about which one I need to click. (and, being an idiot, I usually guess wrong)

I prefer this new look compared to how it was before. I'm kind of a minimalist guy: before I had to scroll for, like, eight years to reach the bottom of the main page, and sometimes I could even get a bit mixed up as to what portion of an article I was reading if I happened to scroll too far. The shorter synopses, smaller preview images, and quick extra info on the right side is definitely an improvement to the somewhat cluttery views that were there yesterday.

The only thing more I would ASK to have changed, though, is that flipping obnoxiously bright red in the top corner. Seriously... putting that bright of a red on a changing black/gray/white backdrop can be pretty harsh on the eyes. Find a little bit more of a desaturated color, or put a straight outline around the word so my eyes don't play tricks on my brain.