Something looks different about you. No, don’t tell me, I can figure it out. New glasses, right? No? Haircut? You lost weight? You’re pregnant? Wait, hang on. You redesigned your site? No way! Wait. Really?
Yes, we’ve redesigned the site. We’ve also moved to a brand new home, and we’re still unpacking, so it may take a little while to find everything. But we’re pretty sure everything’s here, or at least it will be once we tip the movers and they agree to unload the truck.
That includes commenting. If you’re a regular commenter, and you have an email address associated with your account, you should be getting an email very soon with instructions about how to log in and reset your password. It’s coming. Really. In the meantime, how about helping us with some of these boxes? That one over there looks like it’s filled with odd-looking t-shirts from Walmart.
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Yay! I likey mucho much!
Yay! I likey mucho much!
I miss the little picture of Captain Duvel Moneycat clawing for his tasty, tasty oatmeal.
I hate the “grey” of the quotes. The main part of the story you want to read is what the person said, yet you “mute” that by making it harder to read. First rule in UI/Publishing is that you want the most important part of your message/content to be the most readable.
Send your designers back to school please … but first change that stupid gray to black first …
OK here’s what I’ve found so far…
1. Tawker stopped working, because there’s no RSS feed enabled for comments yet. Is that going to happen?
2. I keep getting network timeouts.
3. The pages require a lot of memory & system resources. On two systems, both running Mozilla/5.0 Gecko/2009101601 Firefox/3.0.15 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729), I have very different experiences: the 3 GB machine navigates links, loads pages, and adds comments just fine. The 512KB machine locks up, and I keep getting Firefox “this script has locked up your system” messages.
Text is too big now.
I guess some internet monster ate my e-mail addy associated with this site because I wasn’t able to recover my info. Oh well. Glad to be on the new site.
Testing, testing… is this thing on?
But still no edit button on our comments after they’ve been posted? {sniff}
Had to re-register, totally lost me.
At least this time I put in a picture
I miss Hatman. *sniff*
I had to create a new username because I never got an email and my email wasn’t coming up as on file. Maybe because I haven’t commented in a long time. Tried to register a new username under my snet.net account but nothing ever came, but I registered under my gmail and everything worked swimmingly. Weird but no biggie.
Love the new commenting system though. I actually don’t mind that there’s no longer tiered comments; I think it will be more productive in the end. I stopped even glancing at the comments recently because it seemed to be a lot of personal convos and bickering and it seems like making it more difficult to direct reply to someone has already made a big difference. Yay!
Consumerist you’re looking so sexy – did you lose weight?
Congrats guys! The new look is quite an improvement over the Gawker controlled one! However i must agree that comment features should be enhanced and expanded upon, maybe use something like DISQUS
The images under “The Consumerist Team” are being scaled in the browser and therefore look like ass. i.e. the native resolution of the files is 60×60 but in the HTML says they are 70×70 so they are being “zoomed” in.
You should resize the images to 70×70 or remove the image size from the HTML so they render at 60×60.
Looks like they fixed this. Looks much better!
Awesome new design, Modern, and accessible, yet a little dark, and I for one, like that. Keep it up guys!
Sleek and modern! I like it!
Outstanding website design and it makes it more appealing to the eye. Great job as always and keep on informing the world.
I miss seeing comments in the RSS feeds.
I’m a longtime lurker, but I felt that since Consumerist has finally finished its redesigned, I’d celebrate by registering for an account.
The site looks great. It’s very well thought out and has some nice new features. It looks like a lot of time and effort went into making this a great experience for the masses. I, for one, am very appreciative.
Thanks again Consumerist!
the new layout is a little confusing and the block style is a bit harsh on the eyes, but I’m sure I’ll get used to it like I did the last time you guys changed everything around.
Hoorah, my account still works!
Much better than the new Gawker layout… And the new BGR layout… And the new Engadget layout…
Kudos to your web design crew!!
Looks good.
For some reason I can’t login from my work pc. I used to be able to, it keeps giving me ivalid username or password. Both in ff3.5 and ie6. But I am able to log in from my g1…I don’t think its a filtering issue but I have no idea what else could be the problem. Help?
ok now all of a sudden it’s fixed itself…no idea but glad to be able to login and comment from work again!
I missed the announcement at first, and didn’t notice the redesign until today because I generally read in my RSS reader.
The design looks great. The big “featured content” block above the header is a welcome subtraction, and I like the more prominent logo, complete with the shadowy consumer overlord (or whatever it is we call him).
It looks clean, there’s enough white space, and the threaded comments are simply awesome.
Great job.
Well done. I love the new look.
Change is the biggest law of nature.Implementing it in this site is very natural and all the modification done is very amazing to see.
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