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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: GilloD on February 07, 2011, 07:46:13 PM

Title: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: GilloD on February 07, 2011, 07:46:13 PM: Everything has like 5 posts and is totally unreadable. I have no idea where to click. Who okay'ed this masterclass in design disaster?
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: ManaByte on February 07, 2011, 07:51:33 PM: The same person in charge of their security.
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: Maximus on February 07, 2011, 07:52:07 PM: http://kotaku.com/#!classic (http://kotaku.com/#!classic)
I think it works for the rest of them too, you can now go back to reading how Japanese people walk like this "dooh dah", while Westerners walk like this "dooh dooh dah", or Gizmodos ability to make every news story somehow about apple, happy reading!
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 07, 2011, 07:58:12 PM: ya it is really really bad. And the only reason I ever went to kotaku is because i liked the layout.
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: Barry Egan on February 07, 2011, 08:04:07 PM: cosign
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: TEEEPO on February 07, 2011, 08:04:26 PM: ugh, what happened to my io9
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: Maximus on February 07, 2011, 08:06:00 PM: Quote from: Father_Mike on February 07, 2011, 07:58:12 PM
ya it is really really bad. And the only reason I ever went to kotaku is because i liked the layout.
Yeah the reason I liked Gawker was the same as GAF its a good news aggregator, but now on the basic layout anyway they screwed that up.
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: GilloD on February 07, 2011, 08:31:07 PM: Like Gawker.com now has only 4 articles on the mainpage. There used to be like 30 everyday. Where are they?
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: Himu on February 07, 2011, 08:40:46 PM: don't read gawker or ios9

:smug
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: Positive Touch on February 07, 2011, 08:40:58 PM: my scroll wheel only makes the sidebar go down, and when it gets to the end the articles just dissappear. maybe this is the nudge i need to stop visiting these sites.
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on February 07, 2011, 08:59:28 PM: it really is the worst webdesign I can remember. it's not just ugly, it's unfunctional.

however, as when Digg imploded, I am taking this as a sign I need to do something more useful with my life

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Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: Shaka Khan on February 08, 2011, 08:09:29 AM: Quote from: Stringfellow Hawke on February 08, 2011, 07:44:34 AM
Does anyone even visit sites themselves anymore? I get all my shit through RSS.

lol I came here to say the same thing.

Did you check new Reeder's Readability feature? fucking fantastic.

Quote from: GilloD on February 07, 2011, 08:31:07 PM
Like Gawker.com now has only 4 articles on the mainpage. There used to be like 30 everyday. Where are they?

They designed the page so that you scroll the side-panel for those 30 articles. Main panel is reserved for top stories and viewing articles' content.

They basically went for the multi-panel design everyone is switching to these days (See: Twitter).
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: magus on February 08, 2011, 09:23:49 AM: Quote from: Stringer Bell on February 07, 2011, 08:40:46 PM
don't read gawker or ios9

:smug

same :smug

all you get on kotaku are pics of cloud that vaguely look like nintendo character anyway
do we really need that kind of not-news?
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: CajoleJuice on February 08, 2011, 10:58:30 AM: Quote from: Stringfellow Hawke on February 08, 2011, 07:44:34 AM
Does anyone even visit sites themselves anymore? I get all my shit through RSS.

pretty much
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: drew on February 08, 2011, 01:20:55 PM: i still dont know what rss is :(
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: Positive Touch on February 08, 2011, 03:25:46 PM: some bullshit that only nerds use
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: CajoleJuice on February 08, 2011, 03:33:05 PM: we're not the ones complaining about site redesigns :smug
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: Trent Dole on February 08, 2011, 07:35:10 PM: -redesign and it's still true!
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: chronovore on February 08, 2011, 11:11:59 PM: Quote from: Shah Rukh Khan on February 08, 2011, 08:09:29 AM
Quote from: Stringfellow Hawke on February 08, 2011, 07:44:34 AM
Does anyone even visit sites themselves anymore? I get all my shit through RSS.

lol I came here to say the same thing.

Did you check new Reeder's Readability feature? fucking fantastic.

Quote from: GilloD on February 07, 2011, 08:31:07 PM
Like Gawker.com now has only 4 articles on the mainpage. There used to be like 30 everyday. Where are they?

They designed the page so that you scroll the side-panel for those 30 articles. Main panel is reserved for top stories and viewing articles' content.

They basically went for the multi-panel design everyone is switching to these days (See: Twitter).

SOLD! Downloading now. I'm hoping it supports some level of offline browsing for iPod Touch owners like myself...
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: Cormacaroni on February 09, 2011, 04:53:21 AM: most of those type of apps are now compatible with ReadItLater and such for offline browser.

I think I'll give Reeder a shot too, everything else is annoyingly slow to load for me except Flipboard, where the content is too random for my taste.
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: patrickula on February 09, 2011, 09:20:57 AM: I just use Google Reader... laughing at all the complainers :lol
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: Shaka Khan on February 09, 2011, 10:47:17 AM: Reeder was a good iOS RSS reader to begin with, but they recently added "Readibility" which allows you to load the entire article inside the app's neat interface in a nice and organized format instead of visiting the original article or depending on Google or Instapaper mobilizers which tend to mess up a lot of pages for me. The feature is brand new though, so it's not 100% compatible with all the site, but it's quickly getting there.

Reeder also supports a lot of third party services too, like ReadItLater and obviously FB and twitter.
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: chronovore on February 12, 2011, 06:39:20 AM: Quote from: Maximus on February 07, 2011, 07:52:07 PM
http://kotaku.com/#!classic (http://kotaku.com/#!classic)
I think it works for the rest of them too, you can now go back to reading how Japanese people walk like this "dooh dah", while Westerners walk like this "dooh dooh dah", or Gizmodos ability to make every news story somehow about apple, happy reading!

Even moar simpul:
http://m.kotaku.com/
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: Chinner on February 12, 2011, 08:51:48 AM: serious question: why the fuck are you guys reading kotaku in the first place?
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: Positive Touch on February 12, 2011, 10:00:52 AM: all that nintendo fanart they post is just too funny. super mario sopranos? LOL
Title: Re: The Gawker redesign is awful
Post by: GilloD on February 13, 2011, 07:17:21 AM: Quote from: Chinner on February 12, 2011, 08:51:48 AM
serious question: why the fuck are you guys reading kotaku in the first place?

Because we're grown ups who just want gaming news and don't give a fuck about BU BU BU THE INTERNET SAYZ THAT THEY DONT DO GOOD GAMING JOURNALISM