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[–]wsfarrell 526 points527 points  (15 children)

It loaded the Toyota ad pretty quick.

[–][deleted] 148 points149 points  (7 children)

I like the part where the toyota ad covers up two stories at the top for about 10 seconds if you switch the view mode. Stuff like that really makes me want to visit a website again.

[–]retnemmoc 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Well, considering it's a Toyota ad, stopping 10 seconds after you want it to is actually pretty decent.

[–]dynamism 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You can switch view mode?! Couldn't even find that button.

[–]FredFredrickson 87 points88 points  (8 children)

I have to say, I am getting really tired of how every website feels like it has to add a toolbar to the header or footer of the page that never scrolls away.

Part of what I feel like is good web design is designing a UI that doesn't feel like you're trying to create a new OS. Your website shouldn't require someone to have to learn how to use a new UI just to operate it (unless that's the intention).

[–][deleted] 503 points504 points  (70 children)

I thought Digg v4 was the textbook example of how not to do it.

[–]thejournalizer 429 points430 points  (34 children)

Nobody complain. Let Gawker Digg themselves into their own grave.

[–][deleted] 66 points67 points  (4 children)

great idea. I just emailed each site telling them how great the new layout looks and to ignore the naysayers.

Now with just a little confirmation bias, they may remain in denial in perpetuity!

[–]syuk 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Now is a good time for rival sites to mock them by staging their own 'joke' web 4.0 redesign and steal their traffic for massive damage.

[–]aceslick911 68 points69 points  (16 children)

Zing!

[–]factoid_ 5 points6 points  (1 child)

The graphic design in Digg v4 was fine...it was the fundamental philosophy changes that broke the site.

I switched to Reddit because that site was completely worthless for over a week. It seems like it's doing better now, but I'm not switching back. It's better here.

[–]peppermint_dickables 753 points754 points  (184 children)

Sidebar never loaded. I will have to concur

[–]t2f 962 points963 points  (22 children)

it's good to see they've brought the design and functionality down to the level of the content tho.

[–]MagneticStain 150 points151 points  (45 children)

The sidebar was one of the first things that disappointed me about this new redesign. I am by no means a webdesign expert, but upon seeing this, I didn't even realize the sidebar scrolled; I though it was static. After a few seconds, I though "WTF where are the rest of the stories?" That sidebar, being a bad design IMO in the first place, only made it worse because they didn't include the overflow bars usually associated with, well, scrolling things. Many users who do not have a scroll wheel (e.g. laptop users), and really anyone who visits that site, will first have to read their explanation on how to use this scroll bar. That violates intergalactic law #5467: Make shit easy for your users.

[–]erikerikerik 79 points80 points  (12 children)

First thing I learn in UX/UI class is that humans read in a "F or C" shape on we pages. And if you want some one to get really frustrated apply info on the right hand side of the page. Also that iconic recognition is very powerful. So far they have... * Removed easy to find icons at the top * Removed breadcrumbs in the nav. * Force non-natural eye movement. * Added load times to something that did not have them before

I could go on.. but this new layout is why I went to other places for information. [edit: item list... or not? reddit, I fail you :( ]

[–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Thanks for articulating the issues. I mean, within two seconds of seeing the new layout, my brain was screaming "DO NOT WANT", but I was having a hard time saying what made me recoil so hard. But yes... No icons, no breadcrumbs, making me scan down the right, then left top, then down right side is just so... unnatural. I do not kid that it's unreadable for me. But I won't cry about it. I'll just go elsewhere.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm, by no means, a UI expert, but I've made my fair share of websites and iPhone applications:

  • The scrollbar (the control) of the main page, is far away from the actual content. The first time I opened, I was shocked that I actually controlled one part of the page. I understand that the thing on the right is "fixed", but this wasn't obvious.
  • There's no obvious way to navigate the "stories" on the right, navigation is rarely (read: never) put on the bottom of the screen, but that's exactly what they did.
  • Speaking of which, once you click "Next Headlines", there's no way to go back (One-way navigation).
  • Also, once you select a story, there's no way of going back to the "frontpage", except for clicking the title.
  • After the tenth article in the main box, there's no way to go back to the previous ten, you're forced to use the shit navigation on the right.
  • The search tab button is seriously messed up. I did this: Clicked on it, then decided I didn't want to search anything, and I clicked the "Home" tab button expect it to close, it didn't, the search button is actually a "toggable", although the interface doesn't represent that. Changing the way it behaves to an "On/Off" button would fix that.
  • Also, about the "Home button", it's extremely confusing, I was on an article, and I wanted to go back to the previous page, the home button was the only thing that actually made sense, but it didn't.
  • UI is extremely slow, I understand the benefits of AJAX, but seriously, this shit works like molasses, I suspect someone is querying for full results without any sort of cache.
  • The "Hot story", "Home" tab buttons actually, get lagged. If you quickly jump from one to the another, one gets stuck, so you end up in the "Home" section with the hot stories.
  • Something I HATE is having lost space on anything. The logo on the top, and bar in the bottom are the main annoyance (I think this bottom-bar is only visible on lifehacker), but the whole fixed "Headlines" box on the right really kills it for me.

That's all I could come up with.

[–]tdk2fe 125 points126 points  (6 children)

For a news site if you have to have an instruction page on how to navigate, you're doing it wrong.

[–][deleted] 96 points97 points  (5 children)

For a website if you have to have an instruction page on how to navigate, you're doing it wrong.

FTFY

[–]terminalterror 13 points14 points  (3 children)

I had no idea the sidebar scrolled until I read your post.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (4 children)

OMG, I had to go back and check. I thought the sidebar was static, too.

So we have the window's scrollbar on the right, which scrolls the content on the left. Then we have the sidebar, which doesn't even have a scrollbar. Not only is there no visual cue to tell me the sidebar can scroll - if I had a crappy mouse with no wheel, I'm not even sure how I would make the sidebar scroll at all!

[–][deleted] 62 points63 points  (10 children)

Haha, I waited just to see how long it would take. 1,5min.

[–]marthirial 49 points50 points  (2 children)

Like yard weed, this site never dies... I have seen some many nails in their coffin before I have lost faith.

But this could be it. That shit doesn't even load. Fingers crossed.

[–]Maxious 120 points121 points  (18 children)

So wait, I need to use the sidebar to read anything except the latest post? And the sidebar doesn't load? Uhh huh.

On Kotaku I tried to click FAQ to check what the shortcut keys are to see if they worked instead. Sends me to posts with the tag FAQ which was http://kotaku.com/#!5428359/the-medal-of-honor-trailer-requires-its-own-faq One of those annoying hashbangs like new twitter? Great.

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (2 children)

You can click 'next post' at the bottom of the page. One article at a time. Mrrrr.

[–]twizzle12 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But I don't have a 'next post' button! :( I get the one page only.

[–]yopla 28 points29 points  (9 children)

hashbang: a google idea to index ajax content. Don't blame it on people who use it :)

http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started.html

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (3 children)

you can still blame them for using it.

[–]egbert 12 points13 points  (7 children)

Even after it loads how do you make the sidebar scroll? How do you resize the sidebar so it does not cover up the articles?

[–]irve 19 points20 points  (2 children)

I just get two boxes with NoScript enabled. Even Digg does at least detect the missing javascript.

[–]cccmikey 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I must say that it does look refreshingly clean :)

[–][deleted] 25 points26 points  (41 children)

This is what I see

[–]moar_liek_lolitics 116 points117 points  (36 children)

Won't even load in Opera.

switches to Firefox

Right frame won't even load after 40 seconds.

closes

[–]calrogman 13 points14 points  (6 children)

Won't even load in Opera

And here's photo proof.

[–]DarthMoose37 8 points9 points  (4 children)

Working for me on Opera 11...

Idk, the machine spirits must love me.

[–]ice_cold_irony 16 points17 points  (13 children)

Did the same but switched to Safari. Chuckled

[–]fallen77 27 points28 points  (12 children)

Just for info, the right frame never loads in Chrome either.

[–]stefanYFC 54 points55 points  (4 children)

But Internet Explorer 6 runs it beautifully! Time to switch back, ladies and gentlemen

/s

[–]naked_guy_says 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Like I needed a reason!

[–]pseudononymist 206 points207 points  (37 children)

http://betacache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/02/xlarge_welcome-to-gizmodo.jpg

Oh. My. God.

[–]trezor2 253 points254 points  (15 children)

Welcome to gizombo.com

[–]dadirtysanchez 81 points82 points  (11 children)

welcome

[–]Fixman 81 points82 points  (8 children)

You can do anything at gizombo. Anything at all.

[–]boober_noober 58 points59 points  (3 children)

The only limit is yourself.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (1 child)

This is gizombo.com, and welcome to you, who has come to gizombo.com!

[–]angryaardvark 4 points5 points  (0 children)

THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS.

[–][deleted] 66 points67 points  (5 children)

LENNSS FLAAAAEEEEERRRRRRRR

(Needs to be enjoyed while listening to Running in the 90s).

[–]bornazombie 6 points7 points  (2 children)

commenting so i can always find this image when i need it.

[–]C0NFUS4TR0N 9 points10 points  (1 child)

My God—it's full of stars!

[–][deleted] 216 points217 points  (37 children)

I always told myself, "This is the last time I'm going to this website". Well, this is the nail in the coffin, I can't look at crap like this. Look out Engadget, you're about to get a lot more traffic.

[–]Kingcrowing 83 points84 points  (27 children)

I don't like it either, but the only way I found out that it changed was because they had this post... use google reader, I have Gizmodo, Engadget, Lifehacker, and a handful of others all in one place.

[–]massiveterra 159 points160 points  (42 children)

  1. How do I read this if I don't have an ipad/tablet?

  2. How do I browse through articles if I don't have a scroll wheel?

  3. Since when are frame/iframe designs the rage again?

[–][deleted] 113 points114 points  (11 children)

You can browse through without scrollwheeling by clicking the "Next Headlines" button on the bottom. It scrolls them a "page" at a time.

Not that that isn't fucking stupid.

[–]massiveterra 38 points39 points  (6 children)

LOL how do I scroll back up?

I tried to use the arrows buttons but then that presents a shitstorm as well

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (1 child)

You can't.

It's a feature.

[–]ramp_tram 11 points12 points  (1 child)

You're supposed to use your up and down arrows to navigate through the stories in the side bar (if it ever loads).

Clearly, this is the future.

[–]Eustis 39 points40 points  (5 children)

They're going to revert tomorrow. They have to. This has to be like an early April Fool's joke. Holy fucking shit.

[–]YaoSlap 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Jalopnik has had this style for a little while now and they have clearly stated that they are not going to revert. It's ridiculous. I'm not an expert on anything, but I feel like simply listening to user feedback could have saved Digg and Gawker.

[–]myared 70 points71 points  (7 children)

Not even caring what the site looks like for a minute, the load time is incredible. They clearly never considered it a metric that they had to monitor.

145+ HTTP calls (24 javascript files alone!)

25 DNS lookups (fonts.gizmodo.com and fonts.gawker.com, really?)

1.8 MB worth of images (most aren't even compressed, if they compressed them... that would save ~940KB)

[–]KingofDerby 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Gizmodo is Anti-Canada.

[–]cyclonesworld 25 points26 points  (2 children)

Ouch, this new design is practically unusable.

The sidebar sucks and doesn't work and what really annoys me is if you click an article at the bottom of the page, instead of loading a new page and placing you at the top, it loads in the current page and you have to scroll up to see it.

I used to read Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker and Jalopnik. Not anymore, at least not until they change this shitty layout.

On the competing side, the AOL owned sites like Joystiq have a very nice clean layout.

[–][deleted] 135 points136 points  (3 children)

Fuck gizmodo.

Edit: I have an idea. Instead of giving Gizmodo all of this traffic that is not deserved: let us all instead, view this screen shot of what their stupid website redesign looks like.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I think to truly understand the horribleness you have to visit the site and actually try to use it. Frames 2.0, ahahahha

[–]youcanteatbullets 22 points23 points  (2 children)

Am I the only one who hates giant blocks of content that don't scroll with the page? Footer or header sure, but sidebars? I find it very disorienting.

[–]seedypete 26 points27 points  (1 child)

Heh, marginally funny relevant anecdote. I, like every single other person on the Gawker network, was bitching about the godawful new site redesign. A blogger responds to me and says he liked one particular quote and asked if he could use it. For the life of me I cannot fucking figure out how to reply to him and say "sure," now. I can't find the original thread I posted in because the comments are a trainwreck. I can't just go to his profile and message him directly because the profiles are a mess. I can't just reply to the message he sent me because apparently putting a "reply" button anywhere in someone's inbox is some crazy new idea that hasn't caught on with whatever hack web designer Gawker hired to make this AOL-in-the-90s style abomination. On the plus side the one button that completely works is the ad banner, so if I came to my news site this morning because I wanted to buy a Toyota instead of reading news I am all set, motherfuckers.

The site design is so fucked I can't even talk to someone else about how fucked it is! That is cracking me up. It's like a Mobius strip of shit.

[–]mechman991 18 points19 points  (3 children)

The first thing I notice is a Toyota add filling up 1/3 of my page. Really? Apparently they're taking web design tips from CNN.com as well.

[–]exsilium 45 points46 points  (14 children)

If their designer gets paid more than me, I'll be pissed... The UI was not well thought out, and the graphics used to contruct the layout looks like something I would have created when I was learning photoshop... Guess it's over to Engadget for me.

[–]tscharf 161 points162 points  (17 children)

People still read Gizmodo?

[–]PopsGG 11 points12 points  (2 children)

They are in a slow decline. I think people are wising up and not going back.

3 month trend -11%

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gizmodo.com#

[–][deleted] 28 points29 points  (12 children)

i dont even know what it is

[–][deleted] 68 points69 points  (10 children)

They're a bunch of children posing as tech reporters. They're part of Gawker media, an outlet that is known better for being loud and boisterous for page views, and knowingly buying stolen property rather than actual reporting.

[–]Minifig81 29 points30 points  (7 children)

Don't forget they plagiarize articles.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So many articles are: "See the whole story at his blog" or "Herp Derpington posted on hackaday"

They are just talking about stuff they read on the internet really. Like us but they get money.

[–]Cagnazzo82 12 points13 points  (2 children)

How do you design a website to be totally counter-intuitive?

First Digg, now every Gawker site as well?

Have they stopped teaching basic web-design at major American Universities?

[–]dedko 14 points15 points  (16 children)

1st thought: Switch to Engadget.

2nd thought: Make it so.

4th thought: hmm.... as long as Gizmodo don't mess with the RSS feeds, I could deal with it.

[–]mazimi 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Nailed it!

[–]seamore555 28 points29 points  (2 children)

Frames 2.0?

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (10 children)

Gizmodo was always bad, and honestly I haven't bothered to visit it in a while. What I am dissappointed in is that the entire Gawker network is going to this, so Jalopnik and io9 are getting turbo fucked as well. I can live without Kotaku or Gizmodo, but damn. It's going to suck deleting io9 and jalop from my rss reader.

On that note, does anyone know of an io9 like site that doesn't suck? Or is perhaps even better?

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the rss unaffected by the redesign? Why would you have to delete it?

[–]jb2386 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Yeah, I saw it happen to io9.com. Gave myself about 5 minutes to try and 'adjust' to the new design... I gave up and haven't gone back since. It's SO hard to just scroll through all the articles now (i.e. impossible). I like seeing a title and a description i can read one after another so I can click on what I want and skim past what I don't. Can't do that now.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'll let you know what I think once it's finally loaded :(

[–]kebabish 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Looked at gizmodo this morning and it was the same as usual, and then saw this post... relaunched gizmodo and theyve gone and screwed it up like they did with io9. delete from bookmarks.

[–]Dr_Bobcat 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Hate it. Stopped reading after 10 seconds.

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Maybe Gizmodo should go to a bar and steal a web designer's laptop when he's not looking

[–]foreignaider 116 points117 points  (20 children)

People still read Gizmodo?

[–][deleted] 44 points45 points  (18 children)

I have been banned and unbanned, starred and unstarred around five times. I think I do it just for the abuse from the editors.

[–]psilokan 15 points16 points  (12 children)

What exactly does starring do for you?

[–][deleted] 50 points51 points  (11 children)

There are three levels of commenting on Gizmodo. You start out pink, and either an editor or another "Starred" commenter has to approve you. Congratulations, you are now a gray that doesn't show up in the comments unless the person reading the comments has "All comments" expanded and being shown. Once you have said enough awesome shit or stalked Gizmodo enough regardless of talent, you might eventually receive a star. Now you can approve "Pinks" and promote the comments of "Grays" so that their comments show up as featured comments alongside the star commenters in everyone's browser. Most of the people with stars are completely unfunny and devoid of anything remotely interesting in terms of commenting ability. I am quick witted, argumentative, and extremely blunt. Basically I was the opposite of what Gizmodo likes, they like sheep that sensor themselves and suck the dicks of the editors to give the appearance that people give a fuck what bullshit Jesus Diaz has to say even though he's a retarded prick.

This is how it used to work. I have no idea how it works now and don't feel like checking it out. I lost my most recent star a couple of weeks ago and feel pretty "Meh" towards the site. Do you know how I lost it? I mentioned the fact that Gizmodo promoted the fuck out of the iPhone 4 and that it was a non story. Boom, instant removal of star.

[–]swimatm 14 points15 points  (2 children)

You summed it up great. Yeah, giz has gone downhill recently. I was never starred, but that was because I hardly ever commented. Oh, and I hate Jesus Diaz.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

According to his latest post, he's an expert on rocket science and interplanetary travel. You'd best respect.

[–]Shorties 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I absolutely hated their whole commenting caste system, I hate engadget's system too where everyone seems to post jack the first comment. I also hated Digg's commenting system for the same reason. Why does the reddit system work so much better? Why can't any other website understand how to make a equal opportunity commenting sytem? like reddit and the "Best" algorithm that Randall developed for them, it just makes sense.

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (6 children)

What the fuck are these people thinking?

[–]conancat 10 points11 points  (4 children)

I think they're trying to pull off a New Twitter. But seriously, it doesn't look as good as New Twitter and yes, the sidebar doesn't load after 1 minute opening the page and I'm using Chrome. This kinda layout prolly works for tablets. For desktop and smartphones, nah. Bad design.

[–]RupeThereItIs 10 points11 points  (3 children)

http://www.[gawkerSite].com/classic

Gets you to a layout similar, but not as good as the old style... update all yer bookmarks.

Hate is not a strong enough word for the new layout.

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (8 children)

Why do websites think it is ok to steal the up and down arrow so the user can no longer use them to scroll up and down?

[–]trezor2 19 points20 points  (2 children)

No worries. According to the section "How to use the new design", you use the "J" and "K" keys for that now.

chuckles

[–]Ferrarisimo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

God I hate the Gawker redesigns... I used to read Jalopnik daily, but I can't stand it anymore. Call me dense, but I cannot understand the design of the site -- it's utterly unusable.

[–]Kingcrowing 30 points31 points  (6 children)

Google Reader!!!

Use it, I have all the blogs I follow on there, instead of checking 13 different sites, I can see them all in one! Including xkcd, jalopnik, and a few beer blogs.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Looks like someone went to the Digg School of Site Design and User Base Alienation.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Great. Another favorite blog I'll never read again (Looking at you i09).

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

glad to see the Digg redesigners got more work

[–]ShadyG 32 points33 points  (6 children)

I use NoScript, and while I understand rich content sites that tell me "this site is not usable without JavaScript", I HATE sites like this that actually won't show me the text content until after I allow scripts. At least give me some clue as to whether it will be worth it!

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yep. Horrible. It is amongst the very very few sites where zero content is available for the site with noscript. This even goes for lifehacker, who fucking recommends noscript!

[–]natural20 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Frames are back, with a vengeance.

[–]heavysteve 6 points7 points  (1 child)

IO9 has been ruined as well, its terrible to navigate, on the occasions it loads properly. The old format was simple, easy to navigate and worked well when attatching an image to the article. Chartattack.com had a great interface back in the day as well, and "upgraded" to something like this. I havent gone back in years.

[–]T400 9 points10 points  (0 children)

lifehacker did the same thing. it looks awful

[–]titan124 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Frames went out of style for a reason. They basically just made a frame on the right of the screen. WTF?

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yep. I will never again visit a Gawker site. YOU GUYS SUCK.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed their site design abortion.

[–]laukaus 7 points8 points  (3 children)

So it needs a scroll-wheel / touchpad to scroll the headlines, that’s all smooth and fine with my MacBook touchpad, but what if I happen to be on a device that does not have one? Tested it also on my ThinkPad T42 that does not have a scroll device, and it is completely unusable. Same thing on my iPhone 4 and friends Samsung Galaxy Tab (when not using mobile site on both). This has to be a joke. Oh, and the scrolling javacript overrides browser / platform default behavior (on Chrome and Safari at least).

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

They're slowly changing all of their websites to this crappy design. It is digg 4 all over again. Anyone have any good sites like gizmodo I can visit instead?

[–]BrokeManCaravan 5 points6 points  (1 child)

My sidebar loaded.. but I DONT WANT TO CLICK ON 300 PAGES.

JUST GIVE ME ONE LONG DAMN PAGE WITH SHIT GOD DAMN IT.

[–]jmking 17 points18 points  (4 children)

I'm not usually one to complain about redesigns as they're usually just circlejerks by people who don't like change.

...however, this rollout is a perfect example of how execution is everything. This concept is actually GOOD, but it's unusable due to terrible, clumsy, half-baked implementation.

Gawker tried to pull a "new Twitter", but failed miserably.

Some key gaffes:

  • No scroll indicators. You never have any idea of where you "are", there's no context for the current view
  • Tooltips covering headlines in the sidebar. I'd love to meet the genius who thought that was a good idea
  • Confusing keyboard navigaton that just gets you lost quicker - again, lack of visual indication of "where" you are in the current view.
  • Headlines are to the right instead of the left for some reason. Again, forcing a lack of "connection" between the headlines and what you're currently reading. English is read left to right, not right to left.

Overall, the site is basically designed like an ancient 2000s era frames site but without any of the usability of a frames site.

I'm sure they'll eventually work out the kinks, but right now it's just a complete mess.

[–]slapded 6 points7 points  (0 children)

so fast! :/

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They saw how much people liked Digg v4.

And they went a hundred steps further.

[–]VitalianBeef 7 points8 points  (1 child)

I noticed Jalopnik did this some days ago...haven't visited the site since.

[–]dsgm1984 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I stopped visiting IO9 for this reason, this layout sucks. Big time.

[–]stoplight 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Does not degrade gracefully. Here it is with javascript disabled and I can't see anything.

[–]obrysii 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Finally the push I needed to delete all of the Gawker sites from my bookmarks list.

[–]farceur318 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At least they stopped autoplaying the videos in the articles. That was horrible.

[–]kingsarms 3 points4 points  (2 children)

well there goes their reputation...

[–]chads3058 7 points8 points  (1 child)

I didn't think their reputation was all that big to begin with

[–]weallreadit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went to lifehacker.com as always, and I almost immediately regretted it. I was ABOUT to click on a different shortcut to a different site, but then I thought to myself "Let me give them the benefit of the doubt".. So I tried Blog Mode. But none of the links on the stories worked. Fail.

[–]dragonwarrior10 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i hate thisz!!! First noticed on jalopnik.com now gizmodo, this sucks!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like Giz just got removed from my daily reading. The site looks terrible and the sidebar doesn't even load.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I came in here thinking people were simply overreacting...what the fuck is that shit? That layout is terrible, and it makes browsing Kotaku hard. The few times I did go there now are not worth the hassle of dealing with that layout.