I keep open both versions of BB, so I can see the difference. The new main page and the /page/1 versions.
I still strongly prefer the linear and simple /page/1.
There are still no times when the article was posted on the new page, so I do not know how old the article is. This is important especially for features column that doesn’t seem to be strictly chronological for the first few features.
There is still no number of comments info visible.
There is still less text describing some articles.
There is still no way for a newcomer to discover the /page/1 version, once this article scrolls to obscurity.
Please do not turn BoingBoing to another “The Verge”-like site.
Please keep an eye on Google analytics or whatever you use to see how many times both versions of your frontpage is accessed.
Please open a new article for comments when this one automatically closes in 1 day, so we do not have to comment the layout in the other articles in the “Slashdot beta” fashion.
This is your site. You can do everything you like with it, even is some of us - readers do not agree.
This redesign finally got me off the stump to actually sign up and
comment.
Negatives:
Sadly, I created an account primarily to add my chit to the hat
marked “Might Come Back When You Fix Things.”
The redesign does not work for me. Far from opposed to redesigns - just not a fan of this redesign. Sorry - tried (hard) to like it. Don’t.
I agree with many previous comments - general confused layout, timeline issues, text limitations and so forth are pretty much dealbreakers for how I choose to use BoingBoing.
Glad to have found the /page/1 workaround from previous comments. +1 BoingBoing community, but…
Why isn’t this an obvious option on the redesigned front page?
I have had to remove BoingBoing as my default home page.
(6. above might be a net positive - I’ll likely get more actual work done by visiting BoingBoing less. But where’s the fun in that? Meh.)
Shit, I keep going back to io9 and Jalopnik like an abused spouse that can’t stay away, so I’m in it for the long haul here…
(it’s still hideous though. Like, really)
Just thought I’d pop in before the comments closed. Long time reader. I’ve tried the new design for a week now. Its horrible. I’ll be using /page/1 for the future. Good luck
Just reviewed this revised look 1 more time, (the last, I swear.)
It strikes me as more of an abomination than that fateful day it was unveiled.
What amazes me deeply is that it exists, at all / still!
Thank the FSM for …/page/1
One more dissatisfied reader here. Terribly visually confusing to start with, and there isn’t nearly enough text with the articles on the new front page to make a decision about clicking through. I’m another person who skipped Maggie’s article because of the headline. Sorry, the irony doesn’t come through the way you seem to think it does. Had there been more text there to get me interested, I might have clicked, but life is too short to click on every article to see if it’s worth reading, especially when the headline is straight out of the local news stations’ sweeps promos.
I bookmarked page/1 for the time being. We’ll see.
I dislike the “natural language style” of time-stamps as they so often get screwed up when pages disconnect from being online, get screencapped, timezone is screwy on the computer I’m using, etc etc.
Worse, if the original date can’t be easily found, the end up hiding information.
I’m looking at GitHub, f’r instance, where comments get labelled as “2 years ago” even though they were weeks apart.
No, I don’t like the new format. I find it difficult to want to look at which I need to do a lot more of to navigate. You could keep the trending topics on a side scroll and the timeline just be more horizontal. The blocky thing is really hard to track visually.
Got an account just to say that because of the redesign I haven’t clicked through more than 1 story in the week since the new design went up. Not sure what the redesign means, what we’re supposed to do with it, or why you did this. How are the clickthroughs? Will be sad to say goodbye after so many years.
This is the crux of it for me, too. I can’t read the front page. Yes, I can read. No, I cannot cognitively cognite the front page anymore. The linear brainers are now at odds with the new, whiz-bang nonlinear design.
I am on a desk computer not a mobile device. I find the new format to just look messy,and like there is much less new content appearing in a rational place (ie top of page). Is anyone else’s experience like this ?
Well… I can’t really tell you because I no longer visit the suck-ass design on the front page that i find indecipherable and counter intuitive, and instead read off the rss feed.
I just saw Rob’s announcement/invitation to feedback, which I had missed somehow, and am delighted that the “reverse cronological roll” is still available (http://boingboing.net/page/1). All for choice (if you like the new format, go crazy, I say), and glad me preferred mode is still around.
