Thank you for providing the context to my guttural emotional response.
I’ve been reading Boing boing for over a decade now, and until this redesign i would have said it was my favourite thing on the internet. I’m not a fan of the new design. But, what’s worse (since I can and do “get in” through the “page 1”) is that the quality of both the posts and the discussion seems to have really REALLY gone down the tubes. There seem to be far fewer posts that are much more than links, and rarely even links to anything that I find interesting. And the discussion lacks the depth of knowledge, and the care in expression, that it once had.
I don’t know where to post this complaint, but it makes me sad. I don’t really recognize Boing Boing anymore. It’s not the interface; it feels like the community is gone.
The tech idealism of the 90’s is dead. I just think BB presents a POV that is no longer relevant. It might be aol for this pets.com.
I visit the new look home page once or twice a month, just in case it has been scrapped. The rest of the time …/page1 is all I ever see. It’s quite curious that the look and feel of the new design, which obviously borrows a number of design cues from other sites, seems more difficult to parse and less attractive than it’s stylistic cousins.
Form and function rarely kick each other in the nuts with such efficiency and conviction.