New stuff isn’t highlighted as new. I blow by boing boing more than I used to.
Wow. Now THAT is irony. You quote me as saying something someone else said in order to tell me you didn’t say what I never said you didn’t.
That’s either Muphry’s Law, Murphy’s Law, epic irony, or intentional dbaggery. Either way, you made me laugh.
Again. Stop now.
Nope, again you misunderstood that. I replied with a quote of my previous post.
If you directly quote-reply to someone here the quote is headed with “XXX said:”
You said:
You expect them to change.
and therefore I quoted myself from my initial post:
Don’t get your hopes high for a rollback.
to show that I did not say that.
See, wasn’t so difficult eh? Perhaps you should re-think giving other people Life 101 advice before having reading comprehension 101 skills?
Perhaps you should heed your own advice?
If you can’t control your mouth, please control your feet.
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@FFabian and @AcerPlatanoides Stop replying to each other.
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I’ve been asking for that, but I felt it reasonable to respond to a (seemingly hamfisted or possibly mendacious) misquote. Nobody needs to sit through Smarmy Insults 101
I thought there was some chance for us both to laugh, but maybe I’m the only one here for that. Gladly dropped!!!
It’s very tough to read…like articles are getting thrown all over. I really enjoyed the simplicity of a simple feed as it was before. The old design was like a very basic design of Fast Company’s site, which I really love. The new design just hurts.
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@Falcor This bug still exists…
Yeah I have the same problem. It’s very confusing to look at.
More updates just went live on the homepage:
• Posts now have timestamps
• Big link to the traditional blog view at top of blog column (and a corresponding one for features)
• Columns are more obvious
• Removed the ‘tile’ effect around posts and features
• Consistent layout in the features column, allowing longer excerpts
• More whitespace, less clutter
• Consistent line-heights, general CSS fit-and-finish.
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Okay, I’ve given the new layout a fighting chance, and here’s what I’ve found.
On the previous layout I would usually click through to 2-3 articles per day. On the current layout I’ve been clicking through to one article every 2-3 days. After spotting the references to the …/page/1 format I went there, and immediately discovered two articles that interested me that I had completely missed on the new page just minutes before.
My issues:
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The tiny frames per article make less information stand out when doing a quick browse, so less likely to catch my attention and get me to actually read them.
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Likewise the pictures are significantly less detailed so the graphical element is similarly less likely to draw me in.
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The different sizes between the left and right sides mess with how the eye scans the page, resulting in the smaller articles on the left side being completely missed.
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The separation of blog entries (Left side) and feature Articles (right side) is needless, as in the end they are both simply articles.
Just my $0.02
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Something’s wrong with your browser. Perhaps try to clear your cache and relaod.
^This is the link when I mouseover and it goes to the right place.
it’s not a cache thing, I just got the same bug on a fresh browser install
What browser? Something’s wrong with it.
I just checked on installations of Safari and Firefox which I’ve not visited the site from previously and those, in addition to Chrome, work as intended.
This is the code:
@beschizza Interestingly it seems like Proxima Nova bold doesn’t load in FF for some reason.
Chrome, firefox and IE all break for me on win8.1
Maybe your issue is Win 8.1? 
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Thanks for the bug reports. We do indeed have a peculiar problem with fonts and FF, and will check Win 8.1 closely for more.
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FWIW I’ve got 8. It’s like 7, but worse. 7 was far more stable and had far fewer strange quirks. If I was going to reinstall windows on my machine I’d be installing a copy of 7.
the start up time for 8 wins it for me hands down. I got used to metro pretty quick, its not like it’s THAT difficult to move your mouse around and my parents love it on their fingerprint smeared touch laptop and I like to have us all on the same version for simplicity’s sake
Each to their own. I originally presumed the hate for 8 was a knee-jerk reaction to a differing design language and microsoft in general, until I got a machine that shipped with it. Then I was flabbergasted IRT how unpleasant it really was, and I say that as someone who has used windows since v3 and is not resistant to change.
Metro (or modern UI as they call it after being sued) makes sense on a touch screen. It makes no sense whatsoever if you’re using a mouse because your cursor is having to travel such long distances compared to normal. I know that sounds idiotic but it really depends on the way you use your machine… As an indication of how truly inefficient mouse movement is, if I didn’t memorise the key commands for adobe CS programs I would be at least 10% slower in churning out graphics. Opening files in Modern UI mode by default is totally stupid - particularly if you’ve opened them from the classic desktop view. They also reversed the clickwheel’s scrolling direction for no apparent reason. I know it’s supposed to reflect the touch experience on a tablet but it’s dumb IMO because it’s not a screen… it’s a mouse that already has a UI language.
I like the old start menu. It made total sense. Adding back the half-assed start menu in 8.1 is both an admission of the error and also not enough. After installing Start8 I was happy because I had a Win8 machine that worked like a Win7 machine.
