I would be inclined to give this a try before I criticized it, but there are already lots of other websites out there that have designs that are a) similar to boingboing’s previous design; or b) similar to boingboing’s new design. So when people say they don’t like this new design as much as the old one, it is probably that they really don’t like it as much. We’ve all used both kinds of websites and have our preferences for one or the other in place. Besides, the rarely stated corollary from “people hate change” is “people who make change are very defensive about it.” There really isn’t a side that is more right. (Though usually, as in this case, there is a side that has more right)
I find this redesign unfortunate, I don’t like it at all. I also don’t like that I can’t see most of the images when I disable CSS (why some and not others, I don’t know) which tells me that it probably isn’t compatible with some accessibility tools.
I have none of those conditions and find reading this a torture on the eyes the brain and various other body parts. Is it now official–human attention span has shrunk to the size of a pea. You have to bombard people with stuff as not to loose them?
Can you stop catering for the attentionally challenged. For *** sake some of you are actually known to be writers of long texts…
Please remember the brain hasn’t evolved in line with multiple screen attacks–The point of the CNN look is to stop you thinking!
Nope, I don’t like the facebook-ification of the site. I can understand changing the link colors at the request of colorblind readers, that’s fantastic. The rest though, very unfortunate. Thanks for providing the old school link so I can change my bookmarks accordingly. There doesn’t seem to be a real reason for this change other than…for the sake of change.
Page 1 appears to maybe be chronological (it’s hard to say because there are no dates/times associated with each article) with a right-hand “featured” columm. Page 0 appears to be a two-column thingy where the left column is chronological (I think… again no dates until you follow the link) and the right column is chronological “features” (I think… no dates until you follow the link AND scroll to the bottom) but they’re sort of interleaved in a way that doesn’t make any intuitive sense.
Posts seem to be missing from the front page, too. I’m not seeing the newest Tom the Dancing Bug. I scroll down until I see old posts that I read yesterday, it’s not there. I hit “more posts” and it takes me to page 4 (under the first column) or page two (under the features column) to a few days ago. I do a search of the text of the main page and it’s not there. WTF? Now I’m expecting to miss a bunch of posts and not even realize it (I only noticed TtDB because I clicked the link to “page1” posted in this thread).
