Well, that's it.
With the redesign everything that visually and functionally appealing about Kotaku, and the other Gawker sites, is gone.
I first started visiting Gawker sites about 3 years ago, and since then I have been pretty active about it. What kept me coming back was the layout of the sites. It just worked, beautifully, at presenting the news and giving you a taste of what was in each article. This was a major step up over ugly flash laden sites like IGN which became a total mess after their redesign, visually.
When you guys were teasing the beta myself and many others levelled a number of complaints about it back at you guys, and it's now clear that Gawker didn't care. They had to go for this new and flashy redesign.
Damn the visual appeal.
Damn the functionality.
Damn the users.
They had to have their dual framed, unnavigable and cluttered monster.
That's it. After today I won't be visiting this site, or any other gawker site. When you showed off the beta I was afraid it would come to this, so I went out and actively searched for a replacement that retained the visual appeal and functionality that Gawker threw away. I found one. I didn't want to have to change the status quo like this, but Gawker made it a necessity, and I guarantee you that I am not the only user you will turn away after this.
Good luck with your site. #redesign
With the redesign everything that visually and functionally appealing about Kotaku, and the other Gawker sites, is gone.
I first started visiting Gawker sites about 3 years ago, and since then I have been pretty active about it. What kept me coming back was the layout of the sites. It just worked, beautifully, at presenting the news and giving you a taste of what was in each article. This was a major step up over ugly flash laden sites like IGN which became a total mess after their redesign, visually.
When you guys were teasing the beta myself and many others levelled a number of complaints about it back at you guys, and it's now clear that Gawker didn't care. They had to go for this new and flashy redesign.
Damn the visual appeal.
Damn the functionality.
Damn the users.
They had to have their dual framed, unnavigable and cluttered monster.
That's it. After today I won't be visiting this site, or any other gawker site. When you showed off the beta I was afraid it would come to this, so I went out and actively searched for a replacement that retained the visual appeal and functionality that Gawker threw away. I found one. I didn't want to have to change the status quo like this, but Gawker made it a necessity, and I guarantee you that I am not the only user you will turn away after this.
Good luck with your site. #redesign
A website has to have two things to work.
Good solid content, and a functional design through which it can deliver that content.
Gawker only has one of these things now. Other websites have both, and those websites now get my loyalty.
Good solid content, and a functional design through which it can deliver that content.
Gawker only has one of these things now. Other websites have both, and those websites now get my loyalty.
Exactly. The feedback was overwhelmingly negative. I even had a response from a member of Gawker to my feedback telling me that this was only the beta and that things would be improved. I see no changes here.
This is why I'm leaving the gawker sites.
This is why I'm leaving the gawker sites.
When I first scouted it out it hadn't been redesigned, and I liked it, When they went through with their redesign I got nervous, but then I noticed that it actually worked and didn't kill everything there was that was good about the site.
I'll check out that forum.
I'll check out that forum.
When I first picked them as a replacement I wasn't aware a redesign was coming, and was nervous when I went back and saw they had one.
Then I noticed that they managed to not destroy their website with the update and actually came out with something decent to good in quality.
I will check out that forum.
Then I noticed that they managed to not destroy their website with the update and actually came out with something decent to good in quality.
I will check out that forum.
vg247 for me.
Try vg247.
I'm migrating to vg247. It looks like Old Kotaku, mixed with what this would have been if it was meant to work.
Well, that's it.
With the redesign everything that visually and functionally appealing about Gizmodo, and the other Gawker sites, is gone.
I first started visiting Gawker sites about 3 years ago, and since then I have been pretty active about it. What kept me coming back was the layout of the sites. It just worked, beautifully, at presenting the news and giving you a taste of what was in each article. This was a major step up over ugly flash laden sites like IGN which became a total mess after their redesign, visually.
When you guys were teasing the beta myself and many others leveled a number of complaints about it back at you guys, and it's now clear that Gawker didn't care. They had to go for this new and flashy redesign.
Damn the visual appeal.
Damn the functionality.
Damn the users.
They had to have their dual framed, unnavigable and cluttered monster.
That's it. After today I won't be visiting this site, or any other gawker site. When you showed off the beta I was afraid it would come to this, so I went out and actively searched for a replacement that retained the visual appeal and functionality that Gawker threw away. I found one. I didn't want to have to change the status quo like this, but Gawker made it a necessity, and I guarantee you that I am not the only user you will turn away after this.
Good luck with your site.
With the redesign everything that visually and functionally appealing about Gizmodo, and the other Gawker sites, is gone.
I first started visiting Gawker sites about 3 years ago, and since then I have been pretty active about it. What kept me coming back was the layout of the sites. It just worked, beautifully, at presenting the news and giving you a taste of what was in each article. This was a major step up over ugly flash laden sites like IGN which became a total mess after their redesign, visually.
When you guys were teasing the beta myself and many others leveled a number of complaints about it back at you guys, and it's now clear that Gawker didn't care. They had to go for this new and flashy redesign.
Damn the visual appeal.
Damn the functionality.
Damn the users.
They had to have their dual framed, unnavigable and cluttered monster.
That's it. After today I won't be visiting this site, or any other gawker site. When you showed off the beta I was afraid it would come to this, so I went out and actively searched for a replacement that retained the visual appeal and functionality that Gawker threw away. I found one. I didn't want to have to change the status quo like this, but Gawker made it a necessity, and I guarantee you that I am not the only user you will turn away after this.
Good luck with your site.
Well, that's it.
With the redesign everything that visually and functionally appealing about Kotaku, and the other Gawker sites, is gone.
I first started visiting Gawker sites about 3 years ago, and since then I have been pretty active about it. What kept me coming back was the layout of the sites. It just worked, beautifully, at presenting the news and giving you a taste of what was in each article. This was a major step up over ugly flash laden sites like IGN which became a total mess after their redesign, visually.
When you guys were teasing the beta myself and many others levelled a number of complaints about it back at you guys, and it's now clear that Gawker didn't care. They had to go for this new and flashy redesign.
Damn the visual appeal.
Damn the functionality.
Damn the users.
They had to have their dual framed, unnavigable and cluttered monster.
That's it. After today I won't be visiting this site, or any other gawker site. When you showed off the beta I was afraid it would come to this, so I went out and actively searched for a replacement that retained the visual appeal and functionality that Gawker threw away. I found one. I didn't want to have to change the status quo like this, but Gawker made it a necessity, and I guarantee you that I am not the only user you will turn away after this.
Good luck with your site.
With the redesign everything that visually and functionally appealing about Kotaku, and the other Gawker sites, is gone.
I first started visiting Gawker sites about 3 years ago, and since then I have been pretty active about it. What kept me coming back was the layout of the sites. It just worked, beautifully, at presenting the news and giving you a taste of what was in each article. This was a major step up over ugly flash laden sites like IGN which became a total mess after their redesign, visually.
When you guys were teasing the beta myself and many others levelled a number of complaints about it back at you guys, and it's now clear that Gawker didn't care. They had to go for this new and flashy redesign.
Damn the visual appeal.
Damn the functionality.
Damn the users.
They had to have their dual framed, unnavigable and cluttered monster.
That's it. After today I won't be visiting this site, or any other gawker site. When you showed off the beta I was afraid it would come to this, so I went out and actively searched for a replacement that retained the visual appeal and functionality that Gawker threw away. I found one. I didn't want to have to change the status quo like this, but Gawker made it a necessity, and I guarantee you that I am not the only user you will turn away after this.
Good luck with your site.
"Sony's Playstation Phone, aka the Xperia Play"
It's time to start calling it solidly by its name.
"Sony's Xperia Play, aka the Playstation Phone"
It's time to start calling it solidly by its name.
"Sony's Xperia Play, aka the Playstation Phone"
@Down1Up2:
People were children before you were born.
People were children before you were born.
@(Zombie) Jölan:
No NO NOOOOOOOOO
Don't tell me that.
They had the logo bits right there.
RIGHT THERE!
No NO NOOOOOOOOO
Don't tell me that.
They had the logo bits right there.
RIGHT THERE!
That is amazing, and a tad accurate.
@DoctorSasquatch:
I hate to say it like this, but I'm going to vg247.
It's like Kotaku but faster.
... Oh, and I see they just changed their layout as well. It's a lot like new gawker... Except they fixed the things that this one did wrong.
Yeah, I'll go there.
I hate to say it like this, but I'm going to vg247.
It's like Kotaku but faster.
... Oh, and I see they just changed their layout as well. It's a lot like new gawker... Except they fixed the things that this one did wrong.
Yeah, I'll go there.
@NixonsGhost:
Only when they completely destroy what made the website both functional and attractive.
#speakup
Only when they completely destroy what made the website both functional and attractive.
#speakup
@fuzzlemail:
It felt like such a lazy and uninspired attempt that after such a gap it felt like they had no idea what to do with the series anymore.
Like they had nothing new to add, and just were making these because they could.
It felt like such a lazy and uninspired attempt that after such a gap it felt like they had no idea what to do with the series anymore.
Like they had nothing new to add, and just were making these because they could.
@DoctorSasquatch:
When they were teasing the beta lots of people were telling them that they thought it was terrible.
People were listing repeatedly what made the sites work and what was wrong with the new layout.
Gawker didn't fix any of that.
Clearly the name of the game with them is that it doesn't have to work, it just has to look good.
Too bad guys, I'll gladly give my page views to other sites.
When they were teasing the beta lots of people were telling them that they thought it was terrible.
People were listing repeatedly what made the sites work and what was wrong with the new layout.
Gawker didn't fix any of that.
Clearly the name of the game with them is that it doesn't have to work, it just has to look good.
Too bad guys, I'll gladly give my page views to other sites.
@DoctorSasquatch:
So we have a terrible new layout, and then a "classic" layout that is not the classic layout, but a terrible new bastard child of the new format and the old.
No thanks.
So we have a terrible new layout, and then a "classic" layout that is not the classic layout, but a terrible new bastard child of the new format and the old.
No thanks.
Charlie, this is a mess.
The Beta is a mess.
People were talking in large volume about how much they disliked the beta, and we still got this.
Gawker made a mistake and now they have to live with it.
I'm leaving all gawker sites that use this after today flat out.
The Beta is a mess.
People were talking in large volume about how much they disliked the beta, and we still got this.
Gawker made a mistake and now they have to live with it.
I'm leaving all gawker sites that use this after today flat out.
