Joel Johnson's discussions

WHO EDITS THE EDITORS? Read more

nick@gawker.com Read more

You can yell at the guy who owns the company. (I like the new design more and more as we improve it, but ultimately it's his call, and I'm happy to point you to the corner office and let you yell at him.) Read more

Okey doke. Noted! Read more

Are you reading in Blog View? Read more

Never coming back. Sorry. Not even on the table. Read more

Ha. Okay, that's funny. Read more

And then people complain when they don't like the one option they're given. Read more

That's not really fair, is it? We rolled out a new color today. We tweeted a preview image of it yesterday. We've been in here talking to you guys all morning. We do listen to the community, but that doesn't mean we always agree with everyone's suggestions. For instance, many people quite like the color scheme! Read more

"Malevolent Plum" Read more

Oh, come on. We have three options: Blog view, and one or two paned Splash View. This isn't the fing space shuttle. And it's disingenuous to imply it's overdesigned when we just went through and made it cleaner. Read more

It is. And it is. It's not like we don't have default settings! Read more

It's an illusion, Michael. Read more

Hrm, should be working. Can you email me (joel@kotaku) with a screenshot, browser and OS version? Read more

Ha. I like that! Read more

Not yet. And it's a long-term project, so I wouldn't expect anything major to change until the fall at least. So for the short-term future, carry on! Read more

Yeah, that drives me nuts, too. I'll try to get that fixed sooner than later. Read more

Oh, I got you. I parsed that as "no other Gawker site out of [all] the Gawker..." Anyway, got it. And they'll be changing anyway! Read more

Every Gawker site handles comments exactly the same. So, you know, not that. Read more

Amusingly enough, on my monitor the color is rendering closer to your "Nicer" than your "Current" swatch. Read more