If someone finds the dark mode or knows where I left my pair of sunglasses, let me know. 😑

  • @PunchingWood
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    1128 days ago

    So first thing I notice was the top 1/3rd of the page being a blank space.

    Then I remembered I had an adblocker.

    That said, I rarely ever visit the website, but it looks like every generic blog/news theme format I’ve seen in the past 10 years or so lol. Never change a winning team, but it’s nothing to write home about to be honest.

    • pizzaboi
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      127 days ago

      What?! They have very unique squiggles and bright colors! No one else is doing that.

      I really don’t get the logic of redesigns like this or The Verge. Was the design team just told, “traffic is down make it look new so we can post a blog about it”?

  • @58008
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    928 days ago

    It looks indistinguishable from every other tech site.

  • Altima NEO
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    428 days ago

    Oh great, it’s not like the Kotaku redesign ages ago?

    That shit was a mess. They went from a gaming news site to a blog about whatever SEO shit they could crap out.

  • @BertramDitore
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    228 days ago

    Huh, so now it’s the verge, but less unique and creative. Not to disparage anyone doing redesigns, it’s a valiant effort.

  • kate
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    128 days ago

    i don’t get it, it looks as generic as every other blog i’ve been to in a while. not that that’s a bad thing, i guess

    • Carighan MaconarOP
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      It’s weird how little identity this has now, visually. The previous design was quite striking, now it looks easily confused for something else.

      Maybe this works better with screen readers though since it’s just black text on white background in simple text blocks.

      • kate
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        228 days ago

        they’re owned by some company that owns a bunch of blogs, right? maybe this is testing a new look for all of them