What the hell happened to the front page?

[Anubis]

this option is much better

http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/grey.jpg

 

[Jodell88]

I like the really light grey. It doesn't have the stark contrast as the other options while it is easy on the eyes.

 

[Newbian]

Lack of porn on it still makes me sad.

 

[IronWing]

Lack of porn on it still makes me sad.

MBILFs?

 

[Printer Bandit]

mbilfs?

dramilf?

 

[Capt Caveman]

I like it.

 

[Chaotic42]

A bit of color at the sides (maybe even a selectable shade?) is a fantastic idea Aside from toning down the side banners (and the wish for adjustable column width), I like the new site layout.

Don't feel too bummed about the AT crowd. They do this this with pretty much everything. I'd be hard pressed to find one example of anything that was created or changed, that received its own AT thread where anything but the majority of comments are fit in the slots of "Do not like change!" "A 5 year old could have done better!" and "Pointy elbows, would not bang!".

Nerds, in general, tend to have the tendency of being overly critical to the point where they don't feel normal if they *don't* find a problem with it. They can be safely ignored, in a focus of feedback to people less biased towards narcissism.

On the other hand not all complaints about change are unwarranted and not all changes are for the better. Anubis posted a much nicer version.

 

[iGas]

I dunno, it seems like website designers for a technology website should start designing for vaguely modern hardware.

Is there no way of having the page dynamically scale to the space?

Just having a really long narrow strip of content that you scroll down just feels... claustrophobic?

http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/responsive-design-with-css3-media-queries

Perhaps Anandtech have a different concept on usability or isn't as tech savvy as it was in the past.

 

[zanejohnson]

scared now

 

[zanejohnson]

meh it looks completely functional and trendy, i just need better desktop real estate.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

On the other hand not all complaints about change are unwarranted and not all changes are for the better. Anubis posted a much nicer version.

I completely agree. But the vast majority of these comments are anything but constructive. I think you know that as well as anyone here does.

 

[supremor]

I think Anand hired Tweakboy to design the site.

Wow that made me chuckle :biggrin:

New design is hideous though I think the last one was much much better.

 

[Mixolydian]

I don't mind it.

 

[shortylickens]

http://www.scottevest.com/



Look in the upper right corner.

Really, how fucking hard is it to do that?

 

[Childs]

Reminds me of ArsTechnica with the black, orange and gray.

I miss the days of simple white backgrounds with nothing but tons of links. I guess its better for ads to make people navigate a tons of pages instead of just a few.

 

[Murloc]

I like it now that there isn't the glaring white anymore.
I liked the previous design too but I can't even remember how it was already.
I always use the site on a desktop so I don't know how this new design affects its targets, for me there's no change at all in usability.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Reminds me of ArsTechnica with the black, orange and gray.

I miss the days of simple white backgrounds with nothing but tons of links. I guess its better for ads to make people navigate a tons of pages instead of just a few.

Except it looks substantially worse than Ars. It looks like some budget template for Web 2.0 (shit is that even relevant any more?) look that seems to be taking over. Ars' is simple and focused on the content with enough to differentiate, whereas AT's is just all jumbled (where the most recent articles get a bit more focus in the little 4 squares at the top, but not all of those articles are equal in relevance and quality) with several little boxes of links, and then the main stories just listing lower down.

Er, isn't that what tons of links accomplishes?

 

[bradley]

Think I like it. It's also much better than the original front page.

http://web.archive.org/web/19980109031025/http://anandtech.com/

 

[Ns1]

well to be fair, the site DOES look decent on a mobile phone.

 

[xanis]

well to be fair, the site DOES look decent on a mobile phone.

Going to have to disagree on that one. Being as content-heavy as AT is, they desperately need a responsive site.

The design overall just feels too text-heavy to me. I know that there are images interspersed throughout the page, but all I see for some reason when I open the page is a wall of text and links. I get the impression that someone involved in the redesign said something like, "Users want content! We need to make sure we get as much as possible on the front page so they don't have to click (and so we have good SEO)!"

While this redesign is definitely better than a lot of websites out there, it's not the best. Unfortunately, there's a ton of content, which isn't always easy to design for. For some good examples of content-heavy site designs, I'd look at Mashable and The Next Web.

 

[lxskllr]

There's stuff I like, and stuff I don't. It feels disjointed. Aside from the blazing white background, I can't really point to any one thing, and say "that sucks" other than the logo, but that's more a taste thing. It's the way everything comes together that bothers me. It looks like something I'd put together, and I'm not good with art, or design.

 

[Childs]

Except it looks substantially worse than Ars. It looks like some budget template for Web 2.0 (shit is that even relevant any more?) look that seems to be taking over. Ars' is simple and focused on the content with enough to differentiate, whereas AT's is just all jumbled (where the most recent articles get a bit more focus in the little 4 squares at the top, but not all of those articles are equal in relevance and quality) with several little boxes of links, and then the main stories just listing lower down.

Er, isn't that what tons of links accomplishes?

I was thinking something like this...

Much more efficient. Probably good for phones too!

BTW, the RSS feed is busted.

 

[arkcom]

At one point Anand said the Facebook and Twitter side column is something that must stay so they can reach a wider audience... Umm, if someone is reading the Anandtech front page, they've already been "reached".

It's also full of inane babble.

 

[Printer Bandit]

websites circa 1999 were the best.

 

[sao123]

no eye relief = bad design.