T/S: Defamer v. Gawker

so is gawker down for everyone?

just you

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

huh weird

we decided we didnt want you reading us anymore sorry

http://tv.gawker.com/

max, we need t shirts w/ your column portrait on em.

the new layout is kinda weird imo

yeah, it's going to take some getting used to

i have the original in my apt, its v creepy, the eyes follow you

xp

woah u live at hogwarts bro

feeling kind of mixed on the new design, doesnt feel smooth right now re scrolling clicking etc, just txt headlines no images or excerpts in the side nav is not that exciting like theres much less info available on the home page than there used to be - on the other hand i like the clean appiness of it def wave of the future more refined than the stuff weve seen in beta tryin a be twittr or w/e - when does it go live on the big site

http://tv.gawker.com/classic

(btw, the dude's link in that post -- to http://www.tv.gawker.com/classic -- doesn't work)

broepstorff
Am amused that web design is basically reverting back to frames (see: twitter 2.0, jalopnik 5.0).
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http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/nick-denton-gawker-redesign-only-facebook-matters

"Gawker went live with its redesign on two of its web sites this morning, io9, Gawker TV and Jalopnik."

...

At least it's keeping vip.xml, right?

http://gawker.com/

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/gawker_web_redesign_met_with_bronx_rYsc2jleh5rVzUV7ozUb9L

"lesser blog posts"

kind of weak that the writers' names don't show up on the front page

what a disaster for nick denton

http://gawker.com/#!5755071/married-gop-congressman-sent-sexy-pictures-to-craigslist-babe

On the morning of Friday, January 14, a single 34-year-old woman put an ad in the "Women for Men" section of Craigslist personals. "Will someone prove to me not all CL men look like toads?" she asked, inviting "financially & emotionally secure" men to reply.

...

Finally, if someone had hacked into his account and was seeking to discredit the politician, why shoot in the dark with such relatively benign emails to a totally random middle-aged woman on Craigslist, who didn't seem motivated one way or the other to us, beyond wanting to share a funny story? And funny it is.

Seriously?

People have been grinding that axe everywhere on the web. Pretty hilarious.

yikes!

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/17/gawker-redesign/

i've definitely been reading gawker less since the redesign, not out of like aesthetic rage but just because it's more awkward and difficult to use

Maybe they just don't like Max.

Yeah, it's hardly worth reading, now.

^lol

it's more awkward and difficult to use

Totally. The side scroll bar doesn't work for me at all, ever. Also for some reason today the 'traditional' view actually seems to be refreshing more slowly than the 'top story' view. And they've posted the same story (Paris Hilton) twice today.

pretty sure the paris hilton story has only been posted once

i would've been completely adjusted to the re-design already if the sidebar ever properly scrolled

so can you not search for old posts now or am i being dumb?

the old design was definitely archaic in some ways and def not elegant but i always thought that might have been a strength in a weird way

I'm not super familiar with the Gawker redesign. Just curious why a lot of people don't praise it.

i pretty much stopped checking it after the redesign. not a conscious FUCK YOU decision, it was just awkward and i can get most of that stuff elsewhere. i was actually wondering what kind of traffic they were pulling in the other night, i knew i couldn't be the only one.

theyre fixing search

you can do a tag search by just adding the tag to the end of the url

http://gawker.com/lindsaylohan

http://gawker.com/robots

or you can just use google which was better than the old site search anyway

pretty sure the paris hilton story has only been posted once

I don't want to harp on this, but it definitely showed up twice on my screen in the blog view, separated by several other stories - same headline, same photo. And one of those times, the headline was written twice. I think it's fixed now, but I can't tell because suddenly all the stories posted after 9am today have disappeared from the blog view.

My issues are mostly to do with glitches - I have no problem with the redesign itself. I'm sure once the bugs are ironed out it will be pretty smooth to read and I'll be back to being a happy lurker.

xp thanking u

I keep getting stories showing up twice like that too, and others disappearing completely when I'm sure they were there earlier. I'm on the blog view too which is allegedly the easier one.

its possible the splash stories that get posted as roundups

so its not actually a duplicate post but a roundup post that has the same headline and splash photo

i'm having an issue with the blog view too. so i scroll down and look through all the stories on the left column, until eventually it gives me a "next page" button. but when i click it, it pulls up a page of older stories, completely skipping over a whole bunch of new content that i know exists because it's listed in the right column.

oh except now i went back to verify that i was looking at the blog view (i was), and i switched from "Blog View" to "Top News" to "Blog View" again, and now the left column has cut off like six of the top stories and is loading at some strange midpoint of the list.

do you have adblock on?

no, i'm on opera.

gawker in IE 5.5

http://oi52.tinypic.com/2ib20yx.jpg

gawker in IE 6

http://oi54.tinypic.com/ji2h05.jpg

lets try netscape navigator

thats how its supposed to look

dont you get it