AppleInsider's New Look (This thread was about the first Huddler redesign) - Page 2  

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Originally Posted by oseame 

I thought AI had been hacked or something. Oh well, I suppose I'll get used to it...

hah same here, I'm sure the IP has been hijacked in the past.

Nice clean new look, think I like it.

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Originally Posted by einsteinbqat 

True, but it looks better than the Forums

Disagree 100%.  It's so much easier to skim and read the forums, than the new main page texts.

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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 

Originally Posted by chabig 
There is too much white space in the forums:

Originally Posted by marcusj0015 
OH yeah totally. the forums shouls also be center aligned.

 

Under "Edit Account Details" on your username's page:

 

Ugh, you're kidding, right?  Is this some new trend, I'm going to have to start going in and setting view preferences on every site I visit?  And why shouldn't the basic default view be the best one, anyway? 

Looks flat and unfinished. I find the ads annoying when trying to read headlines in the front page. The ads are everywhere. Use some light gray to distinguish different parts of the page.

loads faster.  good job.

The site sucked before, it sucks even more now.

This format a rough draft?

Woah!

New format...too BUSY!

I did not have an adblock in place and got flashed all

over.  Also, half the paragraphs in the top article are center

justified instead of left

justified.  Overall, I'm finding this harder to

read, and the headlines are getting lost in the

fray.  I don't mind a refresh after

many years, but this...? --Not good.

I do not like the new look.  The menu bar and the font choices are just fine, it's the layout that I am not happy with. The new design is just too cluttered. The articles lose there focus due to being smothered in an advertisement sandwich. I can't stand static width designs, they just waste usable space. The new look just seems to crush everything to the center and it is no longer pleasant to the eye. The old layout was much better, albeit a bit dated. I have been a faithful AppleInsider reader for many years. I come here for the articles, but now the actual content seems to have taken a backseat to clutter and Ads. Please rethink the design.

Poison my eyes. Thats alot of white. But I love the new look.

New home page look

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Originally Posted by RandomChaos 

Old vs New - look at the wasted space on my MacBook, and how many fewer articles I can see. From 11 articles to 3 articles!

 

     

I came here to say exactly this.  I'm on a 27" 1920x1200 monitor, and I feel like I'm using a low resolution laptop screen trying to read AppleInsider now.  I've always preferred it to any other sites, but it's nigh unusable with this layout.  I'll have to switch to reading via RSS, which I have avoided because I wanted to help support by viewing the ads.

Very inefficient use of space and it squanders my time scrolling. Fail.

Try again or better yet, go back to the old look.

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Originally Posted by marcusj0015 


Are you crazy? It's called Good Design, AppleInsider was stuck in the nineties, and if you don't appreciate good design, frankly you shouldn't be on an Apple fan site in the first place.

The new design is beautiful.  But it's not very usable.  It looks fantastic, but the articles lose focus and I can only see about 3 articles at a time on a 1920x1200 monitor now.

I don't like it, but that's fine. plenty of other mac sites out there with good layouts.

Don't worry about the forum skinning, I took care of it. It will match the fresh, hip new look of the front page that was beautifully conceived by the team at gesamtbild.

It's terrible and literally bludgeoning people over the head with ten ads on the front page is ridiculous. Use half as many and they will actually get noticed more. People tune overbearing and broad things out much more easily than focused items.

Just got back from a meeting and was greeted by the new look. I think it's gorgeous! Streamlined, airy, readable, classy, modern. Nice job.

change it back..or make it DARKER...my eyes !!!

Way too much advertising. I understand the purpose of ads on a webpage. I even enjoy the ads that AI displays because they're usually stuff I care about—but it feels like fully half of the space I'm looking at is trying to get me to buy something. Not enough emphasis on content. I'd like to be able to read the articles without having my focus so distracted. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad on a smaller monitor, but on a 27", it's overwhelming.

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Originally Posted by Recronin 

Don't worry about the forum skinning, I took care of it. It will match the fresh, hip new look of the front page that was beautifully conceived by the team at gesamtbild.

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Makes you wonder who Quiller Media is. Is Jeffrey Valvano our new owner?

i loved the old site. it was very easy to read and navigate.

the new one looks bad to me. its way too narrow and has too much stuff on each side.

i get a headache looking at it. which means i probably won't be reading it much more.

AppleInsider New Design

I was shocked when I saw AIs new layout and identity.

- much longer load times, all pages significantly larger

- less information on the overview/article pages

- no support for Apple Safari Reader functionality

and the question is: WHY! This site is about content, not about fancy-looking HTML-5 gibberish. Any good reason why to optimize away efficiency?

I've been a daily reader for years; this is a lot less joyful now, I'll think it over or check out what other sites have similar information, but more simplistic layout and design.

Florian.

Yikes.

The new site design is embarrassingly bad. The little sliding slide show is especially terrible.

The old design wasn’t going to win any beauty contests, but it wasn’t offensive.

It’s 2012, most people have displays wider than 800 pixels, it might be smart to look into a responsive design.

MAKE THE HEADLINES SMALLER!

Modernized layout sorely overdue but OVERSIZED headlines gauche eyesore designed to exploit readers to sell more ad space. 

I loved the old layout, and feel so calmed here in the soothingly grey forums after experiencing the glare of the main news pages.  Please reconsider / revise.  Too many ads, or so it seems.  What I do like are the links to associated stories on same topic.  Harder to read!  Who ever told you a lot of white space was a good thing.  It is not. 

everything is cool just make it a little bit less White ...

It is a very high contrast !!

A little more grey will be good for eyes :)

+1 for the older was a bit better in terms of Colors :)

and i am unaware why my right click gives me a paste option in this editor  xD

Well, that was a bit of a shock. I like it though. I know I'm going against the tide here but I do like the new look. I find it clean and modern. As for too much white space, I attribute that to very effective ad blocking in my browser. Am I correct in saying there is no Java or Flash? I hope so. Make note of the criticisms and suggestions but don't make any quick changes yet. Give folks a chance to get acclimated to the new look.

I think the strength of this site is it's discussions, which are of higher quality than Macrumors, and have more informed Apple fans. The articles frankly are not a strength. It's the discussions that keep people coming back and viewing those all important ads. 

So while the new design looks better (in my opinion) it should emphasize the discussions and de-emphasize the articles, but unfortunately they have done the opposite.