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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months 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”?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

It looks indistinguishable from every other tech site.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months 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