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Verge Redesign

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34 pointsiRoxas13 comments

To put it bluntly, the new page layout and color scheme absolutely sucks. Probably lost me as a regular reader.

Clearly it's intended to optimize mobile browsing experience since it's very vertically stacked - but at the cost of alienating non-mobile readers since now one is forced to scroll downward for new content. Also the color scheme makes it hard to differentiate the types of content/posts.

Seems assine to not give readers an option to use the old layout for an interim period, similar to how Reddit did their transition.

Even for mobile users like myself it is an utter fail. It feels like an overly stylized twitter. Even the headlines are giving me a headache. Completely stopped checking the site and i used to almost daily. Crazy they did this.

When I opened it today I felt like I was having a stroke. I liked the old design - a banner on top with featured articles and a chronic stream of all articles below. I understand they want to pivot from a news site to a content platform, but I wish there was still at least a way to access their editorial content only in a chronic stream. Because honestly thats the only thing I really wanna read on there. I don't need embedded tweets.

My first impression is that I don't like the redesign.

It looks like two designers got into a fight over how the new website should look and the decision maker in charge let each one take over certain parts of the design. It feels jagged and lacking integration.

The landing page feels sloppy and makes it harder to see all the recent stories. Why do I need to scroll so much to see the recent stories? Before they were all on the page with nice boxes for each story. It was pleasant and easy to find what I wanted to read. This "storystream" makes me want to go to some other website.

The new logo feels "hostile". Just write the name in a font that can be easily read.

The lack of visuals (in the…section blocks, not sure what to call them) on mobile are at first scroll making it harder to find content, can’t scroll and easily see a story is iOS, hardware, etc related without the image and (2) difficult to distinguish what’s an article vs. a 3 line comment.

It’s a major shift for sure, will be interested to see how my time with the site adapts.

Just terrible. I’m confused when I try and look at the articles, too much color and busyness and clashing text colors.

This is terrible. I'll read tech reviews elsewhere now.

Why do these companies feel like they want to be tech companies. The Verge have always been trying to act like they're innovating their tech stack. They're not a tech company. They need to just customize a wordpress theme (or equivalent), and worry about content.

> Why do these companies feel like they want to be tech companies.

In the case of The Verge, I feel like they've been talking about themselves this way since they launched. It's definitely a part of their DNA.

certainly something off...

was busy before, but manageable, this is taking it to next level, removed all the extra space : )

Some elements are growing on me, but still...

Here's a linear view: https://www.theverge.com/archives/1

Much easier to scan and read.

The new layout is visually hard to parse. Sad to say it’s enough to push me to another source

The first rule of website redesign is that you don’t talk about your website redesign.

its like a modern day geocities

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