A new Svbtle layout

On the homepage, that there is a featured article as well as additional information to the right side a.k.a. more stuff to read reminds me a lot of the Mashable craziness.

It's very hard to focus on content, reading left to right, when there is unimportant information that I have to constantly filter out as I go line by line.

And as someone else had said, the individual blog posts pretty much follow the same layout style as medium. I actually think that this, even more minimalistic design, takes away from the aesthetic that, in my opinion, made Svbtle stand out - namely, the colours and the logos.

The first Svbtle layout was by far the best designed blog layout at the time - the sidebar with a description of the writer was very well built. This new layout is interesting - reminds me a lot of Medium.

I stopped caring since they're so exclusive.

Very annoying how an arrow snaps into view a moment after I scroll every time. Yet another layout that fails at mobile.

Why not just have the dateline static? Why make the user hover for it to show? (Does it appear on touch devices?)

Why does the top-right svbtle menu start as a dot? Why not just keep it in its expanded state?

The scrollbar on OS X appears white, despite there being a white background. I don't know why.

Why is the Kudos button presented on the side and at the bottom? Don't you only want people to do that after they've read it? It kind of mucks things up. Same for the author dot in the lower-right.

I like Medium's friendly author photos, but I guess svbtle is about the author iconography.

Not a big fan... The movement of all "navigation" to the right feels unnatural and my eyes keep trying to shift focus to the right (away from the content). Poorly done, IMO, for these usability issues.

It seems like the actual blogs weren't redesigned (http://barrettsheridan.com/options-101), just the actual Svbtle site (which collects all the blogs, like Medium does).

EDIT: I'm somewhat wrong; adding ?beta=1 on any blog gives you the new redesign. Each user's main page is pretty much the same, but the individual blog posts are lacking the sidebar.

In my browser at half width (840px) the new layout forces horizontal scroll. I'm used to shrinking text when this occurs, but for a blog it's annoying because the content itself isn't that wide. The vertical bar on the left is unnecessary, and the other stories bar on the right could easily become narrower. The old Svbtle layout fits perfectly at this width and is very readable.

On a Galaxy S3 in tablet mode the new design of the main site is awful. Horizontal scrolling and all. The article view is great though.

I look forward to the wp knock off :)

Not a fan.

The mobile view is horrible. Why would you make us do horizontal scrolling on a smartphone?!

I can not un-kudos article. Or can't I?