Sorry, no face lift jokes here. Just a new look we’re sporting. The goal is to give you more access to more content — much of which you’ll find only on Queerty — at a quicker glance.
Up top you’ve got our most important features of the day. That means exclusive reports, features, and analysis only available to our readers.
Then comes our stream of regular posts, keeping you updated on the news of the day, as it happens.
And below come custom “channels,” where we’ve grouped together our posts into various hot topics, which may swap in and out depending on what Queerty readers deem important.
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
And if you hate the new look? No problem. “Classic Queerty” is still available for you to use here. (Just bookmark that version instead of the homepage.)
Feedback is always encouraged. Leave it in the comments. Useful suggestions, and not “THIS SUXXXXX!!,” are always preferred.
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FUGLY
How are you supposed to have any idea what the article is about when all you show is an overthought punchline- I mean headline – and 2 1/2 pixels of an image?
I’m all for change, but I’ll be bookmarking the old fogey’s version.
Rob
Jesus… this is hideous. I thought it was ugly before with the last ‘design’ change… but this? You cannot focus on a single item. What the hell.
JH
The new look isn’t terrible, but the link to the old format is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Jeff
Oh boy. New ones Waaaaaaaaaay too busy!
I’ll stick with the CLASSIC
Thnaks for keeping it available. I’ll stick with that.
alan brickman
It’s cool…fags always hate change…it affects their “control issues”…
Kalanw
Reminds me of the Drudge Report and the Daily Beast. I don’t mind scrolling down and next paging. It’s like reading a newspaper. I thought Queerty was fine the way it was, It seems the new format would create more ad space
red phone
I find it VERY non-user-friendly.
The Milkman
Yuck.
Tom
What a mess…content is one thing, but the design of this site has steadily gone downhill for months. I can barely look at this site anymore.
uwyoalum
no
Hrist
SWEET METHUZELAH! It’s AWFUL. It looks a mess; there’s no easy-to-understand composition. The sections aren’t very well separated, so it’s difficult to tell what’s what, or what goes with which section. I can’t tell at a glance what the latest stories are; something is majorly wrong with that.
Kudos to your web designer for attempting something new, but it’s just not working. Moar thumbnailz is not better, I’m afraid.
Qjersey
Too Busy!!!!
Maybe just need some overall categories…with info indicating when last updated.
The old site was easy to read…top of page = new story.
Can’t sort out what’s new in the reformat.
Mark
Trash! Everytime you change the site it just keeps getting worst…
Nate in SLC
I would recommend having each thumbnail surrounded by a small black border, and maybe making it only 4 thumbnails across the page instead of 5. The layout is manageable, but the different sections need to be demarcated a little more clearly. Personally I like the new layout, since I want to keep on top of the United States of Queerty and some other things.
ohpleasegodno
So I came here to see the Ru Paul recap and all I see is some sort of celebrity squares mess…..and no recap
This is not going to work for you guys, I don’t even want to come back
Alex James
While I applaud your effort to be different or edgy or whatever the heck you were trying to accomplish, I must say that the new look is a mess. My eyes were having spasms when I first looked at the page this morning. I enjoy your site, and I’m glad you have a link to the old version. I don’t think I could ever get my eyeballs properly aligned in my head if I was forced to look at the new version on a daily basis.
MadProfessah
I like the intent, which is to give the user immediate access to multiple stories at once…
However, I’m not sure the execution overcomes the inherent “eye clutter” which results…
Z reveals
I totally disliked it! Too busy, too confusing.
I always liked the original simple design
thisismikesother
This reminds me of the Article Skimmer at the NYT (http://prototype.nytimes.com/gst/articleSkimmer/). It’s a really cool tool, but it would never be their homepage, and it should certainly not be the home page at Queerty. Keep it on the side, but Queerty is a blog! Where’s the writing on the homepage? There’s no content! It’s missing! It’s a wordless blog!
I totally get trying to make changes, and change is good, but I feel like paying a design consulting firm just once and giving the site a complete overhaul with professional advice would work wonders.
Until then, there’s a reason I never leave the RSS feed in Google Reader.
Turyn
I have to say that whoever you hired to do the web designing appears to have not professionally studied the subject at all. Web design is built around user interaction and the new layout is extremely user unfriendly. People visit websites to get quick and efficient access to information, and the design works actively against that goal. Sure, your devoted users will eventually adjust and learn the maze, but you will forever turn away new readers with that horrible layout. I highly suggest you hire someone competent and get a real redesign going for Queerty. You could even return to the original design (the one before the new editor took over) until a new design is made. Until then, you just lost a reader. I can’t put up with the misinformation combined with the headache-inducing design anymore. But do we, as users against this redesign (who seem to be the majority), have any say? No, because Queerty never seems to take suggestions from the people it exists to offer a service to in the first place.
Alexa
Thank you for keeping the old format available, I changed my bookmark. I’ll try the new one occasionally to see if I like it better, but right now I just find it confusing.
Joe
get rid of it! it’s a visual cluster fuck! why don’t you guys leave well enough alone…and bring back the “morning aural”?
Paulesso
I vote against your last 2 changes. The look of the site now is just awful and confusing, simple is better
asabranca.net
I like the old one much better. It offered a brief intro to the headline, so if I was only marginally interested in something, I could read the intro and move on. Or read the intro and then decide whether or not to continue reading. With this, all I have to go by are the headlines, which isn’t enough.
Also, I agree that the new one is way too busy.
ChicagoJimmy
Yuck. Really too busy and confusing. Odd categorization. You’ve yet to fix the worst issue, which is slow loading times. I have to read this site with another tab open to something else. I click on something here then go to the other tab to have something to do while queerty loads. I’ll be using the “classic” version. Thanks!
dfrw
I prefer the old look, it was an easier read.
Camper
A prominent link to switch viewing format on the front page would be helpful so we don’t have to memorize the address.
Anthony in Nashville
There is too much going on. I immediately went for the classic queerty.
I have noticed other sites overloading their pages with links/photos/sections. I realize web sites feel like they have to change their look every few months to appear “relevant” and “hot” but what happened to settling on a simple design that is easy to navigate?
studly
It’s Ok. It Borrows from http://glbt.alltop.com/, but it is a visual table of contents—not a bad idea. It is now easier to get to comments and get an overview of contents. The bottom part is a mess…these site will never win a design award, but this gets my vote of approval (and I should know)
robert
omg; way to busy….
victor
really bad guys. I understand you want to squeeze out as many ads as possible, but c’mon… it’s so busy and i don’t want to have to click on each and every article.
vernonvanderbilt
Yeah, so far I’m not feeling it. I’ll work with it for a few days to see if my opinion changes, but I can see myself reverting to the classic format before too long. I liked having text intros, and this thumbnail-heavy vibe is just too amateur-looking to me.
BARF
I agree with what others have said. I hate the new design. In fact, I hate the last two redisigns, but I hate the previous version slightly less than this one so I will bookmark to that page. I don’t suppose there is a bookmark to the PREVIOUS version is there?
I agree with whoever said that we should bring back the morning aural. I miss that. Also the person who said that this is going to drive away some people and keep new people from coming back is probably right. It looks like the internet threw up on the queerty page.
Stuartsez
You keep adding more and more and more and more, and each addition makes the page less and less and less user-friendly. The newest version is visually confusing, uninformative, and way too busy. Please stop changing the layout.
Jon B
Hate it! Please go back to any other format. This is almost impossible to look at, and requires me to redirect from the main page to get any information besides the title. It’s really painful to look at. PLEASE go back!
petted
Seems alright to me though I usually browse Queerty via twitter these days – but I kind of liked how there was more space provided to feature articles on the top then in the old layout.
Chitown Kev
It’s too many things!
cbc
hate it. it looks like someone decided to play 52 pickup with the news rather than keep it in one nice neat little stack.
Rob
I prefer the old format because it was easier to tell which posts were new.
David
ME NO LIKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ChristopherM
@Rob:
I’m with Rob on this. When I pop on here, I do it to see if anything new has been posted, which simply involves looking at the first post at the top. There is too much going on with this, so I’m sticking with the Classic (which I actually liked after the last redesign, by the way).
Cole
The most successful websites are intuitive in design. You shouldn’t have to spend time thinking and figuring out how to use a site. This site is too cluttered and doesn’t give me enough information for me to want to dig deeper. It just makes me want to go to another site.
Dick
Here’s an idea, make the OLD design the default and let the tiny minority click to see it in the new. degraded, format. The new design is truly atrocious. It looks like someone went to a plastic surgeon for a little face ‘freshening’ and out walked Dr. PIcasso. Having your nose on the side of your head may be a new look, but NOT a good one.
Graham
Well, it’s a lot less cluttered/distracting than the “old” layout (but really, new… I still like the layout from about a year ago– with big, wide pictures! this is the web 2.0, we shouldn’t have to squint at tiny photos or alternately be forced to use a slideshow).
I realize you’re going for a Huffington Post vibe, but I’m not sure if it’s working… maybe it’s because I like how HuffPo splits up the bold headlines/pictures in the center and right columns with actual excerpts from blog posts on the left column. It’s nice to get a little sample of some of the content on the main page, aside from headlines.
Also, while I enjoy the HuffPost style, I think part of the charm of Queerty is accidentally stumbling upon a story you might not read based on the picture and headline alone. If there are 5 posts out of 20 that seem interesting to me on a standard blog-scroll layout, I’ll at least glance at the other 15 posts and maybe find a few that catch me by surprise… in this format, I’ll just skip them, and wait for more interesting-looking posts to show up.
I hope you find a good middle-ground! Good luck!!
Ryan
I can see where you’re going with this…
but it needs so much more streamlining.
I have *no idea* what stories I’m interested in, because all there is is a picture and a headline that tells me little/nothing about the content. I haven’t clicked through on any of them till I saw this one (which took me more than 5 minutes).
You’ve got to give each story at least a paragraph and reduce the clutter. Cut the recent stories/important stories by half and do more to emphasize the well thought-out analysis that sometimes you truly only do find at queerty (the look into gay media’s demise being the *best* recent example).
Queerty has just recently started to get good again, since Japhy came on board and David started posting more often. I seriously stopped reading this blog for like a year until that happened. I couldn’t read this blog regularly until the clutter on the main page is looked. I can’t bother to use a new bookmark… what’s the point of having an easy to remember name like ‘queerty’ if I’m not going to use it? At least make the bookmark to the old look the first thing I can click on the new page.
Ryan
Correction: I couldn’t read this blog [again] regularly until the clutter on the main page is looked [into].
Charles J. Mueller
The new format is a cluster-fuck.
I’ll stick with the old format, thank you.
Nick Lynn
NOT GOOD. You need to SIMPLIFY and PARTITION.
In a time where everyone is choosing the simpler interfaces (Twitter, Facebook, Google, iPhone) over the busy (MySpace, Yahoo), I don’t understand why you would want to change your site to the latter.
I understand that maybe you hope the new layout will be simpler… but that is just not the case. You have images and text of all different sizes floating in a white page.
Take it from me, I’m the creative director of an advertising vendor.
1. Not having a navigation bar, even if it is only for categories, close to the top is a BAD design flaw for a blog.
2. The first new sentences of an article is what draws people to read the rest… People rarely trust headlines these days. Not your fault, blame misleading newspapers and magazines.
3. Text highlight (background colours for text) are generally not a good idea, maybe in 2002, not in 2009. They are counter minimalist.
4. WTF FONTS? Your front page uses san-serif fonts… your actual news articles use serifs… your logo is blocks… your tagline is in system style and your “comments live” image is in comic… Are you schizo?
5. I could go on… but fix those for now I reckon. Will be an undertaking as is.
Mike
I fucking hate it.
allstarecho
It looks like a train wreck happened and everyone involved, vomited all over the place.
dbb
I’ve tried to go back to classic but once you click on the story read it, you then have to go back to the new then look you scroll down to click on classic again..like i said in a different post (until I found this link in the classic view..not sure where this story is located inthe new view) and to explain myself better you seemed to have dumbed down queerty..I guess us queers just need a pic and a headline to learn all we need to know about something. I guess what I’m saying is IT”s a big OH HELL TO THE NO!!! on this design to much work just to read a story. go back to old and like someone else said make the new design the choice…. One less blog to read at lunch time if it stays like this and i’ve been a reader for years of queerty so it saddens me. I just don’t have the time to figure out the mess of the new design to read what I want.
Alexa
I’m finding now that if I enter the site through the old front page so that I can easily see what’s new and/or commented on since I was last here, and then go to the new front page to see more content, that it works quite well.
Michael vdB
I would have to agree that I do not like the new format. It is way too busy. The idea for putting the information in a scan type format is a good one, but it needs to be de-cluttered. If you are trying to do it right, follow some of the news websites (eg. http://www.ctv.ca) Pictures do not need to be attached to everything.
Thank-you for keeping the old link because I prefer the last format.
Landon Bryce
One of the things that has pushed Queerty into first place as my favorite gay blog is your recognition that the traditional blog has been inhibited by a series of visual conventions that get in the way of continuous improvement of design. I greatly appreciate your integration of custom motion graphics as a key element of the site. I like the new design, but I would like it better with two changes. First, the site logo seems undersized in relation to the blocks of images around it. Please consider allowing it more actual size and playing with design elements to give it greater weight. Also, please find a way to create a greater visual distinction between different blocks of images. Without that, the number of them becomes overwhelming to me.
Adam
I appreciate the attempt and like the concept, BUT it needs alot more work to be appealing to the eye and easier to digest. Love the articles every day, though.
andy
Awful and confusing. Sorry but I read this at work and don’t have the time to digest that “everything all at once” first page. Please go back to old Queerty.
Craig
I have never known a website/blog to do redesigns/refreshs SO frequently. I swear Queerty changes it’s look at least once every two months. Talk about an identity crisis! It is obvious that they need to hire a new designer since they can’t get this right and none or very few of us have liked any of the redesigns. Stick with the Classic; that is from months ago, and is the most user friendly!!
Jamie
Sweet Christ on a throne. This is hideous. Awwfulll.
I mean, it’s a SINGING COMPETITION. Oh, wait. Got a little Cowell’ed away there.
Seriously I still like the last revamp. This one’s like a psychotic dartboard display of the news. Can’t tell what’s new without looking everywhere. The “recent posts” thing should be at the top at least.
Run out of ritalin this week, guys?
damascene
I like the old format better. Being able to read the first few lines of the stoey helps me to decide whether read the entire articles.
Bad Touch Football
I don’t like it, and most of my issues have already been stated.
You claim to have the new layout in order to give more of the site in a glance, but it doesn’t do this at all. It gives you less of the site, by eliminating the front page synopses of articles, and puts so many of these on the page at once that it is impossible to make any sense of it whatsoever.
On a side note, I must say that this layout, at first glance, bears a remarkable resemblance to the new xtube.com layout. When choosing porn, this works great. When wanting to read a news story, not so much.
Maybe you should consider posting more porn?
Henry G
Please ditch the new Jossip / Queerty format. It’s confusing, hard to read, non-informative about what
the article is really about, looks like Hell, and appears to be something that Paris or Perez Hilton would think looks “Cool.”
Brianna
I really don’t like the new design. I didn’t mind the last change. This…I don’t even know. I don’t know where to look. If I hadn’t looked at the classic version, I wouldn’t know what is new. I can’t see the live comments from the main page. I don’t like having to scroll down to find the search bar.
Tom D Frog
Way to overwhelming. Thanks for trying. It makes every news story look like an ad. Without intro synopsis, I won’t be reading on. The server is WAY too slow for me to read every article.
The link to the old version was almost missed. I had almost deleted my bookmark for Querty. I don’t mind change as long as it is for the better. To much focus on big pictures and not enough on the actual news.
Tom
Ted
This is the absolute perfect way to prevent new readership! This format is all wrong. The titles of the articles should be above the pictures, the headings for the sections should be larger than the titles, the teaser for the article should be a bit longer if you’re going to include a huge picture, and there should be a section that just has lists of titles that you can click on for the people who aren’t big into pictures.
Pictures should be used sparingly as they should be meant to focus in on something. You should have a proper header on the site that doesn’t involve a new image every 5 minutes, and you should do more grouping of articles like you have done at the bottom of the page.
Finally, the white background needs to go and replaced with a light color of some sorts.
Good luck! And it might be a good idea to do a few moch-ups of different layouts and list them as a poll on the site. You could easily do a moch-up in PowerPoint or PhotoShop.
Greg Ever
Why does Queerty feel the need to keep changing the layout of the site every few months? And if you’re going to do that, at least make the newer layout an improvement. The design of this site just keeps getting worse and worse.
The new layout is way too chaotic and overwhelming, even moreso than the previous ones, which I honestly thought was impossible to do. The design of this site is now officially an abomination, to use a word we’re all familiar with.
Please, please, please get rid of this new layout. Make this new tiled picture/headline thing the optional bookmark and keep the normal blog layout as the main thing you see when you come to Queerty.com. And if you don’t do that, I really hope you pay attention to the web stats to see the number of people who view the site via the old design link versus how few people are going to end up looking at the new homepage.
faghag
stupid as usual.
wtf is wong with you?
faghag
oh….and THIS SUXXXXX!!
jackson
Last straw. This site is simply not worth the effort. Half the stories are ripped from other bloggers. Plus, this design is one of the worst I’ve seen. I don’t care if the “old” version remains available. The fact that you think this is an upgrade says a lot about your “taste level”. (Yes, I quoted Project Runway.)
Greg Ever
I should add… The worst part of the new design is that it’s not chronologically ordered anymore. It’s in categories now, so you have to go through the whole page and try to remember whether you’ve read an article already or not, which is made even more difficult by the fact that there is nothing but a headline and photo, which furthermore sometimes has little to do with what the article is actually about…
So it just takes a lot more thinking and a lot more time to go through the site, which really undermines the whole idea of making it more user-friendly. It’s really not!
Thor
Its really bad. I know you guys want more page impressions, but really make it a tad bit neater. Its not that big of a deal for me because I read this blog via a feed reader. Try going for like a Gawker design.
rickp
Am I the only one that wishes Alan Brickman would just die?
Scudder
Make it stop!
mz spears
I am not a fan of the new layout because I may miss a really interesting story if im just given a little picture and a title. The old layout let me scan articles more easily.
Erick
Too crowded.
A few suggestions:
1. Its too cluttered. Try redicing the amount of post in each row. You have and average of 5, try reducing to 4 or 3 even. I get the idea of displaying more content, but it has to look good, otherwise it will drive people off. The problem is that post need to be more separated to be pleasing to the eye, and for that you need to loose some of the post per each row.
2. Move the search box to the header, next to the login box, right where the X Box is. Right now its buried in the middle of the clutter and it should be easier to find. That would make the link to the old look more handy until you sort this out.
3. It seems that you have a “spotlight” row where content you and/or the readers? deem relevant. Its not noticeable enough, make it stand out better. Maybe a more striking line to separate them from the rest than the measly dotted line its now.
4. While we are at it, if this for more relevant content, why are they with the rest of the post. They are taking valuable real estate by being in both places, if you leave them out there would be more space for more content to compensate for reducing the amount of post in row. When new post show up, then…they should be moved with the rest of the bunch.
5. The grouped content at the end is a very good idea, but the color you are using for the titles is ugly. I know orange is your thing so why not using trough the entire site no need to change it. And why not loose the blocks altogether, use well defined orange text like you do all over the site, this goes for the grey boxes over each post as well, probably the ugliest single element on the new look, really amateurish.
mico
Horrible, Please go back to old look… this is not user friendly
Dick
the words “New Coke” have any meaning for you?
Allen
The new layout is way to busy. It makes you just want to go through the entire website without really reading anything. I liked the original one. I am only assuming that David made the decision that both site changes (jossip and queerty) But as some others mentioned, you will lose people the new layout is horrible. I like v1 (?) this would make it v3.
Ali
People only post normally about design changes if they have a complaint… but I love it!
Eric
ARE YOU GUYS JUST USING AMATEUR TEMPLATES FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES? THIS IS HORRIBLE DESIGN. LOOKS LIKE GOOGLE IMAGES THREW UP ALL OVER THE PAGE AND SOMEONE JUST DECIDED TO WRITE GAY THEMED ARTICLES ALL OVER THEM.
You are greatly undervaluing your content with this and the previous AWFUL designs. It would be smart to hire a designer.
Vito
Terrible. Too busy.
Looks like a checkerboard on an iPhone. At least a mobile version.
Eclipse
Categories are meaningless to me. I read the blog for news updates, not travel tips or tv recaps. There are other sites that do those better.
If queerty is meant to be a news digest (i.e. a BLOG), then revert to the old format where I always know if something new has been posted.
Please, please see BoingBoing.net for a clean, simple, easy to read layout.
I absolutely will not be reading your new page this way (even if I could without having a seizure).
jake
This totally works for me. I read a million words a minute (total exaggeration). I go to at least 20 sites an hour while working, spending 20 seconds scanning for updates. The volume of information on one page is important. I like to get the whole idea in 10 words to know what I really want to read. This works for a person like me scanning for useful information. I was jarred for the first minute, but I quickly adapted and I find that the stuff I’m less inclined to read is at the bottom, great! When I want to get a hard-on from morning goods, I just scroll to the bottom, but I want new hard facts from media and that’s at the top and I can read the headlines from left to right easily and the tags really work to help me consider what I even like to read. Some days I have a politics day, some days it’s local news, some days it’s just gossip. I can choose. I think the comments against it are just reactions to the difference in the way the information is organized. I hate stacked information where I scroll scroll scroll. Now I can see 8 different headings all the same size next to each other. I’ll be visiting more often.
Jordan
Hate it 🙁
scott
I couldn’t even find this thread.
The new look is HORRENDOUS. Who designed this crapfest. It’s so effin’ busy. I can’t find crap.
I hated the last new look. I seriously hate the new, new look. Blech.
Fire that designer or whoever decided this was a good idea.
AWFUL. AWFUL. AWFUL.
Kdogg
WAAAY TOO BUSY, MY BRAIN IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE FROM CONTENT OVERLOAD.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
DuPree
Aggghh. The last update was bad enough – this one takes the cake for non-intuitive and user-unfriendly. I’ll check back in a month or so to see if sanity has returned.
Puck
The new site sucks worse than my last boyfriend, and he bit me so hard I bled. Go get an enema and massage. Find a guy fuck his brains out, find another guy, get your brains fucked out and try again
burton21
Who is your consultant for these redesigns? They need to be fired. Unless it’s Japhy, in which case… stick to writing honey.
Seriously though, I know it has been said before but the new layout is indeed a textbook example of a clusterfuck. It took me awhile to adapt to your prior redesign, but I did eventually come to enjoy it (though not nearly as much as the first design). Thank you, though, for giving us options. More than we can say about those idiots running Facebook.
Confessions of a Bad Boy
I actually don’t mind it. It’s better than the last one which was so heinous.
GayIsTheWay
I like the new look.
Trey C.
@rickp: LMAO. Well, hate to conform to the crowd, but they are right. It’s horrible.
Karloff
I’ll be bookmarking Classic Queerty. This is far too busy and I don’t like the cropped photo thing that every news site seems to be doing now.
Mike
I don’t mind the new look, but I miss being able to follow updates in chronological order! The link to the “old version” is fine but makes me worry that it’s just going to be around for a short time.
red phone
…and besides everything else, it makes no sense to have “breaking news” in a place at the bottom of the page where you have to scroll down to find it. you know how sites like msnbc and cnn put their breaking news in a highlighted banner at the very top of the page? that makes sense. this? well,….i think the overwhelming majority of the comments speak for themselves.
Jason
Definitely classic for me too. It’s too cluttered. At least Drudge puts spaces between his articles so you can tell when one ends and another begins.
Kit
It was bad enough that the old “new” Queerty was so busy you really couldn’t fathom what was on the blog. Now we have this new “new” Queerty that is even worse. Whoever the web designer is should be shot. Web design should be simple, elegant, and user friendly. This one, nor it’s immediate predecessor, is most assuredly not.
vinee
I hate the new layout! pls revert back!
Justin
My only objection is that on the older version I could scan through it chronologically…now it’s harder to tell what’s new and what’s old
Darwin
Evolution isn’t pretty.
mike
Guys, I’ve been a regular reader of your site for at least three years or so. I’ve seen a number of re-dos and out of all of them this one I like the absolute least. It’s too much and it just doesn’t work. I’d almost go as far to say this is as bad as the “new Facebook” bad, but will say it’s just short of that. Not user friendly. No sense of story chronology. I really do hope you’ll keep the previous version available indefinitely until you figure out exactly what you’re trying to achieve here. Otherwise, I could easily see this blog becoming a 2nd tier stop for me instead of a first choice. Really do hope you take the others’ feedback into consideration.
Gene
Oh, god, no.
Please, no.
And a little more constructive: this is lovely if you want to see all posts at once and only, say, pick ONE to read. But if, like me, you want to read everything every day, then you must click click click click click click click click click click click…
horrible. terrible. sorry, but you simply have to abandon this experiment — or at least put it back the way it was and create a link to the new look as secondary.
sdandy
Not a big fan. I would much rather have some content accessible to know whether I want to read the post or not. If it is a move to get people to click on posts more, it won’t work for me. I will be much less likely to click on a picture and headline without any content/context.
That said, the idea of having ‘channels’ is a good option. I don’t particularly like the pop-culture trash postings, so it would be nice to have those partitioned out of my way.
But I need to see more about the posts to know whether I want to read them. It visually is just tooooooo busy with thumbnails that aren’t always appropriate to the story.
BRK
Hate to say it, but I hate the new layout, too.
It’s far too busy. It’s harder for me to identify which articles are new. Also, I don’t like having only a headline and an image to decide which articles I will read.
I liked the old blog format better. I agree with this user, who said: “I like the old one much better. It offered a brief intro to the headline, so if I was only marginally interested in something, I could read the intro and move on. Or read the intro and then decide whether or not to continue reading. With this, all I have to go by are the headlines, which isn’t enough.”
Eminent Victorian
Horrible. It just looks as if there’s were loading errors with the page, which is what I thought at first until I kept getting the same visual disaster after refreshing the page. Glad to have a link to the better format, but no. You’ve made it easy to not want to come back now.
Steve
Cluttered. Difficult to read. Difficult to find anything. Not usable on narrow screens. Fails to distinguish between classes of content (news, gossip, opinion, boys).
This layout is enough to make me read Towleroad or one of the others, instead of this rag.
HYHYBT
I had to refresh the page twice thinking it had loaded badly; that’s really *not* the impression you’d want a new visitor to have. (At least, it shouldn’t be.) Most of the details of what I don’t like have been mentioned many times already, so I won’t repeat them, but please consider this: I only found your site last summer, but enjoyed it so much that I read back to the beginning and have read it almost every day since. Once I latch onto a new daily site, I rarely let go: there’s one that was always irregular with updates but has been silent since August or so that I still check a couple of times a week, and a couple that haven’t been updated in a couple of *years* that I check back with every couple of months just in case. But if it hadn’t been for the unobvious link to the previous version, tonight probably would have been the last time I opened Queerty except for, say, items that turn up in a Google search.
Really, it’s hard to believe that the horror that is now Queerty’s main page was accidental. Could more than one person *possibly* have looked at a preview or mockup of that and thought it was attractive and easily navigable? Or is the idea to force as many people as possible to open as many pages as possible just to see whether it’s something interesting, or even whether they’ve already read it or not (the titles and photos being so similar day-to-day and the lack of any noticeable separation by time)? That won’t work, because most folks won’t bother.
Thanks for the link to the old look, which was, after all, the new look just this past November or so so you really didn’t need a redesign again in the first place. There’s a certain beauty in being able to start at the top and just read, following the “continued” links where something is particularly interesting and skipping over what isn’t, and knowing that when you hit something you’ve read before you can just stop without missing anything.It’s very nearly what makes a site a blog. Now, if you want to get away from that and be more of a news site format (which is what the front page, minus the cards-thrown-in-the-air feel, seems to be going for), well, that can be good too, but how about ditching most of the pictures in favor of a couple of sentences describing the article, for starters, so we have some idea what’s what?
scott
We need a poll. And I bet, over 95% would HATE THIS “RE-DESIGN”.
Man, I could barely type that. It’s an affront to all Designers to even call it a design.
GayBobVT
This may have been mentioned by others, but just as I don’t have time to sort through your main page, I don’t have time to read 107 comments.
It’s your blog you can do what you want, but having giving me the option of using the old format – why does it revert back to the new after I go to a story? Gets tiresome. At least put the “use the old formate” button at the top.
Timmeeeyyy
1. No visual hierarchy. Don’t know where to look first on the page.
2. Can’t keep track of what I have and have not read.
3. Not enough info to know if I want to click on a thumbnail or not.
4. Wider format is more difficult to use.
Overall, do not like.