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.

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.

Man, I could barely type that. It’s an affront to all Designers to even call it a design.

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?

This layout is enough to make me read Towleroad or one of the others, instead of this rag.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

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.

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).

Looks like a checkerboard on an iPhone. At least a mobile version.

You are greatly undervaluing your content with this and the previous AWFUL designs. It would be smart to hire a designer.

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.