Apologies to any readers who find the new colour scheme offensive. It’s a part of an ad campaign for Vodafone (go on, hug 100 mates, you know you want to), which not only do we need to pay the bills, but also goes to show how important you guys are to advertisers like Vodafone. If that doesn’t make the pain go away, we suggest patience – the skin isn’t permanent.
Dexxie
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM*hugs gizmodo*
Wilson Cheng
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 3:39 PMThis is just weird, the colour scheme only make there ad less stand out.
Ronin
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 3:45 PMMy eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh god my eyes …….!!!!!!!
they r burning………..
Ben
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 4:22 PMI actually quite like it, it’s a bit different (insert Kath & Kim joke here).
It’s a bit softer on the eyes… or something like that…
Frankyd
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 5:05 PMLooks like someone vomited all over my screen!
Yoshie
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 5:17 PMI don’t care about the colour
Been visiting this site and a few in competition with this site, this one is Awesome, Always got more stuff, and cooler stuff, and generally first to report the latest stuff.
Having a .au Tops it off, thanks Giz
Just finished going through your lego collection, excellent, brilliant thanks for putting this together, found the ones my parent bought me.
regarding the Colour, it’s still the same good site.
rangott
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 5:23 PMjust ignored the ads as per normal, didnt make me look more at the ads thats for sure.
Chris McMahon
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 5:42 PMYou guys must be really desperate for revenue to be willing to change your site design to puke-mustard.
I thought maybe one of those CES exhibitors you pissed off had hacked you and were trying to drive off readers by picked the most repulsive colour imaginable.
Wouldn’t pimping out your sisters/mothers for the cash be easier?
Chris
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 6:49 PMI think Vodafone will be very pleased with the fact that you have named them as the people who have chosen this crap colour we all hate :p
Done Sold
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 9:03 PMEmail me when the colour changes back and I’ll return.
Puggs
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 9:03 PMI just though someone had stuffed up… so it wasn’t the Web Master, it was the Advertising Master…
David D.
Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 12:19 AMI mean who is the artsy fartsy “Designer” or “Marketer” who came up with this scheme? What made this colour even come into “fashion”?
Unfortunately my place of work also went through a “rebranding” recently so we get to “choose” our colour scheme for our desktop: a putrid shade of green, burnt orange or grey. Most employees settle for grey to avoid vomiting on their keyboard!
zacislost
Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 3:04 AMThis ugly colour shceme brought to you by Vodafone
..so is that a reflection of their products?
This reminds me of the time when Seamus posted a story slamming Telstra.. and because it was a story about mobile phones it was ~sponsored~ by Telstra.. much hilarity