In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been working hard today to make your favourite gadget site even easier to read and interact with.
It’s not just a superficial design change though – we’ve jumped over to a whole new CMS which should significantly improve the backend of the site for the user. These improvements include making it easier to share your favourite Giz posts with the world via Digg, Facebook, Twitter and about 50 other social networking sites, Facebook Connect to let you comment on Giz using your Facebook profile, and a better archive management solution to let you browse through our extensive back catalog of gadget news and reviews easily.
We’re working through the initial teething problems now, but stick with us and you’ll have an even better Gizmodo experience. Let us know what you think!
David
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 10:51 PMThe new design looks MUCH cleaner and slicker to me – good move!
Andrew
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 11:10 PMOne slightly annoying thing is the rollover popup on the share link, esp the last one on the page. I always seem to slide across it on my way to the Next Page button. Can you not make it clickable instead of a mouseover…
Mark Giles
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 11:12 PMSorry guys, I’m not impressed. I don’t like not being able to read the majority of the summary of an article, and things are too small. It’s too fiddly, and needs to be bigger. It now reminds me of WIRED, which I hate.
I understand that you guys are linked with LifeHacker and the others, but syndicating styles to one that is less useful is not a good.
And I also agree with the comment about it looking like there is an increase in space for advising. Giz rivals Engadget with obnoxious, massive ads, and often wins.
Sorry, but I’m really not a fan. And it’s likely to stop me reading the only gadget site that has AU content.
Mark Giles
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 11:16 PMAlso, to add to that, I’ve noted the only large highlighted image on the front page is an Apple story. Hrm.
Salchicha
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 11:16 PMYeah, sorry, have to agree with the masses…I thought the bigger pics and writing was easier to read & to get the idea of a story better. I’d also been hoping Gizmodo wasn’t going to go the way of Kotaku & Defamer.
Still love the site tho :-)
Daniel
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 11:28 PMNooooo…go back!! Don’t like this new style!!!!!!
ed
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 6:50 AMI understand that a new CMS will make your life easier, but I can’t stand the new look as it is harder to see what is going on.
New features like Integration with Facebook is not on my list of what would make the site better – was there a poll that I missed?
Can you please create a gizmodo.com.au/classic with the old style sheets? After all, that’s the whole point of style sheets: to separate the presentation from the data.
Shaun Abrehart
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 8:52 AMi like the new design layout, sure i was also a fan of the big pictures, but that’s why we read more right ? :p
Sanj
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 9:13 AMI don’t like the new look. Prefer the old look.
matt
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 9:21 AMDo NOT like this new design, although it looks cleaner it is annoying being snared on the shared link and having the popup flash up. The images are too small too. You may think that it will help to click though on more stories but if the headline and brief text don’t do it, the small teaser image isn’t going to tempt me. It just feels like someone is being a tight-ass when it comes to pixels. No need to be giving readers less, that just makes me feel unappreciated. The new format is enough for me to give up on gizmodo
Bruce
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 9:56 AMI preferred the previous version. Bring back the bigger pictures. This new version is just like the US version. It doesn’t look as good on my iPhone… and the mobile site is dreadful.
Please make the pictures bigger or improve your site for mobile use.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 10:25 AMYeh I think i have to agree with the majority of the people here, i loved the big pictures and was the main reason i used the AU site instead of US, also for the Australian content. Did you put out a vote up that we all missed?
John Kirkham
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 11:22 AMI like the new design alot. The old one was too chunky/boxy.
Only thing I’d like is to fit more posts into a single page, but you need the page hits.
Angus
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 9:57 PMThe old design was better for me, nobody likes to hear that I know – I’m a designer. I think you could use more space to let the elements breathe and increase legibility. The text seems very tightly kerned.
Will
Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 8:58 AMI preferred the previous site better. The pictures were larger and you could actually see what the story was about. The pictures now are too small, and even going to the jump the pictures are still too small. It’s a nicer layout, but the small pictures ruin it.
Stew
Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 11:22 AMMore! Sorry.
On top of the main request to bring back large pics all the time,
* Keep the little AU flag on AU posts so we can tell US posts from AU posts!
* And in single day view (like giz.com.au/2009/06/11/) please don’t split it up into pages (like giz.com.au/2009/06/11/page/2/). Keep one page per day – even if it’s a long, long page.
* Put the “next day” and “previous day” buttons/links back when viewing one day of posts at a time
* I like that the auto-page-refresh on full articles appears to have gone. It makes video watching SO MUCH BETTER, esp on slow connections where you let in load up while reading something else. I *hated* watching half a vid then have the page refresh on me.
* The new comments without the “captcha” (sp?) “are you a human?” test is good – especially now that replies are indented, but I don’t know if I like how it’s split up into just 25 comments per view.
Cam
Friday, June 12, 2009 at 6:01 PMI don’t know why you’ve left the javascript in which auto-refreshes the page. It’s incredibly irritating, particularly when trying to watch an embedded video or something. I often open a whole heap of tabs I might be interested in reading then go through and close them as they’re read – it’s a waste of my bandwidth and yours to have those tabs refreshing away in the background. Please remove that script! Pretty please! Pretty pretty please!!