OT: Wtf did they do to Blazersedge?

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  1. santeesioux

    santeesioux Just keep on scrolling by

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    santeesioux, Sep 25, 2012
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    boo indeed.
     
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  3. BoBoBREWSKI

    BoBoBREWSKI BURP!

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    I like it.

    Nobody ever likes it when a website is changed... but soon get used to it.
     
    BoBoBREWSKI, Sep 25, 2012
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  4. HailBlazers

    HailBlazers RipCity

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    True.
     
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    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    I think it looks fine. It has a feel like they want to make it SmartPhone friendly.
     
    Eastoff, Sep 25, 2012
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    UKRAINEFAN Well-Known Member

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    It needs a little fine tuning, but overall looks pretty good.
     
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    before: zero clicks required.
    now: clicks required.

    It's probably easier to get to their advanced content, but harder to get to their basic content. I don't like it, but future me may like it better.
     
    Wizard Mentor, Sep 25, 2012
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    RoyToy Clown Town

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    Blazersedge new layout

    I hate it
     
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    blue32 Who wants a mustache ride?

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    I definitely think it's worse now. Information is definitely harder to get to. Now it favors fancy looking graphics. blah.
     
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    for sites like mccoveychronicles where every post gets 1000 comments...its MUCH harder to follow and the writing now goes off the screen where you have to scroll over to read it.

    bad
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Losing no sleep....... that was my first time visiting that site.
     
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    It looks like it will be harder to find info. I see on another thread about Stotts starting lineup and in the thread it says the source is BlazersEdge. I looked and looked for that story and still have not found it.
     
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    Fez Hammersticks スーパーバッド Zero Cool

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    Is Dave really behind this redesign?

    It's total shit.
     
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    Darkwebs Awakened to emptiness Staff Member Moderator

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    The old layout was so much better. What are the advantages of this new design? More ad revenue?
     
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    TradeNurkicNow piss

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    i never went there before, but i like it now. big and shiny
     
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    Ad revenue could be the reason. The more pages a viewer has to click thru gives the site more opportunities to show different web ads which increases the impression #'s for each ad.
     
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    It is a responsive design. You can see it by starting with a large browser window and then drag it to be smaller. The site images get smaller at first, and then at some "break point" it becomes a single column at the top, and then at a third break point, it hides the navigation.

    This allows for better experiences on all of desktop/tablet/smartphone than there would be if they had a non-responsive design.

    Ed O.
     
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    Thanks for explaining that, because all I thought was this:

     
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    Those things definitely might be a factor.

    I didn't/don't go to BE very much, but I think that they have gone to more big pictures, right? It's gotten away from the "river of news" which is what most blogs are (and, presumably, was the technology that BE was based on) to a more visual approach. Some people love that and some people hate it, of course, but if they don't do a good job, editorially, of keeping interesting stuff highlighted at the top then it is going to be a potential clusterf***.

    Ed O.
     
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