pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

i did sort of like that they were one of the sites with a background that was a different color than white

The "Best New Music" tag seems quiet now imo. I thought announcing that was their bread and butter, in the sense that's it's been their main taste-making validation tactic.

^ I think we can assume that album reviews aren't being read as much as they were judging from the overall redesign.

tbh i only really ever read the news from pitchfork and even with that i only get 3 headlines, have to scroll past a bunch of crap i don't want to see. that's not to say that their previous design with that tiny scrolling newsbox was much better, i just liked having it all in one place

also they left their sourcemaps on</nerdlolz>

looks just like fader now

isn't it totally normal for websites that redesign to have a little summary of the redesign near the top? i expect that'll be up there all day

― Karl Malone, Monday, March 14, 2016 1:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol yes of course, idk how you can fault a website for explaining what they've changed and why they've changed it for, like, the first several hours after relaunching

― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, March 14, 2016 1:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

use a cookie and show it to me once and don't call it fucking news

i mean it's getting in the way of my finding out that pitchfork and gopro have collaborated to bring me a wolf eyes video!!

apparently sheer mag got a BNM today, might be one of the worst ever

http://pitchfork.com/rss/news/

http://pitchfork.com/rss/reviews/albums/

etc.

returning 404

man, look at this thread of esteemed media professionals giving "YOU DUN GOOFED" opinions about a website redesign, did I fall asleep and wake up at #SXSWi?!?!

I liked about the previous site that you could hover over an album cover on the main page's reviews and then get a brief summary of what the album/artist was in addition to the review's "thesis" or whatever you'd call it. I am probably not more likely to open review links now that that feature is gone. Agree too that the news with all the images is more cumbersome than before.

that innovation is def gonna please all the 4chan "cuckfork" ppl who think they're giving rap and R&B unjustly high scores because of "white guilt"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, March 14, 2016 1:44 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait what this is something that happens?!

― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, March 14, 2016 7:28 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, they overrated the Anderson .Paak album, but I'm not ready to leap to conclusions.

They got rid of the option to look at 8+ rated albums

I like that the redesign gives a little more emphasis to the other four non-banner albums that get reviewed every day.

How dare they subject us to those garbage 7.9ers

apparently sheer mag got a BNM today, might be one of the worst ever

no way

Sheer Mag can't be good, didn't you read MTV News today? indie rock is dead

is LJ saying he doesn't like Sheer Mag?

I pretty much hate all contemporary underground rock-qua-rock bands but even I will ride for Sheer Mag

i really didn't like that one song i heard

idk i'll take some convincing

fwiw i just saw of montreal. indie rock LIVES

Sheer Mag is great

reading the reviews on Firefox isn't a great experience, I scroll down slightly and suddenly I'm halfway through a different album

this design kind of sucks

better on mobile sure i guess but it is bad

gradually the internet is turning into series of blocky article summaries arranged into grids. i feel like i'm using Finder and it's set to display everything as giant Icons and it can't be changed

not just pitchfork, of course. this is the new shitty way to arrange websites, it blows

if it were up to me, entire websites would be replaced by a single search bar, dubbed "the tagfinder", and you'd just have to search for what you want, google style, except that all the tags would be somewhat arbitrary and silly, Awl-style. forgot the name of the website? you just type in "name of website" and maybe it'll come up in the search results, maybe it won't. enough hand holding!

did they stop including links to play tracks in the reviews? too bad if so, that was convenient.

I really liked that Vampire Weekend at the frat for Bernie Sanders piece. Is it just me or has the tone in the news shifted? Digging it so far...

gradually the internet is turning into series of blocky article summaries arranged into grids. i feel like i'm using Finder and it's set to display everything as giant Icons and it can't be changed

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, March 15, 2016 10:35 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i spent the past 2 days watching tutorials on Adobe Experience Manager and CQ5 for some upcoming web work and you are 100% otm there

I don't know anything about website design, but I'm definitely having trouble reading the reviews.

also why is the album cover such a tiny little square in the reviews, you can barely see it

album is dead

on the plus side you have 1/3rd the page devoted to an ad for "The Sexiest Cat And Mouse Game On Television"

so if Existential Synthesizer Music isn't your jam.... how about some prime time CBS?

i mean ABC. hard to keep all these sexy cop tv shows in check

If you think any for-profit site on the internet isn't governed by the whims of how advertisers want to see their ads presented you're in for quite the wake up call

are u woke

mcgorry levels

this design kind of sucks

better on mobile sure i guess but it is bad

had a website redesigned last year and the developers were pushing "the mobile web" as the primary thing to think about. if I didn't like the way something looked on my laptop, they'd encourage me to look at it on my phone, to really understand that that was what they were designing for. it was annoying as hell

Something like 65 percent of the traffic to my day job's site comes via phone now. I'm working on redesigning it into a single endless column of text rather than discrete pages. It's annoying.

striking the balance between looks good on screen and looks good on phone/tab is important imo, some websites are basically unusable on the latter and it sucks

i enjoyed their feature where you could see the albums, tracks and headlines that received the most traffic over the past 7 days, 30 days or 90 days. i thought it was kinda fun and helpful for knowing what stuff was exciting their readers. i'm clicking on the review expecting it to be there, but it's not there.

rip pitchfork imo

i don't what it is about the redesign but it is just so empty and blah and serves to diminish the content imo

yeah the Zedd calls Diplo a "Jealous Little Bitch" story lacks gravitas in this new format

lol

yeah, you really have to dig through to find stuff that isn't "news", and the news is the same stuff that every other music blog takes from other sites and barely bothers rewording writes about.

lol both fader and p4k have a weeknd' house of balloons feature today

lol complex too!

The Pitch was always kind of an odds n ends category anyway, with some of the worst stuff they've ever published alongside some good stuff, but now i guess it's been demoted to a tag that's sparingly used? i don't know how many first time pfork visitors there are, but to the extent that anyone notices it anymore they must be like "wtf is the pitch?"

or who knows, maybe they're like "wow this endless series of squares looks great on my mobile phone"

lol both fader and p4k have a weeknd' house of balloons feature today

― marcos, Tuesday, March 22, 2016 9:59 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol complex too!

― marcos, Tuesday, March 22, 2016 10:00 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who wore it best??