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.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Monday, 14 March 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 14 March 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
They got rid of the option to look at 8+ rated albums
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 14 March 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link
I like that the redesign gives a little more emphasis to the other four non-banner albums that get reviewed every day.
― flappy bird, Monday, 14 March 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
How dare they subject us to those garbage 7.9ers
― Evan, Monday, 14 March 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
apparently sheer mag got a BNM today, might be one of the worst ever
no way
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 March 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
Sheer Mag can't be good, didn't you read MTV News today? indie rock is dead
― alpine static, Monday, 14 March 2016 22:57 (eight years ago) link
is LJ saying he doesn't like Sheer Mag?
― flopson, Monday, 14 March 2016 23:53 (eight years ago) link
I pretty much hate all contemporary underground rock-qua-rock bands but even I will ride for Sheer Mag
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 00:31 (eight years ago) link
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
― Laertiades (imago), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 00:35 (eight years ago) link
Sheer Mag is great
― robbie ca$hflo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 00:51 (eight years ago) link
reading the reviews on Firefox isn't a great experience, I scroll down slightly and suddenly I'm halfway through a different album
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 10:28 (eight years ago) link
this design kind of sucks
better on mobile sure i guess but it is bad
― marcos, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link
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, 15 March 2016 14:35 (eight years ago) link
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!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:39 (eight years ago) link
did they stop including links to play tracks in the reviews? too bad if so, that was convenient.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 17:17 (eight years ago) link
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...
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link
― 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
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
I don't know anything about website design, but I'm definitely having trouble reading the reviews.
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
also why is the album cover such a tiny little square in the reviews, you can barely see it
― marcos, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
album is dead
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
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?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
i mean ABC. hard to keep all these sexy cop tv shows in check
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
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
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
are u woke
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
mcgorry levels
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
this design kind of sucksbetter 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
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
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.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link
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
― flopson, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Friday, 18 March 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
rip pitchfork imo
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 13:52 (eight years ago) link
i don't what it is about the redesign but it is just so empty and blah and serves to diminish the content imo
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 13:53 (eight years ago) link
yeah the Zedd calls Diplo a "Jealous Little Bitch" story lacks gravitas in this new format
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 13:57 (eight years ago) link
lol
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 13:58 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 13:58 (eight years ago) link
lol both fader and p4k have a weeknd' house of balloons feature today
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 13:59 (eight years ago) link
lol complex too!
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:00 (eight years ago) link
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"
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:02 (eight years ago) link
― marcos, Tuesday, March 22, 2016 9:59 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― marcos, Tuesday, March 22, 2016 10:00 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
who wore it best??
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:03 (eight years ago) link
match the outlet to the correct headline:
'Caine & Abel: Why 'House of Balloons' Was the Weeknd at His Purest
The Weeknd’s House of Balloons Remains Pop's Great Mysterious Entrance
How House of Balloons Changed R&B
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:05 (eight years ago) link
can u guess?
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:06 (eight years ago) link
Pop's Great Mysterious Entrance
ewww
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:08 (eight years ago) link
one benefit of a catastrophic shift in gravity that altered the orbit of earth would be that that all the anniversaries would be thrown out of wack. what do you do when your birthday now takes place every 458 earth days? do you still count all the previous birthdays, and just accept that you now get "older" more slowly? do you retroactively adjust everything to the new, longer orbit, so that maybe you've been married for only 15 years now instead of 18? and most importantly, how would that affect the 5 year anniversary of the weeknd's house of balloons?
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:10 (eight years ago) link
brb, i have to pitch that idea to the pitch tag
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link
hasn't the industry planted the weeknd deep enough yet
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:16 (eight years ago) link
yeah it's pretty hilarious to see "Vince Staples Yelp Reviews Kentucky Chicken Restaurant" in the momentous headline presentation of the new format.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link
Feel like the new format will the thing which moves me from 'still checking in once a day' to 'often forgetting to check in whatsoever for days at a time'
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 10:03 (eight years ago) link
^ Yeah, this. It feels really messy at present. There's something to be said for very clearly defined sections of content.
― Position Position, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 13:49 (eight years ago) link
yeah i essentially have no idea where anything is on the site lol. but maybe casual readers can't tell the diff either way & most websites have weak homepage traffic as it is.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 23 March 2016 13:58 (eight years ago) link