T/S: Defamer v. Gawker

kind of weak that the writers' names don't show up on the front page

what a disaster for nick denton

http://gawker.com/#!5755071/married-gop-congressman-sent-sexy-pictures-to-craigslist-babe

On the morning of Friday, January 14, a single 34-year-old woman put an ad in the "Women for Men" section of Craigslist personals. "Will someone prove to me not all CL men look like toads?" she asked, inviting "financially & emotionally secure" men to reply.

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Finally, if someone had hacked into his account and was seeking to discredit the politician, why shoot in the dark with such relatively benign emails to a totally random middle-aged woman on Craigslist, who didn't seem motivated one way or the other to us, beyond wanting to share a funny story? And funny it is.

Seriously?

People have been grinding that axe everywhere on the web. Pretty hilarious.

yikes!

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/17/gawker-redesign/

i've definitely been reading gawker less since the redesign, not out of like aesthetic rage but just because it's more awkward and difficult to use

Maybe they just don't like Max.

Yeah, it's hardly worth reading, now.

^lol

it's more awkward and difficult to use

Totally. The side scroll bar doesn't work for me at all, ever. Also for some reason today the 'traditional' view actually seems to be refreshing more slowly than the 'top story' view. And they've posted the same story (Paris Hilton) twice today.

pretty sure the paris hilton story has only been posted once

i would've been completely adjusted to the re-design already if the sidebar ever properly scrolled

so can you not search for old posts now or am i being dumb?

the old design was definitely archaic in some ways and def not elegant but i always thought that might have been a strength in a weird way

I'm not super familiar with the Gawker redesign. Just curious why a lot of people don't praise it.

i pretty much stopped checking it after the redesign. not a conscious FUCK YOU decision, it was just awkward and i can get most of that stuff elsewhere. i was actually wondering what kind of traffic they were pulling in the other night, i knew i couldn't be the only one.

theyre fixing search

you can do a tag search by just adding the tag to the end of the url

http://gawker.com/lindsaylohan

http://gawker.com/robots

or you can just use google which was better than the old site search anyway

pretty sure the paris hilton story has only been posted once

I don't want to harp on this, but it definitely showed up twice on my screen in the blog view, separated by several other stories - same headline, same photo. And one of those times, the headline was written twice. I think it's fixed now, but I can't tell because suddenly all the stories posted after 9am today have disappeared from the blog view.

My issues are mostly to do with glitches - I have no problem with the redesign itself. I'm sure once the bugs are ironed out it will be pretty smooth to read and I'll be back to being a happy lurker.

xp thanking u

I keep getting stories showing up twice like that too, and others disappearing completely when I'm sure they were there earlier. I'm on the blog view too which is allegedly the easier one.

its possible the splash stories that get posted as roundups

so its not actually a duplicate post but a roundup post that has the same headline and splash photo

i'm having an issue with the blog view too. so i scroll down and look through all the stories on the left column, until eventually it gives me a "next page" button. but when i click it, it pulls up a page of older stories, completely skipping over a whole bunch of new content that i know exists because it's listed in the right column.

oh except now i went back to verify that i was looking at the blog view (i was), and i switched from "Blog View" to "Top News" to "Blog View" again, and now the left column has cut off like six of the top stories and is loading at some strange midpoint of the list.

do you have adblock on?

no, i'm on opera.

gawker in IE 5.5

http://oi52.tinypic.com/2ib20yx.jpg

gawker in IE 6

http://oi54.tinypic.com/ji2h05.jpg

lets try netscape navigator

thats how its supposed to look

dont you get it

new paradigm

that's some blingee web 2.0 shit right there

Best is in the UK it takes you to http://uk.gawker.com automatically which still looks like the old site.

v important gawker redesign thoughts future of ~the internet~

Best is in the UK it takes you to http://uk.gawker.com automatically which still looks like the old site

was gonna mention this
no-one in the uk visiting gawker dot com wants to read uk-centric stories from gawker imo
uk focus ... denied

it seems to have stopped doing that coz it was retarded

im usually knee-jerky about redesigns but anyway, i don't like new-look gawker

not enough information about the stories now, and the scrolling situation is still sub-optimal

Lifehacker instaclassic: http://uk.lifehacker.com/5763929/cool-hot-drinks-quickly-with-a-saucer

If you want [a fast] way to cool a cup of coffee...pour the top part of it from the cup into a saucer, and then back again a few times. The large and constantly changing surface area during this process will cause extremely rapid evaporation of those high-energy outliers, much faster than stirring.

gooni

gli gooni

According to Solsano, DJ Paulie D is pulling down $50,000 a gig to play his beat-laden brand of house music.

"beat-laden brand of house music"

Elsewhere in the empire:

http://jalopnik.com/#!5787861

lol

i'm still trying to figure out which house music is not laden with beats

max you convinced nick denton to replace that w/ a public transit blog, right??

the few comments on that really don't seem to care, does anyone actually read that blog? I don't understand blog economics

blogonomics

if nick denton was willing to sell it, probably not, no

guys

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ray wert sounds like a jerk name