bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20131013/bill-simmons-magic-johnson-espn-media-circus/?xid=nl_siextra

doris is great. she actually seems human

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/espns-bill-simmons-connor-schell-667292

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BcHnb-dCIAA0dBz.jpg

there was a preview of that w/ that pull quote followed immed by a prev for the jon hamm indian mlb pitcher thing which simmons produced or smething right? spreading the brand p thin now

grantland got a redesign, its pretty bad

yeah it sucks but i always say that about new designs so we'll see

yeah i always liked the simplicity of the old design (esp w/ adblocker) but this is understandable, does a better job of promoting all their content or whatever. mainly just relieved they haven't gone to that 'this will look like garbage if you're not reading it on a tablet' design new republic and a bunch of others have adopted.

i liked the old design, never had trouble finding anything. it looks more cluttered now.

yeah their old design was more in keeping w recent white space and readability trends, tho they werent really clever or detail oriented enough to fit that much content in there, the new one has tons of content but is a total mess and a definite step backward as far as the evolution of web design, and its got a bunch of really corny lowest common denominator details, especially that sticky top stories box in the margin my god what is this techcrunch, nagl for a publication trying to brand themselves as quality

http://i.imgur.com/w4YI62E.png

lets get some of those full width images everyone has now
ok cool good idea what if the headline overlapped that in a odd haphazard way
great and we can add some navigation above that where if youre reading the most recent feature there will be an awkward empty space

ugh @ all that ugly white space after the article title & summary

oh also you know those side notes that are kind our thing lets just cram em in there lol

http://i.imgur.com/TxAa4Ok.png

o it definitely feels like a step back

xpost jeez thought it was just the splash page or whatever, didn't know they'd fucked up the actual readability of the posts now

over 34K ppl follow jacko on twitter. wtf.

i don't have that weird overlap with the headline on my comp

oh n/m i didn't realize it was on the feature page, not the homepage

are you looking at the article page or the home page ha xp tech support is reading yr mind

hahaha yeah the article page redesign is horrific

its like the opposite of what the times did w their redesign, like its fine i guess to try and just cram everything into the home page but the article pages shd be designed to maximize readability otherwise people arent going to like reading yr articles and they wont even know why theyll just not like you

oh also you know those side notes that are kind our thing lets just cram em in there lol

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 14, 2014 9:29 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They used to turn into footnotes on tablets and they still do only now no "jump" link to return to the article sure ill scroll up 10k words after I read this one line DJ mbenga joke actually nope

the whole thing is just so dumb, do not have notes of any kind unless you have a ton of sources to site its v annoying and pointless

obvs its not hard to imagine simmons brainstorming ways to fit more inane asides into his writing

i don't read much grantland other than simmons or lowe but lowe could really do without the footnotes anyway, actually he should basically stick to x's and o's i basically hate every opinion he has

that basically how i break it down to an extent

hate the footnotes because they don't work in my offline reading app where i pretend i am going to read things later

'it hurts so much that we failed [our asshole writer]'

people said mean things to him on the tweets

Grantland looks like a 1999 website now

yeah major step back

its bad

yeah the entire aesthetic of this is terrible, and not in a "way different but you'll get used to it" kind of way

its designed to cram as much stuff as possible in there w any concern for the reading experience or visual hierarchy or anything, and it does look very specifically dated for sure

"content everywhere" is such a bad design but I guess the intent is to get the most clicks-on-page so whatever works I guess

clicks on clicks on clicks

wonder if grantland wasnt doing as well as espn wouldve liked and they forced this design on them cause iirc simmons explained a lil bit of the original design and he seemed to understand re user experience and readability, which i think most writers do

but even if youre determined to cram all the clicks in there this is just really poor execution, like look at buzzfeed they have tons of shit everywhere but its way more user friendly than this

i will not look at buzzfeed

you know youre a 90s kid when you wont look at buzzfeed

I really liked the old site, one of my favorites on the whole internetz

the old site was good from a readability pov but imo but kinda lacked attention to detail otherwise, obvs the whole olde timey aesthetic is total garbage too but w/e

yeah v readable

oh wow theyre showing preload ads now too

the hipster design aesthetic was trendy yeah but the articles just read so nicely

ya thats by far the most important thing

that and ease of navigation

and fast loading

I hate sidebar footnotes but yeah I liked the old design a lot

i thought the old design was awesome, very readable who cares about the rest

it couldve been even more cooler and you wouldve liked it