pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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??

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

can u guess?

Pop's Great Mysterious Entrance

ewww

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?

brb, i have to pitch that idea to the pitch tag

hasn't the industry planted the weeknd deep enough yet

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

yeah it's pretty hilarious to see "Vince Staples Yelp Reviews Kentucky Chicken Restaurant" in the momentous headline presentation of the new format.

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'

^ Yeah, this. It feels really messy at present. There's something to be said for very clearly defined sections of content.

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.

The single worst thing about the new redesign is that you have to click on "The Latest" and then "Tracks" just to see a list of the latest tracks they covered, when it used to be right there on the front page. I don't really see the logic in moving that off the front page.

is there some reason designers are incapable of like styling designs to fit the platform? didn't that used to be a thing? did they give up on that?

is the pitchfork news just a ploy to keep the site at the top of all hot music-related searches

people saying that homepages aren't that important remind me of the gag where the cover of a book is misprinted and someone goes "you're ok, nobody looks at the...cover"

Don't know if this has been commented upon, but when did Pitchfork become "The Most Trusted Voice in Music"?

When I'm looking for a voice in music, I'm looking for a voice I can trust. And that is why I choose ... Robert Wyatt. Robert Wyatt: The Most Trusted Voice in Music.

yeah, i mentioned that upthread. of all the slogans to rip off, they went with CNN. lol

Don't know if this has been commented upon, but when did Pitchfork become "The Most Trusted Voice in Music"?

― MarkoP, Wednesday, March 23, 2016 1

Walter Cronkite called him that in 1961 iirc

is there some reason designers are incapable of like styling designs to fit the platform?

if you mean like having different device-specific designs versus the currently more popular device-responsive approach where the design, in theory, adapts to your device then the reason is that there are way too many devices with wildly varying screen dimensions now. also, there was some idea that the old m.website.com-style mobile site confused readers who were used to the look of the desktop site.

also the shift to mobile-dominated traffic is just a fact, especially for younger-skewing media companies. saw a presentation from a Buzzfeed dude the other day and he said ~70% of their traffic is mobile.

it's not up to the designers. web standards are constantly changing. for the 90s it was a lot of static self-contained HTML pages. nowadays every webpage is modular and dynamic whether it's designed for mobile or not. everything cross-platform all the time.

automated processes are there to help apply a brand style to every piece of posted content. but nobody goes in anymore and individually adjusts the text and photos for each article. it becomes a dance of tweaking the computer's input (often an in-house proprietary developed set of editing tools) to get the right balance where it looks closest to the sample someone designed way way way back in the process (before it had _this_ widget and _that_ widget added in for good measure).

honestly it's a miracle we see any of it at all.

people saying that homepages aren't that important remind me of the gag where the cover of a book is misprinted and someone goes "you're ok, nobody looks at the...cover"

― some dude, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 17:14 (1 hour ago) Permalink

This would make sense of people frequently accessed books by reading a single page after seeing it on their Facebook page

Today they bnm'ed Wadada Leo Smith & Vijay Iyer and Charles Bradley's new Black Sabbath cover. Are they changing away from indie-hype as well?

Nah, they just looooove Vijay Iyer. They've been polishing his knob for well over a decade.

Historicity

Accelerando

Solo

Tragicomic

In What Language? (with Mike Ladd)

A Charles Bradley cover that was originally released in 2013, and then later re-released late last year in promotion of his upcoming album now gets "Best New Music"? Better late than never, I guess.

Charles Bradley's retro soul is standard fare for indie fans as well

kinda feel like indie is not a thing anymore, like it doesn't exist

lol, sorry to rail on this one more time but now they have to do a quasi-news item to explain that they've named something a best new track:

http://i.imgur.com/Xtt1aa1.jpg

"there's got to be a better way"

Because it's a "big deal" duh!

lol at Charles Bradley's Cover of Black Sabbath's "Changes" is Named Best New Track. Too bad the Senate will never vote to confirm dudes.

Would find it really funny if this "news" gets reported by another Music website, given that a lot of them just seem to report on the same stories.

Aggrefork blog BNMNOW.com begins to outperform the hub site; buys conde nast and vows to become the new home for meta-millenial men

baaaaha, i thought it was just a one off mistake but it looks like it's a thing

http://i.imgur.com/8LTm4l7.jpg

Pleeeeease let a band called Track release a really good song with Track in the title, so it can be named best new track, given the best new track tag, and also the tracks tag

i don't ask for much

they'll be reviewing the reviews next