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Headlines appear only sporadically. (If I Page Down and then Page Up, I see them.) I get a Javascript error on every page about 'permission denied' with one of the banner ads. The entire right column is pushed to the bottom of the page, leaving a tremendous amount of empty white space.

I worked around it, but it took some time and was awfully annoying.

Yeah, me too. I ended up using tabbed browsing instead of the javascript layers -- I really, really HATE trying to work with the images that way, you can't see what you're doing and the cursor's useless. So I opened the Add Media link in a new tab and went from there. I ended up loading the gallery and then bounced back and forth plugging the pictures in as I worked. Thankfully once I got back from the shop with the new computer I could at least see thumbnails on the gallery page. Not too different than the old method once I devised a work-around.

But it was, indeed, awfully annoying. Quite a bit slower than before. And you shouldn't have to try to out-think your snazzy new features to get them ALMOST as functional as the OLD ones.

Okay, done crabbing now.

I keep meaning to get an avatar, Dan, but I haven't done it yet. I lose focus far too easily!

I also think it's funny how few of the contributers have avatars.

Any inability to see them is most likely due to something with your browser. A lot of times, when changes are made, your browser’s cache has the old stuff still saved in your cache/cookies, and it affects the display of the changes.

It may be a browser issue, but it's not related to the cache. It's just wonky CSS code. Everything's rock solid for me in Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox, but the layout is extremely unreliable in Internet Explorer 6. I see maybe 20% of the headlines -- the rest are there but invisible. Sometimes scrolling up and down will make them appear.

Grrmph. Couldn't we have changed the look "out front" and kept the backstage user stuff the same?

The hell of it is, if I was hotlinking to other site's images it would be no problem. But we're not supposed to do that.

Anyway, I'm taking a break to go to the computer store to address a DIFFERENT problem we're having. Technology hates me this week.

This has been today's Grumpy Old Man moment. *shakes cane*

(Don't tell Curran or I'll never hear the end of it, but I really do walk with a cane.)

CBR's front page looked clearer the last I checked, so I hope that it's not just because the various headlines happen to be the right length to stay on even rows. If they can just get the visited links to change color again I might be able to judge the redesign objectively instead of just declaring it "Ruined forever!!!!11" I know I'm being a whiny bitch, but you'll never convince me that takng away functionality I liked is a good design.

Like being able to see the bloody article titles.

The titles are there. Any inability to see them is most likely due to something with your browser. A lot of times, when changes are made, your browser's cache has the old stuff still saved in your cache/cookies, and it affects the display of the changes.

Burgas had the same issue - he couldn't see the titles at first, but now he can.

They ARE there.

But no, I'm all ignorant and afraid of change for wanting the site not to be counter-intuitive and hard to navigate.

weird.

This one...man, it's SO cluttered. And what happens when video becomes a bigger part of the experience? Another interface change?

What was the goal? Encourage greater involvement by readers? Facilitate the addition of new types of content? Make it more like a _______ site? Or, more likely...increase the amount of time people spend on the site.

Let's use RSS feeds as an example. You designed the feeds from YOUR perspective, not the readers. If you had, you would have made it easy to subscribe to a Marvel feed, a Vertigo feed, etc...'cause that's what motivates fanboys. My guess is Marvel fans are far more likely to subscribe "Marvel Comics Previews" -- or even better, a "Secret Invasion Update" feed -- than a generic "CBR Previews" feed.

Think of it as signal-to-noise ... people want to get to THEIR stuff, as fast as possible. By putting so many roadblocks in place, we as readers are actually frustrated and I for one am less likely to spend time here.