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hey….. the typing kinda goes from right to left. Cool and confusing. The site looks good. Rotate Johns pic with different expressions. 🙂
where’s the link to CageMatch? and why is this comment editor in RTL mode ?hmm?
so dude, what did you do to the site man. its shit
what the hell why is the typing left to right,do i look jewish???
right to left
4 columns? 3 max..
To distracting.. and you want 80 wide type face..
Go to the OLD way, 800×600 style, so we can use 2 windows..
eekk, formatting is messed up in Chrome
The design is ok but the commenting box is screwy. In addition to the weird left to right thing it is also impossible to start a post with a quotation mark. If you just try to start with one it will remain at the end of the text forever and then if you type in some text and then try to move your cursor to the beginning then the quotation mark will appear at the end of the first line.
I like the look but the typing thing is messed up like others have explained. That is the only reason I gave it a bad vote.
Site looks like it has been hacked! Why change?
The site took forever to load – 45 seconds at least. Tested it out at the W3C and it had 67 Errors, 68 warning(s) so that might have something to do with it. Also, this backward way of typing is pretty bad………
Commenting is broken. 4 columns is too much. The site has always been waaay too cluttered, now there’s just more visual garbage to try and ignore while we try and do what we come here to do: read the articles.
John’s wrinkled eyes staring at you seems odd and makes no sense from a design perspective. It also feels a little creepy. Lastly, the “Dvorak” in “Dvorak Uncensored” is almost hidden and needs to be more prominent. It’s easy to miss and looks more like background art than the name of the blog.
It’s all very wonderful, I especially like the way the cursor jumps from one side to other in a surprising and arbitrary way, and the grey-on-grey. The close-up of john’s peepers could use one of those Java scripts that make eyeballs follow the mouse.
It’s like the old version of “vi”, without the “delete the previous line when pressing return”.
Wow, this is spooky..
1. The site doesn’t render the same in every browser, some things are cut off in Firefox, but not in IE
2. Your comments are writing from right to left, makes me nauseous
3. the comments need to have numbers, how in the hell are we supposed to bitch at other posters without numbers?
The new website design looks like change for change ‘s sake. It’s basically useless. Maybe I need to switch to IE and it might look better, who knows.
What happened to the links to John’s columns?
And this box really stinks.
I like it, but it needs 2 updates
1 Fix the typing
2 add a register and login for the comments
Yes, the frontpage is too wide. Which in my book is only allowed when that page has a clearly different layout than the normal bog roll style weblogs cannot seem to do without
On my system, the left and right frames appear and the middle is blank. I have to scroll down all the way through the sidebars before I see any content. Running IE6 SP1, 800×600. Definitely not good.
Looks OK except that Firefox and Safari on my iMac won’t show the whole width of the page without scrolling (very annoying) and the comment section appears to be right justified while typing.
Not enough distinction between the name of the poster, time, and the message. The typing cursor is whacked. whoa, stuff appears in odd places as I type. too bizarre.
The link to comment seems tied to the headline below…took me a couple clicks to figure that out.
What’s the “path” thing at the bottom?
john, john, john… I like the new design and assume that the glitches in comments will be fixed .it is kinda fun and very confusing in its current format.”the eyes” would look better if you pull them back a little and show a little more of your face. right now, you appear to be interrogating us and it is “us” that should be looking at you.. I use Firefox and so should you.
I need my Pin-up of the day.
?Cage Match?
Too wide for me, forces fullscreen (and I don’t like fullscreen windows).
LOVE the new header.
?Were you getting a lot of complaints about the old one
The only reason for changing things is because you have an improvement, or you want to draw our attention away from something else.
This comment box is really annoying!
whoa….freeky, I like the cursor jumping from one side to the next….I need a drink…..that will straighten me out. FREAKY.
Damn this cursor thing made me forget what I was going to say about the stupid video……….Am I free to go?
Looks more organised.
Reminds me of… savethemales.ca
It is those damn eyes!
It sucks.
Absolutely hate it.
When typing right now the text is on the right then moves to the left. Put a period in it goes at the beginning of the sentence. Then later it moves. Disgusting.
When i first saw you peering into my room i was jacking off so it didn’t feel so great having you watch me. lol just kidding. Fortunately Firefox allows me to block unwanted images, so now i see grey space,. I always liked seeing “Dvorak Uncensored” at the top in red and white. Always liked the message areas, with t he bubbles, feels more like conversation.
This is just awful.
Too wide for a 1280 width display. The New York Times is about 1000 px