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if I wasn’t hamstrung by work filters.

I miss the old girl

I know people hate change and everything,

People don’t change!

/House

Overall cleaner, and easier on the eye. But…

For the devs:
- mobile site does not work, just returns a blank screen despite taking about 10s to load (G1 browser)

using IE6 at work (yuk)….
- initial impression is that front page takes a little longer to load, article pages load slightly quicker
- standings table on LHS wraps
- text size of post titles feels bigger (either it’s increased or just looks it relative to the rest of the page). It would fit together with the articles if it was slightly reduced, I feel.
- font of the strapline feels at odds with the rest of the page
- the text at the foot of an article on the front page referencing recs and share "50 comments, 50 new | 0 recs | Share " overlaps.
- multiple line breaks in my comments don’t appear in the post (well, they didn’t in the preview I just did… I’m about to insert six carriage returns before my feedback to Jeff… and they don’t appear. Not great for using paragraphs in comments.

For Jeff:
- on the references section, this bit:
“How to Post Pics and Links -———-”
wraps awkwardly. Missing a line break? Maybe it’s just me. This isn’t a new thing, it’s bugged me for ages I just never got round to mentioning it. The one after “The tRA post” isn’t affected.

The rss feeds seem to have stopped working. I’ve cross-checked that the urls I’m using haven’t changed and they don’t appear to have…

I really think the font is too big and clunky. It looks like it was formatted by after market software to make it easier to read for the vision impaired.

I can’t imagine that it will be even remotely legible on a mobile device. I’ll probably have to rely on RSS feeds, if they are working.

Did the commies win while I was sleeping?

Can anyone else confirm if Adblock enabled causes the LL-icon to actually cover up the thread’s subject line?

Main page seems to take slightly longer though.

really need to sit in its own 200 pixel deep block of blue?

(All tests performed on my work network (Old, kinda slow, XP SP2, FF 3.5.4):

Yesterday, to load main page: ~4 seconds
Today, to load main page: ~3.5 seconds
(A decent improvement)

Yesterday, to load this thread with 1229 posts: ~19.5 seconds
Today, loading the same thread: ~17 seconds
(Not a bad gain but I would be interested to see if further tweaking would result in bigger improvements – this is a pretty typical big thread, with some gifs and lots of comments)

Yesterday, to load this here thread about site improvements: ~4 seconds
Today: ~4 seconds
(It’s still a smallish thread so I wouldn’t have expected significant improvements here)

I didn’t think to do these tests yesterday on my home machine so I don’t know if the speed gains are more significant on a more up-to-date network infrastructure but there do seem to have been some improvements made so good on ya SBN, now maybe darken up some of this white space a tad?

Looks like a god damn blogspot website.

I hate left align

This child also has clearly been told to always start a sentence next to the line denoting the margin.

Also, stars? C’mon SBN, give us a little guy with a cowlick.

Thus more people will rec each other, resulting in huge rec-flag discrepancies and subsequent mass inflation.

I think I understand the direction in which the devs are trying to go with this, and I approve of said direction, but the layout and style definitely need some work. The ad bar, for example, looks all slick and high-res, which makes the header, sidebar and overall look and feel seem amateurish in comparison.

There is tons and tons of wasted space on either side. Tons of it. It’s really annoying.

And the above-mentioned reply-routing-to-top-of-post bug.

I wouldn’t assume that things are stuck this way.

I’m good.

we do listen. and we do respond.

we even keep listening until we find threads like this one:
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/11/7/656375/take-5-seconds-and-help-da#10100493

all at once the pages jiggles up and down for a second or two and then settles down. This could be really hard on the eyes in a really active gameday thread.

It looks like a page Google auto-formatted for a really old cell phone.

and the ability to easily see who rec’d what

links in sigs are annoying and I wouldn’t mind seeing go away

gives the blog a real communist feel.