Welcome to the new-look DiS

I mean it's comparing DiS to a fresh dump.

Remember when the old design was just being brought in? That took agggggggges

There are some obvious problems though.

It's gone from having about 50 links to new reviews, chronologically ordered, to having 15, the content window is only about half of the width, and very narrow. The new font is too small to read comfortably, and the names thing on the boards is weird, links on the boards now look like normal text instead of bold, and the colours are pastelly like a baby-gro or hospital colour scheme.

the colours are cack
it looks like pitchfork, which is why i joined in the first place.

nice work dis.

because they are quite bad as they are now :(

a list with numbers?

is a bit too narrow. A long article will require about 3.56 miles of scrolling. I'm a busy man.

instead of ordered by the date of post is a problem.
Any review of something that isn't new won't get noticed !

you know, it's not bad, alright, no complaints.
actually, i've just remembered the layout before the last, which i liked. you grow into them, don't you?

you pay some designer to do the old layout, Simon Meninihck or something? Has he had anything to do with this new design?

Is it meant to be blue at the top before fading to white at the bottom (ala the old site?)... Or is it meant to be completely white?

This morning it started blue, before going white for an hour, and now it is back to blue again. Which is rubbish when trying to read stuff... Is it a case of clearing my cache or something?

Screw you all. Do you know how long I spent testing this bollocks?

Ungrateful peasants.

Anyway, one could answer with 'not long enough'

And do you have a monitor that's very narrow and long or something? How could you let them make the middle column ever smaller???

a massive uproar when the site changed last time. It's basically the same though, really. I say simmer down yer meffs.

pitchfork doesn't have a community, does it?

or maybe Web -1.0

Bit like Pitchfork but not as intimidatingly dense.

...it's got adverts at the top AND in the right hand column, it looks like the kind of site you'd come up with if you were using a free webhost. I mean, fair enough, you gota get a bit of ad revenue, but this just black hole sucking brown hole.

the blue is fine. but theo, unless you're colourblind, there are other colours.

not sure if maybe its my computer but it just looks like a load of words splattered on a page

drop a log.

right here

I'm not sure why. It all seems to work, but whereas before you were assaulted with content choice on the homepage (which was ace), now you're, well, not. So it may seem to the casual browser that there's not much to look at, like pretty every other webzine (except that with pretty much every other webzine, there really isn't much to look at).

And it really does look like Pitchfork. Sorry.

is it all screwed up for anyone else?
Its been messed up for ages in both Safari & Firefox...
or maybe its just me?

...was subject to many, many months of scrutiny. We've not walked into anything eyes closed.

And like I said, the deal doesn't affect DiS in terms of presentation/content; this aesthetic alteration was planned ages ago. The deal will see new projects launched in a joint venture capacity, though.

More news on that: through the proper channels as and when.

Mx