Ummm, @jboon, I hope that's a spam comment, because they look nothing alike.
Amit Agarwal
· 1 year ago
Clean, beautiful.
It rocks.
chris purifoy
· 1 year ago
I love it! It's great Pete, seriously.
First facebook then mashable... Tis the season to be facelifting!
ciao,
chris founder, president @bandFIND.com
ChaCha Fance
· 1 year ago
It's looking a little better. I'd like to see more color, less bright white. The comment section is very nice though, loving the "Share my comment to" option......
Christian
· 1 year ago
Bring back the old Last.fm!! Oh, wait...
Chris
· 1 year ago
Hey Pete - much better, a big improvement. File under 'Rocks'. I'd consider shading out the social media buttons just to break up the stories a little bit, but otherwise it's great.
Nicole Simon
· 1 year ago
I hate the new Facebook because it removes choice and reduces ways of finding. But this here felt nice and naturally at once, especially the social media buttons at the bottom / tag bar is are nicely placed and not overdone.
The only thing I do not really like is the tag page that far up though I like it is not the usual 20 tags and be done with it - i'd like the advertisers to be further up. I like looking at them to see if there is something valuable in it.
(missing btw - a link to the ff remote key in the dialog box, that is standard.)
George Tziralis
· 1 year ago
You may try the pet project we announced today for a lean crowdsourcing poll:
Aesthetically, yuck. Design-wise, good. Too much white.
Gemmaf@underschool.co.uk
· 1 year ago
hi wat u up hope u ok plz write back gem
Nater Kane
· 1 year ago
Rocks vs. Sucks is a bit drastic. C'mon now.
Maybe the availability of the redesign could have been managed differently, ie. 10% of users get the new design for a week, then across that week, do some analytics and userpath tracking work to see what is and isn't being used, what works and doesn't work, and then compare that to the same or similar data from the old design.
I wrote Adam Hirsh an email this morning that outlines (in very casual language) the initial thoughts I had with the landing page of the new design. With his blessing, the initial content from that email, with expanded wording and explanation may become a blog post at naterkane.com/blog later today.
The new design / IA neither sucks, nor rocks. It isn't clear what the purpose of the redesign was (from my perspective as a user), and the benefits of the redesign to the user do also escape me to a degree.
Instead of "Sucks" and "Rocks" being voted on by random folks who have happened themselves to this post, how about this... If voting does need to happen. have a poll for each feature / element that is in question and of concern and have users vote "Effective" and "Not Effective" or "Useful" and "Not Useful".
There can't be any value or useful knowledge gained by saying that something "Rocks".... and that "Sucks" ;-)
Adam Hirsch
· 1 year ago
@Nater ... Your comments rocked! Great feedback and changes are afoot ;)
Thanks again!
Adam Hirsch
· 1 year ago
Thanks Nater! Your feedback rocked and is definitely going to be utilized!
Adam Hirsch
· 1 year ago
Nater! You Rock! Thanks for the advice and feedback!
Bob
· 1 year ago
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Bob
· 1 year ago
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Harry Maugans
· 1 year ago
I'm not a big fan honestly. The logo looks awkward and comes off like amateur branding.
Your footer is quite clean, but I believe uniform buttons would bring it together better.
Your old pink/blue theme was great branding. You essentially became known for those colors. Now you seem to be shifting towards a more blue color scheme, which is boring and blends in with the crowd. Of course, if done right, it can be professional, but for a blog, unique is good. Also, you kept a tiny bit of pink here and there, but it seems awkward since it's not fully incorporated into the color scheme.
This new design has potential, but honestly, I feel you're losing a lot of the essence of Mashable. Some major refining could bring out a winner, but right now, I'm not so sure.
Good luck!
Best regards, - Harry Maugans
chris
· 1 year ago
I appreciated how the old mashable looked different than every other blog site out there. This looks like the new techcrunch. But oh well, looks like most commenters are supportive. The I's have it.
Andrew Galasetti
· 1 year ago
It looks great! So much more clean than the old design.
Congrats to the Mashable crew!
-Andrew
bunnyhero
· 1 year ago
i like the new header design, but i am finding it hard to distinguish the article headlines-- i feel like the rest of the page is a bit of a jumble.
bunnyhero
· 1 year ago
and call me an idiot or blind, but i can't seem to figure out how to log in any more...
Christopher
· 1 year ago
No your not an idiot nor blind, so things are not fully turned on yet. This was a big job ya know. :)
JJ
· 1 year ago
Can't say I'm a fan. Its chaos at the top, 50 links above the fold, another few dozen right below it. "Snow blindness" comes to mind when I've scrolled down past the middle.
Where's the login? Where's the link love?
Meh.
Adam Hirsch
· 1 year ago
Thanks JJ for the input. We're tweaking some features and design... Appreciate the input ;)
Anrkist
· 1 year ago
This article was difficult to read. It could have to do with the screenshots looking exactly like the site but it just felt as if everything blended together. Some extra padding or a simple light grey border around the images would have helped.
Great improvement though!
wz
· 1 year ago
I'm afraid I'm going to have to say I hate it. There's so little seperation between all the elements of the page (especially while reading this article), it actually leaves me dazed looking at it. :(
kumar rahul
· 1 year ago
well, i won't say it entirely sucks, but it doesn't rock either. header: whats up with so much whitespace to the right of the logo?? you can have those 4 icons below the logo to the right of the logo instead, in keeping with left-to-right scan. and put in those 9 icons[submit news, advertise, etc] to the far right on the top. those nine icons look so similar, its hard to make them out, or even be noticed, kind of merging with the bkground. i mean i don't think its ethical anymore to waste screen estate on websites. search:for a blog as respectable as mashable, i guess it looks a little amateurish to find a custom google search written in a very visible search box. single post: bookmarking options are alright, but i think i see too many horizontal borders below each post, separating tags, bmarking options, and so on. looks very segregating, so much so that until i reach related posts, after crossing 3-4 borders, it doesn't feel related anymore. and yeah, now i have to do a PgDn on each post to find popular posts. it wasn't so in the earlier design. and oh wait, is that a 'back to top' at the end of the page?? why is it invisible-grey??
i loved the old design, very much. but i guess i will get used to this one as well.
mp
· 1 year ago
looks fresh... can't really say much unless we have a better idea of what you were trying to accomplish. As a casual mashable viewer, it seems more free flowing and cleaner... also slightly less unique.
All the screenshots of the site in this post is pretty crazy-making ;)
Rob
· 1 year ago
SUCKS:
The sharing options are TOO MANY. Forget all the "Add to my" and "Blog this on" icons. No textbox for "link to this article" -- that's what the address bar is for in the browser. If you want to clean things up, use the Add to Any Share/Save button that you've promoted before since it shows the sites each person actually uses: http://www.addtoany.com/ .
Also, you're sort of abusing the feed icon guidelines by adding that little "plus" sign to the feed icon. With the plug, users expect a menu of feed readers to add to, but it's just a direct link to the feed. So standard icon only. BTW, Subscribe to Mashable is a mess. Again, Add to Any cleans that up if you look at their Subscribe widget.
ROCKS:
Speed improvements, Speed improvements, Speed improvements. It's overall cleaner, and a pleasure to look at.
OMG CONCLUSION:
Just clean up the mess and quit doing the unnecessary things. Otherwise, love it. :)
JJ
· 1 year ago
Speed improvement? I'm seeing total load times close to 30 seconds and every 10 or so it decides to scroll my screen back up to the top.
John Diep
· 1 year ago
Congrats on the new interface. Simple and clean. But, the Job Listing is a bit too low to the bottom. Hard to find.
it looks like your comment subscription opt-out is broken. I don't want to be subscribed to comment replies, when click to "manage my subscriptions" it gives
Your query returned 0 results. Click here to retry again!
Pretty annoying.
Jillian C. York
· 1 year ago
But the fact that I've been hit with 32 other comments and can't unsubscribe (and get this - the way they're fed, I can't even use the mute function on gmail to silence them!) means I will NEVER be commenting on your site again! How utterly obnoxious.
Brent (MP)
· 1 year ago
Move the author mugshot to the right of the headline.
Design principle: try not to mess with the left flush of a sentence or headline, since it's where the eye starts reading. The right side of the line is often ragged or has hyphenated words; we're used to seeing obstacles there and they won't hold up the reader.
Otherwise, a strong redesign.
Mike Rohrig
· 1 year ago
Your headlines need to be wider. There are too many small random images. Between the social links, hyperlinks and more are too distracting. I liked the old format. I could read enough to get an idea of the story and then clicked if I was REALLY interesting.
Dipen
· 1 year ago
LOL !! I am on the comment cleanup wireframe :P
I was like, Where is the Comment reply box!!
heh it rocks!!
modemlooper
· 1 year ago
LOL, its like you took everything that was bad about the new facebook and put in on mashable. am i being punked?
seriously everything just blurs together. i'm not a fan and thought it was better before. all the colors are too washed out and all blue to have an all white background. I am a fan of post then one larger sidebar than 3 column, thats a plus. The seperaton from post to post on front page is not well defined. Also the part right after the post that contains share options an related posts is just ridiculously large. I design alot of blogs and people always put an ad right before the comments but put the comment box all the way at the bottom = total fail. you will get more clicks if the comment box is right below that ad and then all the comments below that comment box. why cuz people read the post and then just scroll all the way down to add comment not even seeing that ad.
I'm still getting high load times via iphone wifi always have if this is wordpress then no excuse not to get free iphone theme and install it. http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/
modemlooper
· 1 year ago
oh i want to add that you should develop a style guide for postings so that they all follow the same format. The front page looks messy because the pics in each post are so different. one is left aligned another is right some big some small. each post blurb on front page should be locked into same look.
Christopher
· 1 year ago
I agree.. We are talking about it now.
d3bruts1d
· 1 year ago
Certainly wasn't expecting this when I decided to hit the site today. I like the new layout, though it took some adjustment.
Beau
· 1 year ago
Good to hear all this feedback! We're already aware of some of it, and are definitely still working on tweaking and refining things, but glad to see that the general "vibe" seems to be positive.
Paul Martin
· 1 year ago
Perhaps BOLD for the titles would help, or something to distinguish the end of the articles and the heading of the others.
Login is very hidden... :(
dep
· 1 year ago
it's really gorgeous. Makes me want to not use RSS and actually come to the site. I just wish that websites integrated more favorite features from RSS readers... Shortcut keys (j/k to move forward,backward through conversations), etc.
CountRob
· 1 year ago
Logo too big bro.
Adam Hirsch
· 1 year ago
COMMENT SUBSCRIPTION removal has been FIXED! SORRY for the delay.
Alan Rothstein
· 1 year ago
I think I was so used to the old version this is a shock to the system. Hopefully the content stays the same and the extras are worth the outragous pictures and eye soar of a color scheme. It hurts my eyes to look at this website.
Ling
· 1 year ago
Way better than the old one, primarily because its new and we need 'change'. :) Seriously, loads faster too, and pleasing on the eye. I don't focus much on the other stuff, so its hard to say if its better or worse for the rest of it, but far as I'm concerned, new mashable rocks. Keep rockin'.
Christopher
· 1 year ago
Yea, we are having issues with some of the 3rd party elements loading. Esp in IE. :(
drew olanoff
· 1 year ago
very clean, seems to be the way all of the blogs are going now.
disqus plz???
Greasyguide.com
· 1 year ago
I love Mashable but I wasn't really digging the re-design. Mashable has a unique feel to it and now it looks almost exactly like TechCrunch's re-design. Did you guys hire the same designer to do the re-designs? . I would like to see more colors on the site..I miss the pink. I love the ribbon functionality that's very cute but there are like 20 drop downs, then a ribbon, then a top nav, kinda makes it to busy at the top.
So it's a cool try but I always believe in keep it simple stupid. .
Stephanie Frasco
· 1 year ago
Don't get rid of the pink underline from the original masthead. It is a little new facebook esque. I like the event section. I also like that Mark is representing the first image. Nice work Mark!
Where will you host more Ads? Will you rid the 125x125 and add other options. I would like to do RSS advertising with you. Contact me about this.
Have a good night!
PS> I like this new sharing feature.
Androo
· 1 year ago
looks much cleaner and organized...
Mickey
· 1 year ago
I noticed a large number posts (3 pages) in this new design. Not sure if there is a connection? Also the time of the post has been eliminated. Now they just have the date of the post. Before they had both, which I preferred.
Krishna
· 1 year ago
Two column layouts are always best for Blog & yes apparently the load time was reduced.
Gemmaf@underschool.co.uk
· 1 year ago
hi wat u up2 hope u ok
Vidar Andersen
· 1 year ago
Interesting new design. Kudos. Could perhaps use some complementary colours, coloured icons at the top right hand side, 'login' as a text link, a ribbon feature that sticks to all pages to optimize it. :)
Maybe also dropping all sort of icon links to 'social' services and rss readers would tidy it up a bit? Hey! It's a wacky idea, but I'd like to see the empirical data proving the benefits first.
Azhari
· 1 year ago
If I were to print an article out, it would be better if there is a 'Printer Friendly' link to omit all the ads and unwanted images.
Is it possible to implement this feature here?
Michael Daehn
· 1 year ago
Much better. Like the search function. Ribbon bar looks cool, but probably won't use. I've always come to mashable for the content, despite the layout of the site. This is just icing on the cake. Keep up the good work.
Hey, where's the login for the Mashable Social platform?
Twist
· 1 year ago
I like that you got rid of the sharing icons at the bottom of the mini pages. Now I would suggest a thicker font for the headlines and it would be fine.
Eric
· 1 year ago
It Rocks!! It's about time you changed it!
Jon
· 1 year ago
I agree with most of the critique. The new direction is good, but the Mashable "brand" feels lost here.
In general, the posts are very cluttered. Some grid-layout planning could help greatly. As an example, split the post image area into multiples of 70 px. In that way, you can accommodate multiple company logo widths, plus large feature images. I threw together a quick mock to better explain:
Are you kidding me? It definitely rocks! The only thing I don't like is the "onhover" color at the horizontal drop down menu.
Gemmaf@underschool.co.uk
· 1 year ago
hi wat u up2 u look fab on that pic write back gemx
KS
· 1 year ago
all is fine just tell me why is it affecting my phone browsing? HTC P4350 windows mobile... it keeps taking me to mobile mashable... option of full HTML is there but only for first page, clicking on any other page takes it back to mobile mashable... mobile mashable doesn't allow me to see previous pages!! (or at least i cant find it!!)
Serviced Apartments Bangalore
· 1 year ago
It rocks... trust me and loads faster too
Along_Parker88
· 8 months ago
Thanks for the presentation. We at http://us.buuuz.com Find this very useful.
All Comments
first btw!
It rocks.
First facebook then mashable... Tis the season to be facelifting!
ciao,
chris
founder, president
@bandFIND.com
The only thing I do not really like is the tag page that far up though I like it is not the usual 20 tags and be done with it - i'd like the advertisers to be further up. I like looking at them to see if there is something valuable in it.
(missing btw - a link to the ff remote key in the dialog box, that is standard.)
http://websource.it
plz write back gem
Maybe the availability of the redesign could have been managed differently,
ie. 10% of users get the new design for a week, then across that week, do some analytics and userpath tracking work to see what is and isn't being used, what works and doesn't work, and then compare that to the same or similar data from the old design.
I wrote Adam Hirsh an email this morning that outlines (in very casual language) the initial thoughts I had with the landing page of the new design. With his blessing, the initial content from that email, with expanded wording and explanation may become a blog post at naterkane.com/blog later today.
The new design / IA neither sucks, nor rocks. It isn't clear what the purpose of the redesign was (from my perspective as a user), and the benefits of the redesign to the user do also escape me to a degree.
Instead of "Sucks" and "Rocks" being voted on by random folks who have happened themselves to this post, how about this... If voting does need to happen. have a poll for each feature / element that is in question and of concern and have users vote "Effective" and "Not Effective" or "Useful" and "Not Useful".
There can't be any value or useful knowledge gained by saying that something "Rocks".... and that "Sucks" ;-)
Thanks again!
Your footer is quite clean, but I believe uniform buttons would bring it together better.
Your old pink/blue theme was great branding. You essentially became known for those colors. Now you seem to be shifting towards a more blue color scheme, which is boring and blends in with the crowd. Of course, if done right, it can be professional, but for a blog, unique is good. Also, you kept a tiny bit of pink here and there, but it seems awkward since it's not fully incorporated into the color scheme.
This new design has potential, but honestly, I feel you're losing a lot of the essence of Mashable. Some major refining could bring out a winner, but right now, I'm not so sure.
Good luck!
Best regards,
- Harry Maugans
Congrats to the Mashable crew!
-Andrew
Where's the login? Where's the link love?
Meh.
Great improvement though!
header: whats up with so much whitespace to the right of the logo?? you can have those 4 icons below the logo to the right of the logo instead, in keeping with left-to-right scan. and put in those 9 icons[submit news, advertise, etc] to the far right on the top. those nine icons look so similar, its hard to make them out, or even be noticed, kind of merging with the bkground. i mean i don't think its ethical anymore to waste screen estate on websites.
search:for a blog as respectable as mashable, i guess it looks a little amateurish to find a custom google search written in a very visible search box.
single post: bookmarking options are alright, but i think i see too many horizontal borders below each post, separating tags, bmarking options, and so on. looks very segregating, so much so that until i reach related posts, after crossing 3-4 borders, it doesn't feel related anymore.
and yeah, now i have to do a PgDn on each post to find popular posts. it wasn't so in the earlier design.
and oh wait, is that a 'back to top' at the end of the page?? why is it invisible-grey??
i loved the old design, very much. but i guess i will get used to this one as well.
All the screenshots of the site in this post is pretty crazy-making ;)
The sharing options are TOO MANY. Forget all the "Add to my" and "Blog this on" icons. No textbox for "link to this article" -- that's what the address bar is for in the browser. If you want to clean things up, use the Add to Any Share/Save button that you've promoted before since it shows the sites each person actually uses: http://www.addtoany.com/ .
Also, you're sort of abusing the feed icon guidelines by adding that little "plus" sign to the feed icon. With the plug, users expect a menu of feed readers to add to, but it's just a direct link to the feed. So standard icon only. BTW, Subscribe to Mashable is a mess. Again, Add to Any cleans that up if you look at their Subscribe widget.
ROCKS:
Speed improvements, Speed improvements, Speed improvements. It's overall cleaner, and a pleasure to look at.
OMG CONCLUSION:
Just clean up the mess and quit doing the unnecessary things. Otherwise, love it. :)
But, the Job Listing is a bit too low to the bottom. Hard to find.
John
HotStartupJobs.com
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Pretty annoying.
Design principle: try not to mess with the left flush of a sentence or headline, since it's where the eye starts reading. The right side of the line is often ragged or has hyphenated words; we're used to seeing obstacles there and they won't hold up the reader.
Otherwise, a strong redesign.
I was like, Where is the Comment reply box!!
heh it rocks!!
seriously everything just blurs together. i'm not a fan and thought it was better before. all the colors are too washed out and all blue to have an all white background. I am a fan of post then one larger sidebar than 3 column, thats a plus. The seperaton from post to post on front page is not well defined. Also the part right after the post that contains share options an related posts is just ridiculously large. I design alot of blogs and people always put an ad right before the comments but put the comment box all the way at the bottom = total fail. you will get more clicks if the comment box is right below that ad and then all the comments below that comment box. why cuz people read the post and then just scroll all the way down to add comment not even seeing that ad.
I'm still getting high load times via iphone wifi always have if this is wordpress then no excuse not to get free iphone theme and install it. http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/
Login is very hidden... :(
disqus plz???
So it's a cool try but I always believe in keep it simple stupid.
.
Where will you host more Ads? Will you rid the 125x125 and add other options. I would like to do RSS advertising with you. Contact me about this.
Have a good night!
PS> I like this new sharing feature.
Maybe also dropping all sort of icon links to 'social' services and rss readers would tidy it up a bit? Hey! It's a wacky idea, but I'd like to see the empirical data proving the benefits first.
Is it possible to implement this feature here?
Hey, where's the login for the Mashable Social platform?
The new direction is good, but the Mashable "brand" feels lost here.
In general, the posts are very cluttered. Some grid-layout planning could help greatly.
As an example, split the post image area into multiples of 70 px. In that way, you can accommodate multiple company logo widths, plus large feature images. I threw together a quick mock to better explain:
http://aswethought.com/mashable-front-page.jpg
write back gemx
HTC P4350 windows mobile...
it keeps taking me to mobile mashable...
option of full HTML is there but only for first page, clicking on any other page takes it back to mobile mashable...
mobile mashable doesn't allow me to see previous pages!! (or at least i cant find it!!)