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I had to change my security settings to accept Digg & Gridskipper in order to see anything, also I'm getting some overlapping text (IE 6/XP).
I had to change my security settings to accept Digg & Gridskipper in order to see anything, also I'm getting some overlapping text (IE 6/XP).
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The new layout looks fine. My comment is more on the artwork you promote. Some of that shit is terribly creepy. If I have to look into that blonde woman's makeup smudged whore eyes one more time I might have to regurgitate. Just sayin...
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The network at my work hates your new template. I can't access below the Iphone story and I can't even get to the bottom of the story when I try to read it.
Its not the site, it is the network here. This sort of stuff happens on a lot of sites.
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site isnt working for me in IE7 works fine in FF2, just FYI
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I can't image the layout looking any worse than it does under IE 5.5. Text sitting on top of other text, 3 stories visible, bottom navigation covering other text. Yuck!
Not like I have a choice here at work. *tragic*
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@yankerosa: ya know? I'm REALLY sick of seeing that creepy skinny guy with the fucked up chest hair. This Gawker artwork is disturbing.
I should mention I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.12 and everything looks normal.
its very broken in Opera, from what I can tell. Tried it at work and at home.
Does anyone else use Opera and have the same issue? I'm running v9.26.
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IE7 - Everything looks fine, but I sure would like it if clicking the big ol' \"The Consumerist\" banner up top would still take me back to the main page - same goes for all the other gawker sites now too
We still have to use IE 6 at work, and like missdona, I'm also getting overlapping text and am now also unable to scroll to the bottom of the page (IE 6/XP Pro SP2). I verified this problem on a couple of machines. Running Firefox (portableapp version), everything looks OK. So IE 6 has issues bad enough that the site is mostly unusable with it.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-1485-100x100.png\")
id love to see the site detect the width of my browser window and adjust the margins accordingly... instead of centering with a given width.
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IE 6 on Win2000. Couldn't comment until I hit reply to another comment because my page wouldn't load all the way (couldn't see past Peach422's comment; same thing happens on the main page- I couldn't see past the 3rd article). Red links (for comments, other Gawker sites, etc) all over the place, including in the middle of a story. Please fix! I can't read consumerist and I'm going out of my mind!
IE7 sp2. The layout stops loading after ~two stories, gawker links jumbled together; I can only access old stories through my recent comments page. I can't even see my comment anymore because the page's scrollbar doesn't move and I'll only be able to submit via tabbing. Did all the Gawker sites update? I'm having issues on all of them, the rest of the web works fine so I don't think it's my browser. I'll try back after class.
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The links on the bottom of page overlay this comment box. (IE 7/XP)
Btw, I agree with @yankerosa: about the art and especially with the \"makeup smudged whore eyes\". Creeps me out.
Help, I can't scroll to the submit button! Oh, tab worked. But it's all wonky.
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Yeah, red links to read comments are overlaid on the areticle summary. IE6 and stuck with it.
Yikes, now the comments flood upward and take up the entire story space. More of the browser page is 'loading', as in the scrollbar will actually move, but new stories are getting sucked upward and disappearing under the main banner. Most of the main page is blank. IE 7 in case my last comment got gobbled.
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FINALLY! I couldnt comment or get the page to load correctly for the longest time! I thought I was goin nuts! WOrds on the page were on top of other words, I couldnt get the page to load right so I could even comment until just now.
I am using IE6 & XP
Note: the \"click here to reply to this comment\" square icon with the arrow inside on everyone's comment is showing like I am seeing double (double icons right under the other)
Dont fix what wasnt broken! :(
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Windows Mobile, Opera 8.65. The right edge of the page gets cut off and I can't scroll to see it. I thought this story originally said you guys updated your ten, and got confused until I saw the rest of the page.
Please bring back my ability to read Consumerist during class!
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AdBlock in Firefox is killing it.
Pages are loading now. But the \"Reply To\" arrow icon is actually two (one on top of the other, but only the top one works) like forgottenpassword said. Also, all stories on the main page that are just bullets (no heading), have the '# of comments' link right in the middle of the first line of the actual story. Very annoying.
Pages are finally loading on IE6 and WinXP, but the bulleted quick posts like this one have the \"comments\" section inside and overlapping the text of the post. The rest of the posts are doing OK, and the page is able to be viewed all the way through.
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The only issue I have is that occasionally the page will be far too wide and I have to scroll right and left. Also, on stories over 100 comments, typing in the comments box has a lag. I'm not running any greasemonkey scripts, either.
yankerosa: I think she's kinda hot, personally.
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Viewing on Safari 3.0.4. So... The ads are more noticable! Everything's scrunched in the middle of the page. It's harder to read because of this. The Consumerist is now a column down the middle of the page. Booooo.
Everything is working fine for me. I'm on FireFox 2.whatever.
@homerjay: THANK YOU. That image creeps me out more than anything else here.
Actually, I should probably mention that when I post my comments, I can't see them on the page for several minutes. This happens sporadically, but it's sort of always happened, so is probably not attributable to the layout update.
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All of the Gawker sites were unreadable for me this morning. All I could get was the header and the horizontal lines that appear between the stories. I can finally see the rest of the site now, but am experiencing the same problems as noted above (overlapping text, double reply arrows, etc.). I'm using IE6 on XP (and not by choice).
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Looks great in Opera 9.0
Everything works great on Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Ubuntu 7.10. Still boggles my mind that people still use internet explorer and not an alternative.
Works fine here.
XP ff2 with adblock.
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Let's see if they've fixed This yet.
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Sorry guys, but I can't say I like it... The page looks really squished and off center when using a larger monitor, and the ads are terribly placed (the banner ad going across wider than the content just looks horrible).
Using adblock makes it better, but you still have the off-center column of info that just looks weird.
Using Firefox 3.0b5 on Mac OSX 10.5 with screen res of 1920x1200 and adblock turned off, the site comes out looking like this: [www.eagerdesigns.com.au] and that just ain't cool.
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Font too big. Let us change it if we want to.
Nested comments don't work. Still.
I am using IE7 on XP and the words are overlapping each other.
Otherwise, everything looks good.
Was there a problem with the previous template, or was this just a case of somebody being tired of the old look? The latter reminds me of restaurants that take popular dishes off the menu because the kitchen crew is bored with making them.
BTW, it looks fine in Safari 2.0.4.
And I too am creeped out by the pictures of skinny young guys with long eyelashes who look like they're waiting for their top to beat them and are simultaneously depressed, scared and excited.
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The old layout, or logo at the top used to let you click on the word, \"The consumerist\" and return you to the front page. That doesn't work anymore :( Can we get a linkie back to the main home page?
I frequently go several pages deep and want to get back to the home page... A clickie link is ubar :)
Thanks!
(BTW, we're aware of the XP and IE6 viewing problems and are working hard to fix them).
But are you taking it seriously ?!?!?! :)
glad i can comment again. Don't ever criticize the overlords at consumerist or the banhammer will fall on you!
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I don't like the fact that if you want to go to a sister site in the Gawker family, you have to go to the bottom of the page for a link. It was great when they were available in the column to the left <---.
@mercnet: Would you like to come over here and convince our dept. heads to make the leap to Firefox? Not all of us are using IE6 by choice.
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It looks...different.
What happened to the ! to report the post (not that I would ever use it)...?
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@alphafemale: but I sure would like it if clicking the big ol' \"The Consumerist\" banner up top would still take me back to the main page...
Seconded!
BTW...love the avatar!
Let's see.... it's certainly typing a whole lot better. I'm using OSX with Firefox, and it used to be that I would have to type my comments into Word and copy and paste it over because there would be a CONSTANT lag. It's still lagging a lot though, Consumerist. And it doesn't lag anywhere else but here.
just a general suggestion for the site... at the bottom of the news page, it's more user friendly to label the links \"earlier\" and \"newer\" rather than \"next\" and \"previous.\"
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AlphaFemale said: Everything looks fine, but I sure would like it if clicking the big ol' \"The Consumerist\" banner up top would still take me back to the main page - same goes for all the other gawker sites now too\"
Agreed!!
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I wasn't even able to comment on this till now, because the posts got cut off so that you oculdn't see some of them. I am on IE7.
And yes, please, make the banner a link to the homepage again, please. Not sure why that functionality would have been removed?
I loathe the \"make friends\" thing. Put it off to the side or something. It's annoying.
RSS isn't working for google reader. anyone else having the same problem?
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I heartily applaud your efforts to keep XP and IE users as slighted-upon and disfunctional as possible. If it's a devious plot to get them to upgrade to Vista, making them even more irate (if that's possible), so they post even more trolling/flaming comments, thus increasing their comments (and your hit count), you're entirely too devious for words. And should star as the next James Bond villain.
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@iamlost26: Yes, My RSS feeds for Google Reader are also not updating. The last update I got for Consumerist was at 10:06.
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I don't like Firefox because I can't control the ability to accept a site's session cookies while simultaneously rejecting all other cookies from the same site. Crap.
I'm also seeing the double reply-to-comment arrow box and no \"!\" box. On IE6, WIN2000.
While you're fiddling, why not do something actually helpful like nesting comments?
There's now two reply button images on the comment posts, and the post on Lifehacker about the ScanSnap scanner kind of crapped the bed, image-wise; everything was shoved over and on top of the left sidebar. (XP Pro, IE6 here, wish work would give us Firefox or at least IE7.)
@synergy: Not so sure about nesting; they can barely handle replying in the right thread on minorleagueball.com, which is clearly representative of the entire series of Intertubes... ;)
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IE7- word PC doesn't like new consumerist...page takes FOREVER to load, weird stretching (have to scroll down a bit to see the \"top\" of the page), links for comments appear directly in top of text. Hoping for improvements soon:)
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In firefox (2.0.0.12), the whole page is aligned to the center. That is, there's this big white gap on the left when the browser window is maximized. If it's intentional, well, I think it's not very aesthetic.
geez, don't you guys test anything before you deploy new code? common practice is to test on supported browsers before pushing the new code to your production environment. Having users test your site for UI bugs is bad practice.
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I am viewing this website on a PC on XP Service Pack 2
My browser of choice is Safari 3
And everything looks good except the words \"submit comment\" in the reply box are not centered in the red outline box. They are resting on the bottom of the button.
Other than that looks good!
Really not a fan of the new look. I am generally opposed to change though. All the gawker sites change fairly regularly. I am in FF2 and the site looks fine, no problems.
Once again, not a great design, looks a little cluttered and everything is squished in the middle of the page. Also, bring back the old consumerist icon with the red background. Not this new one that is just a C on whitespace.
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Safari 3.0.4, OSX.4.11.
Looks okay, except for what metalhaze said about the submit box.
Oh, and no more flag comments icon?
@McWatt: Mr. McTwat, I'm sure they tested it, but as with anything, testing your own stuff leads to missed bugs. You wouldn't proofread your own paper, would you?
Vista 64bit with MSN Browser.
And yes MSN has their own browser. It uses the IE7 browser engine as the foundation and the upgrades the user interface getting rid of tab browsing and other stuff.
On some poorly designed and operated sites I have a problem, but not at the consumerist.
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Yay, IE6 doesn't work with the new formatting.
Again.
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Doesn't work for me in FireFox 2.0.0.12--whenever I try to pull up a story, I get an error stating that the browser tried to pass something that was too long to the site:
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.
Cookie: SESSID_GANJA_be4ecb82f9c17d4b1dbf12e462035e5f_CHK=9399607e7c7cbed6a06810b21e5c7a03; SESSID_GANJA_48c9f1132a81b9c32d9c6b017682a7fe_CHK=7c9b36b5ffbe4cfd9ae95f7f397af56a; SESSID_GANJA_fd694c8e3995820e80a45b5d3b967ac4_DATA=returnto%7Cs%3A1%3A%22%2F%22%3Bremember%7Ci%3A1%3BuserId%
(With a LOT of stuff deleted for SOME brevity here)
Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) PHP/5.2.5 mod_perl/2.0.3 Perl/v5.8.8 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80
Don't know why this is happening, and it doesn't happen consistently, either, but I go to IE7.0.5730.13 to read this site since that works fine.
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Almost similar enough to make me question the change...
@cde: We are not talking about typos here. It is completely unusable with IE browsers (I'm currently typing this blindly with the preview covered with affiliate links). I think this is a good opportunity for Consumerist to post about how *not* to deploy new websites.
The site is completely unreadable under MacOS 10.5.2 safari 3.04 if you have Pithhelmet on. Pithhelmet is an ad blocker. All you see are small images on the far left then Waaaaay down the page are some garbled text links.
This site has long been a favorite of mine but this is a deal breaker. I won't read sites that don't let me control what I see. Too bad.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-151458-100x100.png\")
I don't know what IE I'm using, it's the new one with tabs and I have yet to figure out how to check the version. Also, XP Pro.
I think it's our network blocking that's causing issues though. I cannot reply at all during the day from work, except the noon hour when they unblock almost everything. Which is fine. Cuts down on stupidity on my part. I get a message in the status bar that says \"Error on page.\" It doesn't even show me as logged in.
But now I can see even less of the site and it's layout. I can no longer see the pictures on the main page for each article and all nav issues are more or less gone. Maybe it's the name of the directory you store your graphics in?
I'm still surprised I get the site at all, so I guess I shouldn't complain.
Uh, I also agree your banner image should link back to home. Kinda weird that it doesn't. Very 1996 Geocities...
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I'm having no problems at all. Even typing in this comment box has almost no lag. Seems the pages are loading quicker too. I run FF 2.0.0.12 with AdBlock Plus/XP.
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I'm running IE 7 (v7.0.5730.11) and XP SP2. I don't see anything like the old reply/friend/flag buttons next to each comment (not sure if this is by design or bug), but more bothersome, links to posts and the \"Next\" one at the bottom of each screen seem to be taking me back to the main Consumerist page approximately 25% of the time. Very frustrating. (It took me three tries to get in here to comment.)
The new look is fine by me, though.
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Uhm, what's with the large white space on the left of every page now? Why couldn't we leave it how it was before, where the contents of the page actually started at the left margin and not this ~80px from the left margin...
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![[www.eagerdesigns.com.au]](\"http://www.eagerdesigns.com.au/images/skitch/PSAs_-_Minefield-20080311-025356.jpg\"){kind=link}
Here's to hoping that the nested comments script gets updated for the site redesign.