Gawker Media 2.0.1

I should first explain the radio quiet of the last couplet of weeks . We ’d wanted to respond to feedback not with promise of succeeding improvement but with actual fixes . So that ’s what I ’m doing now — but I regret any notion that we were n’t listening . Without more verbiage , the principal change you want . . .

The Scrollbar

The most important redress is the foundation of an home scrollbar to move up and down the newspaper headline index on the right . We had mistakenly thought mouse scrolling ( via scrollwheels or trackpads ) and keyboard shortcut were enough for story navigation — an overly optimistic expectation to say the least . News web site may indeed become more lotion - like and readers may originate habitual to nobble alternatively of scroll . But they ’re not there yet , as the all-inclusive criticism of the sidebar made clear .

We got ahead of ourselves — and now we ’re rowing back .

You ’ll see that the headline index finger on the right now has an internal scrollbar — much like that you might find on Twitter or Facebook . you’re able to pull the saloon up and down — or habituate the arrow . The rearward chronological headlines also scroll infinitely . That intend that when you get to the bottom of the newspaper headline , more will seem automatically . you may keep cash in one’s chips as far back as you want . If you select a headline , the history will open up up on the left wing but you will not drop off your place in the stream .

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Finding the Blog View

For lover of the traditional web log position , we preserved a version of the site in which the tarradiddle extract ( not just the headline power ) are arranged in inverse chronological social club much as in the yesteryear . But it was n’t obvious how to set that selection . So you ’ll see a button at the top of the page which let a proofreader to switch back and forth . And — in case you miss that — there ’s also a billet which seem at the top of the headline index . We ’ll be making further advance to the blog view and will continue to corroborate it as long as it has significant readership .

Restoration of Comment Notifications

Yes , we thought that commenters could do for a few calendar week without the fancier functionality such as answer notifications . We had a rollout deadline to run into . And we were working on an even snazzier solution , a content inbox that would not only show replies but also give commenters the ability to go forward the discussion on the page rather than click over to each thread .

Anyway , that was n’t ready . So we should have at the very least restitute the basic response notifications . I had n’t realise the extent to which the most zealous commenters bank on that feature film . It ’s back . If you ’re logged in you ’ll see the telling in a pop - up in the top right field of the Thomas Nelson Page when you sign in .

We are also planning to allow a lector again to “ pith ” another commenter — and to see that person ’s best contributions so that they can track discussion across many posts and forums .

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Performance Improvements

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So where does that leave us ? Some people say we should be blandish that reader have such an intense kinship with the site . That people typically detest even small design changes ; and this was a crowing one . That an redevelopment is always painful — and in particular so on the web , where critics are amplified by the medium itself . The logical system — that we ask to showcase our strongest stories and visuals , not only our most late — corpse .

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But the conversion was by all odds more contuse for readers and our own staff than it need to be . When the redesign first set in motion , a pot of feature film but did not work — which is no way to introduce lector to something unexampled .

We ’ve made more than a hundred hemipteron fixes and substance abuser interface change and continue to work through the list . So , more later . Please do carry on to send your feedback and suggestions through to[email protected ] .

But in the meantime , do check out the infinite gyre of headlines and other improvements to the drug user interface . And then , after that , we hope you notice the substance abuser interface less — because you believably came here not for a discussion on web design but for the stories . And that ’s what we ’re here to return , splashier than ever .

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