Late Night Poll: Time For Snap Judgements

by gallagher on Nov 4, 2009 2:16 AM CST

It's a straight-up given: people hate change. We looked at doing some fairly significant chnges to the paper this week and they were met with immediate negativity by virtually everyone we asked. Myself, I hated them at first, but after a couple hours I thought, "You know, that's actually better in some ways and we could work around the other shit."

But everyone else? Yikes. Not so much. If I'd just made the changes there would have been mass uprisings and many angry emails. And then, after a couple weeks, everyone would have gotten used to it. Because, you know, people buy our paper for the content, not the asthetics. Smaller in size, larger in font, more colorful everywhere? My guess is that it would have worked out.

Nevertheless, we decided to fuck all that noise.

Similarly, our webfriends who invited us to this big SBN party made some changes yesterday to the asthetics, but not our content.

Which brings us to tonight's poll:

Poll

What do you think of the new GT site appearance?

I thought my computer was screwed up at first, but I'll get used to it.

25 votes

BLEEEEAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!

15 votes

"Plain, meet Jane. Jane, this is plain."

17 votes

I'm just here for the content, man.

56 votes

It's not bad, but it needs some help.

12 votes

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I didn't see what was broken with it

And I don’t really understand the “upgrades.” It’s all buzz words like sleek, and stylish and all that jazz. Basically it’s bigger font, more white space and a weird logo. I’ll get used to it, but I’m not going to stop coming here because of the design. I just didn’t see the need for a change.

by averagejoe on Nov 4, 2009 2:26 AM CST reply actions

What changes?

The mobile site looks exactly the same.

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Nov 4, 2009 6:07 AM CST via mobile reply actions

Now that I've seen the non-mobile dealie,

I think it’s just a ploy to draw more attention to the top of the page banner ad:

Anyone got really hairy junk? Click and win!!!!!

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Nov 4, 2009 6:01 PM CST up reply actions

“If I’d just made the changes there would have been mass uprisings and many angry emails.”

Don’t you get those after every edition anywway?

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Nov 4, 2009 6:09 AM CST via mobile reply actions

Yeah, but...

… these angry e-mails wouldn’t be coming from Paul Kariya’s mom.

by BleedBlue42 on Nov 4, 2009 3:00 PM CST up reply actions

Takes time...

Just like my prom date said about anal. “Yeah, it was weird at first but I’m sure I’ll get more out of it, the more exposure I have.”

North Co! North Co! North Co!

by Answer Man on Nov 4, 2009 8:49 AM CST reply actions

Wow.

Just — Wow.

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Nov 4, 2009 6:04 PM CST up reply actions

ok i didnt see this one and posted it

up top, but are these sbn changes or selected persalized changes?

if selecteed, color is kinda bland, do like the “wider” look as the main and most articles look like they have more visible space, maybe that is just a color illusion though

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Nov 4, 2009 9:16 AM CST reply actions

our all-knowing overlords made the changes.

to color and layout.

SWYD

by gallagher on Nov 4, 2009 9:21 AM CST up reply actions

All hail the overlords!

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Nov 4, 2009 6:05 PM CST up reply actions

I really, really thought the servers at school were FUBARed yet again.

It says something when a website’s new layout looks like your computer network’s down.

The other layout just looked better – this one’s a little… cheap? Uncreative? Looks like the internet c. 1998?

Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?

Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

by hildymac on Nov 4, 2009 10:21 AM CST reply actions

well i saw it briefly last night

and decided i’d look at work as well to see if my compuer or the site was the real issue :) did i turn off full color? is this vga? honestly though for all the washing out of the

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Nov 4, 2009 10:32 AM CST up reply actions

colors, it does seem cleaner//easier to read the text

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Nov 4, 2009 10:33 AM CST up reply actions

The ads are starting to get intrusive

yeah you need to pay the light bills but when the members have to pause to figure out where the content ends and the ads start the experience gets downgraded. It looks like SBN is trying to see how much juice they can squeeze out of this grapefruit.

Some days its just not worth chewing through the restraints

by spectr17 on Nov 4, 2009 1:41 PM CST reply actions

i like the ads

they try to read your mind, unsuccessfully…. but still. when the t-shirt contest was on, suddently there are t-shirt ads. fucking detroit? the team gear is detroit, not the blues, and i don’t care what secret some st. louis mom discovered unless it is about Andy Murray (and it never is)

i wonder if we went out of our way to screw things the ad-bots would start giving us geritol ads or perhaps, traffic law hotline ads, 1-800 betts off announcements?

screw with the ad bots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Nov 4, 2009 3:02 PM CST up reply actions

that's the problem for us old fucks

there’s so much weird shit posted here it’s starting to blend in with the oddball ads the ad software suggest for the site. Us geriatrics need simple, it’s hard enough to remember what we came into the room for.

Some days its just not worth chewing through the restraints

by spectr17 on Nov 4, 2009 4:24 PM CST up reply actions