My blog view cookie is not staying put anymore. I have to see the abomination that is pretty view every couple of days. Why!

It sucks--but I give you a B- for effort.

Sorry, I liked the old design much better. This is too busy and fussy. Please reconsider!

Is there a reason you got rid of the page views?

Yes- the script we wrote to record it was hogging resources. It was actually a separate count from the one we keep in Google Analytics (b/c that one records in real time, but only displays results about 12 hours later.) But this month we switched to Chartbeat, which gives us real-time data on who's on what story- it's similar enough to the counts, and it works well, so we decided to get rid of the counts. We're trying to slim down the Javascript on all our pages this month- so getting rid of little things like that helps.

I was really upset before I realized you can revert to the old view.

Thank you for giving us Blog view in the new Gawker-ish layout. When they transitioned it took them several days of people complaining to offer that type of layout again. I'm too old to chase the edge of the new paradigm in new media design.

No prob- we'll always offer it.

I really don't understand why people are complaining. You can always use the blog view if you are afraid of change. Use it for a couple of days and you might get used to it. I understand that change can be difficult sometimes. This whole thing reminds me of the bike lane issue.

Switched immediately to the blog view. After the Gawker disaster, what possessed you guys to say, "Aha, we need to implement that design!"?

Let me be the first to thank you for continuing to read the blog view!

But I object to the comparison between the Gawker design and Pretty. Some salient differences!
1) Gawker has two framed columns that move/refresh separately- we have three columns that move/refresh together!
2) We have three sections- they only have one!
3) Our comments are the same as they were before!
4) We didn't use their crazy hashbang URL stuff!
5) We're keeping separate designs for mobile, ipad, iphone, etc- each will have their own style appropriate to the device- Gawker is using one design across all devices!

There's probably more! I don't mean to slag on Gawker- I actually think there's a lot that works there. To me the only dealbreaker is the two sections moving separately- that's just hard to use.

Glad that you gave the option of the old view. That's the problem a lot of new designs make--forcing what users "should" be doing rather than giving choices. So thank you for that.

(My job--legal publishing--screwed up by launching a new online site that tried to dictate how users should be finding and using content rather than listening to all the complaints from editors and customers during beta testing about how people actually want to use it. We're still rolling out "new" features that people requested in beta 2 years ago to make up for the crappy launch.)

I'll give the new view a fair shake for a week or two. I like that I can see a lot more stories, and I like that it gives more attention to the 3 main categories of news, food, and entertainment, rather than just jumbling them all together.

I do kinda miss the pictures with all the posts, but I understand that could get visually busy.

Thanks for giving it a chance!

I've been reading the Gothamist for a while, but I really really dont like this design. I value scrolling through the articles.

There's always blog view! But give it a few days and see if grows on you!

I've been reading Gothamist for years and I really enjoy the site. However, I don't like this new view and this is coming from a web designer. I too will always be reading from the blog view. I'm all for constantly seeking to improve your site, but I don't like this from a design and readability standpoint.

Read this post about design feedback and then give me your specifics! http://weblog.muledesign.com/2...

The headlines are too small. Which is especially weird because it doesn't seem like there are more new articles on the pages then before. I think you lose a lot without a picture for each headline, they're much easier to skip over.

Do you mean the headlines on the left side or the title links on the right side?

For the millionth time ever going to make the posts full length or at least some of them (the short to medium ones)???