"Matt Hardigree" (matthardigree)
10/21/2013 at 13:14 • Filed to: Kinja
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"Matt Hardigree" (matthardigree)
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Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
McMike
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 13:15 |
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How do we know this is really Matt?
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McMike
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 13:15 |
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How do we know this is really Matt?
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Matt Hardigree
> McMike
10/21/2013 at 13:19 |
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You don't!
Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 13:20 |
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But why change something that worked rather fine?
To paraphrase a certain fictional teacher "progress for the sake of progress should be discouraged"
I'm not saying this in anger or anything, I just wish we could get an answer to why gawker alter things that actually works.
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Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 13:21 |
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But why change something that worked rather fine?
To paraphrase a certain fictional teacher "progress for the sake of progress should be discouraged"
I'm not saying this in anger or anything, I just wish we could get an answer to why gawker alter things that actually works.
ttyymmnn
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 13:21 |
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Only for a few more minutes? Promise?
/thanks for letting us know
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Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 13:21 |
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But why change something that worked rather fine?
To paraphrase a certain fictional teacher "progress for the sake of progress should be discouraged"
I'm not saying this in anger or anything, I just wish we could get an answer to why gawker alter things that actually works.
MoparKetchup
> McMike
10/21/2013 at 13:21 |
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Don't be fooled... It's definitely not Matt. Don't you hear nibbling in the background?
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ttyymmnn
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 13:21 |
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Only for a few more minutes? Promise?
/thanks for letting us know
Nibby
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 13:23 |
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This is what happens when you wait for Kinja to get fixed.
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Nibby
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 13:23 |
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This is what happens when you wait for Kinja to get fixed.
Hooker
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 13:23 |
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ncasolowork2
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 13:25 |
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I bet this is really El Werto posting as Hardibro.
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Matt Hardigree
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
10/21/2013 at 13:26 |
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A lot of these changes are based on data. For instance, we could see when we had the big 970-wide images that a lot of people wouldn't scroll through or past them, leading us to think maybe 640ish was the better way to go on the front page. Changing over has resulted in better performance.
We've also lowered the load times, even with our predilection for GIFs.
Some changes, though, are guesses. Intuition. A hope that we can make a better user experience. We fail, perhaps more than other people, but we're not a public company and we're less averse to risk.
That being said, performance issues are not a part of that. It's a failure I can't stand and one we have to improve or we risk alienating people. I hate it and I wish I could reach into the computer and fix it myself.
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McMike
> McMike
10/21/2013 at 13:27 |
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#Doublepost Monday
DailyTurismo
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 13:30 |
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The best thing about this post is all the double comments caused by nibblinja. Which is great, because I just triple lutz'd the front page.
Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 13:31 |
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COTD Nom
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Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 13:42 |
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Ahh, you replied.. That's nice Matt, I like that. Then I'd like to adress my main issue with the new format (and I've sure you've heard this plenty of times already)... My main issue is that I've got 25% (more or less) empty space to the left of the "top stories" and to the right of the actual cool stuff. I do sort of understand why there's empty space to the right, but I can't fathom why there's all this emptiness on the left side. And it'd be better if tags and usernames had different colours, it'd be a whole lot easier to distinguish them then.
I (and I'm sure we all do) friggin' "love" you guys who work with Jalopnik, it' just that we hardly ever get to get used to ONE format before the next change comes..
PS: My native tongue is by no means english, so if anything is unclear about what I just wrote, please tell me and I'll try to explain what I meant.
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Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> DailyTurismo
10/21/2013 at 13:53 |
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I think my comment to Matt ended up being posted three times :P
TheOnelectronic
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 14:15 |
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You guys had such a good thing going with the previous format. Simple design, big, striking images, clear layout... Why the move to something so much busier?
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TheOnelectronic
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 14:28 |
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You guys had such a good thing going with the previous format. Simple design, big, striking images, clear layout... Why the move to something so much busier?
Squid
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 14:57 |
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I don't know about the whole load times thing. . . My load times have gotten significantly worse with this. I can kind of understand the whole of changing the main Jalopnik site over, but it is seeming that the new format doesn't really mesh with Oppo. Maybe it is me being a curmudgeon, but all these redesigns are a little bit annoying as they seem to be plagued with errors and really seem like they are pushed out before they are really ready to be live. Every comment I have tried to post to Oppo gets an error message and I just give up. Just like I have pretty much given up commenting on the front page as I am forever in the gray.
Basically what I'm trying to say is the updates would be tolerable if they weren't plagued with so many issues at launch. I do realize that not everything can be perfect at launch, but it just seems like the new format isn't 100 percent there.
Oh and just a niggle that I have with the new format, it is hard to see who's post belongs with what, I keep thinking that the stats of the posts on Oppo belong to the author below instead of above. And the top stories menu is really just taking up space for me. I guess that's all. I figured I would leave this here so you could get some feedback. . .
Dingers Ghost, Champion Jockey
> Matt Hardigree
10/21/2013 at 19:24 |
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Guys, I need some help. During all the mess today I was booted out of my Burner account. I WAS Dinger loves his ranger. I can't get back into it because I lost the key. If someone could just you know, make me so I'm not gray when I post, it would be greatly appreciated.