Oh What the Fuck is This?!

"user314" (user314)
06/02/2020 at 16:35 • Filed to: kinja, kinjasucks, rearranging the deck chairs

Edit: There’s a “ !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !” post, and they’re asking for feedback in the comments. Not that I actually expect them to listen...

New layout on Giz. Busy for busy’s sake.

DISCUSSION (26)

PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 > user314
06/02/2020 at 16:40

wow, I had to compare current Jalop to Giz and wow, that’s terrible.

ttyymmnn > user314
06/02/2020 at 16:45

AV Club has had that for a while now. Makes it harder to read, and articles are repeated two or three times on the page. My favorite recent addition is the seemingly endless scroll of clickbait at the bottom.

For Sweden > user314
06/02/2020 at 16:53

I feel like I’ve gone back in time 7 years

user314 > For Sweden
06/02/2020 at 16:54

Right?

ClassicDatsunDebate > user314
06/02/2020 at 16:56

Is Jim Rich writing headlines for Gizmodo now too?

For Sweden > user314
06/02/2020 at 16:58

I can’t wait to read car reviews by Ray Wert’s mom.

user314 > PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120
06/02/2020 at 17:00

Jalop will be next. The infection is spreading throughout Gawk modo.

wkiernan > user314
06/02/2020 at 17:03

For some reason I’m blocked from commenting on Gizmodo. I don’t know what I did to offend them so. I’ve never been blocked by any other blog except right-wing political ones, which are run by the most delicate, sensitive little snowflakes in the whole internet. One time I got blocked within sixty seconds flat after making a post on one of those asshole sites!

So anyway, I won’t be enjoying their “ new look,” nor will I deliver feedback in the comments, because I could comment all day long but no one would get to see what I post.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > user314
06/02/2020 at 17:16

Wait, Netflix is remaking Cowboy Beb op? Haven’t they ruined enough things?!

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > user314
06/02/2020 at 17:22

This better not spread to Oppo...

user314 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
06/02/2020 at 17:25

Apparently not. Won’t subscribe, so I won’t see it.

facw > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
06/02/2020 at 17:25

I don’t think we have the stuff for that. But then at some point we added a “subscribe” button despite having no email.

user314 > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
06/02/2020 at 17:25

R esistance is futile, we will be assimilated.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > facw
06/02/2020 at 17:35

I love how it just takes you to the home page. Actually useful at the bottom of a long post on mobile

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > user314
06/02/2020 at 17:36

At least it puts the deals of the day out away from everything else. . . in a more prominent position than G izmodo posts. Oof.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > user314
06/02/2020 at 17:38

If you access it via the “Latest” button, it rolls things out like the homepage used to do.

The A/V Club was the first place I noticed the new garbage layout, as someone else mentioned.

and just for good measure: Fuck Spanfeller.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > ttyymmnn
06/02/2020 at 17:41

“clickbait”, as in Taboola ads, or something else entirely?

With a couple of custom filter adjustments, AdBlock/AdBlockPlus eliminates ALL ads without making Kinja any worse (at least on a Windows machine; I don’t have a solution for mobile devices).

ttyymmnn > Dead_Elvis, Inc.
06/02/2020 at 17:54

Taboola shit. I’m running ad blockers, but some of them affect the comment system. I just stop scrolling when I get to the bottom of the Jalopnik content.