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Former Engadget crew's new site named. THE VERGE

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holy whitespace and font sizes, Batman. code & theory have done better work. it seems of late that they're drinking a bit too much from the whitespace and large title font kool-aid.
 
Beaulieu said:
verge is penis in french. dunno if its been told.
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Seriously? Now the name must be changed. :lol The logo also looks like pixel art of the head of a penis upside down; makes sense!
 
I was pretty excited the last weeks but this looks horrible. Thank god i have feedly so i never have to look at it again (or until they change it to something less clustered).
 
quaere said:
Don't understand the Joanna fans. She's always loudly interrupting Josh or Nilay saying something actually funny with her very mediocre attempts at imitating them.
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She's a girl in an all male field of snarky technology snarks. Also totally nude laptop reviews.com


The website is a bit of a mess.
 
jey_16 said:
runs slowly on my computer for some reason......could be because its Windows....
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well, they've got 8 trackers on the front page for some reason. that might be parts of it.

also, depends on your definition of "slow". :d
 
I don't like this newspaper format look at all. It's way too busy and cluttered. Engadget's simple, standard blog layout is much easier to read and navigate. I'll be sticking with Engadget...been reading everyday for years.

Also have to agree about 'this is my next' being a better and more clever name than The Verge which sounds like some hipster rock band.
 
Runs slow, but if it didn't I don't hate it. Then again, I'm one who doesn't like to click through pages and pages of links.
 
It's like they preemptively Kotaku'd themselves.


jey_16 said:
runs slowly on my computer for some reason......could be because its Windows....
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Same here. The reason is that they use a lot of advanced browser rendering techniques like those colorful gradients on the headline blocks and a lot of scripting too...the site is like the opposite of what you would call lightweight
 
It's lots of eye-catching things...but it seems like the content is all over the place, and the update system seems pretty awkward.

Hopefully they figure out a better way to deliver the content, but I know the content itself should be pretty top notch stuff. Will pay attention to the site and see how it evolves.
 
dream said:
I love this portrait:

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jesus fucking christ i don't wanna live on this planet anymore
 
roosters93 said:
What does this is my next mean
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I never liked that name. It instantly made me think of those loathsome dorks who buy a new phone every 3 months just to be able to brag about their new phone.

Not that "The Verge" is all that good a name. But whatever.
 
Technosteve said:
iPhone version seems fine
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It'll greatly depends on whatever image they use for their top story. Right now, the first thing you see is a mindfuck of their terrible logo.

Reading Topolsky's intro is like reading a parody of marketing speak.
 
I like the look of the new site, but I hate trying to read it. Your eyes can't focus on one thing and that's not a good thing. It's not even a left to right thing or anything. It's just too cluttered. They literally need an article to explain how to read the site.
 
OH. MY. GOD.

After indulging in the minimalistic Eden that was TIMN, I awaken to find myself lost in this horrible maze of cluttered graphics and clashing fonts.

helppp me....
 
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, it all makes sense. Why didn't someone tell me this was an SB Nation project. I would have had way lower expectations.

Oh man, going to tested.com is like nirvana right now.
 
Looks fine to me. This My Next was just a stream of news and it was hard to find anything that fell off the front page. I especially like the new product hubs, very easy to get all the stories on the Galaxy Nexus is a nicely presented page. The new gallery in the articles is better too. I'll never use the forums and won't be wearing any badge for apple, microsoft, google or whatever tribes they are gathering there

If you don't like the full site, check out the mobile version. It's a lot like the closed ThisIsMyNext you're used to.

p.s. don't forget to click on the 'Number of new articles' link right at the top of the page. genius

eznark said:
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, it all makes sense. Why didn't someone tell me this was an SB Nation project. I would have had way lower expectations.

Oh man, going to tested.com is like nirvana right now.
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yeah, tested's new site is pretty cool.
 
They weren't kidding when they said The Verge wouldn't be just another tech blog.

I'm a fan of the work these guys are doing, but the front page looks like a mess to me. I think I get what they're going for, but it's too much. They didn't want to put up with the AOL way, left Engadget and "CLICK EVERYWHERE, BITCH!" is the result? It's a shame, because it actually looks fine when you click on the articles or scroll through the timelines.

Another thing: I know that the iPad can be a piece of shit at times, but if a site crashes my browser twice, then it lost.

e: It's also pretty funny that the hipsterific overlay for the images on the front page doesn't work in IE9. Kinda makes it the better browser for the site. :lol
 
I like both the design, the logo and the layout.

Don't know these guys, but I have been wondering why Engadget was kind of shitty lately.
 
Wow, I just noticed the side scrolling bar in the middle of the page. What??

Oh, apparently there are a bunch of them.

Site needs a seizure warning.
 
Greyface said:
Looks fine to me. This My Next was just a stream of news and it was hard to find anything that fell off the front page. I especially like the new product hubs, very easy to get all the stories on the Galaxy Nexus is a nicely presented page. The new gallery in the articles is better too. I'll never use the forums and won't be wearing any badge for apple, microsoft, google or whatever tribes they are gathering there
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See, here's the thing; I want news. I check it often enough that I don't need stuff that's fallen off the front page. I don't want product hubs, if I wanted to see something about a specific product, I'd go to a specific site (for example I use WPCentral to get Windows Phone news).

I use Greasemonkey or Adblock on virtually every blog--not to block ads (although I sometimes do that too), but to block design elements. I don't want to share with facebook or twitter. I don't want to see your affiliates. I'm not going to send you a tip. I don't care about your privacy policy or copyright notice. I don't need your custom in-site search engine. I don't care about the number of views or comments and there's about a 99% chance I don't care about your comments section. I don't care about sponsored posts. I don't care about your top articles. I don't care about related articles. I want your site to have absolutely no features. I don't care about staff biographies on the right-hand side. I don't care about what software you used to make the site. I don't care if your site is W3C standards compliant.

Virtually every website I go to just looks like a stylish RSS feeds, and that's exactly the way I like it. I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. I can quickly get the news I want when I want it. I can open ten tabs and go read -> next -> read -> next -> read -> next. I'm not distracted by superfluous features. Yay.

Obviously I understand what you're saying, and I know why they're doing what they're doing, but it's not for me.
 
I don't mind it. It definitely is different than every other tech blog out there. Although the crazy amount of info on the front page does remind me a bit of cnet.
The drop down menus on the top of the screen with all the recent updates in each category should be a bit more prominent I think, as they will probably be incredibly useful.
Also, with the exception of the huge sidebar on the right, the forums aren't half bad. I really like the built in keyboard shortcuts. ("c" for next post, shift+"c" for previous, etc.)

Given a little time and community feedback, I think this has the potential to be a pretty great tech site.
 
brotkasten said:
e: It's also pretty funny that the hipsterific overlay for the images on the front page doesn't work in IE9. Kinda makes it the better browser for the site. :lol
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that's pretty amateur. you'd think they'd know to use conditional CSS for IE and use transparent PNGs to at least add a contrast to the white text they throw on pictures. hell, i would've used a PNG overlay over CSS gradients to begin with for compatibility reasons.
 
scorcho said:
that's pretty amateur. you'd think they'd know to use conditional CSS for IE and use transparent PNGs to at least add a contrast to the white text they throw on pictures. hell, i would've used a PNG overlay over CSS gradients to begin with for compatibility reasons.
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I don't think they cared much about IE compatibility, because IE runs only on Windows and Windows is like poison. /Topolsky
 
Stumpokapow said:
See, here's the thing; I want news. I check it often enough that I don't need stuff that's fallen off the front page. I don't want product hubs, if I wanted to see something about a specific product, I'd go to a specific site (for example I use WPCentral to get Windows Phone news).

I use Greasemonkey or Adblock on virtually every blog--not to block ads (although I sometimes do that too), but to block design elements. I don't want to share with facebook or twitter. I don't want to see your affiliates. I'm not going to send you a tip. I don't care about your privacy policy or copyright notice. I don't need your custom in-site search engine. I don't care about the number of views or comments and there's about a 99% chance I don't care about your comments section. I don't care about sponsored posts. I don't care about your top articles. I don't care about related articles. I want your site to have absolutely no features. I don't care about staff biographies on the right-hand side. I don't care about what software you used to make the site. I don't care if your site is W3C standards compliant.

Virtually every website I go to just looks like a stylish RSS feeds, and that's exactly the way I like it. I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. I can quickly get the news I want when I want it. I can open ten tabs and go read -> next -> read -> next -> read -> next. I'm not distracted by superfluous features. Yay.

Obviously I understand what you're saying, and I know why they're doing what they're doing, but it's not for me.
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I usually agree which is why this made my day:

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omgkitty said:
How do you get to the mobile site in a browser? I tried m.theverge.com and it won't pull it up.
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It's mobile.theverge.com. No need to spoof for now. you might want to open it in a small sized window though,
 
I will say, SB has one of the best commenting systems I have used, so for those of you who want to comment on stuff you'll like that bit.

Having followed some of the SB sites for..well, always, I will say that things will only get worse design wise.

Wow, greyface. That is awesome! I missed that in all the clutter.

This site is just as Topolsky said; an app. Like an app, it needs a damn tutorial.
 
Runs choppy on my win7 with quad core xenons and 12gb of ram.

Nope, not gonna return. Typography is nice.
 
I guarantee the home page will be redesigned within a few weeks.

The cardinal sin for me is having so many unfixed column heights.

The point of a site like this it to determine which tech news they think readers will be interested in. At the minute the homepage is trying to show a cluster of stories within a small footprint (without scrolling), and failing to highlight any of them.
 
Greyface said:
I usually agree which is why this made my day:

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It's mobile.theverge.com. No need to spoof for now. you might want to open it in a small sized window though.
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Yeah the mobile site looks like crap in a big window. I do really like the news button that highlights new articles, except even though I am signed in and have clicked on several articles, it doesn't unhighlight them. That needs to be fixed.
 
Greyface said:
I usually agree which is why this made my day:

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That's a handy feature, but I generally read everything so you still get to the headline clicking problem. This was why I stopped using TUAW; I can strip down all of the design fluff that I don't give a shit about, but if I can't get to the articles without clicking, it wrecks my use case.
 
scorcho said:
that's pretty amateur. you'd think they'd know to use conditional CSS for IE and use transparent PNGs to at least add a contrast to the white text they throw on pictures. hell, i would've used a PNG overlay over CSS gradients to begin with for compatibility reasons.
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Interesting... I'm playing around with Tilt right now.

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Stumpokapow said:
See, here's the thing; I want news. I check it often enough that I don't need stuff that's fallen off the front page. I don't want product hubs, if I wanted to see something about a specific product, I'd go to a specific site (for example I use WPCentral to get Windows Phone news).

I use Greasemonkey or Adblock on virtually every blog--not to block ads (although I sometimes do that too), but to block design elements. I don't want to share with facebook or twitter. I don't want to see your affiliates. I'm not going to send you a tip. I don't care about your privacy policy or copyright notice. I don't need your custom in-site search engine. I don't care about the number of views or comments and there's about a 99% chance I don't care about your comments section. I don't care about sponsored posts. I don't care about your top articles. I don't care about related articles. I want your site to have absolutely no features. I don't care about staff biographies on the right-hand side. I don't care about what software you used to make the site. I don't care if your site is W3C standards compliant.

Virtually every website I go to just looks like a stylish RSS feeds, and that's exactly the way I like it. I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. I can quickly get the news I want when I want it. I can open ten tabs and go read -> next -> read -> next -> read -> next. I'm not distracted by superfluous features. Yay.

Obviously I understand what you're saying, and I know why they're doing what they're doing, but it's not for me.
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Just curious, wouldn't it be easier to use an RSS reader?
 
ConvenientBox said:
Runs choppy on my win7 with quad core xenons and 12gb of ram.

Nope, not gonna return. Typography is nice.
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What browser are you running? It runs fine in chrome on my six year old Dell laptop with a 2GHz single core and a GB of ram
 
I actually like the design.. a bit, though I agree it could be done better.

Also, what the fuck is this shit?

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If you can't even give the correct names for an operating system, how can I trust everything else?
 
Tobor said:
Just curious, wouldn't it be easier to use an RSS reader?
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People have told me this before and I can't say anything to refute it. I do like segmenting things by topic so it's nice that my gaming news is separate from my mac news is separate from my celebrity gossip is separate from tv ratings is separate from photoblogs, but I'm sure there is a way to get that done in an RSS reader. So I really have no response--it might well be easier to use an RSS reader, it's just not a part of my habit right now.
 
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