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  1. 1. Who's your least favorite Kotaku writer or contributor?

    • Brian Crecente
      18
    • Brian Ashcraft
      24
    • Stephen Totilo
      1
    • Mike Fahey
      3
    • Owen Good
      5
    • Luke Plunkett
      10
    • Tim Rogers
      17
    • Lisa Foiles
      5
    • Mike McWhertor [ex-editor]
      1
    • Kirk Hamilton
      1
    • Joel Johnson
      15
    • Evan Narcisse
      0

  2. 2. Who's your favorite Kotaku writer or contributor?

    • Brian Crecente
      5
    • Brian Ashcraft
      9
    • Stephen Totilo
      34
    • Mike Fahey
      8
    • Owen Good
      21
    • Luke Plunkett
      6
    • Tim Rogers
      6
    • Lisa Foiles
      2
    • Mike McWhertor [ex-editor]
      7
    • Joel Johnson
      0
    • Kirk Hamilton
      2
    • Evan Narcisse
      0

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Now you remind me of scripts.   INT. 'FUCKING KOTAKU' MEETING ROOM, X-TALK FORUM - DAY   Men in various suits sit around a table. They stare angrily at an overhead projection of the Kotaku article

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You're an idiot if you think there are no pot-smoking gamers and also if you don't realize it's a gawker repost. Remember, "pot smoking gamers" is considered a big enough niche that they actually made

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People sure do get their feelings hurt quite easily. Get over yourselves, it's the internet.

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1:35 - ND: Web Media went down a dead end ... We’re going to pay less attention to commenters, who keep us in a ghetto...

 

No kidding, asshole. Your dumbass "redesign" fucked up the entire network for commenters, and you didn't give a shit about what any of us had to say when we repeatedly insisted that the new site was a steaming pile of dog turd.

 

This right here is the main reason why I left the Gawker Media sites. It's not so much the redesign, it's the smug "we don't give a fuck" attitude the higher-ups had toward the user opinion of the site, and that the redesign not only failed to solve many problems/wishes that the users had, but they actually took OUT functionality for them. I really don't feel the need to spend so much time being a building block of their community (the only damn reason I was there the past year or so) when they said "we don't give a shit" in return.

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I'm one of the rare few who doesn't use adblocks (for a few reasons), so I'll show some of you who do what I noticed today:

kotaku1.jpg

kotaku2.jpg

 

I noticed that there's an article written between those ads and that one of the pictures might not be an ad (I'm thinking the Batman one is part of the article, but I'm not sure).

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Wow that's one huge advert. Also I notice Kotaku seem to be struggling with the size of images and videos, in many cases making them smaller than the original layout (Luke especially has a habit of using really small youtube videos)

Also the T-Shirt add, that's not Meat bun is it. Cos that'd be a huge clash of pr..esomthing or others(brain is warming up, bear with me). Cos McWhertor is a founder.

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Wow that's one huge advert. Also I notice Kotaku seem to be struggling with the size of images and videos, in many cases making them smaller than the original layout (Luke especially has a habit of using really small youtube videos)

Also the T-Shirt add, that's not Meat bun is it. Cos that'd be a huge clash of pr..esomthing or others(brain is warming up, bear with me). Cos McWhertor is a founder.

 

Think you're looking for conflict of interest here.

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Spamps

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Can't say I have that problem, personally. But then I do have a fairly fast connection.

 

It does fail to load pages as well as comments sometimes though.

 

My connection isn't the problem, it's one of the best in the USA. There's a decent chance it's my computer, but it's a 4-year-old MacBook Pro that was top of the line (for a mac lol) when I bought it, and no other site gives me problems like this.

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What browser are you using? The site/s is/are faster for basically everyone.

 

Where the hell you hearing that? It's definitely slower than the old one. Especially with loading comments (loading the entire article with the comment doesn't help, though it does push up the hits for that article...)

The sitemeter/alexa/whatever results even state it's much slower. It's slower than "94%" of other websites.

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Faiblesse Des Sens

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What browser are you using? The site/s is/are faster for basically everyone.

 

Where the hell you hearing that? It's definitely slower than the old one. Especially with loading comments (loading the entire article with the comment doesn't help, though it does push up the hits for that article...)

The sitemeter/alexa/whatever results even state it's much slower. It's slower than "94%" of other websites.

 

Articles loads faster, you dont have to load the whole page anymore, etc.

 

Honestly, how are you people not experiencing speed improvements? All gawker sites were slow as fuck and the "have to go back to the home page" navigation didn't help with that. Any browser with decent rendering (which is basically everything but IE) will load this shit faster. Typically the site loads in a second or two, the side bar a second or two after. Comments load a split second after the story.

 

What the hell is wrong with your guys browsers? Hell, every single introduction to the new layout has included "speed improvements" as the site doesn't seem to be from 2002 anymore.

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Lol. You're one of the folks that only uses a single tab to browse?

You didn't have to go back to the homepage on old layout. Just load the homepage up once n scroll down, middle clicking on any stories that caught your eye. Then work your way through them. You only had to go back to the homepage each n every time if you were some retard who had never heard of tabbed browsing (like Nick Denton)

It's certainly sped from the "doesn't load at all" days of launch (where they promised vast speed increases). But that's like calling "healthy" just cos he's not dead.

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You do realize that's a hassle to do to begin with, right? Especially if you're linked in from a reader or from an outside source directly to an article.

 

 

Anyways, I made a video of my speed test. I had "jezebel.com" copy and pasted which is why it's not typed out. I knew I had not seen jezebel since the change so obviously I wouldn't have anything cached there and I clicked into another article to test that (and I was looking for something with more comments anyways.)

 

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Figured out why I got the old layout earlier.

 

I just went back and it was the new one. But sometimes when I go to "www.kotaku.com", once the site actually loads, the address says "ca.kotaku.com". So I went there and sure enough the old layout appeared.

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