Fucking Kotaku

[Mercurial]

I am going to Destructoid.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

Would you guys recommend Joystiq, Destructoid, or something else? I don't have much room in my favorites toolbar on firefox so I can only keep one site up there. So which one is best?

 

Just use a reader and go to multiple sites. No one site is great.

[Thorgi Duke of Frisbee]

I love the new Kotaku design. Much easier to navigate, and the galleries are now very pleasing.

[Thorgi Duke of Frisbee]

Would you guys recommend Joystiq, Destructoid, or something else? I don't have much room in my favorites toolbar on firefox so I can only keep one site up there. So which one is best?

Destructoid is run by a bunch of lunatics, so I would stay away. That Jim Sterling is the biggest idiot on the Internet.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

I checked out a gallery after you mentioned that and you're right. The galleries aren't completely terrible anymore and are quite nice. I think the biggest plus here is how snappy everything is and not having to go the home page over and over.

[deanb]

Yeah I'm with Faiblesse on this one. Skip being a single site kind of guy.

If you know what to do with it here's an OPML file:

http://dl.dropbox.co...ame%20Blogs.xml

Upload it to Google Reader, or open it with RSS reader of choice and boom a huge chunk of sites that should be more than required (I'd recommend trimming it down alot)

Also Yeah while it's in that list I don't much recommend D'toid, especially for "Herp Derp Stirling"

[BrainHurtBoy...2]

Unless they bring back a 'Classic' view, I'm leaving Kotaku. I can't support the place. I like it here, anyways, and I can get my news from Joystiq and my RSS Feed. It's just unfortunate. I'm having trouble doing the most basic things, like navigation.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

Unless they bring back a 'Classic' view, I'm leaving Kotaku. I can't support the place. I like it here, anyways, and I can get my news from Joystiq and my RSS Feed. It's just unfortunate. I'm having trouble doing the most basic things, like navigation.

 

http://blog.kotaku.com/

[Mercurial]

Still looks shitty.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

In terms of looks the new layout (in blog mode or top story mode) is much cleaner than the old interface.

[excel_excel]

I don't know its just worse. If the original Kotaku had a 'view comments' button there is no way they would have as big or popular community as it does now.

[McBeeferton]

I'm just glad I've yet to come across an annoying forced ad or an autoplay movie.

[Toshi]

I find it a pain to comment or reply to any comments on the new kotaku and it's a pain to navigate. I do not like how it doesn't really have links to speakup or TAY, so this is annoying.

[excel_excel]

Its like a fucking newspaper. Horrible.

[Mercurial]

What is this newspaper you speak of?!?

[excel_excel]

It was a medium for reading information printed on paper....it sucked!

[McBeeferton]

Its like a fucking newspaper. Horrible.

 

At least it doesn't SMELL like a newspaper. I must not be the only one who can't stand the smell?

[Mercurial]

Honestly I loved the smell of newspaper...mmm cancer smell.

[Cyber Rat]

"The New Elder Scrolls Can Actually Make Humans Look Attractive [VIDEO]"

 

That tag is so fucking cheap.

[deanb]

What tag?

Also I find it funny that part of the upgrade was supposedly larger videos, yet that video is even smaller than the ones they used to have.

[Cyber Rat]

The RSS feed for Kotaku I have usually shows tags like [Rumor], [Pullquoute], [Video] and so on. I know this is on Kotaku's end because none of my other feeds show those tags. I expected some Skyrim footage because the article I linked had [Video] on it, but no, it was a 10 second Oblivion clip which could have been shown in better quality as an image :/

[deanb]

Well now only a single tag and the headline are what they have to sell you on the articles expect some bending of the truth to grab your attention.

[excel_excel]

They might as well go the fucking whole hog and put up an article saying NEW ELDER SCROLLS FOOTAGE!!!

 

.....of some shitty mod of Oblivion.

[Mr. GOH!]

I'm just glad I've yet to come across an annoying forced ad or an autoplay movie.

 

It is actually Gawker mandate now that all videos will autoplay in articles. Apparently it is a COO decision to "make Gawker more like TV." There is no way for the editors to disable it.

 

io9's autoplay videos at least defaulted to being mute at one point.

 

I think the goal is to sell ads on the front end of the autoplay videos. I guess the autoplay is just to condition users to, well, the concept of annoying autoplay videos. It's just another throwback to the Old Web Design of 1998 and its use of autoplay midis embedded into Angelfire or Geocities web sites. It matches the terrible and atavistic frames in that way.

[Toshi]

I can not figure out how to find when someone replies to me other than clicking my name on the page since it doesn't seem to show you have # replies now. It is irritating to respond to people.