A nice parchment colour would be nice.
I've resisted commenting until I gave the design a chance to 'work on me' as it were, and I still dislike it.
Apart from the El Reg attitude and comments section, it now looks like any other site out there, covered in graphics and white space and hard to see what I want to read at a short glance.
However, it's hard to get to the El Reg attitude and comments sections if I don't actually read the stories in the first place.
I normally read around 50% of the stories on any given day, that's dropped to around 20% now as the site just feels less welcoming and familiar (being familiar shouldn't be considered bad btw).
Is this the 'new and improved' El Reg, the one where they change some of the key ingredients so it no longer tastes quite the same and your brand loyalty dwindles, letting in the supermarket chains with their cut-price equivalent that doesn't taste that much worse than the 'new and improved' old favourite?
I'll give it another month or so I expect, because I've gotten a lot out of the site over the years.
@Drew & Chris - I know you guys are doing your best, but I think you may have just pointed out to everyone in big bold (flashing) letters that you are media first, and the local rag second. Don't let the down-votes get you down, it's just the commentards way of saying they love you, but hate what you stand for :P
Biting the hand that feeds IT
