We will be optimizing (especially the new left side feeds column) and fixing things for awhile around here, but welcome to the “new” MacDailyNews which should get faster over the next few hours and also end up working pretty much the same as you’ve come to expect. Yup, the “new” MacDailyNews’ main goal was to be pretty just like the “old” MacDailyNews, just faster and better able to serve our growing traffic needs. We’re almost there.
Oh yeah, we’ll also try to get some more news on here for you soon, too!
Thank you for your past and future patience. 
Had there been a half dozen ads , no problem. But, 19 yikes. Caused me to download stopAVbanners. Now it’s nice and clean, no ads. Too much can be a bad thing. You have to get your ads just right, otherwise people start to delete them.
Site is now MUCH faster, guys – good work!
Huh? Are there more ads than before? I can’t tell.
The Hummer is a Bummer, this animated add is very irritating especially since it is located in the middle of the page and you can’t scroll it away. I don’t think this is the way you want to treat you customers, your site should not be an unpleasant experence. This is my favorite site for Mac news but I would limit my visits if I have to put up with that garbage.
Love the stories…but the site design is no good on a Blackberry – I assume any cell phone browser is the same. The “news” headlines and stories aren’t first – forcing you to scroll (forever) past the archive stories. It is almost unusable…
For what it’s worth…
Make that two
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All in all this revamp is a turn for the WORST – this bombardment of ads is beginning to carry the nasty smell of greed from MDN.
Regular visitors and contributors – who, after all, make this site what it is – must now ask if they are being exploited with masses of crude, cheap (and, in many cases irrelevent) advertising,,, what is the host’s real interest?
As already mentioned here, I don’t mind a few, well placed ads and if they are ‘on-topic’ they can be informative, but what MDN is turning into shows NO CARE for its customers. Add to this virtually zero consideration given to its own visual identity and it comes very close to treating us in the same way as it barks on about MICROSOFT (mis)treating its own users.
I wont even mention the childish !!!MICROSOFT!!! Smilies added!
Get your act together MDN – or risk losing your place in the Mac world!
You can still get to the old pMachine MacDailyNews site – guess what – same amount of ads on the old site as on this one. See for yourself:
http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P3850_0_1_0
Anybody else getting odd disappearing cursors while browing article pages? I’m currently running Safari 1.2.4 on OS X 10.3.6. Whenever I am reading an article and move my cursor to top of a browser window where the forward, back, reload, etc. buttons are, my cursor disappears (but is still active because I can click on things, albeit blindly).
Yup, disappearing cursor. Only on this site.
MacCentral has replaced MDN on my toolbar. Half the amount of ads.
Wow, I wonder why our arrows disappear. VERY annoying!!
In general, I prefer http://www.macworld.co.uk for the latest Mac news. They get up 7 hours before most of the US, so by the time I wander over to the fridge for my first Pepsi, all of the day’s news is already posted. Most of the US sites take about 8 hours to catch up to the British. Their comments area is much more like the Apple.com discussion forums. The topics don’t have to be related to the articles. …oh, and my arrow doesn’t mysteriously vanish there.
I’m thinking of doing something like this, but just steal all of the good ideas from the websites, and avoid the bad ones. It can’t be that hard. Can you really make a decent wage with a dozen ads on your website? Hmmm…..
MacSurfer.com seems to a better job. About 10 ads on a page. Most importantly, they have many more artilces grouped in areas of interest. I am looking forward to the promised improvements.
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Get some Raid to kill the cockroaches, MDN.
I’ve already reported the bugs to Apple with Safari’s bug button.
Thanks for getting the RSS feed running correctly again. Things seem snappier too. Keep on keepin on MDN!!
The pages are too wide. It’s really annoying to have to scroll left to right and back again to read the article and comments.
Hey Cool, MDN is syndicating content like we do at http://www.macpulse.com/
Great selections!
Oh, and I love the smileys! :-8
What ads are you guys talking about?
They certainly aren’t anymore than before or anymore annoying that before.
If you don’t like it, don’t browse the page! But whatever you do, don’t view the site with Pithhelmet – that takes bandwidth and content but doesn’t pay the hoster!
Your new web site page now displays wider on my 17″ screen. In Safari I now have the arrows and blue bar at the bottom of the screen. Not good, compared to before.
To “Zupchuck” and “cpr86”: Regarding disappearing cursor using OSX 10.3.6 and Safari 1.2.4 (v125.11). I’m using a 1.25 GHz, 17-inch, white-dome iMac. Yeah, my cursor is disappearing too in Safari. After some point, it disappears whenever I move it over the Bookmarks or Tabs bar. I didn’t notice the problem before using 10.3.5. Let Apple know about it; I did. When in Safari, go to Safari>Report Bugs to Apple� to do so.