Cleanup in aisle 6!
And… welcome to the new MacDailyNews!
We hope you like what we’ve done with the place. Check it out on your Mac, iPad, and iPhone. (It’s responsive.)
Thank you so very, very much to our web developer, Kyle Evans (kyle@kyleevans.io), for his excellent, extremely efficient work!
We’re not going to tell you how fast this was turned around because we don’t want to encourage anyone to be as awful clients as we were/are. We gave him an impossible deadline and no time to work, but here we are, soft-launching on the Friday before WWDC, days ahead of our goal!
So, please, let us know what you think!
If you find anything amiss, please just email us (webmaster@macdailynews.com) and we’ll get right on it.
We hope you like the new MacDailyNews!
Hey, aren’t you having a 20 year anniversary soon-ish? The place looks great!
I love what you’ve done with the place. The hangers-on, regrettably, are the same old culture snobs. sigh Oh, well..
Looks great! It took me by surprise and and I had to do a double take to make sure I as on MDN! But immediately I knew I liked it!
Noice!… Very Noice👍
Incredibly snappy!!
MDN..
how about reducing the size of the ‘read more’ button and/or repositioning it and either putting more text from the articles.. or compressing the page to show more articles at glance ?!
It’s snappier!
Five stars from me! (out of five stars)
Always dreaded trying to navigate the old design, it was kind of like System 7.5.5, but I like this!
Thumbs up!
Too much scrolling through headlines. Compact that and you’re good to go.
Meh… reminds me of every reason I hate mobile-first web development. From too-wide article heights that make you scroll forever to see the list of articles, to unbalanced type styles between headlines and text. Bland.
My autism makes it nearly impossible to accept change…but I’m still loving this! It’s smooth as butter on my iPhone, I love it!
Looks like I’m the outlier, but I prefer the old look. More concise. Also, with the old version after I opened an article, it would change color, so next time I opened MDN I could tell where I last was. This doesn’t seem to be happening here. Bummer — just like on the iPad, which I’m about ready to throw in the trash for its many failing in my view compared to the Mac. Oh well, change is inevitable. We don’t always have to like it, but I’m a committed visitor for many years.
We’ve made articles that have been read grey now.
I thought I had somehow gone to a mobile version n my iPad, but after Few minutes of shock I think it will be just fine and has a much cleaner and readable format. A few days of use will hopefully confirm first impressions.
Nice job!
If you would be so kind, please put at the top of your list of tweaks one that will restore the state whereby headlines change color when the article is read.
I visit MacDailyNews multiple times per day and the changed color state allows me to easily determine what articles are new since my last visit.
We’ll have an indicator for articles that have been read ASAP. Thanks!
We’ve made articles that have been read grey now.
Could you make it stand out a little more? For example, if it’s 50% now, could you make it 60%, to see if that makes the distinction easier to see upon a glance at the page? (I know, some of us will never be satisfied…) Thanks. 🙂
It’s generally better, but on the front page I would like to see more than one sentence blurb on the story. Maybe 3 would be ok. Also, I’d like to see the number of comments on the story, because it tells us how “hot” the story/issue is for folks here.
Yes, it’s clean, minty fresh, and I am enjoying it much much more. Regular reader for a long time.
So far so good 👍🏻
Bloody awful! What is this, Kiddies corner?
Bye
Snappy!
Definitely a great layout and readability improvement. Well done.
One thing I would ask you to bring back is something that, for me, made MDN so useful: it was easy to tell which articles I had read. I don’t think that there’s a need for the old red/blue combination for un/visited links, but it would be great to see something like a 50% grey for visited links, maybe even a dark red or dark blue. That way, it would still be easy for visitors to scan down the column to know where they had ‘left off’ reading, and what, amongst what they had already reviewed, had been visited. It was one of the features I felt that made the old theme so much more useful than MDN’s competition (other than the blog entries, of course).
Maybe most recent comments at the top of the list?
Snappy.
Needing to expand all the outside news stories and the useless amount of white space and lack of summaries, well, this new look is abhorrently weak
I like it.
Initially, I like it and might consider taking your site of the default to switch automatically to Reader View. Your previous website version was just to busy and too many ads for me to take. Now, if I can just find a way to default your new version to Dark Mode… (the white background is to bright for my eyes.)