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It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« on: 08 Mar 2009, 21:18 »
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #1 on: 08 Mar 2009, 21:24 »
Oh.

Yeah, it's new.

Just seemed a little far fetched with the huge apple ad complete with page interaction.

Overall it's a pretty great.  A much needed layout redesign that's finally delivered them from their late-90s look.

But yeah, it's a huge ad.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #2 on: 08 Mar 2009, 21:30 »
Yeah, but that's for real(!) Apparently they're doing an all request thing too where people who buy passes get to vote online for all their favorite songs and the band will then play the songs with the most votes or something. Pretty cool.
Also, I go to Pitchfork occasionally for music news stuff so the layout change comes as a surprise. I don't like it. And if they always have ads like that on top of the page it's going to make me like it a hell of a lot less.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #3 on: 08 Mar 2009, 21:32 »
Ads? Seriously?  Why are you even seeing ads?

As far as the layout, it looks terrible.  There's what, like 1/20th of the front page devoted to daily reviews?  I guess they've decided that being a music portal is more important than reviewing records.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #4 on: 08 Mar 2009, 21:34 »
Oh god, I disabled adblock to see what the hell you all where going on about and it was horrible.  I'm glad I have Firefox.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #5 on: 08 Mar 2009, 21:41 »
Remember when Pitchfork used to be brown, guys?
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #6 on: 08 Mar 2009, 23:41 »
Adblock is an awful program - the ads are rarely intrusive, if ever, and you are stripping each of the websites you view of the revenue they need to stay operational.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #7 on: 09 Mar 2009, 04:58 »
Quote from: Ptommydski on 08 Mar 2009, 21:28
HOLY SHIT STEVE EARLE IS MAKING A TOWNES VAN ZANDT TRIBUTE ALBUM

Dude, you should have read the article, Tom Morello is playing a guitar solo on it what the fuck
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #8 on: 09 Mar 2009, 06:55 »
Christ, I don't even know what to look at on that page. Shit's all over the place!
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #9 on: 09 Mar 2009, 07:08 »
Quote from: Jeans on 09 Mar 2009, 01:28
Quote from: rynne on 08 Mar 2009, 21:32
As far as the layout, it looks terrible.  There's what, like 1/20th of the front page devoted to daily reviews?  I guess they've decided that being a music portal is more important than reviewing records.

What are you talking about? The Reviews tab is the first one on the menu, and the reviews are placed front and center with about one third of the top column dedicated to it.

Here's the daily review section in relation to the front page.



After thinking about it more, what really irks me is that you have to mouse-over the review thumbnails to see the band name, album title, and summary blurb.  I can't just scan the page to see if there are any albums I like.  Oddly, the reviews page has the band and album names but doesn't have thumbnails or blurbs.

From the overall layout, it seems like the mouse-over feature was added to reduce the size of the reviews section, and increase the size of the news and pitchfork.tv bars at the top of the page.  That’s why I felt that Pitchfork was looking more like a music portal than a music-review site.  Which is fine if that's what they want to do, but it seems to me like it's another step away from what the site was at its heyday.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #10 on: 09 Mar 2009, 08:14 »
Ughh, hate this layout. I'm sure it'll grow on me, but not right away.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #11 on: 09 Mar 2009, 08:41 »
I think the new layout is fail.  More importantly though I keep getting 504 Gateway Time-outs.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #12 on: 09 Mar 2009, 16:19 »
Quote from: Spluff on 08 Mar 2009, 23:41
Adblock is an awful program - the ads are rarely intrusive, if ever, and you are stripping each of the websites you view of the revenue they need to stay operational.

I disable it for certain sites, like the comic.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #13 on: 09 Mar 2009, 17:04 »
I disable it for nothing. Advertising is an unwanted intrusion into my life and I do my best to minimise its effects.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #14 on: 09 Mar 2009, 18:41 »
Little bit off subject, but I'm quite excited for April Fool's Day.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #15 on: 09 Mar 2009, 18:43 »
I don't use adblock but I use flashblock. flashblock just turns the flash into a little play button if you wanna view it.

jpeg ads still render but irritating animated and sound flash ads can fuck right off.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #16 on: 09 Mar 2009, 20:01 »
Sometimes adverts tell me about something I legitimately want to know.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #17 on: 10 Mar 2009, 01:13 »
I don't use ad-block because it screws up youtube videos and turns them invisible until I scroll them to a certain position, at which point they become visible again.
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« Reply #18 on: 10 Mar 2009, 01:36 »
Not only do I use adblock, I use noscript, which disables all Java and XSS content on a website unless I specifically allow it to play.
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« Reply #19 on: 10 Mar 2009, 02:06 »
I just turn off adblock on sites where I actually care if they make money (webcomics etc)
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« Reply #20 on: 10 Mar 2009, 02:10 »
Quote from: Ptommydski on 09 Mar 2009, 20:01
Sometimes adverts tell me about something I legitimately want to know.

There don't show Beat Happening ads on the internet, old man.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #21 on: 10 Mar 2009, 02:32 »
I liked the old brown pitchfork better. I like brown.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #22 on: 10 Mar 2009, 05:19 »
Quote from: KharBevNor on 10 Mar 2009, 01:36
Not only do I use adblock, I use noscript, which disables all Java and XSS content on a website unless I specifically allow it to play.

Ditto.  I’m not using my bandwidth to download ads, or to play annoying, unwanted and possibly malicious Javascript.  If I want to support a website, I’ll buy their merch.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #23 on: 10 Mar 2009, 05:23 »
this is slightly annoying if you only check the site once a fortnight....i shudder to think what the people on dial up will think of it though
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #24 on: 10 Mar 2009, 07:25 »
Prithee sir, what is this dial-up of which ye speak? Forsooth, must be a thing of great antiquity, for I know it not.
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #25 on: 10 Mar 2009, 07:38 »
Strange indeed are the traveler's tales of "dial-an-internet".
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Re: It's not April 1st. (Is it?)
« Reply #26 on: 10 Mar 2009, 10:45 »
I have to do a CTRL-F5 if I want the page to refresh properly, that seems kind of stupid.
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