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MacRumors 2011 Redesign

keruah said:
Bring back iOS version and front page ratings!
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There is an iOS version. It should detect it automatically. If not, you can hit "Mobile Version" at the bottom of the front page.

arn
 
2011 ReDesign

MOST EXCELLENT - MacRumors.com already was THE best such mac-focused site - this new look is even better. I count on MacRumors.com to be first-est with the most-est of Mac related news - and they never disappoint.
 
With the old mobile version (iPhone), I could also just load the main page and it would give me all the new stories (Page 1, Page 2, iPhone). Does this new site function like this or do I now need to load three separate pages (Front Page, Mac Blog, iOS Blog) when running the mobile version to get the latest news?
 
kjs862 said:
With the old mobile version (iPhone), I could also just load the main page and it would give me all the new stories (Page 1, Page 2, iPhone). Does this new site function like this or do I now need to load three separate pages (Front Page, Mac Blog, iOS Blog) when running the mobile version to get the latest news?
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er... let me work on it.

arn
 
vrillusions said:
I'm sure this has mentioned before, but I miss the thumbs up and thumbs down buttons. Gave me a little chuckle when there's some report about at&t doing something stupid and the thousands of thumbs down it gets. .
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Yup, that was what got me looking into the threads, especially the ones where you think, "they've got to hate this..." and then everyone votes "positive", it was really cool to see that little bit of meta-info.... id expect forum readership to drop without it.... then again who knows....
 
The right side weight throws me off a bit but I am sure I will get used to it. Like the cleanness of the design :)
 
I guess this kind of thing all comes down to personal preference. Personally I liked the old design better. What I really don't like is that the new design isn't using all of my screen real estate. I feel like the site has been optimized for an archaic resolution like 1024x768.
 
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There is a fluid option. See first post.
 
Some Things Never Change

Gotta love the many, many posters who were whining and said things like "make it wider" or "what's with all the white space on the left and the right," blah, blah, blah. Glad to see the same ol bunch posting without reading . . . again.

You may have done a redesign MacRumors (which by the way I think is a very good improvement) but some things look like they never change.

Maybe MacRumors should have posted this at the end of the article?

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Instead of taking away the "Positive" and "Negative" ratings, it should have been expanded with "Neutral", not taken away! This was a very nice, traditional MacRumors feature that I hate to see go. Also, where's "Page 2" again?

And no, I didn't have time to read over 500 comments before mine. Just leaving my own after reading the first few.
 
I had to get in on this.... pretty cool!!!! I like how you can make the page wider and keep the formatting the same
 
Gamoe said:
Instead of taking away the "Positive" and "Negative" ratings, it should have been expanded with "Neutral", not taken away! This was a very nice, traditional MacRumors feature that I hate to see go. Also, where's "Page 2" again?

And no, I didn't have time to read over 500 comments before mine. Just leaving my own after reading the first few.
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It tells you what has happened to Page 2 in the second post. :)
 
It is instructive that 5 of the top 10 posts for the redesign article specifically mention that they want the positive/negative voting option back.

https://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/12/macrumors-2011-redesign/

MacRumors was the only site on the WWW that provided that interesting, top-down, numerical insight into what Apple's core and casual audiences thought of a given story.

I suppose being Just Like Every Other Mac Site is an "improvement," but I don't see a logical reason for it that holds water.
 
Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it.
 

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Wow. A site redesign I actually like. Haven't seen a site make a positive redesign in I don't know how long. Good job guys.
 
Awesome. But the thing I care the most about is pages loading faster because of the insanely slow internet speed at my church (yes, I love going online at church)
 
Take this as a complement

I didn't even notice the change until I read the article! (More than I can saw for the god-awful Gawker redesign!)
 
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