What do you think of the new Kotaku layout?

Personally I'm skeptical, I like scrolling through the news stories and only looking at a few of them. This new layout seems like it will feature less variety, though the stories that it does post could be nicer to look at. 
 
EDIT: Ah, i've just noticed that the sidebar is scrollable, though I would still have liked brief descriptions to make me care about the stories.

Since I am using Kotaku to get a quick overview of news I gotta say: the new design is horrible.  
 
I don‘t visit Kotaku for stories and I‘m wondering how many of their users think the same way and just find that new layout terrible. Browsing headlines in a small box on the right just doesnt feel right. 

I dislike it so much that i'm tempted to un-bookmark Kotaku from my browser. The new design looks terrible and makes it harder to scan through the multitude of topics that they most on a daily basis - to anyone who doesn't sit on their frontpage constantly it's going to be a complete pain to look through multiple headlines as the blogroll presentation style has been shrunk to a stupid size and left cramped at the side of the page. The ability to use the arrow keys to flick through articles is nice, except half of those articles are shit and I don't want to see them, ever.

That was the first time I have been to Kotaku in years. I didn't like them before and the redesign doesn't make me like them any more.

It's terrible. 
 
But I don't use Kotaku so whatever.

Digg v4.0 meet Kotaku. Kotaku meet Digg v4.0. 
 
Look - it's a nice design, but it's got horrible usability for anyone not on an iPad. The Blogroll or 'Classic' view  http://kotaku.com/classic is good though, but I don't care for the sidebar. I'll still go to the site.

I don't visit Kotaku all that often so I don't remember what the old layout was like.

I don't really like it, but I don't remember liking the older design, either. Kotaku is one of those places I mostly read via RSS, though. 
 
Edit: That's actually true for any game site that isn't Giant Bomb.

Looks better than before. Though that's not saying much.

Right now I hate it, but like almost any redesign, I'll get over it.
 
Edit:  The "Classic View" certainly helps with getting used to the redesign.

It looks like a blog site made by a high school student. Also, the bar on the right takes longer to load then everything else. Finally, I don't like how the news is sorted.
 
 
But Kotaku always sucked, so this is nothing new.

It's awful.  Just terrible.  Take it out back and put it out of its misery.

Wow, that is really bad. I don't want to have to go through multiple pages to browse the stories.

Let me put it this way: it's still not good enough to make me go to Kotaku unless I absolutely need to. 
 
Also, the old one was better.

I dislike websites where part of the screen doesn't scroll with the rest.  It feels really disorienting.  That said, I follow Kotaku through an RSS feed, so, whatever.

I was sceptical, until I saw the unmoving list of other stories on the right-hand side, exactly where you need it to be. It took some getting used to, but I actually like it. The old one was kinda generic, not dissimilar to Giant Bomb before they reworked everything into a less blog-like format (*cough* and like tested still is *cough*)

Actually last minute change of mind, that sidebar takes fucking forever to scroll down, eff that.

"But Kotaku always sucked, so this is nothing new. "

Also: 

Uh =/ Also, why is the default scroll set to the left side? >_>
 
Anyway, they have a classic version, it's not exactly the same, but it's not as...wrong...

They made their site layout even worse than it was before. Way to go Gawker!

I'm not a fan :/ It makes it harder to just get a quick overview of what is happening. 

It's actually one of the worst websites I've ever seen. 
 
I mean ok compared to those crappy myspace things it's not that bad but it's bad. Very bad. Seems purely to encourage clicks to get more Ad money. Can't see what the next story is about anymore without clicking it to find out.

Can't say I love it so far. But Kotaku as a blog I don't like too much anyway. Really anything from Gawker is a bit meh to me. 

It's terrible.

It's still just as misogynistic, lazy, sensational, un-game related, and incorrect as ever before. 
 
That being said, looking at the layout you can tell all of those things simply by how it's designed.  The right side scroll was made specifically so that Stephen Totilo can create half-assed Gene Shalit puns and post pictures of cats or boobs.  When you create a gaming news site and the first page you hit has nothing substantial regarding gaming news, you've failed.

I just want one long page with headings and a little story

Who ever designed that needs firing tbh.

I forgot to delete my account there and now you can apparantly no longer do so after this "update".

I used Kotaku to scroll through headlines and then maybe read an article if it caught my eye. This new design seems much worse for that. Lucky they have the "blog view", but I still think changing the default was stupid. And I don't know about anyone else, but if anything, it seems to take longer to load now.
 
Also, scrolling feel jittery to anyone else?

Wow, that's pretty awful. Now Kotaku has terrible content and a terrible design.

Nothing like a redesign specifically set up to increase page hits.  And that is what this is all about, Gawker wanting to artificially up its page views.

" Since I am using Kotaku to get a quick overview of news I gotta say: the new design is horrible.   I don‘t visit Kotaku for stories and I‘m wondering how many of their users think the same way and just find that new layout terrible. Browsing headlines in a small box on the right just doesnt feel right.  "

So this was the aftermath for the Kotaku hack?

I've seen better site design on GeoCities.

Ok, the blog view scrolling just feels bad. I've tried it on the all three major Windows browsers and it's jittery on all of them. I guess I'll try migrating to Joystiq for my video game headlines.

"But this is truely a horrible design, I'm not sure what it's supposed to benefit at all."

Okay anyone know of a game site that posts just raw news at regular intervals?

" Okay anyone know of a game site that posts just raw news at regular intervals? "

I can't even seem to load Kotaku's page. Maybe the redesign's getting too much traffic today.  
 
EDIT: Okay I loaded the page, owch. I was just sitting there hoping for a main page of some sort to load, but no you gotta go pick an article and stuff. That's not as good for casual browsing I think. 
 
Whatever, the only times I visited Kotaku is when other people link an interesting story or something. It just seems like a pointless redesign. I appreciate the effort to be a little more hi-tech as a blog, but I dunno, just doesn't work for me. 

Technically, its a new Gawker layout...not just Kotaku.  Also, until Kotaku becomes a blog worth reading it doesn't effect much.

Takes way too long to load up now. Plus for me it doesn't load up properly the first time so I have to refresh the page to get the proper layout.

I like the design, it's a lot cleaner then before. I thought their old design was horrible. 
Though I rarely visit kotaku outside of Google Reader. 
 
This might solve some people's complaints about the new design: 
http://kotaku.com/classic

" Technically, its a new Gawker layout...not just Kotaku.  Also, until Kotaku becomes a blog worth reading it doesn't effect much. "

"Takes way too long to load up now. Plus for me it doesn't load up properly the first time so I have to refresh the page to get the proper layout. "