What do you think of the new Kotaku layout?

The new design is total shit. I can't think of a better word for it other than shit. The "Classic" view is a bit better, though. Why they don't just use that as the standard view mode is beyond me. The page is also very bland looking. I miss the pink and green everywhere.

I like it, actually. I heard all the whinging and expected to hate it, but it's cool.

As someone who always finds himself carefully selecting stories for fear of wasting my time and having to click back and re-choose one, I think the sidebar idea is wonderful.
 
However, Times New Roman?  Seriously?  c'mon now.  Get a real font, ffs.

Wow! That's terrible! There's no way that's going to last!

They went way too far with the "less is more" mentality.

I've never gone to Kotaku except once or twice, and that was only to follow the progression of a single story. But having gone there just now to check it out. It's horrendous. I can only view one story at a time? They claimed that this was to have articles not get buried, but ironically since you're only posting a single one, it means articles will get buried faster! They changed the look of their layout and they didn't change that ugly-as-sin green logo of theirs?
 
Funnily enough I'm working on a project for my web design class. And one part is to list 4 badly designed sites. I think I need to edit that.

That is probably one of the worst redesigns I've seen in a while. It loads so slow on my netbook, and the whole site feels so incredibly cramped. It's a good thing I stopped reading Kotaku a long time ago. I hope this is just another nail in their coffin.

Oh man. Complete. Fucking. Rubbish.

They could only ever make shit designs, because the can only make shit decisions
Also, all the "star commenters" are gay

Terrible, way to ruin Kotaku.

It was not a good redesign in my opinion.   I mean just looking at it is an unpleasant experience.

Unfortunately it's still kotaku so unfortunately no design past or present is going to install a caliber of class or install any real reason to go there

Garbage

You know somethings up when the first picture you see on there is some grown dude eying some little kid. 
 

This poll needs an option for "don't really care/don't go to kotaku."

I read Kotaku everyday but didn't know they even changed their layout.....GOOGLE READER FTW!  (I just looked - the new layout is bleh seems pretty hard to just glance over stuff.)

Well, looks like I am never going back to Kotaku. That layout is garbage.

its been out for awhile on my beloved car blog jalopnik seems it was the guinea pig while they tested things out its alright, i think its happening to all the gawker/kotaku type sites.

"However, Times New Roman?  Seriously?  c'mon now.  Get a real font, ffs. "

As I complained on Twitter already, wedging the article list between the scrollable area and the browser scrollbar is terribly disorienting.  Especially egregious considering the new layout requires way more scrolling; prioritizing fluff images over content.  
 
I would like to see some eye-tracking results for this.

If they do this to Fleshbot I'm really gonna get angry. :(

There's a lot of hate for this new design, but I have to say I like it a lot. I don't read Kotaku, but the sites in their network I do read (Gizmodo, io9, Jalopnik, Lifehacker) have changed to the new design as well. It's a much cleaner and easier design to navigate in my opinion.

I don't like the new look at all. Then again, bad looks is far from being the worst thing about Kotaku.

Kotaku as been awful for a while now as a website, at least for what I enjoy from a gaming site. The new redesign isn't helping, it looks terrible, thought my browser was broke at first.  
 
Never forgive Kotaku for banning me because I disagreed with an article they wrote, wouldn't have bothered me if I'd deserved it by being offensive or rude but I gave a fair and kind response to an article they wrote a year back and then WHAM! banned. Pathetic. 

Honestly, it looks terrible, it might be easier to navigate and click what you want but with the multitude of news stories, interviews, live blogs, announcements etc they do on that site, it's harder to read on that ONE news story because it's sandwiched in-between crap you don't give a shit about

I think it's probably the worst site redesign I can remember seeing simply for the fact that it sacrifices function for beauty, and even then, it doesn't look spectacular. The color scheme is weird, especially given that they didn't change the bright green logo. The only part that really matters is that there's no longer a blog-ish way to scroll through stories and get little snippits on what they might be about, leaving it up to the joke-ish titles to fill you in on article content, which is not ideal. Not too big of a deal for me, however, since I visit usually only via the RSS feed (which Gawker limits anyway to get you to go to their site for the page views, but I can understand the need for that). 
 
Hmmm, my bad. My hasty dismissal meant I missed the blog layout style button. At least there's an option, and at least that fixes one of my problems with the layout.

I clicked on the next post link under the main article and it took me to io9's site with no navigation route back to Kotaku.
 
That was enough to confuse me and it only took one click. If you need instructions on how to navigate your site in 2011 then it's already failed.

I'm not visiting that site again unless they change their layout back.  Their new layout doesn't even fit in my internet window unless I blow it up to fullscreen.

" I clicked on the next post link under the main article and it took me to io9's site with no navigation route back to Kotaku.  That was enough to confuse me and it only took one click. If you need instructions on how to navigate your site in 2011 then it's already failed. "

It looked like shit before, and it still looks like shit.

I've never been to Kotaku before, so I don't really have an opinion.

Didn't like it on Jalopnik, don't like it on Kotaku.

 Hey, everybody! Look, now Kotaku is even less readable!    

Myeh. 
 
I'm still going to look through their stuff but man... 
 
Myeh.

I'll be using the version @ joystiq.com from now on.

YO I HEAR YOU LIKED 1 PICTURE PER PAGE SO WE PUT 2 ARTICLE PER PAGE COOL?

Hate it.

Well, it makes me pretty much never want to go there at all, even though I only go there once every two weeks if there is a news story there that's actually important that isn't covered by GiantBomb or the GiantBomb forums.

Don't usually browse Kotaku. Personally, I like it because it doesnt look like a cluttered mess of a site with a thousand pop ups whenever I stumble there from google searches.

It is awful. Plain and simple. 

Nooooooooo! Why Kotaku whyyyyyyyyy T_T

Reading game sites at work is a huge time waster for me. Thanks to Kotaku's re-design I feel like I'm going to be more productive.  
(since I probably will save time by not going there anymore)

My god thats bad. I dont use kotaku anyway, joystiq and destructiod work.

Tried to get use to it but I can't. The entire website looks like it's a pdf.

I don't use Kotaku so much but I do regularly check out Lifehacker and Jalopnik which also got the gawker redesign and personally I'm not into it. It looks like it was designed for the iPad.

did not like it when io9, deadspin and lifehacker did it 

Trying to find "news" on Kotaku was hard enough already, this gives me a good reason to stop visiting, especially after that account security issue. Plenty of other sites.