So, I read this post from afar and then logged in solely to comment that this post is DEEPLY DISAPPOINTING and frankly shameful.
Jeff co-created this website. Without him, it does not exist. And somehow, instead of spending the time to send him off with due regard-- i.e., a massive blowout final stream, a memoriam of greatest hits, glowing words of encouragement and gratitude, etc., you hastily throw together some nonsense begging people not to unsubscribe to your personality-based website that has now lost ... all of its original personalities. Yeah, no thanks.
Jeff's name shows up a whopping 4 times in this entire post-- and not once after the first two paragraphs. What completely classless drivel.
Folks, you've got to appreciate the transparency of announcing the departure of the founder of the site.
Let's all applaud the personal integrity of "Giant Bomb Staff" for not glossing over this departure either. They delivered no less than a full-throated 4 sentence tribute to Jeff!
At least they put this news in terms we understand - this is just like the roster on our favorite sports team, fellow gamers.
"Giant Bomb Staff" gets us. We're weird. We like to have fun with people with shared interests! Am I right?!
I was nodding along reading this sentence, it just perfectly sums up my passion for GB:
"This site is a place that brings people together around shared interests"
Thanks "Giant Bomb Staff", you really understand "misfits" like us.
I feel like there are (at least) two types of audiences for GB content - the newcomers and the veterans.
The vets watch every video religiously, and don't need to 'discover' new content because they've already watched everything and are just waiting on the next video.
A single design to fit both of these audiences is going to be real hard. Right now the design skews towards newcomers - offering them lots of ways to discover shows, videos, etc that they might not have seen.
But for the vets, a lot of this stuff feels like noise because they've already seen everything, and they just want to see a big list of videos to make sure they are all caught up with everything.
So, for those people, I wrote a browser extension for Firefox/Chrome to tweak the homepage a bit:
It lets you view the homepage as just a big grid of the latest videos and turn off all the other modules, if you desire. Here's what my homepage looks like now:
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