After reading trough all the posts i can say that i'm agreeing with the majority here.
I like the disappearance of the pop out social things.
What i don't like (-), and suggestions (=) to improve those areas:
- Even with my display's brightness at minimum the contrast of the bright background and the news article's small font and the comment's small font is painful. And my display is only 96.42PPI.
= Maybe a slightly bigger font will resolve the issue but it's possible it will not. In that case an option would be to insert buttons to darken the background.
- I read multiple news sites and the differentiation of accessed links really helped me.
= I'd like that feature back
- Wen you refresh a multi-paged comment thread on the main site the refresh causes the page to scroll up to the comment page's beginning. This is somewhat frustrating because you refresh to see if there was a new comment posted since you've began reading the page.
= the scroll should stay in place, so you can see if a post was added, and not have to scroll back down.
- The "Related News" section looks out of place just under the article. If someone clicks an article, he does so form the main page, with high chances that he will continue browsing the main page after reading the article. Also, news articles have a short "life span", it's rare that one could get valid information from an article posted weeks or months ago, especially in this field where most articles are about the fastest/best/latest things. It might be the fastest thing now but in two days it's history.
= That section should be below the comments or on the side.
- The headers have a confusing mix of date and time of post. On the main page the header includes the day of week and time. In the article the main header includes the day of week and US style date. Then this info is repeated on the "smaller header".
= I would like to see a full data-time string formatted based on the user location or some profile option, both on the main page and the article page. An you can do away with the big blue header.
- The "Today's Reviews" section is confusing
= I think that if you move the "What do you think" poll to the side and insert some type of faint grid the appearance would be more organized. Or simply go back to the old style.
Sorry for the length