Website Redesign Debate

Comments focus on reactions to a recent website redesign, with users debating its aesthetics, improvements over the old design, rollout, and overall quality, often expressing dislike or nostalgia for the previous version.

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Sample Comments

gotoblob • Oct 8, 2013 • View on HN

whadya think of the redesigned site?

itemize • Jun 22, 2023 • View on HN

Curious, was the improve after the redesign huge?

m1keil • May 25, 2021 • View on HN

Wasn't there a big redesign just recently?

nametoremember • May 2, 2011 • View on HN

I really dislike the redesign :(

bayleo • Oct 21, 2008 • View on HN

Precisely my first thought on glancing over this article. What happened w/ the redesign?

dbbk • Feb 17, 2022 • View on HN

Some changes are good. The new Facebook rewrite and redesign is good. The new Google Meet design is good.This isn't.

tav • May 27, 2012 • View on HN

Not seeing a redesign here... perhaps they are rolling it out gradually?

wetpaws • Jul 21, 2022 • View on HN

the redesign looks so much worse

vcavallo • Mar 16, 2019 • View on HN

Whoa the redesign is beautiful compared to this!

joelrunyon • Aug 4, 2012 • View on HN

This is not a redesign. He's removed ads and put his product in place of them. It hardly qualifies as a redesign at all - some of the after photos are exactly the same as the before photos above the fold.