The Verge has great content, but damn, does their site design suck. It looks nice enough, but it hangs my browser even on top-of-the-line computers. I usually end up surfing the mobile site (mobile.theverge.com) even on my PCs.
It's bad on Opera and "OK" on Chrome (checked on Win7 / OSX), but it's definitely noticeable when you close The Verge and go to someone else's site.
edit: just checked your link. Urg, they really need to stop people being able to post images, my opinion of the quality of that site just dropped sharply.
Oh thank bahamut someone else said it. Good content, terrible design. Over complicated in every way. It's going for that "lively & chaotic" content all over the place look. You know, the one magazines love to use, the one that people hate to read because it's hard to skim through and forces you to play connect the dots all over the page. I almost need to draw a replica of the front page on paper and mark off which stories I read so I can keep track of where I am.
Yet so many blogs are going for that look. Why? It's pretty but so difficult to read.
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Pretty much. If I want to read gadget news I go to The Verge now. TechCrunch is lucky that no single large competitor is challenging it. Yet.
It's worth pointing out that The Verge was started by Joshua Topolsky, who was the editor at Engadget until about a year ago.
The Verge has great content, but damn, does their site design suck. It looks nice enough, but it hangs my browser even on top-of-the-line computers. I usually end up surfing the mobile site (mobile.theverge.com) even on my PCs.
Really? It works fine for me. That said, they could do with paginating their comments, or something- take this page for example:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/28/2829143/apple-ipad-3-event...
full of comments (with images!) that slow down the page load.
It's bad on Opera and "OK" on Chrome (checked on Win7 / OSX), but it's definitely noticeable when you close The Verge and go to someone else's site.
edit: just checked your link. Urg, they really need to stop people being able to post images, my opinion of the quality of that site just dropped sharply.
The Verge is a rag full of SEO spam and reworded news, built by ex-AOLers for AOL to buy again.
Oh thank bahamut someone else said it. Good content, terrible design. Over complicated in every way. It's going for that "lively & chaotic" content all over the place look. You know, the one magazines love to use, the one that people hate to read because it's hard to skim through and forces you to play connect the dots all over the page. I almost need to draw a replica of the front page on paper and mark off which stories I read so I can keep track of where I am.
Yet so many blogs are going for that look. Why? It's pretty but so difficult to read.