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They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
Kinja, huh? Well, at least thanks to this thread I can put a name to the site design I hate so much.
TV Reviews -> Enormous Dropdown -> Six Feet Under
But good luck if you want to check an episode rating at a glance, buddy
I can do without the reviews, I'll just use metacritic to get a quick impression of overall reception. But Does anyone else have an example of a site that has the following requirements:
1) Clear, clean layout
2) "What's on tonight" with a basic show list and a brief synopsis of new shows or new seasons.
3) No, really, a clean, clear layout.
4) I actually don't care that one of the cast members of Dogwelder Adventures made a comment about inequality.
5) The layout should be clear and clean.
That was locked because the original thread title was something like "The AV Club is DEAD" and it poisoned the thread.
What a mess, I was trying to read a couple of Twin Peaks reviews, I managed to get to the "Season 3" page, but you just have a bunch of articles with random titles and you have to open them one by one to find out what episode they're about, unless it's mentioned in the short description of the article.
I loved how simple the old layout was, being able to see every season and every episode in chronological order with the score right next to it was the main reason I visited avclub.
Honestly it looks like a massive pile of shit. It's not a surprise because the internet's business model incentivizes blog spam (reposting press releases and YouTube videos while adding a few lines of snarky captioning) and circular link farm clickbait (i.e. "You might also like", "More on <site name.com>"). The AVClub's strongest content was long-form written reviews, which are now buried and difficult to navigate. Try to, at a glance, tell what content are reviews, what grades the reviews gave. Try to pull up a season of television and see what grades all the episodes have. I would guess something like 80% of the page's layout now consists of stuff other than the content and navigation core to the actual content you're trying to read. The actual main page is now entirely just blog posts about stuff I could have read about on reddit or GAF.
I'm sure some of this will be fixed, for example the fact that it's not obvious from the title that something is a review, as new content gets posted. But some of it is structural and reflects a changing priority for the site in response to market conditions.
All the other Kinja websites suck too. It's a large part of the reason I don't read them. The combination of a terrible trashy layout and content that does well under that format.
Not trying to be a jerk. It's precisely because I love the site and writers and that it's such a good resource that I feel disappointed.
I can do without the reviews, I'll just use metacritic to get a quick impression of overall reception. But Does anyone else have an example of a site that has the following requirements:
1) Clear, clean layout
2) "What's on tonight" with a basic show list and a brief synopsis of new shows or new seasons.
3) No, really, a clean, clear layout.
4) I actually don't care that one of the cast members of Dogwelder Adventures made a comment about inequality.
5) The layout should be clear and clean.
Jesus
Sure, AV Club. Sure. One of the few sites that I really like, despite it's highs and lows, and this is just... not great. For all of the reasons mentioned in this thread.
Auto changing the url and infinite scroll might be the two worst design decisions I've ever had to deal with on a modern website, kinja is trash.
Only I wouldn't kill, am totally up for causing some grievous bodily harm in exchange for it though.I wouldve loved if The Dissolve couldve worked with some patreon service or something. Id kill to have that back.
/dead
Sure, AV Club. One of the few sites that I really like, despite it's highs and lows, and this is just... not great. For all of the reasons mentioned in this thread.
So anyone found any decent alternatives?
Vulture and variety dont seem too bad for news and some episode reviews and recaps. Ive enjoyed vultures Twin Peaks stuff.
Birth.movies.death is probably my favorite but they dont usually do consistent episode by episode reviews expect some of he bigger shows.