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[Brakke]

And it's a big ole over-designed mess of a thing.

https://theoutline.com/about

The Outline is a new kind of publication for a new kind of human.

WSJ with some background and context.

Appears to cover tech, culture, "the future", and "power", but it isn't organized into any kind of way so I dunno if there are more sections.

 

[BUNTING1243]

in love with how weird this design is

bless topolsky and code & theory

edit: minor critique: i think the cartoon characters are a little out of place

 

[DrSlek]

Christ, I feel like I just went back in time to geocities.

 

[magnetic]

I really miss Josh as a podcast personality. He could rant like nobody else.

 

[Septimus Prime]

That design is too much for me. Content quality is irrelevant if the content itself is unreadable.

 

[Floex]

This website is wonderfully nutty.

 

[Brakke]

I can't tell if they have RSS feeds even. theoutline.com/rss and /feeds and all the other standards I tried turned up 404 pages (also the 404 page is a Whole Thing on its own).

I really miss Josh as a podcast personality. He could rant like nobody else.

His twitter mentions "a new podcast from The Outline" but I'm pretty sure it's impossible to find a list of all their podcasts (if there even is more than one) on that website right now.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

Looks like like maximalist in it's design.

 

[jacobs34]

It was fun browsing this site on my iPad, it's not how I want to read a site on a daily basis, but I can see myself checking in once a week or so. The shame of the launch is that I did not find any of the actual writing to be all that compelling.

 

[Poohblaster]

I used to like the Verge when Topolosky was in charge. Why did he decide to leave in the first place?

 

[Sir Abacus]

I used to like the Verge when Topolosky was in charge. Why did he decide to leave in the first place?

Same reason he left Engadget, he had a new website to start apparently.

 

[greycolumbus]

It's fun to browse for like five minutes but then the design is absolutely obnoxious. None of the content seems terribly interesting.

 

[dc3k]

it's worse than the verge

amazing

 

[NeOak]

As posted in the other thread

 

[javac]

 

[therealist]

Guarantee this guy dips in 2 years just like he has for every other website he starts

 

[BUNTING1243]

Guarantee this guy dips in 2 years just like he has for every other website he starts

to be fair at his last job he only left because he was fired by michael bloomberg

 

[Chittagong]

Looks like a version of The Atlantic where the long form articles are backed by opinions instead of journalistic research, and the layout is done by the guys who did Airbnb and Spotify branding.

 

[jooey]

Guarantee this guy dips in 2 years just like he has for every other website he starts

number of websites started before this: 1

 

[hateradio]

number of websites started before this: 1

The Onionette

 

[ZackieChan]

number of websites started before this: 1

Also, I don't know why he would be required to stay on a job/website forever. Don't see that as a big deal.

That being said, those cartoon characters are weird. And I'm just seeing stories from other sites, is that correct?

 

[Technosteve]

Josh has made a website worse then the verge.

Thisismynext.com was his best website, this is just torture porn at this point

 

[Ran rp]

 

[Mafro]

Site works great on my mobile (Snapchat stories inspiration is pretty neat) but it's a pain to navigate on desktop. Haven't actually read any of the content yet but I'll have a look at some stuff tomorrow on my lunch.

And yeah, those wacky cartoon characters feel really out of place.

 

[Mindwipe]

Wouldn't be a website from Joshua Topolsky if it didn't slow down scrolling on my desktop machine to a stuttering mess.

Holy shit this thing is hard to read and navigate.

 

[Skinpop]

webfonts, animations and annoying colors. I'm already triggered.

 

[secretanchitman]

The navigation on desktop isn't that great but the colors are another discussion entirely - they are hideous.

Probably won't be visiting this site very much, if at all. I enjoy Joshua Topolsky's opinions and discussion on things (especially when he, Paul Miller, and Nilay Patel would get together on the Engadget Podcast/TIMN/Vergecast back in the day) but this site is a bit too messy for me.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Some of the news presentation are nice. But then you have the "TALK TO ME" part, and I'm here wondering what the hell were they thinking when designing this.

 

[RSTEIN]

I clicked the Star Wars article and the article is literally an image bigger than my desktop with a link to slash film.

 

[KarmaCow]

It's like a parody trying to ape geocities era web design except with modern tools and somehow even worse colour schemes.

 

[SlipperyFishes]

Gruber says it best

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/12/05/the-outline

Joshua Topolsky, announcing the launch of The Outline, the new website for which he’s editor-in-chief:

Welcome to The Outline, a new kind of publication for a new kind of human.

OK.

I could have linked to all of these stories, but instead they’re bundled into this handy thing below. We call it a stack. Enjoy.

No.

 

[Fatalah]

This is FUN on my phone! Wheee!

 

[PushTheButtonMax]

They may have gone too far in a few places.

 

[acheron_xl]

Well, that site was exhausting to browse. I think I need a nap now.

 

[Xena]

Wow... is there a txt version for me to read the content?

 

[NYR]

Looks like Josh found a Server with Geocities source code on it and decided to make a website. Good for him.

 

[AlexMeloche]

You guys laugh but this fits perfectly with all the independant graphic design magazines (and posters, and books, etc) I see nowadays.

 

[GK86]

My eyeballs exploded.

 

[maquiladora]

I got a pop up message asking me to confirm that I had a beard and glasses before I could proceed.

 

[funkystudent]

I knew people with myspace pages like this.

All thats missing is a music player auto playing some 90's techno.


White totally ugly as sin and I am not really sure what the hell they where thinking I think bits of the design are kinda cool on the phone. Less so on the desktop.

 

[IronRaven]

The colors are a bit off.

 

[Wowfunhappy]

Interesting.

...I like it.

 

[Kthulhu]

Quoting myself from the other thread:

WTF am I looking at? Did the graphic designers for Watch Dogs 2 make this site?

Edit: that's the worst Pepe I've ever seen BTW.

 

[Deleted member 22576]

Glad to see it's out
Everyone is gonna hate it
My thread had like 1 reply
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1256346

 

[yogloo]

I like it.

 

[Brakke]

Wow... is there a txt version for me to read the content?

It seems to play well with "reader view" features on the couple browsers I tested. But you gotta actually *find* an article first before you can rip it down into a cleaner format.

 

[Concept17]

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY BIG LETTERS EVERYWHERE?

 

[Deleted member 22576]

This website is dope. 😎

 

[WillyFive]

Neat website; not sure if I'll use it often though. Lots of cool writings in there though.

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY BIG LETTERS EVERYWHERE?

Never wondered why all those Youtube titles are in caps? I believe it's an SEO thing for some reason. Google probably doesn't properly select lower case from upper case in terms of relevance in their ranking algorithm. Now, why it wouldn't do that, I don't know, but that seems to be what that is.

edit: *visits site*
Oh, you meant the font. Never mind!