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Redesigning TechCrunch: We Picked This Logo Just to Piss You Off

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Re: Redesigning TechCrunch: We Picked This Logo Just to Piss You Off

#13

Post by kloncks »

It's really not that bad. I hated the new Facebook layout before liking it again. Who knows how I'll feel in a few weeks.

It's all about metrics anyways. If this layout raises activity on site or visits, then good job. If not, I'm sure they'll do edits.

Why do we just bash TC like no other?

Re: Redesigning TechCrunch: We Picked This Logo Just to Piss You Off

#14

Post by [deleted] »

kloncks wrote: post #13

It's really not that bad. I hated the new Facebook layout before liking it again. Who knows how I'll feel in a few weeks. It's all about metrics anyways. If this layout raises activity on site or visits, then good job. If not, I'm sure they'll do edits. Why do we just bash TC like no other?

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Re: Redesigning TechCrunch: We Picked This Logo Just to Piss You Off

#16

Post by nkassis »

ddemchuk wrote: post #15

Why does loading TechCrunch take me 9 seconds? What exactly are they doing to cause such a slow load? Why does a page load for them require 330 requests?

I'm going to say without looking that's it's for ads. Oh and I'm sure that blocky logo isn't compressed at all, (same effect could have been done with the logo at 50x50 scaled up ;p)

Re: Redesigning TechCrunch: We Picked This Logo Just to Piss You Off

#17

Post by bugsy »

The logo truly is a horrifically bad design, so much so that I just don't buy the claim that it is intentionally bad. That's just an attempt to save face because it is bad.

Glad to hear they are working on the speed problem. I solved it a while back by installing every ad blocker I could find.

edit: oh gosh, it's worse than I thought. The small squares of the 3 size grid on the right are a slightly different size than the 4 size grid of the logo. You can't convince me that is intentionally bad, that's just bad, sloppy, terrible work.

Re: Redesigning TechCrunch: We Picked This Logo Just to Piss You Off

#19

Post by phamilton »

nkassis wrote: post #16
ddemchuk wrote: post #15

Why does loading TechCrunch take me 9 seconds? What exactly are they doing to cause such a slow load? Why does a page load for them require 330 requests?

I'm going to say without looking that's it's for ads. Oh and I'm sure that blocky logo isn't compressed at all, (same effect could have been done with the logo at 50x50 scaled up ;p)

Some browsers blur scaled up images so you don't get that nice blocky image.
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