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This is great. The large scrolling format (similar to pinterest) is a good idea as the last thing that was needed was something that looked like reddit or HN. Sites like the Daily Mail have been very successful with this style. Good luck to the new Digg team!
Looks like a sparse Huffington Post to me.
Oh the irony. I get a 503 error.
504 Gateway Time-out nginx/1.1.19
Well I'm underwhelmed.
From a technical point of view this "redesign" scares me a bit: All the old stories and user accounts 404 now. That is a major loss to their SEO. 14 million pages just thrown away and not passing any juice. They don't employ canonical or robots.txt. They have character encoding issues. ("'Superbird' Discovered") They use a meta keywords tag, and it contains "celebrity news", which doesn't appear anywhere on their sit…
Just curious why you think they should use text-transform: uppercase instead of just typing in all caps. If you localize your site, text-transform: uppercase can render some things meaningless in other languages, or just cause issues in general with some languages (Turkish i, certain Greek accented letters).
If you write: "... arrested by the FBI" as "... ARRESTED BY THE FBI." you lose information (which screen readers could use to better pronunciation). If you style it with CSS, this information (capitalization, acronym, stress-words) is retained.
I didn't know about the issues with some foreign languages.
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The layout breaks without javascript on I see this bandied about on reviews of various sites, and I continue to believe it doesn't matter. If you have Javascript turned off and a page doesn't load, you should know why that page isn't loading. It's because you deliberately broke it for yourself.
Counterpoint: Twitter went "down" for five hours about five months back because someone typo'd true in the blob of javascript it serves up. If your site still works without javascript, at least something will work if a bug slips through to production. (I agree with you for the most part; it's just when even page navigation breaks it can get more than mildly annoying.)
I'm not sure how they even managed to make that happen.
It's throwing nginx 504 timeouts now too...
504 Gateway Time-out nginx/1.1.19