Updates and an announcement from LWN [LWN.net]

Updates and an announcement from LWN

Posted Jul 5, 2012 16:40 UTC (Thu) by linuxjacques (subscriber, #45768)
Parent article: Updates and an announcement from LWN

Why do I get the feeling all the people wanting to update the look of the site are trying to sell something?

Who knew so many web designers read LWN.

I believe the set of people who would subscribe to LWN but don't because of the way it looks is empty.

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Updates and an announcement from LWN

Posted Jul 5, 2012 16:56 UTC (Thu) by ejr (subscriber, #51652) [Link]

Institutional and group subscriptions have to pass through other approval steps. Some of those often (ime) involve more visual people.

Updates and an announcement from LWN

Posted Jul 6, 2012 9:21 UTC (Fri) by stijn (subscriber, #570) [Link]

I am one of those seeing the benefit in updating the site's look, and I am not in a web designing job nor trying to sell something, so I too wonder why you get that feeling.

Some think the current look is minimalist and great as it is, perhaps even reflective of the LWN brand, and I appreciate this. Conversely, it should be possible to see the point of view that it is endearingly klunky (quoting myself). I do not know how it affects people if they share this view, but it would do no harm to at least consider such issues.