MetaTalk posts tagged with redesign

Oh shit, it's a walk-off!

mathowie — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:11:31 -0800

Tags page redesign vote-off: which is better A? or B? Tag clouds were shiny and new in 2005, but we realized long ago they're kinda useless (check out the existing mefi one for reference). So instead of doing the last 150 and sizing them up by popularity (with its weird font/layout issues), we wanted to make something more manageable that looked nice. These two redos de-emphasize the absolute popularity aspect of each tag, but they're still the 150 most popular and I think both do a good job of making topics easy to spot and find. So which do you like better, A or B?

Should or shouldn't

derMax — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:36:34 -0800

93% say redesign. [disclaimer: Not saying I agree. I am in fact neutral.]

baby steps

mathowie — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:18:55 -0800

baby steps. I'm going to be redesigning things over a long period, one small chunk at a time. Up for feedback today: a new header for the sites. The goals were to make it shorter vertically, group items by activity, and to clean up things here and there. Please read along and leave some feedback [more inside]

What happened to the redesign?

twine42 — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:37:12 -0800

Whatever happened to the great redesign? Lack of time on the part of our great leader or did something go horribly wrong?

Imagine if MeFi were ONLY links

cedar — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:25:17 -0800

Nothing but links... [+]

Can we have a 'via' field on the posting page?

monju_bosatsu — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:23:54 -0800

Minor feature request: a via field on the blue's posting page. As part of the redesign, I'd love to see an optional field for including a "via" link. Two reasons: (1) it would encourage posters to acknowledge the source of the link, if applicable; and (2) it would allow some interesting statistics to be generated from the aggregation of via data.

Redesign contest status update please

rooftop secrets — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:38:51 -0800

I am hesitant to post this because I just know someone will point me to one of mathowie's comments within a minute, but what's the status of the redesign for MeFi and its related pages? Searches for updates only brought me to the MeTa thread about the contest entries, and that was over a month ago. No pressure on Matt to hurry, just curious about how it's coming along since I am very excited for the new look.

Is the redesign going to be similar across all the subsites?

orthogonality — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:46:52 -0800

The HTML markup of Metafilter proper ("the blue") differs from the markup of Metatalk and Ask Metafilter. Given the upcoming changes to Metafilter's look, can we expect similarity in markup across the site, or should we explicitly not rely on undocumented features of Metafilter? [mi]

Pony: pagination, and preview for the actual comment

Saucy Intruder — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 07:27:00 -0800

Last alluded to here: None of the redesign entries (unless I missed something) addressed the "comments by user" page, which is probably the clunkiest and least usable feature on the site. Long comment histories take forever to load (and tax the server); and you can't actually see any of the comments without clicking on each individual link. I think pagination, plus an ability to preview the actual comment, would be a great help.

Redesign Contest Results

mathowie — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 20:34:35 -0800

Hey everybody, it's the results of the Redesign Contest!

Redesign status update request

rushmc — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 15:57:57 -0800

You'll see it when I'm done with it, I don't know what else to say. Sorry it's taken so long, but I've been a bit busy the past month.

Didn't you say you were using some of the newbie windfall to hire a coding helper to help advance all the vaporware projects? Is this happening or have you changed your mind and decided to continue to do it all yourself in your spare time?

Can we get a preview of the new site design?

angry modem — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 13:56:13 -0800

I'm highly interested in the new design of Metafilter. Is there any chance we could get a preview? I understand that we were able to view the winning designs, but I was under the impression that it would incorporate elements from all of the good ones, so I'd like a peek, as I'm sure the rest of the site would.

Don't forget the MetaFilter (Re)Design Contest.

gleuschk — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:24:42 -0800

Don't forget the MetaFilter (Re)Design Contest. Time for a front-page reminder?

Announcing the Metafilter design contest.

mathowie — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 23:27:36 -0800

I'm hereby announcing the MetaFilter design contest. Post any questions here.

New looks for MeFi

dhartung — Fri, 02 May 2003 22:53:41 -0800

MetaFilter. MetaFilter. Bored?

Nice redesign

mrbula — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:43:36 -0800

Nice redesign.

nice new interface

judith — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:52:04 -0800

nice new interface, matt. (looks like the top menu still needs a bit of a tweak, but otherwise, it's terrific)

Change is the only constant

moz — Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:49:49 -0800

well, i think it's unrealistic to expect that there is such a thing as an ultimate format or anything of the sort. not to be inflammatory, but times change. fashions change. designs change. i guess that when you get down to it, people eventually get bored with whatever's been overplayed, and move on. which is sort of how top 40s music works, if you think about it.

and, just like in the music industry, the sites that last will be those interesting and innovative sites like k10k that are constantly evolving and constantly adding new and interesting content. the sites that won't are the ones which are difficult to distinguish from the next weblog.

all imo