The first thing I look at in the morning is Slashdot. I honestly thought your site got hacked and someone was totally screwing up the look of the site my messing with the CSS data. But, to my surprise my worst fears had been confirmed, the new look was intentional. Just can't find anything aesthetically pleasing about the site now. The over abundant bright white against an almost black dark green header with vast amounts of white space that almost strains the eye. If you guys tested this on a control group or something, I don't think they gave you good feedback, especially given all the criticism that I see on the posts above mine. The last time you did a look/feel change you offered the users to "test" the new site before it went live. I would have hoped you would have learned from that experience that doing a trial run can give a huge amount of feedback both positive and negative from the very users that rely on your site. Let's hope you can quickly rectify what I think is a huge step backward in usability and aesthetics.
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The first thing I look at in the morning is Slashdot. I honestly thought your site got hacked and someone was totally screwing up the look of the site my messing with the CSS data. But, to my surprise my worst fears had been confirmed, the new look was intentional. Just can't find anything aesthetically pleasing about the site now. The over abundant bright white against an almost black dark green header with vast amounts of white space that almost strains the eye. If you guys tested this on a control group or something, I don't think they gave you good feedback, especially given all the criticism that I see on the posts above mine. The last time you did a look/feel change you offered the users to "test" the new site before it went live. I would have hoped you would have learned from that experience that doing a trial run can give a huge amount of feedback both positive and negative from the very users that rely on your site. Let's hope you can quickly rectify what I think is a huge step backward in usability and aesthetics.